• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    In Watch Dogs 2 the initial hackerspace is in the basement of a game store in the lower Haight in San Francisco, which smacks smartly of Gamescape on Divisadero Street between Oak and Fell. It’s still there according to Google, even though everything around it was gentrified out of existence, including the cheap flat I lived in.

    I’m pretty sure my years as a Gamescape regular inspired the character Josh Sauchak. I lived with the woman who probably inspired Sitara Dhawan, and we are pretty sure of the identity of the guy who inspired Wrench.

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        I don’t know who wrote the characters. Some developers in Ubisoft in the early 2010s, I presume. Looking at the extensive credits, I never found a name that I recognized.

        It could all be coincidence, but there’s a significant amount of similarity.

  • Any video game that gives you a blank slate character to build and give your own personality to is me. At least when I play them.😌

    I dont think I have identified with anyone more than Leonard from Big Bang Theory. He is basically the one character on the show that is very much like a real person when all the rest are exaggerated stereotypes.

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    Stanley from the Stanley parable. My life is a mundane existential nightmare that I have little control over.

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      yeah, same. i don’t understand how people ‘identify’ with fiction characters at all. especially when those characters are often so one dimensional.

      I’ve had a lot of people, women especially, lecture me about what ‘character’ i am from a book or movie I am, and when I investigate the reference it’s makes no sense to me because it’s always totally different characters, again usually just one dimensional, really more caricatures really. And it tells me a lot about how they see the world that they judge other people as caricatures, especially when you first meet them.

      personally I’ve noticed people who heavily identify with fictional characters have a tenuous grasp on reality and exaggerated emotional reactions to mundane things, like minor inconveniences or miscommunications are distorted into grudges or day/week ruining events. also a proclivity to believe if destiny/fate/mystic forces, rather than people’s choices.

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        I’ve had a lot of people, women especially, lecture me about what ‘character’ i am from a book or movie I am, and when I investigate the reference it’s makes no sense to me because it’s always totally different characters, again usually just one dimensional, really more caricatures really. And it tells me a lot about how they see the world that they judge other people as caricatures, especially when you first meet them.

        I remembered how at the age of 12, after watching a videos on YouTube, I took tests on the Internet, what kind of character I am, by some similarities with him or something like that, I am so ashamed.

        personally I’ve noticed people who heavily identify with fictional characters have a tenuous grasp on reality and exaggerated emotional reactions to mundane things, like minor inconveniences or miscommunications are distorted into grudges or day/week ruining events. also a proclivity to believe if destiny/fate/mystic forces, rather than people’s choices.

        Here you are practically right, I am not sure if this is really so, but perhaps in most cases it is.

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    A combination of Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, whatever the name of the character Jon Goodman played in Roseanne… and… Donkey Kong.

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    Velma from Scooby Doo. She was the first fictional girl character I not only identified with but also had a crush on before I recognized that I was bisexual.

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    I’m very easy to identify with characters in stories since it doesn’t have to be everything, I resonate with parts of Elphaba from the Wicked musical, parts of Amity Blight from The Owl House,

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    Gojo Wakana from my dress up darling and Komi Shouko from Komi can’t communicate. It’s best if I’m just left alone

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    Weirdo answer, but Geralt from the Witcher games.

    I can relate to the somewhat outcast with a specialized skillset that people need but also loathe to pay for.

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      Weirdo answer, but Geralt from the Witcher games.

      Well, I think my answer is stranger. And the fact that you like the Herald is a reason to be proud, in my humble opinion.