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Torath
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:24:00 -
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Can anyone explain to me why a guy would want his avatar to be a woman. The 'if I have to look at them all day' is a load of rubbish it is rare you need to look at your own image too often so that is a poor excuse. Icould understand if it is to get an edge over other guys but then you are treading on dodgy ground.
Someone tell me why??????
Also if there are any ladies out there I have a gread line in Armanni perfume cunningly disguised as a Cap recharger(for smuggling purposes)
You want it I got it....erm unless I sold it, then some one else has it!?! :/
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Discorporation
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:26:00 -
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Because people do not need to adhere to real life gender patterns in a game.
Aside from that, it's a fact that female MMOG characters get a -lot- more handouts then male characters.
[Heterocephalus glaber]
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drunkenmaster
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:27:00 -
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Edited by: drunkenmaster on 04/09/2003 15:28:07
A lot use it for deception. The tales of corps getting robbed by attractive females shortly after retail release were widespread and, to me anyway, hilarious.
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Kalhan
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:27:00 -
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Edited by: Kalhan on 04/09/2003 15:28:53
Edited by: Kalhan on 04/09/2003 15:28:02
huh????
Could you make all that understandable?
Edit: Now I see. I had to read it over like 4 or 5 times.
Edit2: What is a dodgy
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Macumba
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:27:00 -
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It's cheaper than a sex change.
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Torath
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:32:00 -
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But is that not just fools being suckered into that trap. In this day and age you would have thought men would wise up to the 'Siren' sydrome.
Just because its a pretty face don't mean its an innocent mind.
I think its more to do with the cross dressing mass's coming out.
You want it I got it....erm unless I sold it, then some one else has it!?! :/
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Bauglier
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:44:00 -
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Hmmmmmm .....
Not an expert in pyschology [spelling?] myself but I'm sure there's a million and one studies about this sort of thing you could find on the net.
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Torath
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:48:00 -
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Notice how none of the Ladies...erm gents are coming here to defend themselves.
You want it I got it....erm unless I sold it, then some one else has it!?! :/
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Viceroy
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:48:00 -
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It's cheaper than a sex change.
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Veruna Caseti
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:51:00 -
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The more interesting question is why do you care?
Are you driving around EVE looking for a date?
You're not really an asteroid-mining, space-pirate killing interstellar tradesman in real life either; but you play one in EVE.
If it makes such a huge difference to you, you're the one with the problem. 
Veruna Caseti
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Torath
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:57:00 -
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Quote:
The more interesting question is why do you care?
Are you driving around EVE looking for a date?
You're not really an asteroid-mining, space-pirate killing interstellar tradesman in real life either; but you play one in EVE.
If it makes such a huge difference to you, you're the one with the problem.
Oh , sorry what was I thinking, yes its me with the problem.
And by the way was it not you who was relating this game to real life in another post. Funny how opinions change.
You want it I got it....erm unless I sold it, then some one else has it!?! :/
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Shikome Alluin
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:58:00 -
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Becouse..
This...
Is...
A...
GAME 
Thats like asking why a person would choose to play a pirate in the game, if hes not a pirate in real life.
Or asking a Warcraft player why he chooses to play an Orc when he clearly is a human.
Ohh and why does everybody ask if the men with Girl Avatars are cross dressers or homosexual ?
Open your mind guys. We are not bound by our real life chains in games, if we were we all be playing games of ppl playing games in low litt rooms, drinking (insert preferred drink here) :P
Have fun
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DREAMWORKS
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:59:00 -
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If i had to look all the time to a guy or a girl, what would you chose? ;)
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Khand
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Posted - 2003.09.04 15:59:00 -
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Quote:
Can anyone explain to me why a guy would want his avatar to be a woman. The 'if I have to look at them all day' is a load of rubbish it is rare you need to look at your own image too often so that is a poor excuse. Icould understand if it is to get an edge over other guys but then you are treading on dodgy ground.
Someone tell me why??????
Also if there are any ladies out there I have a gread line in Armanni perfume cunningly disguised as a Cap recharger(for smuggling purposes)
Fancy a shag?
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Replicant Amara
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Posted - 2003.09.04 16:01:00 -
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Well I just can say this about it...
Why not? I have to interact with her every day, players fall in love for her and she gets special treatment... and on the other side, why you need to play with a big tough guy, with muscular body and a mean face? maybe you feel attracted to them?
But just for the recordą
I felt really weird when I got a stocker that felt in love with my character... He force me to pod kill him...
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Veruna Caseti
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Posted - 2003.09.04 16:03:00 -
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Oh , sorry what was I thinking, yes its me with the problem.
And by the way was it not you who was relating this game to real life in another post. Funny how opinions change.
Funny how you don't know what an "analogy" is. Comparing something in game to something in real life does not mean I feel the two are equal. Purchase a dictionary. Think critically. Stay in school.
