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Yeah, but that only lasts for like the first character or two. I dig the hot superheroines, but honestly, for my own character, I don't care. Besides, you don't actually need to play a female heroine, there are plenty out there to gawk at. In fact, if that's your thing, you don't really even need to get out of the costume creator.
Most of my recent characters have been male because, pertinent to the topic at hand, it's easier for me to roleplay them.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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I see this a lot, and it never makes sense to me. Sure, a costume idea can look better on a female than on a male especially with the kinds of unique pieces they have, but if you're spending so much time looking at your character, how can you play the game? I really don't get it, but to each their own I suppose.
Around half of my characters are female and the other male. I have no "neutral" genders (aka: machines) nor aliens that aren't clearly a specific gender. I just go with the gender that best fits the background or costume I'm after. So far, it's split my genders pretty much right down the middle.
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I spend most of the time I'm playing looking at my character and how they move and stuff. I just enjoy looking at my creation 
Then again I'm the kind of person who can watch any video game character that has hair dynamics/clothing dynamics for hours, running in circles just to see it flow around.....
As far as the rp thing goes, I agree that RP adds something special to the game. It takes confidence in oneself if you ask me to really roleplay a character outloud in front of strangers and not feel silly about it, but to the rest of the world they sure would see it as strange.
Some people might even be jealous cause they can't be so outspoken about their creations and don't even want to expereince rping at all or make bad judgment about the whole idea maybe from personal insecurities.
I know I wish I could be abit more confident with bringing life to my silly concepts without doubt, but it's part of learning to do what you like and staying respectful to everyone else in the process.
Male or female character, it's still a human being(far as I know lol) behind that character with emotions and feelings, why make someone feel bad in a make believe world.
Regardless of gender, if they are a nice person and make you feel good. Well I guess it really doesn't matter anymore, you may just have made a friend.
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Shame I've already been posting in this thread this would be a great place to say DANG! they tricked me... but its kinda obvious I already knew that..
I know I'm 16 pages too late to chime in but, I'd like to add three things.
A few pages ago, it's been mentioned that people who lie about their own gender may end up hurting someone when they date on the net for a while. Hum... am I the only one to find that internet dating is... silly at best? I mean, meeting someone from the other side of the planet, moving and settling is something else I guess (one of my friends did that, met a guy, crossed the ocean, lived happily ever after) but plain simple internet dating? No contact, no phone, no nothing? Anyways...
Secondly, I'm not one to play Admiral's advocate but, I would at least ask, what is the point of lying about your gender? I just cannot see why someone would do that. You're a guy and want to play a female girl, no problem, I do that. You want to roleplay her too? No problem, I do that as well, and I enjoy it. But if someone asks me if I'm a man in real life, I'll have no trouble saying I am one. The person is not asking me my social security number or my phone number, merely my gender. I don't think that the "my privacy" argument really holds any serious ground there. If, following that, the person cannot roleplay anymore, then it's their loss. I may roleplay a female character, but I'm still a man in his thirties, married and with the same woman for a decade and a half, I have no intention of turning casual or intense roleplay into anything else
And finally, the big issue, the one that will probably get debated (flamed) a bit: I do not roleplay on an online game anymore. I used to, a lot. I am a roleplay addict, do tabletop and larp quite a plenty, but online roleplay burned me every single time. Starting with the old EQ days where every guild had to have its token crazy girl who flirted everyone and stalked people and left messages on their phone and... <shudders at the memories> Really. After a few very nice roleplay sessions, that crazy woman would not leave me alone, she made new alts and even bought a second account to stalk me.
[Flame inducing part, skip if you can't handle a bit of drama]
But lately, the biggest reason is that it has been next to impossible for me to find a roleplay partner that would simply roleplay. Every single time, the person would eventually start pouring their personal life into the chatbox and every single time, it was someone with very bad personal issues. No, I do not want to hear about your drug addiction, your chronic lack of employment, your sexual problems or the fact that you have eight kids and that you allow the TV to raise them while your husband is with another chick because you're now 500lbs because you play games and eat chicken wings 18 hours a day (true story), all I want is some fun, anonymous, clean roleplay. It's as if being a total nutjob was now a prerequisite if you want to be a real roleplayer in a MMO. I am perfectly aware that it's not the case and that I have probably been unlucky, then again, I personally know a handful of people that roleplay extremely well around a table but wont do so in a video game for the very same reasons. Permanently weirded out. [/oops]
That and, CoH is way to fast of a game to spend time typpity-typing all day long.
