Guild Wars 2 went live August 2012. Source

Oh boy I sure hope gw1 isn't old enough to drink in the united sta-

April 8th 2005

Genuinely was a speed advantage in morrowind which was the first game i played that had full custom like that

Lol but yeah, played a girl anytime i could. Mine always had red hair! And well, you knowwww

Edit: idk why my client keeps messing up and leaving 2-3 copy comments 😭 i tried fixing it lol didnt work

I was extremely aware that I was supposed to pick the guy character so I always did, but for some reason it was always a nice surprise to find out that the game I'm playing had a female protagonist

I would switch it up between playing as male and female avatars in games. I am non-binary tho, so.. I was splitting the diff I guess ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I think trans masc of folk often play men actually. And until recently I feel like enbies were pretty much always just disappointed.

I really dislike self insert because I'm not a big fan of myself in general lol. The only time I try to make a character even vaguely look like myself is when I'm playing with online friends who don't actually know what I look like. Irl friends in multiplayer games either get to see my best Picasso impression or whatever joke is dinking around in the ol brain tank in the moment. But for people who may never see me in person, that's when I try to make a character look like me. Any single player game where I create a character, I want to be as far away from my own reality as possible so I often randomize until I have something interesting and modify from there or I spend hours making someone I have never seen before in my life but could conceivably exist.

Never played as a man even once if there was any choice at all.

I never really cared. I often make a person that just looks like me, or what is as far away from me. I would say my characters are 70% girls, with no rhyme or reason.

That would certainly have been an impressive transformation