• WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Yeah, you’re right, it’s just so weird to me, like I didn’t mind playing as non-white/male characters in games when I was a literal child and it’s not like I was a super enlightened 10 year old or anything

    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      one of the most popular games from my childhood was tomb raider where you were forced (at controllerpoint no less) to play as a woman
      it was wildly popular

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        One of the biggest chuds in my own family was scared to play that game as a kid because playing as a feeemale would damage his mighty masculinity but he also jacked off endlessly to Lara Croft porn and bragged to strangers about liking porn that “put that (slur) in her place.” volcel-judge heated-gamer-moment

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            He’s also fine with Gambo being on TV when his small children are in the room (he’s a father, unfortunately) but loudly raged (with them still in the room) about how a gay blowjob scene one time on the show was corrupting his children and that it should be a criminal act to have that where his kids could see it (they could see it because he argued they were “mature for their age” for everything else the show had going on in it until then). frothingfash

      • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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        I do wonder how Tomb Raider would be recieved if it was released today just as it was 1996, but with modern graphics.

        Like on the one hand, forced to play as a woman. On the other hand though, if Lara had the design she had in 1996 would they not mind because she fits their traditional ideas of what “hot” is? Like modern Lara seems to piss them off I know that (even though she’s still very much hot) but would old school Lara in modern graphics piss them off if it was a new franchise being released for the first time today? Makes me think.