Veruna Caseti
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DB Preacher
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Posted - 2003.09.04 16:04:00 -
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lol torath,
Just coz you tried to chat me up in another thread and are now feeling tainted by thoughts of a fat greasy 65yr old trucker leering at your avator from the other side of the world, there's no need to feel scared.
I really did pick a woman coz i wanted to see how stunningly gorgeous a woman i could create and dont really want to see how cool a guy i could create :P
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Macumba
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Posted - 2003.09.04 16:06:00 -
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Seriously though, why the fuss?
If players want to wear space drag to get a free lunch then fair play to them. They're just taking advantage of a bunch of priapismic social misfits who think that a female avatar isn't a 35-year-old virgin playing from his parent's basement and is actually that pixellated goddess staring back at them. It's good business sense. Wood elves always get free buffs and all that. More fool the ones who fall for it.
As for the sexual aspect, again, who cares? Whatever lights your candle. Like sexual preference (or deviancy) has any bearing on a computer game. Heaven forbid there are people out there who are *shock horror!* *** or transexual. I've got a good mind to burn my mouse in protest.
Whether they're female or not it doesn't matter either way. It's like the old saying goes...
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But sometimes it's a*****."
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Veruna Caseti
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Posted - 2003.09.04 16:13:00 -
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Edited by: Veruna Caseti on 04/09/2003 16:15:33
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If players want to wear space drag to get a free lunch then fair play to them.
To me the reasoning doesn't even go that deeply.
It was a simple process:
1) Which race do I want to play?
2) Which bloodline?
3) Which avatar looks cool?
It's just another step in the customization process. No different than choosing a particular ship because of the way it looks or designing your cloak/cape in UO, or choosing your coporation's logo.
If Torath wants to take the Avatar and assume it represents something tangible in the real world, that's his own delusional problem. My avatar doesn't represent me any more than the ship I fly represents my car, or the station I dock at represents my house, or the asteroid field represents the old people I mug on the street.
If he's offended by the thought of male players with female avatars, he's probably insecure in his own sexuality.
Veruna Caseti
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Sc0rpion
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Posted - 2003.09.04 16:27:00 -
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N0 cyb0r for j00!
Lighten up man, it's just a game. Your avatar doesn't mean anything.
"The true secret to enjoying life is to live it dangerously."
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Callum McGrath
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Posted - 2003.09.04 16:31:00 -
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It obviously must mean something, after all I spend hours in 'therapy' trying to work out why my parents chose my name, but then I had to then go into some more 'therapy' because I got stressed about how my parents could have spent so little time in the choosing of my name, and then I got addicted to subscription drugs because I was depressed, and then I had to have more therapy.......
It's a game! Choose what you like I'm just upset that the avatars are humanoid, what about some kind of weird creature things.....
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Miso
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Posted - 2003.09.04 16:31:00 -
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Worst topic ever.
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Kalhan
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Posted - 2003.09.04 16:33:00 -
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They should just get rid of the races then and make you post a Pic of yourself as an avitar.
Its a game who cares. Are you looking for a date??
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Replicant Amara
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Posted - 2003.09.04 17:22:00 -
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Quote:
I've got a good mind to burn my mouse in protest. Quote:
lol..
Well I can image that can be hard to fall in love with a beautifull female character and then realize she is a he...
But this also can happen to you in real life and eve is trying to simulate real life as much as possible...
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Alexia Te'Len
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Posted - 2003.09.04 17:31:00 -
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Even though I'm a bloke myself, I just find it hard to relate or get into character when using a Male avatar.
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Daesdemona
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Posted - 2003.09.04 17:43:00 -
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Bah, why did people like playing Tomb Rider? Because they liked staring at her boxy ass? I think NOT.
The idea of a female with the male attraction to dangerous profession is rare in real life, that is why it is coveted so.
The whole Femme Fatale syndrome, the woman taking charge, the chick that doesn't take ****, they are succesful because they are uncommon, I mean, its ok to be a burly caldari male, whom you expect to be great at combat, ruff in bed, but why do people pretend they are old, or ugly?
Maybe the people that are women are all closeted homo's or crossdressers (sure ). Even if it WAS so, why would that bother you, its their business not yours.
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Dajjal
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Posted - 2003.09.04 18:02:00 -
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i'm so used to wearing a kilt i took it to the logical extreme
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Vacuole
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Posted - 2003.09.04 18:09:00 -
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Torath:
I chose female because:
I had more fun customizing an attractive female character's mug shot than I could have if I chose a male one, by a long shot.
That's the only reason. :)
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nails
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Posted - 2003.09.04 18:11:00 -
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simple answer, I enjoy looking at women not men. and my av is dead sexy. 
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Judicator
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Posted - 2003.09.04 18:55:00 -
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Well, I stick to a male avatar, but I sometimes play female avatars for one reason. I have found that when playing male I tend to project alot of my RL ways of beeing onto that char, I never do with female avatars.
Wierd? Maybe, but then again, I don't really care
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