I've witnessed anybody pretending to be a female for a material gain. I'd been playing one MMO for a five years, and I always knew who was behind a character in my guild, regardless of its gender (yeah, there were girls playing male characters, too). Pretending to be a girl on fora makes even less sense.
incidentally, if a game allows it, I always play as a female character. Somehow it just seems more natural to me.
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this is what i do.
try to stick to gender neutral words, if i have pick one, go with male because a vast majority of internet is male.
if i'm wrong then i use the there is no girls on the internet card and refer to the person as a she.
if i'm right they 1:0 for me.
nothing really changes for me
although it's easier to threaten them with stalkers... at least that's what i heard...
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Sometimes I pretend to be a Lurikeen, but in reality I'm only a Yordle :(
also there should be no different treatment for either sex on the internets, because do what you want as long as you stay anonymous, if you fail at that, you lost the game anyway.
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Its easier to troll as a girl and also a fetish for some guys.
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online games give people a chance to be who they are not... i think it is the same concept as a small weak dude playing as a huge strong dude with a sword that weighs 100 pounds. if every game had the same main character that would be boring??? i think my argument derailed i'm outta here BYE
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I don't think there is a game where you play as a weak small dude.
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They may look weak and small but, for instance, Saints Row character will still beat the crap out of Killbane on Murderbrawl XXXI.
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if i'm going to be looking at a 3d butt for a few hours (in game) it may as well be rockin female butt. it has nothing to do with personal identity but on that note i find it hard to play a female when gender effects relationships and such in game.
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If you're going to play a third person game why would you stare at your character's derrière? Game's action happens elsewhere on the screen.
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Let me give everyone here a hint. Most girls use their name as their account handle. If it is something like "Sam Winston" It is likely Samantha(I just made this one up as an example, but the point holds true.)
Some girls don't, and some guys use their name like that as their handle, but that is a good rule of thumb.
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Pfft like a face to face with Virgin would be the only place to make me rage! Don't get me started on fucking supermarkets with the god damn idiots who stand and chat to each other or take up the whole fucking aisle with their trolley while they look at something on the shelf. If you say excuse me or get the fuck out the way they give you such a dirty look! Or the shits that just push you out of the way instead of saying 'Excuse me', MAYBE IF YOU SHITTING SAID SOMETHING I WOULD HAVE MOVED BUT NOW I'M GOING TO STAND HERE AND BE A DICK ABOUT IT. Or the ones that try and push infront of you when you're waiting for other people to move so you can get through, OH DON'T WORRY I WAS ONLY STOOD HERE SO I COULD ENJOY THE SHITTY SUPERMARKET RADIO STATION WHILE CONTEMPLATING MY SHOPPING, DON'T MIND ME, YOU GO ON AHEAD YOU COCK. Or the ones that cough on you. A man once coughed right in my face while he pushed me out the way so I turned round and farted on him. SCREW YOU ARSEHOLE! Oh and the staff members who just stand around and talk or just leave the carts with the stock in the middle of the aisle? They can piss off too!
Don't get me started on the general public, call centres, arseholes, my neighbours or anything that slightly irks me because IT WILL BECOME A LONG POST OF CAPS AND ANGRY >:(
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damn that's attractive...
I mean YEAH you're right! Supermarkets are among the worst places to deal with people! Or when I'm at the cinema and someone's knocked down the divider for the lines and so people just make their own lines and push into the genuine line. There are plenty of things that piss me off too, but thanks to growing up in one of the most annoying countries in the world, the UK isn't such a bad place!
And forgive me, but I laughed the whole time whilst reading your rant :P
I'll mail you a Kit-Kat when I have the time.
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HA, at least there are queues!
The Kit-Kat chunky is for me. You get something more thin because I'm cheap when it comes to postage costs. You'll have to get on a bus and visit in order to get the chunky (which is a rather expensive chunky) What a shame!
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Then I hate to break it to you, but... my name isn't actually Angel.9 Rakou Cobra, nor is any of that part of my real name. :(
But it would be badass if my last name actually was Cobra. I should consider doing something about that.
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My name was boring until I found out the Germans knock one letter off the nickname of it, and it suddenly looks a thousand times more awesome. Last name is getting changed though (and Cobra was an actual consideration once lol).
But at least I'll always be Cobra somewhere!
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Haha, well it's a shame you don't have any German relatives....unless you do, in which case you have an excuse to use the awesome version.
You're actually changing your last name? I thought that was a joke!
I actually like my full name, as boring as it is ^^
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SIGH!
You're not the first to guess that :(
You already know my first name, so the second name should be easy to guess. I have no reason to hide either because there are simply too many people out there with exactly the same name. Excluding the middle name of course!
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I've got some German ancestry, but an even better excuse is I'm dating someone from Germany. That's how I even found the awesome version - had my name accidentally misspelled that way, and I just kept it. lol
And yeah I'm changing it, but not to Cobra. I've got a multitude of reasons I can't stand my real last name.
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In that case I bet you're jealous of her name. So just keep your cool German name then! Accident or not, at least you found it.
I'm stabbing in the dark here, but your first name is Angela? I won't go into your last name any further, your reasons are your reasons. I'll leave it at that!
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She actually tries to sound American. She added a letter on that normally gets taken off over there with the shortened version of her name.
Nope. :P The first letter of my real first name's not even anywhere in my username. I used to use Angela for a more normally named character in stories written for school or whatever though since Angel.9 sounded too out of place.