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didn't think this was this big of an issue, note i only read page one and two so i don't know what you guys are talking about now
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Mainly discussing someone's rant that he posted in response to your question.
The main consensus in response to your question is that a little light RP (conversing as if your were actually your character) can be fun. Lying about your personal info (mainly about your gender) is a big "turn-off" for some people. It isn't that uncommon for people to gender-bend while RPing, in fact to some people that makes it even more fun, since you are trying to get into the head of someone very much not like yourself.
I think that's the high points.
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I know I'm 16 pages too late to chime in but, I'd like to add three things.
A few pages ago, it's been mentioned that people who lie about their own gender may end up hurting someone when they date on the net for a while. Hum... am I the only one to find that internet dating is... silly at best?
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AT BEST. It's actually downright pathetic. No, seriously it is. Yes, it is. No, I don't care about your special case. It's sad. Stop it.
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Secondly, I'm not one to play Admiral's advocate but, I would at least ask, what is the point of lying about your gender? I just cannot see why someone would do that. You're a guy and want to play a female girl, no problem, I do that. You want to roleplay her too? No problem, I do that as well, and I enjoy it. But if someone asks me if I'm a man in real life, I'll have no trouble saying I am one. The person is not asking me my social security number or my phone number, merely my gender. I don't think that the "my privacy" argument really holds any serious ground there. If, following that, the person cannot roleplay anymore, then it's their loss. I may roleplay a female character, but I'm still a man in his thirties, married and with the same woman for a decade and a half, I have no intention of turning casual or intense roleplay into anything else
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I never assume I know anything about anyone I interact with online. I have been RPing with some people online for YEARS before I ever knew what their RL gender was for certain (although I can usually guess... there's actually clues that if you're around someone long enough you can guess their gender just by how they structure their RP and other in game behaviors). Ultimately it doesn't matter to me. I couldn't care less if it's a guy playing a girl or a girl playing a guy (which is almost as common, if not more so). My interest in them begins and ends with their RP.
EDIT: and/or their effectiveness as a team mate. A good RP who sucks at the game isn't going to last on my team long :P
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I used to, a lot. I am a roleplay addict, do tabletop and larp quite a plenty, but online roleplay burned me every single time. Starting with the old EQ days where every guild had to have its token crazy girl who flirted everyone and stalked people and left messages on their phone and
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Erm... why would you be giving out your phone number to someone in a game? People can't stalk you if they don't have any personal information!
Hell, I don't even give out my STEAM ID to strangers.
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But lately, the biggest reason is that it has been next to impossible for me to find a roleplay partner that would simply roleplay. Every single time, the person would eventually start pouring their personal life into the chatbox and every single time, it was someone with very bad personal issues. No, I do not want to hear about your drug addiction, your chronic lack of employment, your sexual problems or the fact that you have eight kids and that you allow the TV to raise them while your husband is with another chick because you're now 500lbs because you play games and eat chicken wings 18 hours a day (true story),
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Wow. Never once had that happen to me. But then I'm a stickler on keeping OOC chatter to a minimum and insist it be all in a special OOC global channel I made. I really have zero reason outside of in-game tactics or for expediency about metagame things (i.e. team stuff) to speak to anyone OOC.
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There's plenty of that.
There's plenty of people who use it as an excuse to have cybersex too, but those people are easy to avoid (just stay out of Pocket D!)
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Maybe this is it. Nothing weirds me out. Nothing. I'm too jaded I guess. The only thing that offends me is abject and willful stupidity (which there still is plenty of). Otherwise, I'm perfectly capable of typing /ignore when someone goes off the deep end, and I'm pretty cagey about any personal information online, so really, whats the worst someone can do besides momentarily inconvenience me?
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I can type while fighting. I can que two attacks up, get one or two sentences out, then que two more. As a result, I RP even in battles. In fact, inside the mission is my favorite place to RP. But then again, I can type fast with a reasonable degree of accuracy. ;-)
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/whispers Psst! It's a cartoon character. It's not a real girl.
Seriously, if you're finding your CoX character's attractiveness to be an issue either way, then you need to get out more.
