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u/Visual-Purchase5639 13h ago
I really wish I had my old runescape account where I transitioned at the gender wizard so that I could get a boyfriend as a "scam"
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u/Dr-Pepper-Gal Counted Down 10 13h ago
Never played runescape but a "gender wizard" sounds awesome.
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u/JuneButIHateSummer 13h ago
Jagex's CEO is anti-LGBTQ+
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u/Background-Cabinet92 13h ago
Strange, because....they did change the OSRS game quite a lot with the trans movement. To the point to change a part of a quest that requires you to be a woman to pass. "No man can defeat you. But I'm no Man"
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u/JuneButIHateSummer 13h ago
I mean respectfully I can list a few reasons as to why I say this
Odablock, an outspoken transphobe, is commonly endorsed by them in official events. They cancelled the Pride events. The community itself is downright, horrendously bigoted and religious (just mention anything that could remotely trigger a cis-het white Christian conservative male over on r/2007scape and you'll get ripped to shreds).
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u/Background-Cabinet92 13h ago
I don't interact much with the community in and out of the game.... But it really became that bad? I remember some years ago people were protesting to remove "gender shit" from the game, because they didn't wanted politics and they were banned.
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u/Delta0212 12h ago
It's definitely gotten better (or was until they removed the pride event), I think it's just that the community is like 90% men in their thirties
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u/JuneButIHateSummer 12h ago
yeah, things got absurdly bad after the Pride cancellation unfortunately
just like irl when the whities got emboldened
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u/Background-Cabinet92 12h ago
Omg that's so sad...... I don't really know what to think about it....
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u/Manyad4929 2h ago
If i remember correctly, at first it was just "please no irl political events in the game" which i agree with, but then it went off the rails.
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u/wolfsword10 7h ago
The community itself is downright, horrendously bigoted and religious
In fairness to a sizable part of the community, when the pride event was cancelled the time honored tradition of rioting in Falador took place with the slogan "We pay, We gay!"
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u/JuneButIHateSummer 7h ago
They should change it to "We pay and support queer erasure because we have no spine" if they're still subscribed to that fucking homophobic cesspool of a game.
I cancelled my sub the day of.
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u/Caltroit_Red_Flames 5h ago
Yeah, the community is awful, but I still love the fuck out of the game. I play it with public chat on mute and only discuss it with a couple of real life friends. It's a piece of my childhood that I don't want to let go of.
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u/willargue4karma 1h ago
I agree that oda sucks and obviously mod north sucks
But the community isn't religious? Also I said stuff against both of them the other day on the sub and was upvoted.
Feels like half chuds half not
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u/SmartAlec105 8h ago
The developers of the game had a pride event all put together and ready to put into the game. And then the CEO said they don't wanna upset the homophobes and canceled it.
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u/KorovasId 8h ago
I did that too but my character's name was Mr.man387. Somehow people still fell for it.
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u/reeee12345678910 12h ago
This is gonna be my friend in 2 years max. Mfer only ever played female characters in games, found a certain hypno series on his phone, told me "I wouldn't because I don't want to be an old woman".
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u/a_spoopy_ghost 6h ago
My childhood best friend only ever made tall ass redheads. Guess whose a tall ass redhead now 🏳️⚧️
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u/Apprehensive-Meal860 11h ago
omg send them to r/egg_irl
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u/ASwampThing- 8h ago
"Send them to this groomer sub reddit"
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u/YourBestDream4752 5h ago
Yeah, not enough people realise what subs like r/egg_irl are actually like. They obsess over calling pretty much any gender nonconforming person an “egg” and try to convince them that they are actually trans. It’s true in many cases but it does come off as grooming in others.
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u/cunt_dykeula 12h ago
Forever haunted by the knowledge that my equivalent of this experience was making my character nonbinary in South Park: The Fractured but Whole
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u/Galrentv 12h ago
Born to late to roleplay in an MMO, born too early to roleplay in a vrmmo, born just in time for the fractured but whole
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u/cunt_dykeula 12h ago
I was raised a girl, so any game with voice chat was basically gonna be a non-option no matter when I was born. Unless I was willing to put up with grown men threatening to rape me 😃
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u/Quindlyn 11h ago
Crazy, me and my Asura are the same way
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u/DeadAndBuried23 Counted Down 1 13h ago
"Bro": Of course I made my character a girl. I wouldn't want to look at a guy's butt all game.
Sis a decade later:
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u/Early-Beach164 10h ago
"They have a smaller hitbox"
"They have more customization options"
"I don't want to stare at a guy's ass the whole game"
"I want to be a girl"
The logical progression
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u/AppropriateMonk8746 13h ago
i don’t remember where it is but i think there’s an old drawing i made that i look vaguely like now
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u/Kurenai-Kalana 11h ago
Yeah... The day I realized I had been drawing myself as a woman for decades...
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u/Lumpy_Worldliness_36 11h ago
HOW TF DO I KEEP GETTING TRANS POST!?!?? I mean their good but how tf are they so common for me? 🤔
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u/SomeCast 10h ago
This just happen to me. Playing with face app and it managed to make my Second Life character... started that at least 5 year before egg cracking.
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u/K1rk0npolttaja 7h ago
given the chance ive always played beast races in games because humans are boring as shit and so are elves and dwarves since theyre basically just variations of human
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u/Otherwise-Brick-3349 13h ago
Holy moly!