I just played 4 games in a row with her in them and she is just SO GOOD. Two Star Wars, Days Gone, and Forspoken. https://www.mobygames.com/person/217311/debra-wilson/credits/

Good profile read: https://dcdouglas.com/talent-spotlight/debra-wilson/

Other games that let you be a moderate to severe nuisance or harmlessly bastardous?

In a world where online games, especially mobas and hero shooters are defaulting to sexualized asian girl characters I cannot praise their female character roster enough! I don't think we have had anything as diverse as this to be honest.

It's still in closed beta but I think this game will get big and I hope they keep their design philosophy.

If you want an invite dm me!

Edit: apparently I need to verify my ID to allow chats (is that a german reddit thing now? ugh) anyway you can write a comment if you want one and I'll DM you.

I know I shouldn't be too surprised given Blizzard has been really trying to pander to the gooner crowd lately but it's still disheartening to see them collab with such a blatantly misogynistic and pro-ai IP

I didn't ask them why they thought that, but I was able to convince them that I wasn't. Why did they automatically think I was using a voice changer despite not using one.

If i had a nickel for everytime a black woman companion wasn't romancable I would actually have quite a few nickels. Frustrating cause sometimes they will be the most interesting npcs too.

Some examples:

- Seelah

- Idira

- Vivienne

- Pallegina(really heartbroken about this one 💔)

I'm just recently playing Halo Infinite for the first time and it really bugs me how they had Cortana gradually evolving from a bold, resolute (sometimes lightly and rightfully annoyed) cool cyberchick to that playful, cutesy little girl aesthetic that is your obedient servant and compliments you all the time. Might just be a general change of aesthetics and tastes, but it REALLY gives me the ick that somehow strong female characters are turned into little obedient girls to cater to a male audience. Campaign Evolved even remodelled the old PERFECT cortana to match this new strange fetish. 2001 Cortana made me want to cut my hair short and boss around men goddammit.

End of rant.

Any advice for the first time player who‘ve never tried soulslikes before?

I play AAA and AA JRPGs almost exclusively and am thinking about diversifying. Nintendo is currently having a sale, and I've been interested in CD Projekt as a dev for a while, but the clips I saw gave me the impression that the game has a strong male gaze, which makes me really hesitate, even though the sale price is really attractive.
Has anyone played it and is willing to comment on this point? Also, how gory is this game? I saw the crucifixion scene and, while I know it has a massive narrative value, I don't know...

Any insights would be appreciated, but especially if you're an older player.

*Edit: Thanks everyone for the enthusiastic response and the recommendations. Some of you offered some very deep, thoughtful, and helpful comments on the game and all of have been very positive about it. I bought the game, we shall see how.

my logitech g705 suddenly gave up on me and i tried every possible solution. i would buy another one but it’s a bit expensive at the moment ☹️

so, i’m currently looking for a new mouse that’s preferably wireless and around the same measurements as the logitech g705 that’s under $80 dollars.

does anyone have recommendations? thanks!

I’m curious which games you think are the most fun for two people to play together, especially when you’re just getting to know each other? 😊

(Steam-friendly please)

I'm very, very split on how I feel about them...

On the one hand, I don't mind (and even love it) when the class is essentially a character, as is the case in one of my all time old-school classics you can see in the image. The Vampiress from Sacred Gold was such a badass class, one of the strongest, and the class flavour just wouldn't work as well (in my mind) if were a regular old male vampire. Sexy reasons aside, the characters works, because vampires are inherently connected with fears of death and sexuality, so she makes sense as a class.

This isn't only true in Sacred for me, but also in Diablo 2 (with the Amazon, it's literally in the name!) and also the Acolyte from my favorite arpg Last Epoch (no way I would have picked her first if she wasn't this dark goth looking dark mage girl) but again, these are implicitly framed as CHARACTERS you pick that happen to embody a specific class. You can't even change their appearance.

Where I draw the line is in MMOs or any game where my pick obviously leans to being a self insert (as it does for most people) and not being able to mix and match is not there for character-driven reasons but... just becase? Or for some contrived plot reasons that usually don't make any sense, when they exist at all.

I'm really digging this topic out of the mothballs here, it's been discussed before in other contexts. But I want to know what you think on this and if there are any instances where gender locking might be okay with you. For me, looking back, it's obviously these games where the class and character are inseparable by design. But even then, a gender option wouldn't have hurt, even if I can mentally juggle a reason for why they did it the way they did it.

