*chuckle* You ought to see what happens in Nverwinter Nights if you put some of the upper-torso clothing on dwarven females. If that's not defying gravity, I dunno what is! I mean, I respect Dolly Parton's singing ability, but don't want all my characters to look like her...

I also am not that bothered by other forumers' gender.
Howerver, I can see the relation between the absence of many female gamers and the creation of threads like this.

If someone discloses their gender to me, I'm not going to waste my time thinking up reasons why it might not be true, because it doesn't matter if it's true or not. Questioning literally everything is pointless, and counterproductive to boot. You might as well be suspicious when they tell you they had cereal for breakfast.
If they tell me they can get me a zero-interest loan if I give them my credit card number, then I'll be suspicious.
Incidentally, someone I used to play an online game with actually did deliberately mislead people into thinking he was female. When I found out it wasn't true, I didn't particularly care.

Well, I WOULD care if I was trying to pick her up or going for online dating, but as it stands, I always did that face to face or over the phone. Never been too fond of using the internet in that regard and once you strike that out of the equation, it's pretty unimportant if the person you're posting with is a man or a woman.

This.

Pretty much. Although, it's nice to know which pronouns to use. :p

Use all of them ..simultaneously..:D

This.
And never give out information about your own cereal preference freely. You never know how that information might be used against you.

Cereal killers do tend to run rampant, don't they?

All games have gameplay in them..or they wouldn't be games. I think that is why the other poster asked if you were joking.
Now I think I know what you mean, games that are more of an experiance then just blowing the crap out of things. Say like the sims? I could be wrong though.

It was released in 1993, so for me, yeah, it was an old game.

So you're more interested in the story than the gameplay used to advance it? Thats certainly the way I am, even if a game has the most awesome gameplay ever, it'll normally lose to a flawed or dull experience with a brilliant story. The lack of story is the primary reason I don't play non-coop mutiplayer games.

Coming into this a little late but I'm another girl gamer!
My history is a bit spotty. Started out on the TI99/4a (loved those games) and Atari. We also went through a Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Super Ninetendo, N64 and mostly because we got those systems for little or nothing. Somewhere in there I started playing PC games but my experiences & knowledge of them is pretty limited since I've pretty well been on my own there...I'd just pick up whatever looked interesting in the cheapy section. If I could afford console playing, I'd so get into that. I play pretty much anything...almost. I've played Duke Nukem, The Sims, the original Warcraft Trilogy, Fallout (which is what brought me to GoG) and oh so many other things.
My problem is I'm something of a gaming dumbass...I've been out of the scene for so long I have no idea what I might like or where to go to see what's new...the amount of info out there is overwhelming & I'm not sure what's good info & what's not so much.

If I see a game with a caption that seems interesting, I'll go to www.gamerankings.com or www.metacritic.com. They have reviews from all sorts of websites, explaining the good and the bad of the game. If I'm still on the fence, I'll just try the demo. There's a thread here on the general forums with a list of links for the demos of most of GOG's catalog. A couple of good reviews and a fun demo is all I need to buy a game. Barring that, a really cheap price, which is what is keeping me on the periphery of GOG.com :)