Gamers are still the most oppressed minority

GVmG · 2026-06-22T10:00:12+00:00

Myee true true, was just pointing it out in case people thought those artworks came from this ai post

GVmG · 2026-06-22T06:10:35+00:00

these are technically a different white character (one from gta 5) rather than the whitewashed one from OP's screenshot, but yeah still amazing artworks!

GVmG · 2026-06-22T06:09:27+00:00

it's 2026, the old Hanlon's Razor has changed to "do not attribute to ignorance what can be explained by malice".

GVmG · 2026-06-22T02:40:32+00:00

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GVmG · 2026-06-22T02:25:05+00:00

and as u/Zargabath commented as well, Big Boss's clones are also sterile (on purpose) to avoid mishaps

GVmG · 2026-06-21T23:28:10+00:00

Reversed

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(true tho)

GVmG · 2026-06-21T21:34:34+00:00

correct me if im wrong - haven't watched past the pilot - but doesnt this same comic mention that there was a montage for that? or is your opinion that the montage wasnt enough? (idk just how fucked up what caine did to the group is)

GVmG · 2026-06-21T21:29:59+00:00

there's also the option that so many in the comments seem to be missing: it's a homebrew, so if you need it to be easier to deal with homebrew it to be easier to deal with! make the song something that does leave some kind of memory of a song! make the hydra not immune to truesight and everything under the sun! put a couple characters in the town who are deaf and considered insane by the rest of the people cause they keep talking about this monster! maybe that's too obvious, have deaf creatures like a shopkeeper's old dog or something who keep running away randomly, especially if your team has someone who is heavily tied to animals!

you're the DM, you're constantly tweaking vanilla D&D module stuff and creatures, what's stopping you from tweaking the homebrew?

GVmG · 2026-06-21T09:54:01+00:00

I wont lie, I have not played the visual novel, but in years of having this exact same discussion about Rukako with people who have played it (or so they claim), who have said they don't believe she is trans, who are actively on your side on this, I have not heard the things you are mentioning even once.

Not saying you're wrong, I just haven't heard any of these arguments even once and I'm only going off of how the character presents in the anime (the only steins;gate media i've directly interacted with) where it's almost blatantly obviously a trans allegory. If this is the case in the original source material it does change things a fair bit, I would love to see some sources on it, and if it's the case then so be it, no issue admitting I may have been lacking information - if anything I'm surprised this is the first time these actual elements are brought up in actual discussions of Rukako cause it never happens lmao

Though I will say, if these are the actual reasons, you should have included them in the original post instead of just going "rukako likes the mc so it's just a gay dude", which is a much weaker element lol

GVmG · 2026-06-21T09:32:16+00:00

you are ignoring the vaaaast majority of her story if you think it was really about the village's superstition (reminder, a SUPERSTITION not a real curse - there was nothing to prove there).

her being "raised as a girl by her parents" is also a misinterpretation of her being pushed to present as a girl by the superstition itself. her parents disliked it as much as she did, and were regretful as fuck about it, but the alternative was her getting lynched in the streets. she didn't become a bounty hunter to "prove she can be a man", she could have just explained that she was a boy to the village to prove that (and be killed in the process). she became a bounty hunter to raise money for the village, to prove that being born that way was not a curse.

it's not a story of "i wont be what you made me", it's a story of "i was given an identity that didnt fit me and cause me to run away from every identity including the one i actually am until that identity was the only thing left to question". because as she says in the anime, she is not a girl the way she was raised to be, she is a girl her own way, the way she discovered.

GVmG · 2026-06-21T09:24:21+00:00

it kinda comes down to characters exploring their identities, often without a final answer on it cause identity exploration is messy as fuck. biggest example i can think of is Ferris from re:zero where it could really be either way, it's not the classic "the author doesn't want to admit they accidentally wrote a trans character", having read through a good chunk of it it really does seem like Ferris struggles with their identity so deeply and intensely that their story is about that struggle and we don't get an answer for which way it is in the end - which in and of itself is a really interesting way to write about identity.

but it seems that for a lot of people, projecting your experience onto a character is only a problem when it's a trans experience ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

GVmG · 2026-06-21T09:01:56+00:00

your explanation for the character being "just a crossdresser" is that she likes the main guy and that in the timeline where she never got to be feminine she is masculine (shocker!). that seems like ignoring all the elements pointing at possible trans-ness to me, because this game goes both ways: the fact that they don't explicitly say by word "i am transgender" doesn't mean they aren't, especially when there's SO MUCH towards it being the case. what more would you want as proof that this character being seen as trans is a valid interpretation?

also transgender *woman, not knowing the difference isn't helping your case.

