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Stalafur
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.06.08 06:01:00 -
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'Why do men choose female avatars'
The Milkshake song. |
Adaam Ikalaa
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.06.10 18:19:00 -
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I have an alt that is a female. I don't see the big problem some people have. In other MMORPG's more so than EVE. I mean, yeah, I'm not a girl. I'm also not a wizard, a knight, an elf, a pilot of a starship, etc. I also am not tall, musclebound, tattooed, or have piercings. So? Games are entertainment. More or less, movies/films/stories that you write and direct with your imagination. As long as you don't present yourself to really be the opposite sex when you're not, I don't see the problem.
People who have an issue with players using a female or male as their avatar when they are the opposite IRL, have the issues, to be honest. If you waste today, you've wasted one of the last days of your life. |
Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.06.10 20:56:00 -
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Hmmm.... No idea. If House played Eve: http://i.imgur.com/y7ShT.jpg |
Kiteo Hatto
The Fiction Factory Blue Nation
173
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Posted - 2012.06.10 21:01:00 -
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I've filled the other 2 slots with females just because I want to make my main feel like a pimp. Its a love triangle thing, its complicated |
Yuriko Deathstrike
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.06.10 21:09:00 -
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Cyprus Amaro wrote:[quote=Spy 21] It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be.
**reads the above, looks at Cyprus' avatar picture, reads the above again**
/squinty eyes
EDIT: but seriously though, video games is one of the few places where i can act immature. I'm not gonna sit here, play a game and act all serious and mature...i do enough of that at my job (act serious and mature that is...not playing games). |
Grog Barrel
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.06.10 21:18:00 -
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OP, allow me to drop a counter-question:
Do you directly identify yourself with your (in-any-game) avatar/character or do you discern them just as a third-person actor/actress?
It's all a matter of perspective. |
Grog Barrel
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
21
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Posted - 2012.06.10 21:24:00 -
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Onyx Nyx wrote:Cyprus Amaro wrote:Onyx Nyx wrote:Cyprus Amaro wrote:Spy 21 wrote:To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...
Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town. It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be. You would think that these kids would outgrow that mindset as they mature, but remember this is the EVE population where far too many of them are basement dwellers hiding their computer **** from their Mom. (Full disclosure: One of my toons is a female character. She is actually modeled after my adult daughter both in name and appearance.) So your male toon is what your ideal sex toy would be? And modelling a character after your daughter is just disturbing. Actually this toon I bought and never changed the appearance. My Main is modeled after me, an "Old Guy". Finally, I think you have some reading issues. Try reading my post a few more times and eventually you may understand. I did. It is you who should stop giving me such delicious phrasing. "It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be." That really says it all, like modelling a alt after your RL daughter.
incestwaaaaaht? |
Tarryn Nightstorm
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
398
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Posted - 2012.06.10 21:43:00 -
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Don't forget that a lot of the old male avatars simply looked wrong. And not in a cool, edgy/evil way, either.
(Thank God Minmatar/Siebestor and Caldari/Achura finally look as badass as they always should have! More long-hair options for the former naow, pls, CCP, kthxbai.). In irae, veritas. |
Noriko Satomi
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
30
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Posted - 2012.06.10 22:46:00 -
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When the new avatars first came out, male avatars could either be metro douchebags, goombahs, or a bizarre mixture of Telly Savalas and that Balok prop from The Corbomite Maneuver. Things have improved. |
Myrdraeus Keaunt
Hell's Horsemen
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Posted - 2012.06.10 23:28:00 -
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Spineker wrote:I never buy into the "eye candy" thing. It is some other reason surely, because none of these avatars are physically attractive unless you are messed up in the head or something.
I'd do me. |
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Noriko Satomi
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
30
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Posted - 2012.06.10 23:40:00 -
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Spineker wrote:I never buy into the "eye candy" thing. It is some other reason surely, because none of these avatars are physically attractive unless you are messed up in the head or something. If people say it and you don't believe it that's your problem. It simply means you may lack imagination and empathy (can't mentally put yourself in someone else's shoes). |
Zoe Athame
Fweddit
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Posted - 2012.06.10 23:42:00 -
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Cyprus Amaro wrote:Spy 21 wrote:To me it seems freakishly weird for a male to run around in a virtual universe with the identity of a hot looking woman...
Maybe it's just my upbringing in an older and now outdated world but it just seems to me like playing dress up on a Saturday night and trolling the seamier parts of town. It is pretty obvious that many of these avatars simply represent a juvenile male fantasy of what their ideal sex toy would be. You would think that these kids would outgrow that mindset as they mature, but remember this is the EVE population where far too many of them are basement dwellers hiding their computer **** from their Mom. (Full disclosure: One of my toons is a female character. She is actually modeled after my adult daughter both in name and appearance.)
By that logic your ideal sex toy is a hairy man with large glasses. That's a bit different from the usual librarian look but I won't judge. |
Anya Ohaya
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
125
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Posted - 2012.06.11 00:05:00 -
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My mains (the ones with all the SP) are male, my alts are spunky chicks.
I think I watched too much James Bond as a kid. |
Jandice Ymladris
Arbitrary Spaceship Destruction
45
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Posted - 2012.06.11 11:10:00 -
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This thread is still going oO
Here's a point of tought. It all depends wetehr you identify with the char (you feel you are the character) or just play a character (so you don't identify with it, but it's more like a way to play a game)
If you identify with it; you (normally) choose a same gender avatar, because playing a different gender then yourself when you feel you are the character would indeed be disturbing.
If you just play a character (hence not identify with it) any gender will do, albeit choosing the opposite gender makes more sense then (assuming hetero) as eyecandy rates higher in such playstyle. I'm part of this style.
In short: let us celebrate the fact we got the freedom to choose, and that we're a diverse people with many different views. Don't be an extremist and force your views on others because you think you're right and the other is wrong. |
Khergit Deserters
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.06.11 16:47:00 -
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Because the EVE character designer let's you create some truly hot females. No joke. Amazing how they managed to pull that off. It that a CCP-made tool, or a third party app? |
Toshiroma McDiesel
Lupus Draconis Dragehund
31
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Posted - 2012.06.11 17:05:00 -
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CCP Punkturis wrote:whenever I drop by in the Help chat most people think I'm a guy, so I guess everybody just assumes all characters, male or female, are men!
The Internet : Where the Men are Men, the Women are Men, and the kids are the FBI !
probably one of the best ways to handle people on the internets The Valdspar is Holy, it must be allowed to float free. Free of lesser rocks that try to clutter it's Holy Path though the Heavens. |
Kalli Brixzat
47
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Posted - 2012.06.11 18:18:00 -
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Because we're all G.I.R.L.'s |
clitheroica
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.06.11 18:52:00 -
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Kalli Brixzat wrote:Because we're all G.I.R.L.'s
you said it sister |
Cadhla Ovsanna
Macabre Votum Against ALL Authorities
0
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Posted - 2012.06.11 20:02:00 -
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because they cant look at real **** all day so might as well settle for fake ones ... XD |
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