Sorry for the late update. Was in a bad mental state last night. I think this will be the last edit.

Before you say anything, while you might think this isn't an unlicensed game, technically since there's no encompassing and enforced licensing system on the PC, all PC games are unlicensed. think-about-it

Under Siege is a PC game released in 2004/2005 that tells the story of a Palestinian family during the Second Intifada. Yeah it isn't exactly an obscure game, but I wanted to end my series with a game about shooting fascists rather than interacting with their underbaked brainworms. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work so I have no personal opinions about the game itself.

The game can be downloaded here https://www.myabandonware.com/game/under-siege-gcg

Here's a few bonus NES games:

MiG-29: Soviet Fighter: You play as a Soviet pilot on a mission to defeat the World Terrorist Army ( amerikkka ). Plays a lot like Afterbuner

Tunnel War: A action video game adaptation of a 1965 Chinese film about a small village building a tunnel network to defend against a Japanese invasion during the Second Sino-Japanese War

Allied Death Squad: A port of the PC title "Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines", it's an action strategy game where you play as allied soldiers killing nazis and escaping their prison

Lin Zexu - No Smoking:
A beat-em-up about enforcing China's opium ban


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[โ€“] 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Women not avoiding me in public spaces has got to be a sign that I'm at least like ... 10% passing now, right?

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Yeah my women coworkers have gotten a lot more touchy since I came out? Just elbow, shoulder, knee touches to be reassuring, v sweet. It's little things like that that give me the most validation, like huh, I really don't read as a man to yall :)

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 months ago

    Same, it's little things like this that only happened between women and I had previously only ever observed that are super affirming. Other little things women have been doing that lift my spirits:

    • talking to me in the bathroom about my purse, outfit, or makeup

    • smiling at me when we pass in the street (vs. previously trying not to make eye contact)

    • (at work) being much more open and friendly. all my work friends are women lol

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)
  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 months ago

    It really is. And it's an extension of what you described, just with an email confirming girl status to the whole building. In the street it's not as obvious, I think they're just less concerned about my presence? like, they see long hair and tits and go back to what they're doing, rather than keeping an eye on me or, god forbid, crossing the street. You'll get there sodium, clearly you're already on the way!

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You are, at least, no longer reading as a man if that's the case. Even if you don't pass, you're still a woman. Never forget that "passing" just means conforming to an extremely narrow set of ever-shifting standards maintained by white, cishet patriarchy. Tons of cis women get "transvestigated" because they don't conform, too. That said, it's nice when you start getting women looking at you and talking to you like one of their own. It's not so much about passing but showing that you are rejecting masculinity and its privileges that sparks the change, imo.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 months ago*

    I think a lot of us think of passing as going full stealth immediately. But there's so many other stages of positive ways people can respond to you.

    As soon as I started girlmode-ing in public most women were just way more relaxed around me. Like they knew I was a trans woman and that meant I'm not threatening/more scared than them.

    Then I found there was the stage where I unambiguously read as intentionally presenting female, so I stopped getting gendered with masculine terms by random men and women. Often de-gendered, but lots of times where a random man might be like "Hey [colleauge] can you come help this lady out?" etc

    Now that I'm getting this stage where there's just enough between my long hair, smooth face and increasingly bigger breasts day by day, that some people just think I'm an unusually tall lady. Which is wild.

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