It's such a different crowd these days. I think I've been to one or two tournaments since 2020 and have called it quits for the most part. It was kinda depressing seeing how the terminally online discord mutants are the norm now.
I feel that
The only dnd I've ever played was 5E, and as much shit as it seems to get I really wouldn't mind it terribly much if it wasn't a game where there was a horny 'that guy' at every single table.
I completely get that. As a bio-woman in the d+d community, I've had to deal with this in spades.
I never got too into tabletops myself lol but I used to attend fighting game tournaments until it became too insufferable to have to hang out with a bunch of sex pests. You as a woman probably have it harder than I do in these kind of spaces when it comes to rapey trannies, but I still can't stand it.
It's a little of both, but lot of the weebshit games that I happen to like attract new age tranny coomers. Of course Smash is Smash, and it's what I used to play myself before traditional fighting games. It's worse off naturally.
I feel you. I had to accept that any real life meet up to play that went beyond texas holdem would be collections of loser.
I blame eSports along with the ramping up of microtransactions. Now everything is serious business.
It's ok, I'm a vagina haver and I hide too.Women playing vidya now mostly being troon infested. So much that I changed my Youtube avatar after realising that what I thought was cute actually looked like a "Totally me! Teehee!" avatar. I never posted my face or voice. But I had videos with glitches and minor hacking and codes and was afraid people would think I was a tranny instead of a real woman despite the channel having a feminine name. Most of my game interests are retro too.
I posted this in another thread awhile back, but I wonder how many female gamers just stay under the radar and enjoy their games. With everything being discord now and infested with troons I don't think it's a welcome place for real women.
I haven’t played a modern online game in years. Aside from bugmen and troons, back when I stopped, I saw how corporate games were becoming, with things like microtransactions and games never actually being finished. Even indies aren’t appealing anymore, since they just don’t feel worth the time and effort.
You forgot the alternate version of "every relatable male character that's got horrible shit that's going on in their life and is sad is actually secretly a trans woman who is closeted and only needs to come out to fix everything! because they werent sad due to all the actual reasons to be sad no it was just internalized transphobia and male expectations!"
Ties into the thing I just said in terms of reply too, since they use the '"trans coding" headcanons to try and groom people interested in shit or that find shit relatable into the troon/goon/poon shit. Homestuck is a notorious example of this, in general. (Once again reminded because of my avatar running gag)
"THINGS THAT ARE SUPER RARE/VALUABLE!!!" and it's common shit that becomes "rare" due to the scalpers post video. Every. Fucking. time.
That’s fucked up either way. I know it’s not exclusive to Homestuck, but something about escapism or internet-based works always attracts the worst people. On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog, but the internet can just tell you’re one and wants you to be a cat instead. The hyperrealistic nature of the internet enables a lot of delusions and doublethink, but that’s a topic for another thread.
