[ SECRET POST #2481 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2481 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[game of thrones]


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[Star Trek, Sleepy Hollow, Elementary]


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[Junjou Romantica]


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06. [SPOILERS for Percy Jackson]



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07. [WARNING for suicide/self-harm]

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Comments

[elialshadowpine]

I've run into a few, but I can count them on one hand. Actually, I can only think of two. And that's in about 5yrs of raiding in various guilds. (In WoW.)

[forgottenjester]

At least I'm not alone in my experiences then. I was starting to think I was a rare anomaly.

[elialshadowpine]

Nope. And I have to say, the behavior bothered me a lot, but the sexism/misogyny/etc bothers me a lot more, and that's WAY more common. The "guild princesses"? If I'm in a good guild, will get booted. If people are going along with the BS, I know it's not a guild for me. Whereas the misogyny/etc, I risk every time I step in a dungeon, and sometimes even just wandering around cities and questing, to the point that except for the holiday boss (I want the damn HH mount) and my AHing, I have pretty much entirely stopped playing.

I've gone back to playing GW2 because my gf and her family went back to it since they are saving for a cross country move (out my way! yay!) and HOLY SHIT the difference is amazing. I hadn't realized how much anxiety I was carrying just from playing WoW with all these misogynistic shitheads, even on a "good" server (WRA).

[forgottenjester]

Yeah, I get where you're coming from. There are reasons I talk about my MMO play in the past-tense.

Huh, well I'm glad you've finally found something that works for you.

[elialshadowpine]

Should you ever be interested in checking out GW2, Tarnished Coast is the server I'm on, and it's pretty awesome. They periodically do free weekends or weeks. (It can take some finangling to actually get on the server because it's frequently full, but that's because it's the fan designated RP server, the only one. It's got a very different culture; something that you can do in GW2 is "guest" on other servers, and we usually can tell when someone's guesting, because it's the only time you see the type of garbage rampant in most MMOs. And man, do they get whomped on and reported -- and Anet is somewhat unique in that they actually do ban people. They did a Reddit thread when the game first came out where people who publicly asked why they got banned would get answers. They would quote what the people had said, or the names they had, and be completely fucking owned. It's awesome.)

The gameplay is great, too, and it's sorta free to play. You have to buy the game up front but you don't have a sub. There are microtransactions but! you can convert in-game gold to "gems" (the cash shop currency) and get whatever you like. My aforementioned gf who has had to quit WoW because of budget has gotten lots of things off the cash shop, from character slots to in-game items, just from farming for gold.

*shuts up*

[forgottenjester]

That sounds absolutely fantastic. However I just don't play MMOs anymore. I play solo or with a small group of friends on games I already own. I've found MMOs just... don't make me happy. I get too much anxiety over it. I'm sorry.

But thank you for the recommendation. I have a few friends who are still into MMOs but are having trouble with the communities. I'll recommend it to them. Again, thank you.

[elialshadowpine]

It's a little different than standard MMOs, in that you don't have to group up, and you can easily play it as a solo game (or with friends; if you ever should want to try it, poke me on here and I'd be more than happy to invite you to my guild); unlike most MMOs, which encourage competition, GW2 encourages cooperation. Everything is shared, gathering nodes included. It's hard to explain, but it's very different.

I do understand the anxiety problem though, and sympathize. I mostly quit WoW because of anxiety issues just logging in (I even get nasty tells on my bank alt, up to and including death threats), and the niceness of GW2, or at least my server, keeps me playing. I've never had an unkind word said to me in that game and I cannot say it for any other online game I've played. But you do what you need to to keep your anxiety controlled; I am well too familiar with that particular can of worms. <3

[(Anonymous)]

You are not alone in this. I'm part for more than a year of a casual guild and I have yet to know a "gamer girl".

And statistically, my guild has a very balanced male/female ratio and our most helpful and best players are females who don't nail in the fact they are girls. Fun fact! a lot of us, male and female, has been miss-gendered at one point or the other hahah.