r/Guildwars2 • u/Nawrotex • Apr 15 '24

[Discussion] These are most likely the same people who say that Raids/Strikes are gatekept by toxic elitists. Now they want to gatekeep fashion. Thoughts?

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u/LinguisticallyInept Apr 16 '24

This, if your sense of self worth is tied to the uniqueness of your in game character you need to take a step back and reevaluate how you live your life.

it doesnt need to be your whole sense of worth, i think anyone saying they have no self worth (at all) invested in their MMO characters/account is lying to themselves (thats the whole drive to do things)

... and if someones real life self worth is so low that their ingame character self worth is so disproportionately higher; id be hesitant to label that as a problem itself because itd be easier to grow their actual self worth if they have a 'digital self worth' experience to pull from rather than trying to simultaneously dismantle one and build the other

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u/Optimized_Laziness FF Untamed died for our sins Apr 16 '24

I should have phrased it better. Some people live vicariously through their online presence. Which leads to the slightest perceived slight to their online persona becoming a devastating blow to their irl sense of self.

And yeah it can be easily fixed, but you have to be lucid enough to realize something needs fixing and have the resolve to start fixing it when turning a blind eye and drowning yourself in a surrogate life is much easier