I do sign everything thing Angel.9 though - every drawing, story, etc. Even for school art and short stories I'd sign my real name with "a.k.a. Angel.9" tacked on.
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Hey, at least you "used to" use Angela, not bad for me! Now I'll take a stab that your first name starts with an M?
Outside of the online world, I never use Jonex. It's something I keep completely online. It's not the coolest name out there, but it represents me and is something I came up with on my own all those years ago.
Why Angel.9?
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Still no, but sort of odd you'd guess that. Maria was my second most used fake name for a "me" character for realistic stories.
...Oh now, that's a kinda long story, but I'll keep it as short as I can. lol It starts back when I was really, really young and would use a favorite cartoon character's name on high score boards... though, this being years ago, that had to be shortened one day because of a character limit, so I started using Angel12 (because for some reason I liked 12; I don't even know. I was just a kid). Eventually I ran into a high score board where that was too long and used Angel9 because I was 9 at the time. The period got added a bit later when there was more space again just to "look cooler."
Angel.9 was (and still is) also a character too. Before the name Angel.9 existed, she had my real, full name, but I hated that everywhere I went, somebody always had that, and usually they'd even be in my class too, so I switched her name to Angel.9 once I'd come up with it. She was kind of an alter ego to me - in some ways she was me; in some ways she was who I wished I was (though in more recent years I can proudly say I finally grew more like her personality-wise lol). She grew and changed as I did, so she sure as hell doesn't look like the cutesy thing she used to be.
The rest of the name came a few years after Angel.9, when it suddenly dawned on me my character never got to have a full name. So I just decided to pick things I liked. I got Rakou from Raikou, which was also a bit of a joke at how I used to mispronounce Raikou almost as Rakou years before that (side note: I actually have a stuffed store display Raikou that stands well over 2 feet tall). And Cobra's the simplest part: I freaking love cobras. lol
So... yeah. That's the shortest I think I could come up with. ._.
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That's quite a story, and those are some great drawings! You've pretty much explained everything about your name that I was wondering, so good job ^^ I was thinking that Rakou does sound like Raikou from Pokemon. Having a 2 foot tall stuffed version must mean you're a major fan.
If I tried incorporating some of my favourite things into my name, it would just be a complete mess :/ It's the simple life for me!
(and no worries about the length, I like reading things)
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Thanks. ^^ I was trying not to be too boring with it. lol And I do love Raikou quite a bit. Saw that in the Pokemon Center (now Nintendo World) in NYC on display when I was younger (not even really for sale) and asked about it. Employee gave me some ridiculous price, basically everything I'd saved for months for this trip.......... and I bought it anyway. ._.
I need to get a photo of that thing. I've yet to run into any others like it.
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:O Now that's an idea! My middle name is pretty bland.
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I never, ever use my real name online. Privacy, security and because I don't want to stand out with my less common first name (my last name is "normal" for where I live).
And I can assure you my first name is not Oh Noes (that would be such a terrible name to give a child..) or the other name I use.
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That's why I said some girl's don't. They are usually more internet savy (although this is not always true either. A girl might use their name as their handle and still be internet savy.
I personally use part of my name(one guess as to which part :P ) because I learned that I don't have anything to "secure" or any reason to be afraid. It isn't like someone is gonna come to my house and rob me because my steam name is part of my real name, and I'm not internet unsavy.
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Maybe you should learn what homosexuality is? You may also want to learn that there is such thing as gender identity disorder.
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IMMA GIRL ;D and i have witnesses :3 i dont know why guys do that.. It isn't easy to be a girl in a dominated mans world. I dont get free stuff from boys just for being a girl. Sometimes it's hard enough to get respect. Because of thooes j*rks that pretend to be a girl it ruins the trust to us actual girls here. People dont really belive us because we have thoose fake girls
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You probably don't get free stuff because they haven't figured out that you're a girl yet lol. I have a YT channel from which it is easy for people to know I'm a girl and I've received over $200 in games for free.... I really don't understand it. What exactly do they think they will gain from it? I'm sure if I was a highly moral person I'd turn these games down but hell I'm not rich enough to turn down free shit.
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btw the one useing the guy character is more prone to being gay.
fyi if they are gender confused they may not be gay. as in they like the other sex just also want to have their bodies. many people with sex changes still date the other sex they where born as.
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I was going to write a thought out response to this rather silly topic but I could feel my brain cells slowing committing suicide one by one so I just decided to not bother.
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i can't understand why they do it either lol; I asked a friend that did exactly play as a girl in almost every MMO ; he answer= you get free stuff + i love staring at her boobs all day.......
I for the other hand; I did not have that problem ; meet a girl in a game, now she's my gf :P im lucky XD
in some MMO's the OP characters are gender lock so people tend 2 take them example : perfect world International..... the 1 that can have pets freely
Also is hard to know if its a girl or a guy, and girls could also use male characters just for the fact that guys in the internet normally are sexist and assholes towards girls..... so blame those guys that insult girls in games that's why they hide from us....
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Do they actually think they'll get free stuff just for "being a girl"? If so, I feel even worse off for the guys who are giving these other guys gifts.
Personally, I think they're just stuck in the closet and pretend to be a girl so it's easier to flirt with other guys..
EDIT: Judging by the consensus, we have a bunch of lonely guys who could care less whether the "girl" they're talking to is actually more of a man than themselves.
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