LGBTQ+ Megathread & Lounge (Part 1)

I must hate myself more than I thought, because I love those things haha.

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On time I was getting out of the shower and slammed my foot against the side of the tub while getting out and broke my toes.

Then, I went to work and while I was working at the home office and working late someone crashed into my car and fled the scene.

Then I limped to the ballot box the next day across the road at the school and voted for the other guy but dubya got elected anyhow.

I felt terrible in so many ways.

So I was at the electronics store buying a computer part and I walked by what looked like a display of keyboards in boxes but I noticed the boxes said Hersheyā€™s. I did a double take and looked. They were giant keyboard sized milk chocolate candy bars. I bought one of those massive 5 lb candy bars.

Sometimes you need some chocolate. At that time I needed a lot of chocolate. (It took my household months to eat the thing.)

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If you do like them then cool. I was just trying to be a bit sassy / silly. ^^;

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I hate sweets / desserts tbh

I prefer salty or spicy foods

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Honest question. Why does someoneā€™s IRL sexual preferences have anything to do with the game? I donā€™t want to start a flame war, and Iā€™m not pro/against anyoneā€™s personal choices, but why force this topic?

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Yes you bloody do, be honest.

Oh no weā€™re just sitting here chilling. FORCING non lgbt to come here. Oh boo hoo now I feel real bad. Bad llama

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It doesnā€™t, but people want to do it anyways.

Because LGBTQ+ people exist and play this game, LGBTQ+ storylines have been introduced discussion of further storylines w those characters and new characters can and does get discussed

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We appreciate your help in pushing our woke sjw illumanati agenda by bumping this thread

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The audacity of someone who joined the forums just a few months ago :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: This guys forum activity is younger than the existence of the thread by over half

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Iā€™m really just here for the bunnies tbh.
Theyā€™re cute and theyā€™re butter ball puff tails

Everything.

You walked in here of your own accord. No one is forced.

^^^

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My experience playing on Moon Guard as a 35 year old trans woman has been pretty awful. I see transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny in trade chat literally every single day. I report those people, but it hardly makes a difference. Maybe Iā€™m just getting older and gayer, and more sensitive to this stuff. Moon Guard is completely packed full of angry young insecure boys that want me to feel awful. Itā€™s not just Moon Guard. Itā€™s everywhere. Iā€™ve tried making a LGBTQ+ guild, but cishet men kept joining and then harassing the members, and I was harassed so much that I just disband and play guildless now. Now weā€™ve got straight people coming in this thread and complaining that this is off topic or reporting it for having nothing to do with wow. Queer people need to be able to find each other somehow. Even a year ago I felt safer being openly myself, but now I feel like Iā€™m painting a target on myself by just existing. I hope that this at least serves to let other LGBTQ+ folks know they arenā€™t alone. And Blizzard, if youā€™re reading this, please know that your community is a horrible toxic hellscape for LGBTQ players. Please keep including LGBTQ characters in the game. Maybe even give us an in game pride holiday. Cause weā€™re already resented for the small amount of representation youā€™ve given us. And there are a lot of us.

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I play mg on alliance and used to set my hs in Goldshire specifically because I liked how densely populated and active it is to see everyone online in the same place.

One thing that did creep me out was when I made a huntress with the night warrior aesthetic. Not even a minute after logging in, I get a whisper from someone completely random full of provocative / unwelcome advancements.

Like, if you do this, donā€™t. Itā€™s weird.

Euuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh Iā€™m dipping my feet back into actually playing ā€œcurrentā€ Hearthstone. I mostly played Classic and Mercenaries. But a tavern brawl is going on that has a bunch of new decks to try out from the zinā€™azshari expansion. I had a lot of fun playing the ā€œabyssal curseā€ Warlock deck.

So I disenchanted a lot of cards from classes I donā€™t play so I could make the deck myself.

Iā€™m just being all ā€œeughg noooooooā€ because of something that happened ages ago. I remember I was buying packs. SOMETHING caused my brain to go into ā€œokay lets just dissociate for awhile. Youā€™re on auto pilotā€ mode. Maybe it was a trauma response. MAYBE something just poked my brain just right. I DONT KNOW. I ended up just zoning the heck out. Buying 800 dollars worth of cards. And since I opened all the packs, I couldnā€™t get a refund.

Iā€™ve only had instances similar to this maaaaybe 3-4 times in my entire life. ( No before anyone asks. I donā€™t have DiD. I know what I just explained sounds like DiD. I ainā€™t got it. Just a whole bunch of other issues ) Itā€™s freaking terrifying to just suddenly lose HOURS in what feels like a blink. Iā€™m surprised Mom didnā€™t murder me because it was all on her card. Had to sell some things to make up for it.

Itā€™s just a smidge annoying to be all ā€œyay fun card gameā€ and deal with thoughts of ā€œYOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID. SHAME. SHAME UPON THEEā€

  1. Gamers use slurs. People who are the people slurred might not want to be around that.

  2. Trans people in gaming have a choice to not speak in voice chat, speak and risk being misgendered and then have to choose to either come out and risk harassment or tolerate being treated in a way that causes them levels of distress, discomfort, possibly even depression.

So yes, these things matter.

Also: Who you are attracted to is not a choice. Nor is your gender identity.

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Interesting that you claim to not be against us and yet you use very specific language like:

You arenā€™t FORCED to post in this thread. We arenā€™t FORCING you to engage with us.

The topic is not FORCED.

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Ouch, thatā€™s one of the reasons why I donā€™t want to get back into Hearthstone. Iā€™m not that good at it, but I have no problems in buying a few cardpacks, but I know that as the game progresses, new content gets switched around and then itā€™s like, Iā€™d have to keep paying to keep playing. Iā€™m not sure I like Hearthstone enough to put that much dedication in it.

I think not just HS, but a lot of card games in general are at least in some degree predatory. But I donā€™t want to get into that too much, and even though Iā€™m resubed to WoW, Iā€™m still feeling a little weird about whether or not buying the new store mount is ethical even if I want to. (The DFHE thing put a really bad taste in my mouth at the time)

One thing Iā€™ve learned the hard way is that after about 9pm, when Iā€™m up all night playing video games, Iā€™m really bad at rationalizing a purchase decision and thatā€™s usually the time that I splurge when I otherwise would not.

I came close a few times to depleting my savings. Iā€™m not sure if I share the same dissociative experience, but I usually only notice that type of thing when I fixate on something unhealthy like an argument on these forums.

This thread has been up for a long time, I highly doubt that itā€™s going to get taken down because of your false flagging, next time just scroll by instead of clicking it.

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