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Old 24-05-06, 17:08   #41
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I'm not attacking you...I'm just saying...can't we just accept homosexuality and get on with our lives?it's genetic...
Oooh, now there's a can o' worms and no mistake! Some say genetic, others say a sin in the eyes of God. Some say it's normal, others see it as the ultimate perversion...

I wish in my heart of hearts that gay relationships were held in as high regard as straight ones, but the truth is that sentiment is never ever going to be accepted by the staunch homophobes out there. Adn thenthere's those people who get shocked by just about anything and everything... ("Lordie! Did you see that? Disgusting! She had her *ankle* showing! In today's age... 2006... what would the children think? It's an obvious attempt to corrupt the kiddies, that's what it is..." Yes, people like that still do exist...)
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Old 24-05-06, 17:10   #42
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Speaking of gay, that's quite a homoerotic avatar you have there Catapharact...
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Funny how no one else commented on that but you... Hmmm... Should I draw unmeaningful conclusions now?

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Old 24-05-06, 17:15   #43
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Funny how no one else commented on that but you... Hmmm... Should I draw nmeaningful conclusions now?
I might have been the only one to say it but I'm sure I wasn't the only one thinking it.

Come to whatever conclusions you want to, I'm straight but I'm not gonna preach that or get angry if anyone accuses me of being gay, what's the point?
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Old 24-05-06, 17:25   #44
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I might have been the only one to say it but I'm sure I wasn't the only one thinking it.

Come to whatever conclusions you want to, I'm straight but I'm not gonna preach that or get angry if anyone accuses me of being gay, what's the point?
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The point is simple. People may wanna draw their conculsions on you but you have your right to put your POV through. Seems like anyone here who may not agree with the masses gets the "Troll" lable. Its down right irritating. Not everyone is gonna agree with the topic in hand. Get used to it.

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Old 24-05-06, 17:30   #45
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The point is simple. People may wanna draw their conculsions on you but you ahve your right to put your POV through. Seems like anyone here who may not agree with the masses gets the "Troll" lable. Its down right irritating. Not everyone is gonna agree with the topic in hand. Get used to it.
What are you talking about? I never said everyone should agree to the topic at hand and I'm fully aware of what I have a right to do thank you very much!

I'm just having a bit of fun here, getting you to sprout off-topic in your own thread after having seen you run around in everyone elses telling them that thier threads are spammy, useless and off-topic.

I'm done now.
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Old 24-05-06, 17:31   #46
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Where to begin...

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In online games such as Everquest, almost half of the women characters are actually men—guys who prefer to cross-dress when they play. In the '90s, Tomb Raider and its imitators were so popular that for several years, American teenage boys played almost exclusively as buxom, wasp-waisted women. But for young men, the bulk of these games' audience, experiencing life as an ass-kicking action chick is probably less threatening than adopting the role of a homosexual man. The new generation of gay-positive games presents an interesting test of how far role-playing can stretch.
Ok, that's stupid. The writer of this article is attempting to assign his own stereotype to males who play as female characters. I have chosen to use female game characters since Chun Li in Street Fighter II and basically, it has to do with one or more of the following:

1.asthetics
2.the character
3.abilities

I'm neither gay nor a cross dresser, and I'm not even remotely close to being curious about either. The writer is basically doing exactly what many people complain about - he's generalizing a group of people, in this case, male gamers, based either on what he thinks he knows or what he wants you to think. l'll take my case even further: most games which give you the option of playing a female character attempt to make them appear as attractive as possible. Attractive to who, would-be gay men? Let's see, guy wants to play as a female game character and makes the female look as visually hawt as possible. Visually hawt for whom? If it's for the player's benefit - Hello, not gay! If it's to attract gay men, then why use a female at all? Guess it goes back to point 1. asthetics based on personal preference, which does not necessarily have to do with sexuality at all. If it did for each and every person every single time, then golly gee, what's the explanation this writer has for all the straight guys who play as...

-drum roll-

...male characters?

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If you squint, though, you can spot a few bits of queer culture lurking among the pixels. The super-buff characters in the Street Fighter arcade games seemed like something from a Gay Pride Day float—particularly Guile, a military fighter so deeply devoted to his soldier partner Charlie that, as one blogger noted, it was practically a "don't ask, don't tell" situation.
You see only what you are trying to look for. Conveniently, this person left out the fact that Guile has a wife and kid. Considering the characters of both he and Charlie were military and both served together - golly gee, it's not uncommon to think of your fellow soldiers as "brothers in arms." One is killed, the other seeks revenge. Is this behavior only an occurance which happens among gays and bis? Of course not! Again, this is an attempt to assign a description to something which is based on nothing concrete whatsoever.

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The same blogger cited the Darkstalkers character Victor, who fights by whipping around enemies using his butt cheeks, as another example: "In gay wrestling porn, that counts as foreplay.")
Darkstalkers is one of my favorite games. Reasons:

1. Cool characters
2. The game never takes itself too seriously

Now, if we continue down the route which the writer implies, then there must be other inuendos for every other aspect of Darkstalkers, say for instance, the fact that characters are turned into baby or cutesy versions of themselves when hit with certain projectiles. Must be for people who are into child porn. OMG - Anakaris must also be a wink-wink to those who like bondage since he has a move which mummifies his opponents.

C'mon, talk about grasping at straws.

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I spent months playing Samurai Showdown before finding out that Amakusa, a woman with flowing red hair and long nails, was, whoops, a guy.)
Another one of my favorite games. Yes ding-dong, Amakusa is gay, or at the very least, a cross dresser. I figured that out the first time I saw him. Go figure.

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Nobody inveighs against "liberal game-makers" the way they demonize "liberal Hollywood."
Two words: Bull Crap. Here's just one example:

GTA series.

Can we say "lawsuits?"

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While the majority of straight, young-guy gamers in the United States will probably never prefer to play as gay men, they know this is a fantasy world in which anything goes, including sexuality.
How?

How does "anything go?" When was the last time you saw an Everquest Dark Elf do a striptease in a Dark Elf strip club? When was the last time a WoW Orc sang Soft Cell's "Sex Dwarf" to a Dwarven player? When was the last time a Wookiee couple in Star Wars Galaxies humped the bunk and had Wookiee cubs?

Please.

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They'll be shocked, surprised, then they'll move on to kill orcs elsewhere. In the world of games, that's tolerance.
In the world of reality, this article is called innacurate.
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Old 24-05-06, 17:44   #47
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Where to begin...




Two words: Bull Crap. Here's just one example:

GTA series.

Can we say "lawsuits?"
Agreement there Lol! I don't think Rockstar has even been so sort after for suits than any other gaming company.
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Old 24-05-06, 17:46   #48
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lol, Wolfguard wins thread.
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Old 24-05-06, 17:51   #49
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agree with everything you said,especially this part:

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You see only what you are trying to look for.
well said
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Old 24-05-06, 17:54   #50
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Thank you, thank you...
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