Are FF14 players more feminine

[Breakbeat]

ITT: Different large groups of humans are comprised of different types of people! Film at 11.

Also ITT, weak guesswork about group composition. If you've interacted with ten, twenty, a hundred players and read six online articles, your expertise is nil. Your logic is akin to driving around for a week, noting all the colors of the cars you pass, and then based on that data declaring "most cars on Earth are red, and most cars in California, specifically, are blue."

One wouldn't really know that unless they had either:

A) Data, e.g., sales data. Data is the reason we can find the answer to this question, if we wanted to. It has nothing to do with personal observation.

or

B) Personal observation of all the cars on Earth (a billion) or all the cars in California (fourteen million). One can dedicate their entire life to this and not reach their goal.

That being said, some pittance of personal interaction doesn't give any human the intelligent, scientific edge they need to declare group composition with any confidence.

And I am not being flippant - it is a pittance. 24x7x365 video gaming for fifty years, focusing only on meeting and interviewing new people, wouldn't even net you data on a quarter of the player base of any moderately successful game.

The truth? All types of people play all games. Some hardened veterans of actual war play Hello Kitty.

One last thing, we need to get over the idea that sexuality = behavior. Just because you see it on every #hashtagmovement and TikTok video and at every parade, doesn't mean that even a significant portion of some specific sexuality "acts this way," or "likes this stuff". It's nonsense we need to drop.

/shrug

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

This is flamebait.

look at this guy, not realizing the two most masculine races ((male) roe, hroth) also have the largest percentage of male-identifying LGBT folk.

also who the hell pissed in your cornflakes, a massive percentage of straight dudes play girls in every MMO.

He's just angry after being proven wrong numerous times on the Lost Ark topic.

[Denji]

This is flamebait.

you are right but there are those who feel this way. during the initial exodus of wow players to ffxiv the main complaint on the wow /vg/ thread on 4chan and various places on reddit was that ffxiv was too "girly" and that the game was played by women and LGBT folk. i'm not going to go into specifics because it would quite literally get me banned but the consensus was that. in fact you can see a lot of memes related to it where they 'accepted' their fate by posting a screenshot of their horde guild where they're all orcs and then a screenshot of all their guildmates who had moved to FFXIV and started playing catgirls and lalas.

while these memes were made in jest a lot of them were used by the die-hard I AM SO STRAIGHT men as evidence to support these accusations (along with 4 year old twitch streaming data and data from google trends of when ARR came out) along with screenshots of GMs giving them the boot for being pretty terrible people and attacking others in-game during instances because apparently not being allowed to harass people and use slurs meant that nobody in this game has a spine.

op parses, he has fairly decent parses even. initially i believed they were being serious but seeing their numbers now i'm convinced either they're just messing with people OR they're using one of the many addons against the rules that more or less do your rotation for you and you just keep hitting the same button as it manages each skill and cooldown for you, thus inflating their parse.

either way i have a hard time believing someone would be willing to risk a warning or a ban by posting this thread when they've done as much as they have which leads me to believe that either they truly do believe this and feel it isn't wrong to point out, or that they have no strong attachment to their character in the first place; possibly due to the reason i listed in the above sentence.

tl;dr dude's probably messing with us but there are a lot of people who feel this way and anyone who uses op's supposed notoriety on this forum as an excuse to dismiss other people's opinions is simply admitting that they're terminally online and have nothing better to do than monitor some random dude in a mmo forum and expects everyone else to do the same.

if people can't tell you're being ironic then you're not being ironic, you're just being terrible.

[YukikoKurosawa]

Another quality Skiros thread.

[Vidu]

This is possibly something in the cookbook? It's been a pretty prominent food in XI and XIV.

It is indeed a recipe in the cookbook! There are several Miq'abobs in the cookbook - we tried the Meat Miq'abob a while ago:

[Haillenartes]

Yeah. Sorry you had to find out this way, but, I mean, didn't you know already? Final Fantasy XIV transes your gender. Got estrogen in the code. You look between the 1s and 0s and it's all, like, estradiol. Testosterone if you're feeling fancy. That's the real ingredient in what they call spaghetti code. Big scandals here, they should be talking about it on Kotaku. Or whatever health magazine you like... I don't know. It's the same chemicals they put in the water to make the frogs gay.

Full disclosure, I'm either 100% the target audience of this thread (a gender non-conforming lesbian), or definitely not the actual target audience.

...Anyways, I've been meaning to make the coffee biscuits from the cookbook.

[Shibi]

It is indeed a recipe in the cookbook! There are several Miq'abobs in the cookbook - we tried the Meat Miq'abob a while ago:

They do look tasty!

[nighttimebunny]

so…. you’re feminine too then? i mean you’re playing 14 too…

[MidnightEquinox]

Man seems a lot of bait threads lately.

[Mimilu]

I'm learning to make chicken nuggies today, but my breading came out super bland. Anyone have a favourite seasoning blend they can drop on me?

Have you tried marinating or brining your chicken before coating it?