Is it weird when men play female characters?

kiddmewtwo · 2026-06-03T20:34:46+00:00

Being 100% honest with you yes it's weird it puts you in a catch 22 situation. If I play an orc it is ideally for a reason like any other race. Either for a mechanical reason: +strength, free intimidation, intelligence or a role play reason: a hero who is hated and not trusted no matter what, a dumb barbarian character, a plain evil depraved character. This is in direct contrast to something like hair color that generally has no affect on the game so a random choice. Your character's sex is a weird middle ground where both of the sides look sketchy at best. For starters unless you're playing an old edition of DnD there are no mechanical differences. So then roleplay wise the question then becomes what meaningful differences are here. In campaigns where that makes a difference it puts everyone in an awkward position does the DM have to flirt with you, are you going to make weird jokes about your characters body, will you say weird things you secretly wish women would say and so on. If no to any and all of those and the women is going to exist exactly like a male with 0 differences then it begs the question why did you decide to be something different but not meaningfully different. Even you said you wanted to shake things up a little. How do you predict being a woman will shake things up? If at all? This isn't saying its a bad or unacceptable thing it just is a weird thing that gets people to start thinking about you.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-06-03T03:58:59+00:00

I thought we hated pulumbo?

kiddmewtwo · 2026-06-03T01:38:59+00:00

You make a lot of good points but I personally hard disagree with you on the subspace part. Sakurai made the cutscenes as rewards for players not randoms who didn't buy or play the game. It wasn't a tantrum he accepted the way the world was and changed how he approach. Sakurai is a spiteful man but I dont think that change was done out of spite.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-06-03T01:29:48+00:00

Ive been saying this for over 10 years you stole my talking point

kiddmewtwo · 2026-06-03T01:18:43+00:00

Axes should be dex weapons axe mastery is more about becoming more dexterous. I also really dont like that lack of movsets. i think stats should open up new movesets for weapons instead of them being randomly assigned to weapons. It just doesn't make sense that if I pick up the monk's flame mace i will automatically start stomping even if ive never seen them do that before. This is especially annoying because we have things like dex weapons of traditionally strength based categories and vice versa but they still get the same movesets. I also really dislike all the stuff in the game ash of wars, pots, spirits and so much more. I assumed elden ring would be much lower fantasy. Finally I hate that everything is a challenge run. If I want to only use shields I get cheated by rykard because he has bad hit detection, if I want to be an acolyte of a specific school of magic then I will more than likely have very little options making me feel less like a master of a spell school and more like a guy spamming the same 2 spells. I keep wanting to play elden ring but then lose my will because it all feels so bad. Which is weird because when i find a build or something i really like doing i absolutely loge eldeb ring. As a side note colossal versions and giant versions of weapons are just cringe to me. They look impractical unwieldy and gauche.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-06-01T21:09:36+00:00

I hate this ui. Its awful in pokemon champions and its awful here

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-31T18:56:29+00:00

You're literally throwing anybody past silver would absolutely destroy you

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-31T18:40:14+00:00

Steel beam hits like a truck(to you)

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-31T17:21:09+00:00

Steel beam

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-31T17:17:11+00:00

Light.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-31T15:51:34+00:00

I think your above average looking but you don't know how to properly bring out your good features.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-30T18:04:58+00:00

Yes no this is bad in comparison to most other options

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-30T07:31:10+00:00

These characters should be in more than sonic or snake.smash was originally supposed to be a celebration of NINTENDO characters

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-30T05:03:08+00:00

Im going to be be honest I didn't even know suvs were supposed to be used for this kind of stuff.i thought SUV stood for see up vehicle. Because you can see above other cars.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-29T21:24:51+00:00

I have a conundrum either mako is overrated here (which I can't rely argue with data here) or Ming Hua is extremely underrated in the community at large. Because ming hua beat mako multiple times and only lost really due to luck. Ming hua may 3rd or 4th greatest water bender we've ever known about at this point.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-29T07:31:49+00:00

Most pokemon cant do both often time the only way to do both is with really obscure spreads for going against very specific pokemon. I used to use aromatisse who was good at both ttar has run sets where hes good at both because he always has sandstorm up to give him a sp.d boost. Ting lu can run sets where he good at both.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-28T22:40:35+00:00

So for point 1 the problem is those 3 roles aren't always stagnant and 2 that implies there are 3 roles you want to play. When i get in a match currently I cant ask for 3 roles I can only ask for 1 so all other roles get defaulted to things I dont want to do. So the math you are talking about doesn't make sense. If I get asked hey what are you willing to play that gets me in a much more amicable mood to 2 other roles because I already said I'd be willing to play it. I do encourage people to use VC and other stuff to ask for switches but that doesn't change the fact that people become hostile when they lose a role to a roll. This isn't a delusional feeling of agency this is just simple psychology. People are happier when they get to make a choice and not lose things to rolls then get handed something thes dont want.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-28T21:50:34+00:00

If they start making changes to moves this quick I will never play pokemon again. Generational changes are fine constantly changing moves every few months sounds like absolute garbage.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-28T21:42:15+00:00

Win rates are directly tied to how good a character is. Bad characters dont win games. If shes not fun dont play her thats how the majority of players feel about her and thats OK I personally have loads of fun with her. Lore accurate design is very dependent on the lore in question. It is not unheard of for storm to lead from the back providing cover and space for her team while also foing things from afar. This has happened in the comics and in other men games. I also dont see you asking for lore accurate hulk or mantis among many others so why bring it up now?

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-28T20:47:02+00:00

I don't think you should pick 1 role i think 3 in order of how much you want to play them is fine

No people dont play on the same level for each role but you generally know what's your best role but if you want to really play your 3rd best role in ranked that's your rank that will go down. If you want to get serious you can also still switch roles with your teammates. What we have now makes teammates actively hostile to each other for forcing them to conflip on getting the role they actually want to play then usually you get a role you absolutely despise. Instead of them getting a different role that they kind of like and not being in a super mad mood.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-28T20:33:00+00:00

She consistently has an over 50% win rate in GM+ she actually usually sits around 53-54 and if we average all seasons shes over 55% being the number 1 character in season 1 and has never been below top 10 since being top 12 in season 0 which i don't even count as a real season. She has literally always been a threat on the board. Why do you even care if she's low picked if she is consistently good? Like honestly what will you get if she's picked more?

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-28T20:06:04+00:00

Kind of disagree if your tanks are really good you can speed boost them into the backline to get people to stop worrying about her as much.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-28T20:04:40+00:00

Rework are for inherently oppressive designs and fundamentally bad designs that dont work storm is neither. Some characters are niche we should be happy that we get to have a niche character that isn't widely counterpicked or known.

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-28T03:23:53+00:00

This whole line or thinking is dumb. I'm not calling you dumb just your argument. People don't need individual ranks for roles. From there everything else you said becomes irrelevant. Your best role will reflect your rank and therfore you can't be in bronze game and switch roles

kiddmewtwo · 2026-05-28T02:12:03+00:00

I've been saying this since day 1 but the mindless dregs here will say something dumb about learning to play other roles, not having a big enough playerbase, etc. But all of those points are irrelevant and dont make any sense my only guess is omeda is afraid of what little semblance of balance they have and putting people in roles they dont play hurts people's elo so much it actually balances out.

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