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[l0c0r0c0edy]

Yeah i see your point here but i honestly find it hard to speak to newbies as i don't know wether they're going to turn out to be completley nice and considerate or just be equal or worse to another virtual gangster sheep hybrid ( i seriously don't know or care to what to call them) we have to consider that this is a virtual reality but a reality never the less where we have good people and not so good people somehow even creating an equilibrium effect , in home it is shown to have gone a bit too far where the bad have become too bad because of the good becoming too good .

[deslegumes]

  Snozzlenut: Interesting post and also how you experience Home, thanks a lot

Personally, I am a tiny bit surprised because my experience of Home is way different than yours (apparently)!

Not that I'm trying to make a point of whether your or mine experience is the "correct one" of course...

But are there really so many haters? I haven't met them maybe or maybe I don't frequent the same places they do...

To introduce myself for a bit her, I am a normal computer engineer, middle-class, "fitting in" so to speak with the ipod wearing masses in the morning

I am male yes, but when I play e.g. Mass Effect and choose gender - I wanna look at a pretty girl rather than some g.i. joe's derriere for the 40 or so hours playing the game.

So the transition to use a female avatar in Home is slightly obvious... I say slightly because I understand that some people might say that I'm sailing under a false flag or something... But I don't care... I'm not even annoyed by it because it's so stupid to get angry over something like that... Shouldn't the things I say and communicate in Home be more important to be truthful than what my avatar looks like? Because if not, I see some gaping security flaws here...

Maybe I'm wrong - but if so I'd like to hear your reasoning 

cheers

des legumes

[TriniLucille10]

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deslegumes wrote:

I am male yes, but when I play e.g. Mass Effect and choose gender - I wanna look at a pretty girl rather than some g.i. joe's derriere for the 40 or so hours playing the game.

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    You might get through it a bit quicker if you tried looking at the enemies and your targeting crosshairs? 

[deslegumes]

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TriniLucille10 wrote:

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deslegumes wrote:

I am male yes, but when I play e.g. Mass Effect and choose gender - I wanna look at a pretty girl rather than some g.i. joe's derriere for the 40 or so hours playing the game.

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    You might get through it a bit quicker if you tried looking at the enemies and your targeting crosshairs? 

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Hehe well that might be right, but ... NEVER!!! Also, where's the fun!? 

[KrazyFace]

I can see where you're coming from with this but to me, there are just too many oddities for the fams and kids to completely ruin Home for me. What I mean is, as an "older guy" I find watching the way teens interact with eachother quite fascinating sometimes. Sure I get bored of listening to their smack-talk when one group starts on another, but even that can be fun to watch play out. Were you just having a bad night Snozz?

Feeling disillusioned? Kidz-in-Home got you down?

Then come on over the Cardboard Cartel, we'll sell you crap that don't exist so you can get that hollow, retail therapy that you KNOW you need to make it all A-OK again!

Seriously though, if you find you're looking for deep and meaningful conversation then I have some small open windows regarding that kinda thing. More often than not you'll find me talking crap but catch me on a good day and it's all expansion and contraction of the universe, Drake's Equasion theories, sub-atomic robotics and what-have-you. If you fancy a deep chat about life or even better; games then I'm all for that too, but do bear in mind the majority of the time I will just be talking crap.

[KrazyFace]

Oh, and thus whole thing with guys using girlie avis; it is a bit weird really. I get that when you're playing Tomb Raider you are Lara Croft (or in my case, trying to protect her) but as a virtual environment goes I see running around Home as a girl (when you're a guy) a little misleading and unfair at times. Personally, I like projecting myself in games. Skyrim, Fallout, any game that allows facial shaping I'll make my person as much like me as possible; when I play I decide what I would do personally, not the character. I put MYSELF into an RPG when I can because it pushes the boundaries on how far I would really go. To me, it's the same thing in Home; I'm me, not Lara Croft or Mercer or Nathan Drake.

I like looking at girlie bits just as much as the next man (virtual or otherwise) but come on guys, you find the male avis THAT ugly!? Besides, you can't say you'd rather look at a normal Home Avi's curves with one breath, then say something like x7 is filled with grotesque dancing man-women!

[deslegumes]

Actually I agree that it's a bit weird - but only because it's a fairly new kind of situation with guys pretending to be girls, and that makes it weird through novelty only I guess. 

