But Arthus is still woke though, he wont say the G@mer word.

I wish there were more beautiful boys in games 😔

The default male protagonist is always that masculine look. I want a twink protagonist. I want a femboy.

is it so much to ask for a chainmail bikini on a guy for once?

Conan, Leonidas, and Kratos come close but nothing on the same level as female MMO armor
- no more half measures

Women in Japan literally complained to Konami over Solid Snake being too gruff and not bishonen enough so Raiden was made.

Hideo Wokjima caved in to the feminists? The east has fallen. Billions must be sarin gassed
Many Japanese dudes don't seem to care for ossans too much either
And then he was a whiny loser
- Hey I stan whiny Raiden in MGS 2 and his drama with his gf
- So is the fan base.

Why do they talk about what women are attracted to as if they don’t hate them for not being attracted to them for not being 12/10 models?

Japanese games make male characters too pretty, western games make female characters too ugly, I think I just am a fundamentally unhappy person who is compelled to complain about shit

Synthesis: every game character should be androgynously hot
- no more pronouns in video games
I think that’s a pretty interesting point that’s never brought up in Gamer Discourse. They complain how western game studios make women fat and ugly and angry while Japanese games game women feminine and busty and attractive and gushing with joy.
But they never talk about how western game studios make every male character gruff, masculine, angry, and muscular while Japanese games generally have them be twinks or just “anime guy” with some VA who’s emulating a high school boy’s voice.
Edit: re-read your comment and realized you basically said what I said with fewer words. I thought you said something else and I tried to expand on it lol

ngl it is pretty fucked up that even after 13 years of modding ecosystem development it is still extremely difficult (unless you replace the head mesh entirely) to make pretty boy characters and custom NPCs in Skyrim

Twink rights!

Ngl, this is lowkey the reason I still play Oblivion, can make all sorts of bodytypes there with some small modding ability.
- Yeah at least all the faces in (Vanilla) Oblivion are equally weird and goofy looking lol and I do remember there being some anime ish character mods for male characters too

It's really funny that reactionaries don't have a theory of mind.

I just realized I make all my characters look freakish and generally unpleasant to look at, especially in online games.

like beady-rat eyes, busted skin, cro-mag brow. in ark I made the eyes tiny and as wide set as possible. short and squat, paunchy, neckless.

it's always some combination of like derelict missing link meets yikes.

the payoff is like cut scenes and shit, because there's a generally a subtle implication in those scenes that the player character is sexy/attractive/desirable and it clashes hard with my bipedal disaster to add unintentional amusement.

Same. If a a game gives me a slider to adjust any part of my character's appearance I will treat it like an on/off button. It will end up all the way to the left or all the way to the right.
Lower jaw forward/back is not a spectrum. It is a binary.
i remember in second life if you moved all the sliders to the left your person would look like a hunched over little goblin with a huge mouth and it was perfect