Yeah, I'm not one of them. I do usually not enjoy female designs in games because they often focus too much on being either sexy or too ditzy, to the point of impractical clothing choices (boob armour, exposed midriffs, impractically high heels) or just too much focus on the assets (bouncy boobies and that sort of stuff), but I don't lavish hate on a character simply because they're female.

I don't ship much at all outside of canon pairings (Yanqing/Yunli are pretty much pushed in this direction narratively in the game), and if HoYoVerse were to introduce a female character that's canonically into Kinich or Kinich is into her, I'd pull for her just so they can be on a team together.

this may be controversial of me to say but the hate and disdain for female characters (or just, ignoring them entirely) in favor of male characters is extremely fetishistic when done through the lens of strictly yaoi but idk if anyone is ready to unpack that yet

and let me be clear, i'm not talking about people who are male/masc that prefer mlm ships because they themselves are mlm

lotta assumptions just from a comment about only pulling dudes.
not a woman hater, just don't personally prefer them
on wow, all my characters are dudes
in my rps, all my characters are dudes.
I prefer dudes, end of.

it's just disappointing how natlan has been handled, first with the lack of dark skin, then the lack of male characters, it's not even balanced, it's just blatantly 90% female.

there aren't a lot of live service games out there that have a balanced cast of characters. the ones that are all male are not to my taste (lads, lovebrush chronicles, tokyo debunker, etc). the only one I can think of right now is twisted wonderland and that game has its own set of problems.

i don't mind balanced casts, but a lot of games that started with a p good balance like genshin impact and reverse:1999 have gone in a predictable "let's just cater to the waifu whales" stance. it's just kinda boring for me.

....Hollow Zero is my favorite part of ZZZ.

since it seems that people were taking it personally and/or being defensive, to be clear, my woman hating comment wasn’t directed at anyone on Pixel (that I know of, they don’t rp).

I even said that I assume most of the people that are here, handle it normally. If the shoe ain’t fitting, it ain’t about you. Not everything is.

I’m referring more to a gamer group that’s separate from the rp sphere specifically, a lot of them for example like going on and on about how some of the archons exc suck and should be killed cause there are too many women ones, wish Ayaka got deleted because we only need Ayato so she’s unimportant and useless (I don’t even like Ayaka and it annoys me), want Nahida deleted so Baizhu can take her place, and….a few of them also despise Yelan for no other reason that’s ever been said aside from “too popular for a girl that is basically centered around having boobs”.

i love tales of design

Aha ha, I am sorry, I was trying to keep the conversation going, but my lack of social skills reared their ugly head here.

Dude, I love Raine and Mikleo.