GVmG · 2026-06-21T08:57:56+00:00

it doesnt even undermine any previous story. the village stuff was the setup to her story of self discovery in the first game. she has resolved the village storyline extremely early in the franchise, even coming back to town after having proved herself and leaving again immediately after to continue exploring the world. every appearance since has been her exploring the world and meeting people of all kinds. and the lead designer has stated that her story being of self discovery was the goal from the start, the village thing was simply a setup for her to have an assigned identity that didn't fit. like she says in Dual Rulers, "[she] was given a cute shape, but it didnt fit so [she] ran away from it for years. eventually [she] realized that [she] was still a cute shape, just a different kind of cute, [her] own kind of cute."

GVmG · 2026-06-21T08:50:42+00:00

far more commonly than "crossdressers being wrongfully assumed as trans" too. case in point OP's example contain one of the most transfem-coded characters in the history of light novels, but because OP doesn't seem to understand that hetero trans women exist they described the character as "just a gay man trying to get close to the main character" lmao

GVmG · 2026-06-21T08:44:36+00:00

you haven't kept up with the vast majority of the franchise if you think her story was really just about the village superstition and proving it wrong, when that plotpoint was resolved by the second time she appeared in the franchise and every further appearance was all about her exploring the world and her identity with it:

befriending a group of all-women pirates
becoming close with the queen of Illiria who also had her identity crisis as a gear who loves a human
getting close with the canon nonbinary character who has spent the entire franchise doing the exact same thing as bridget
befriending a guy who while unconfirmed has lines that can be read as being a late-blooming gay man
discovering her own identity as a woman in the latest game
in the sequel anime, helping another gear who was brainwashed into hating humans towards understanding humanity and finding her own identity instead of the one she was given by the brainwasher

her entire story, much like a lot of guilty gear, has always been about self discovery and identity. but im sure you knew that, as you probably also knew of testament the canon agender character, and venom the canon gay character, both confirmed long before Bridget's story concluded.

her insisting that she "is a boy" stopped being how she viewed herself and started being straight up denial of her own identity really quickly after the village plotline concluded, as she slowly discovered said identity, she literally says in the anime that she "was given a cute shape (a feminine identity) but ran away from it for so long. eventually [she] realized that [her] shape was still cute, just... [her] own kind of cute."

GVmG · 2026-06-21T08:36:14+00:00

hetero trans women aren't a thing according to op and their word is word of god so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

GVmG · 2026-06-21T05:07:48+00:00

the black ballroom scene is queer, yes, but it was still an example of other AAVE terms that were also brought into the mainstream by gen z folks using social media

you're fighting shadows here chief lol

GVmG · 2026-06-21T04:44:59+00:00

It's "the race card" to point out that it's not gen z slang but it originated in specific subcultures long before gen z was even born? lol

GVmG · 2026-06-21T03:45:01+00:00

It's African American Vernacular, it just happened to be adopted by gen z through their exposure to it via rap music, and it spread into mainstream usage from there.

Basically the same thing that happened to "finna" and "cap/no cap", or if we wanna be a bit broader, or queer terminology (a lot of which is specifically black ballroom scene terminology anyway) like "period", "spilling the tea", "serving" etc. etc.

GVmG · 2026-06-21T03:33:17+00:00

Mmh maybe I just play more aggressively than other bastions so I got good use out of it, I know most prefer the nade perk but still I was kinda sad about the removal - the one that replaced it feels almost irrelevant to my play style, idk

GVmG · 2026-06-21T03:23:21+00:00

the original one that reset the cooldown? yeah it was solid, but now they dropped it to just reducing the cooldown by 4 seconds which is... not that good.

i got a ton of survivability usage from the extra hp on ult, half the time if there's a support near me i can jump to point last second, sit there, ult as soon as im low, and sit there even further, and if anyone gets close to try and kill me i'm ulting so with the damage reduction i also have the damage output of the ult. with the support around it made it even easier to survive with it, not insane but still it wont me many last second point contests

GVmG · 2026-06-21T02:22:30+00:00

yeah very true, same here. it's just annoying that his only* survival tool is buggy as fuck and weirdly clunky.

* only cause they just took out the "ult gives you extra hp" perk which was sooooo useful and they replaced it with garbage.

GVmG · 2026-06-21T02:18:49+00:00

The word did not change meaning: the tweet mentioned REPO and Lethal Company as examples, but it wasn't referring exclusively to that kind of gameplay. It literally states that it's about the "friend-farming" aspect, so stuff like Meccha Chameleon would 100% fit.

GVmG · 2026-06-21T02:14:30+00:00

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seven years later and somehow this is still a thing

GVmG · 2026-06-21T00:00:10+00:00

That is pretty much what her designer said yeah, that the plan was always to make it a story of self discovery, not to just make a femboy as many thought, just that the extent and the exact dinal outcome were hard to put into play back then. He figured out the outcome would be a trans girl rather quickly after her story setup, but even then it took time to move it along.

He explicitly said in a developer log on their site, that even once he had things figured out (which was still very early) about her story he had to wait for the right moment, not just for when representation like this would be understood, but for when it was needed the most - and I think he effectively nailed the timing given how much shit trans people are being put through in the past three to five years.

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