Y'all failed

:geordi-no: Players Shaming Devs
:geordi-yes: Devs Shaming Players
- Funny shit and I hope to see more of it.
  Gamers are too shitty towards devs, who are overworked and underpaid. They end up getting blamed for the problems caused by CEOs, shareholders, and executives (rushed development) and it's really fucking cruel sometimes.
  Imagine you hadn't seen your family in months because some fat cat wanted the game out the door in an unreasonable timeframe, You don't get the time to fix every bug, but you try and tackle the worst ones. It releases and suddenly there are a bunch of 15-year-olds sending you death threats on Twitter because you didn't make one of the character's boobs big enough or maybe there's a half-second drop in FPS that 20% of people get that's gone viral. What an awful job that must be.
- I always enjoy when gamergaters complain about how "they hate their players" like damn, are you really that much of a baby that you care about what some company thinks about you

>make white human male the default in every CC screen of every game
>never question why this is considered the default
>people impatient to play click through menus and don't customize their character thinking "I'll do it later" or "I'll do it next time"
>the analytics system picks up on this
- Not in this game. When you select customize character, the default is randomized. When you look at a different species, that is also randomized. The game just has a lot of basic white cishet male gamers playing it I think.
  
  The game just has a lot of basic white cishet male gamers playing
  Or those players are the most likely to make a character that matches them. Historically RPGs have the highest percentage of women playing outside of life sims. Also, queer people esp trans people tend toward RPGs over other genres. Cis het white man still might be the biggest demographic though, even if it isn't the majority like it is for games like Total War or Civ
  
  wow so it really is their fault
- In BG3 it's completely randomized what you start on
  
  LOL

god what a horrible creature... a white man

w my hot purple tiefling
- This is green-haired SJW Lolth-sworn Drow erasure. She's an arachno-communist.
  
  Lolth-sworn drow is great. Bullying Dhorn out of what is otherwise a mandatory combat encounter was the highlight of the underdark for me.
- Hot purple tiefling gang rise up
- purple tiefling twink wizard reporting

If nothing else, this shows that the average gamer is not a min-maxer because humans in BG3 are just fucking trash. So many of the other races come with incredible power and the added benefit of not looking like their name is fucking John.
- Yeah Deep Gnome, Halfling, Duergar and Half-Orc are by far the strongest "meta" races for min-maxxers but nobody plays them. Everybody plays dragonborn and human even though both are RP tier and objectively inferior in their abilities and powers.
  
  Gith get free misty step and jump, tho...
  
  I'm ashamed to say I played a Dragonborn (for coolness) on my first playthrough. I hated up kinda hating it after a while, though, because her face didn't emote like the humanoids would.
  
  Nah, Half elves get shields so they are one of the best for casters, at least for me. It's also funny that even if you psam crossbows, the game takes the equiped shield AC into account. It doesn't hurt that they are the best looking race of the "basic looking races" either. Then, it's stru that an actual min maxer would get a 2llv fighter dip so they would get shields too, but depending on progression that dip will take a while and you feel the weakest in early game so... yeah.
- Human’s shield proficiency is pretty dang good on a whole bunch of classes that can’t use shield (at least until you get high enough level to multi class 1 in fighter for both heavy armor and shield).
  
  thing is you can do half high elf get the shield and also a badass magic cantrip to set peeps on fire, also can't be put to sleep or charmed
  
  So take half wood-elf which is better in every single way

I prefer to be a plain jane human because I like my character to be the mundane yardstick to which all fantastical things around me can be judged. This is exactly how most main characters in movies and books are structured, so I imagine a lot of other people do this too.
- Tbf that is more in popular fiction than fiction in general, where sometimes there is more artistic interest in the character not being a self-insert.
- I always play the weirdest thing I can legally. Treant? yeah. Undead? Hell yeah. Weird tiny bird? Sign me up! Human? No thank you. I'm playing a human IRL, why would I want to do that again?

Playing starfield i accidentally made a guy that basically looks like obi wan kenobi was portrayed by ewan macgregor
- It's okay E Wan Maknobi is scottish
- I tried to make a femboy-ish character and this is the best I could do.
  
  I think you did pretty well. Looks kinda like Ally Beardsley from dropout, who is a transmasc enby.
  America delenda est.