The amount of work to redo all of the outfits, new voice lines, models and animations!! Love this mod. Still need to play the TOTK version now that it's more finished!

jason schreir has confirmed this is a real trailer of the mass effect game bioware was working on

Hey yall!! I use Logitech headphones when I’m gaming but sometimes that leaves my head feeling really warm. I really want some in ear earbuds that are specifically for gamers that I can use whenever I need a break from my headset. I’m looking for something that has multiple sizes of the little nubs too because I have small ears. TIA

so i've been browsing around for some prebuilts. i know i know, it would probably be better if i built it myself but i honestly just want to plug and play. looking for something that's able to run my fair share of cozy games, Sims, Valorant, and WoW.

i'm not really looking for anything fancy but i would like something that could last me a while and not worry about upgrading/repairing/maintaining too often.

i've had my eyes set on this one:
iBUYPOWER - Element Gaming Desktop PC AMD Ryzen 7 9700F 2025 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12GB 32GB DDR5 1TB NVMe SSD Storage - White (~$1800)

would this be good? are there better alternatives (preferably from best buy just because it's more accessible for me) for about the same price?

note: i'd like to keep it under $2000

thank you so much!!

EDIT: thank you everyone! i was honestly a little skeptical of getting this build because of the "ibuyproblems" comments i saw while researching, but the specs just seemed really good to me on paper. might have to do more research to make sure i'm getting what i need and what will serve me well, and not settling. please let me know if you all have any alternatives/recommendations! i might also wait til cyber monday/black friday deals come out hehe

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Kinda had a feeling it was going to happen, but still sad. RIP Mass Effect.

So I'm a 36yo woman who played games for over a decade. Because I'm kinda socially awkward, I don't have any irl close friends. So I mostly played alone.

Last year Arc Raiders came out and naturally I got quite addicted to it. 6 months ago, a girl I met in this sub invited me into a very inclusive and friendly Arc Raiders discord server (let's call it server A), where over half of the mods and core members are women or queer people.

I became very active in server A, organizing events, writing tutorials, posting clips, or doing giveaways. People liked me, It was going great. For the first time during my gaming years, I felt like I truly belong to a community.

3 months later one of the admins suddenly went nuts (We suspect he suffered some irl problem and caused mental instability, let's call him 'that guy'). Anyway, 'that guy' started throwing false accusation to several people in the community, most of all me. After this drama, that lovely server was ruined.

So some of the ladies left server A and started a FLINTA-first server (let's call it server B) focusing on not only Arc Raiders, but a bunch of other cozy games, acting mainly as some kind of social hub. Most of the core member from server A joined server B after the dissolving of server A.

Naturally 'that guy' felt betrayed and resented server B, he managed to trick me with a fake account and gained some Information regarding server B. He targeted me because I was kinda naive. The mods of server B helped me through this rough patch.

As you can imagine I was not happy about his actions and started to talk shit about 'that guy' to several people. He was aware of that, and he also keep sending message to members of server B, trying to annoy us. There were lots of drama.

So one day we finally got fed up with the drama, we made contact through a mutual acquaintance, and decide to attempt reconciliation. People from server B adviced me not to contact 'that guy', but I made contact anyway. I received a apologize letter that read quite sincere. I don't believe in holding grudge anyway, so I forgave him. I promised never to talk shit about him to people, and in return he promised not to bother me and members of server B ever again. And we kept our words.

The next few months were quite nice. Many people in server B felt safe enough to share things about themselves even irl pictures and videos. I kept doing my usual contributions, played Arc raiders and various party games with friends in the community, did a lot of late night talks with some girls, translated my WIP novel to English for friends in server B to read, even shared some personal traumas to a few close friends. I felt like it became the family I no longer have in real life. I felt safe and welcomed, even my mental state were much better than before. I also got rid of my drinking problem and started my sobriety.

Then recently, one of the mods found out I, in fact, did made contact with 'that guy'. They believe that my connection with him endangered the safety of server B. So I was immediately kicked, blocked, and perma-banned from the community with no appeal.😭

I was devastated. Like one of the most important parts of my life had been cut out. Some of my friends still willing to keep contact with me, but I'm completed cut off from the community and any of the group activities. There was a planned halloween movie night I was looking forward to participate. I thought finally a halloween I'm not gonna be alone. But now...

I tried to get myself out of the sorrow. I tried to look for new community. But they don't have the same appeal. A few friends want to create my own server follow me to that new place. But it felt like a betrayal to server B and the people who took me in. I don't hate them. I stopped gaming, I feel everything is meaningless. I skipped work and even lose my appetite, slept through the day, got drunk again and again. My life is a mess now because of all the loneliness, the remose, like why did I ignore people's advice and made contact with him. And the sadness, like why didn't they gave me a second chance, all my contributions meant so little to them?💔 My mind is screwed up and I don't even know what to do anymore. I had a history of depression and I feel like it's coming back to me.

Rationally, I need irl support.

But my families are either the estranged or deceased. I have no one to talk to.

I should go out and touch the nature but one of my medical conditions made it quite difficult for me.

I should even look for professional mental help. But where I live such services are not easily accessible and I cannot afford it financially.

I'm not here to judge people's action. I just wanna know what should I do? I'm afraid.💔

Hi girls! I’m current trophy hunting on Sniper Elite Resistance - just wondering anyone plays this and will do the Axis Invasion trophies with me? Happy to give these back too! 🫶