I used to enjoy being around the Juggalo crowd when I was younger and it was mostly about being a bunch of misfits finding camaraderie in enjoying really bad rap together. Nowadays it's just Burning Man with facepaint. I'm not surprised to hear it's degraded further like this.
I never even cared if my character was male. I played Samus, Chun Li, either "gender" of whatever-the-hell Lolo was, and the entire freaking family in Legacy of the Wizard; even the damned dog, all without batting an eye.
All I care about, even now, is not having to care about it. I shouldn't be targeted as a bigot simply for not wanting a 2-minute cut-scene literally punishing me for not using an NPC's pronouns or for playing an RPG that doesn't have character creation models involving surgical scars in place of breasts. I will quite literally play a game as a god-damned cat and enjoy it; stop making me care what "identities" are the most represented in your garbage game!
As an American in a typical American city, a crowd of blacks is bad, but not anywhere nearly as dangerous as a situation where there's 2-5 blacks, and no one else around. That's the clearest "get gas at the next station instead" signal you're going to get.
For me, the relief comes in non-internet activities. Disc golf, Magic: the Gathering, and, most recently for me, spending time on a range learning my first firearm. They recharge me, they often involve other people I've never met, and politics usually isn't even considered polite topics.
Today: "If you don't like it, don't buy our game."
Release day: "Why isn't our game selling??"
Critics, 1 week after release: "9.7/10, only bigots and racist chuds hate this game!!"
3 months later: "We're excited for the most diverse Netflix series yet!"
Here's what I need help understanding. Okay, so the reasoning used to normalize transgenderism is that the person is simply "in the wrong body", and they're identifying instead with the "gender(s) they really are."
These characters were programmed and textured from scratch. There literally isn't a way they were mistakenly put into the wrong body. The character was intentionally programmed to have characteristics that don't match each other, and just as intentionally not corrected in any way. There was no opportunity for it being "in the wrong body". It by definition defeats the argument that "trans-[insert gender] are real [insert same gender]", or the character would have been programmed with matching characteristics, just like the non-trans ones.
Both things can't be true.
Here's the bit they don't get yet; they think it's win/win, with them either taking over an area of culture or forcing it to "go broke" and fail, and still no longer ours. And, yeah, it sucks for us. But, unlike them, we can actually do the work to create and innovate and build. Disney can fall, and we'll make another company to promote family and hard work. D&D and Magic can go to the landfills of degeneracy, and we'll invent something else to challenge our intellects and creativity.
If they blow up a (cultural) bridge, they think there'll never be a way for us to cross rivers without them. We built the bridges in the first damned place, and can do so again.
I dunno. It could be real.