I mean I always just make myself in the character creator for any RPG, the most adventurous I get is going half-elf, never full elf.
- No more half-elf measures
  
  But what about halfling measures?
- yeah never go full elf

Acting like this isn't their fault for not including tabaxi in the base game
Give the furries an option and they will come (double entendre only somewhat intended)
- You thought they forgot? They just gonna DLC it
- Human form kitsune is technically a polymorph but without any costs or penalties (except losing pounce and bite), which meant you could play the entire game basically a human and gain buffs from any item that buffed on polymorph (like any clothes/armour made from the altar of the first retriever).
  Does it count as picking the furry option if it's to metagame your monk for optimum stats?
- The only non-human species they had were dragonborn so I played that. They even humanized them somewhat.
  But I can't say I'm surprised after seeing what the helmets looked like.
  
  struggle session over whether or not elves and orcs and halflings and gnomes and such are 'human'
- And don't forget the shortys! None of the companions are little people. Dwarves, gnomes and halflings got no love as party members.
  
  Yeah they added like 12 subraces of tiny folk and there's like 2 named characters of note in the whole game that are halfling, dwarf or gnome. One of them is a serial killer.
- Can’t play kobolds or goblins
- I'm waiting till warforged are playable. My kink is bonus AC.

I will never understand the people who choose to play a generic human when there are other options in a game.
- More immersive because I can relate to a human instead of a red demon furry
  
  Speak for yourself
  
  What kind of total fucking weirdo would relate to a human
  
  Yes, this. If I ever play it, I'm gonna play a human peasant, maybe a herbalist/druid if I feel spicy
  
  But there's a red demon furry inside you and she's just waiting to be let out.
  
  I guess that's why I never choose humans. I can be a human anytime I want in real life. I play games to experience imaginative stuff.
  I mean, everyone has their preference of course and you should play how you want. No shade.
- human is usually a solid choice mechanically, esp in d&d, and as a matter of course tend to have the most varied customization options (sure there may be horns for your tiefling, but maybe only a choice of 3 or they're locked to hairstyle etc)
  not saying that's the case here mind, but those are some reasons beyond a committment to being boring
  
  Humans in BG3 seem to be bad. Variant Human (the one that let you take a feat at level 1) is the reason 5e Human is strong, and that's not an option in BG3; instead you just get one extra skill proficiency along with polearms, shields, and light armor (which, lmao). You also miss out on darkvision which may or may not matter (I don't know as I run a full darkvision party).
- Because they want to make themselves or something less crazy? I really don't understand why everyone has to be a tabaxi, aaracokra, changeling etc nowadays. I like being a human or halfelf
- In paper & pen RPGs I tend to design goofy personalities and attach them to boring standard race options. My friend who has been a part of the same group for 20 years loves taking pretty standard personalities and adapting them to fit the most bugshit insane race options he can find. We have had a lot of interactions where I - playing as a character that looks like the white guy from a diversity poster - go off on some rant about how I worship the concept of lies and illusions, and how I have written an entire manifesto about how all titles and human relations are manifestations of the holy concept of the ultimate lie, while my friend - playing as an entire swarm of 3" tall shadow goblins, with each hit point having an individual 1930s gangster name - looks for the most noncommital social democrat answer in the world. It's a good dynamic.
  I still can't find any excuse to make a human look this boring in a video game though.
  
  Fair enough, that sounds fun

Ah yes, John Baldursgate.
- Nah this is James Baldursgate, John Baldursgate was the protag of BG1 & 2.

Not sure this necessarily means that everyone is just rolling Default 1990s CRPG Character. You could have a bunch of interesting builds that still end up with this as the combination of the most popular choices
- Or it could be that this is just a small plurality. 10% of people choose a boring white guy, but then each of the other options gets like 8%, so even though 90% of players are playing something that isn't just a white guy, technically, the most popular individual choice is white guy.

I think there's a pretty clear disconnect between the power levels of the implied background of the PC and the backgrounds for the other party members. Like okay I'm a Paladin/Warlock who was apparently a Guild Artisan and there are occasionally dialogue options based on these, but generally I'm a blank slate normal guy; the perfect example of a level 1 character background.

Every single one of them (except arguably Shadowheart) are way too powerful in-setting to be a level 1 character in D&D.
- They kinda explain the party member bit.
  
  Not finished, no, I think I'm either at the start of Act 2 or the end of Act 1?
- Everyone of them will tell you they lost considerable amounts of power when they got infected.
  