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We do that too.
It's why I play brutes.
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/whispers Psst! It's a cartoon character. It's not a real girl.
Seriously, if you're finding your CoX character's attractiveness to be an issue either way, then you need to get out more.
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Y'think? Gee, thanks for judging who I am and how I think without ever meeting me.
I don't find my characters sexually attractive. I don't fantasize about them. Where you got that stupid idea I don't know but get it out of your head now.
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Not unless you own your own static IP registered to a domain name in your own name and don't use any form of spoofing and actually put your real home contact information in your domain name info (don't ever do that).
True Story: someone decided to try and scare me and looked up a domain name I had, and sent me a PM saying "I'm turning onto Golf Rd right now. What do you think of that?" obviously referencing the street in my Domain Name's contact info. I said "Great! When you get there be sure to wave 'hi' to the strip mall at that address!"
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Not a response to you directly but to anyone who reads this..
Welcome to the internet: Nothing you do is secret. Determined people can trace anything you do.
Be paranoid.
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Not a response to you directly but to anyone who reads this..
Welcome to the internet: Nothing you do is secret. Determined people can trace anything you do.
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Yes and no. People can only find information that you have made publicly available. Don't want anyone to know something personal, don't put it online. I am continually confounded by the volume of personal details people want to share with the whole world. Social networking sites make me shake my head in disbelief (and make the social engineer inside of me squee with delight).
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Not a response to you directly but to anyone who reads this..
Welcome to the internet: Nothing you do is secret. Determined people can trace anything you do.
Be paranoid.
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Yes and no. People can only find information that you have made publicly available. Don't want anyone to know something personal, don't put it online. I am continually confounded by the volume of personal details people want to share with the whole world. Social networking sites make me shake my head in disbelief (and make the social engineer inside of me squee with delight).
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Social networking sites make me wonder what happened to diaries being private..
You don't need to trace the person directly. The IP, even if it's a dynamic address given by an ISP can be traceable to an approximate destination and once the person knows something as basic as your name (entirely common when you play with friends), they can do the rest. Heck, EQ wasn' really an alt-friendly game so, many people used their most common internet alias to name their character.
From there...
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You don't need to trace the person directly. The IP, even if it's a dynamic address given by an ISP can be traceable to an approximate destination and once the person knows something as basic as your name (entirely common when you play with friends), they can do the rest. Heck, EQ wasn' really an alt-friendly game so, many people used their most common internet alias to name their character.
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No, it's still not that easy if you're careful. Geographic location isn't good enough (and isn't even accurate most of the time... for a long time I had an IP that tracked to Seattle, WA when I live no where near there). Even with a name and geographic location you still need some kind of public record. Seeing as my own parents had to hire a private detective to find me less than 50 miles from their home (long story) I can assure you that a simple internet sleuth can very easily be held at bay with just a modicum of precautions.
Like making sure your phone number isn't listed OR published ANYWHERE, for instance.
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Are you tring to compare actors who get paid millions to act to people on the internet paying $15 a month?
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Most actors make very little money. Many actors, such as those in community theater, don't even get paid at all.
And RPing in a game and doing improv in a community theater aren't terribly different.
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I see this a lot, and it never makes sense to me. Sure, a costume idea can look better on a female than on a male especially with the kinds of unique pieces they have, but if you're spending so much time looking at your character, how can you play the game? I really don't get it, but to each their own I suppose.
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Given that the character tends to be right smack in the middle of the screen for anyone playing in 3rd person ( which is just about everyone ), it's rather hard NOT to spend so much time looking at them...
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I see this a lot, and it never makes sense to me. Sure, a costume idea can look better on a female than on a male especially with the kinds of unique pieces they have, but if you're spending so much time looking at your character, how can you play the game? I really don't get it, but to each their own I suppose.
Around half of my characters are female and the other male. I have no "neutral" genders (aka: machines) nor aliens that aren't clearly a specific gender. I just go with the gender that best fits the background or costume I'm after. So far, it's split my genders pretty much right down the middle.
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My camera is always at the default max zoom-out. I don't see your point.
Main Hero : Annilixxion -- Lv50 Blaster
Main Villain : Menkaura -- Lv41 Mastermind
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"You will bend to my will, with or without your precious sanity." --Dragon Mage