I mean, of course you can't really be sure that I'm being sincere here just by reading this post, but I can tell you that at no point in my life have I ever wanted to be a different gender, nor am I concerned about if it might mean I secretly want to be a girl.

I just happen to find it very amusing to be able to "be" a girl in an online world - in a simple, shallow but yet quite fun experience.

I don't know why, but before I just ran around as a "hawt babe" with guys friending me every other second without asking any question, I didn't really have appreciation for what kind of social interacting women really deal with daily - I may sound stupid, and I know that on at least one occasion I have been stupid in the past, but I'm not able to explain exactly why I find it interesting...

Maybe it's because it gives me greater insight into the pitfalls I try to avoid myself when in the beginning of dates with a new potential girlfriend - not that's a problem anyhow, but it gives me a better understanding of her position in relation to me as a man...

Now I'm starting to realize I'm rambling, so I'll just stop 

[OoO-avatar-OoO]

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deslegumes wrote:

I am male yes, but when I play e.g. Mass Effect and choose gender - I wanna look at a pretty girl rather than some g.i. joe's derriere for the 40 or so hours playing the game.

So the transition to use a female avatar in Home is slightly obvious... I say slightly because I understand that some people might say that I'm sailing under a false flag or something... But I don't care... I'm not even annoyed by it because it's so stupid to get angry over something like that... Shouldn't the things I say and communicate in Home be more important to be truthful than what my avatar looks like? Because if not, I see some gaping security flaws here...

Maybe I'm wrong - but if so I'd like to hear your reasoning 

cheers

des legumes

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I can understand doing it once to see for yourself how the other gender experiences home, but I draw the line at doing it on a regular basis, or making friends under those false pretenses.  If any of your friends think you are one gender when you clearly are not, that is just wrong.  

[deslegumes]

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OoO-avatar-OoO wrote:

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deslegumes wrote:

I am male yes, but when I play e.g. Mass Effect and choose gender - I wanna look at a pretty girl rather than some g.i. joe's derriere for the 40 or so hours playing the game.

So the transition to use a female avatar in Home is slightly obvious... I say slightly because I understand that some people might say that I'm sailing under a false flag or something... But I don't care... I'm not even annoyed by it because it's so stupid to get angry over something like that... Shouldn't the things I say and communicate in Home be more important to be truthful than what my avatar looks like? Because if not, I see some gaping security flaws here...

Maybe I'm wrong - but if so I'd like to hear your reasoning 

cheers

des legumes

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I can understand doing it once to see for yourself how the other gender experiences home, but I draw the line at doing it on a regular basis, or making friends under those false pretenses.  If any of your friends think you are one gender when you clearly are not, that is just wrong.  

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I agree, and just to be clear even if I wanted to deceive someone into believeing I was another gender, I don't think it would have been a pleasant experience for me neither because of the blatant deception combined with the utter pointlessness.

It's just silly at best, hurtful and disturbing at the worst and quite possibly a tad anti-social... 

I usually bring it up within the first minutes in a "u know of course im a dude btw" kind of message, but my guess is some of the people I chat with already read me as having a more of a guy kind-of language - maybe...

Most people doesn't seem to mind or notice, some just are extremely interested in the possibility of a new female ps friend, some are apprehensive about it and are all too aware of the ratio of boys-to-girls in Home, but whatever the case I'm not in Home to date people anyhow so...

Actually, one of my friends who I've met as the fem avatar is a guy w/male avatar. We went to that place, the Island where you're washed up and can dig for fossiles, and there's a priest and a wedding "mini-game" ... lol, so we got married and got ourselves some free wedding rings... been there, done that I can say at least  

[Furys-embrace]

lol Desle, you dont have to justify anything to anyone on here. Its my opinion (yeah yeah here I go again being all opinionated and stuff) that the gender and to a certain extent appearance of an avatar is irrelevant. Whats more important is what people say and the way they treat other users and by the sounds of it you have lots of interesting things to say, youre respectful to others and above all you're honest. Youre one of the 'rare find' users I think, which I referred to in an earlier post I made in this thread, and I think if Snozz came across more honest and open minded home users like you to chat to she'd be less disheartened with the people on it. Stay cool dude, and play home the way you wanna play it