  I guess I haven't gotten those dialogues yet. So far the only ones with an explanation had explanations from what they were doing before they got infected.
  
  But that was tangential to my point, which is that all of the party members have backgrounds stating that they were operating on a higher level in a way that contrasts with the blank slate of the player character. This is not to mention that a high-level character in D&D should be swimming in magic items, even if they lost their actual character levels.
- The plot explains this away with the magic plot device the plot is centered around doing a "reset" on people's brains

Solution: Should have made it so that there were no plain white guy options
- Certainly. Who needs bipedal anyway?
  
  I want my character to look like Mr. Waternoose

- Fridged inside a fridge btw
  
  The wife wouldn't need rescuing if she was outside the fridge.

I thought the most popular choice was half elf and the least popular class was cleric.

i always play a human or very close sort, because i am very bad at sliders to begin with and the more complicated the face structure the harder it is to make me hot

what's most important in a character creator (idk how BG3 is on this) is just real-life diversity, you couldn't make an east asian face in skyrim without mods, even though you can be a lizard person
- BG3 doesn't do sliders, you choose from a bunch of preset faces, hair, etc. It's decent with diversity though. Lots of good hair options, black/latino/asian faces, my partner and I were able to make characters that were basically "what if us, but hot?"
  Also, genital options.
- You see, asian people is going to be the big LORE reveal of TES 6
  
  they made a different continent Akavir the 'east asian fantasy tropes' place but i don't recall whether they have humanoid people or just snake people.
  but also the Imperial Empire in the setting is in my head-canon the basically the chinese empire, so clearly 'imperials' should be chinese
  with roman names. it makes perfect sense. i actually replaced all the imperial military with ming dynasty soldiers in the elder scrolls total war mod lol
- Weren’t the imperials originally supposed to be heavily Japanese inspired, instead of roman?
  
  So there's bigger TES heads on the site, but from what I understand no
  The Empire in TES goes through three iterations: The Nedes' First Empire, The Akiviri Second Empire, and The Cyrodiilic Third Empire.
  The Japanese-coded guys were the Akiviri, The Imperials (Cyrodiilic) were subjects to the Akivir Potentate until it collapses and they build the third empire out of those ruins.
  
  i don't think so. the bodyguard blades guys are samurai for esoteric lore reasons, and before oblivion part of the province was supposed to be rain-forest, but from their appearance in Redguard they've been mostly latin-named and roman-esque

Generic things are generic for a reason. They're popular.

im a black teifling as always. double oppression lol
- lol when I saw those horns pop up I was like "youre stealing my look buddy".

Okay but my boring white guy is a half elf with sick face tattoos but I did want him to look generally like me

At least they don’t have the gormless face of the default New Vegas guy

Something very funny about “(this is your own fault)”

Idk I haven't played BG3 but I do tend to make my characters in character creation look like me. I always make a Sim that looks like me when I start a new Sim game. Godfather Game was able to make a really good "looks like me". Ive made wrestlers that look like me in WWE games. And most recently instead of making the incredible abominations a lot of people were making in SF6, I just made a dude that looks like me. a Chubby brunette white guy with a beard.
So I mean, my BG3 guy wouldnt look like this becuase I'm not a twink and I have a beard, but it would be a white human, probably. Unless I felt like playing like another race idk. I did play Argonian the first time I played Skyrim and a woman Khajit the second time.
- but.. youre a dragon. you would look like a dragonborn.
  
  God I wish.
- I'd feel weird doing an evil playthrough playing as myself.

I made a dwarf monk, then a halfling bard who I called Harrier DuBois Jr. (the game has some bitchin sideburns) and then finally settled on a halfling bard for my playthrough.
- Hahaha amazing

I've been stuck between playing drow or tiefling tbh, thinking about giving half orc a chance as well
- Drow gets a lot of fun dialogue choices and interactions.

It's sometimes fun to play the token human.

Dude looking like Peeta from the Hunger Games

Haven't played BG3 yet but in every Vidya game or TTRPG I always go non human. The only exception is if I'm playing an old man with a long white beard.

I went the dark elf race thingy but made my character basically look human lol. If I'm going to see them naked, they gotta look good.

When i play computer games i want to play as myself generally if i have an option or make the worst meme monster but like roleplaying as a Draconian on a vg sounds so boring to me

reminded of that meme describing what your d&d character says about you
tiefling was lgbt
changeling was AGGRESSIVELY lgbt