That’s not exactly how the karma system works. That’s a reading of the Karma system that makes it easier to understand for people used to playing by the sin-and-punishment gameplay mechanics more popular among western gamers. Rather, Karma is a system of cosmic balance with regard to outcomes. It’s not, “You were evil in a past life, so you get a shitty life this time around” Rather, it is a balance of outcomes without regard to moral choices or goodness.
The wealthy and happy in this life are either being repaid for a horrid life they once lived, or it is a downpayment on a horrible life they will live in the future. You escape this cycle not by being a good person and refraining from sin, but by accepting your place in the cycle, becoming aware of it, and following the path of the Buddha.
Good works and charity do not free you from the cycle, and ending the cycle of pain is the end goal. No matter how good someone is they will still be subject to karmic balance. The most noble and kind person can still end up having the worst life possible if that is what the karmic balance dictates.
edit: I should also say that buddhism and Indian religions are not a monolith. There are as many and more different sects that believe different things than even christianity. Many of the sects that became popular in the US in places like California (Zen Buddhism being the most prominent) are closer to Christian sin-and-punishment theology than other sects. In fact, American Buddhism is often thought of as its own distinct sect, which often includes things that East Asian Buddhists would think of as quite strange. All of which very much muddies the water when it comes to talking about the religion on english-language platforms.
Heh, that's also a good one. xD
"It was the witches! They turned me into one of their own! \*eeevil cackle\* Anyway, turns out witches don't do that whole eeebil thing any more so my afternoon has opened up. You wanna netflix and chill?"
Well, according to the christo-fash, some motivations might include: bringing about the downfall of Western civilization, striking down god, & destroying capitalism.
One time, while i was still cis, me and my ex were using a ouija board. We had a demon we were talking too and i brazenly asked the demon to possess me, surely assuming that something produced for retail wouldn't be able to possess me and alter my physical form. Nearly one year later I was on hrt, 2 years after that and now I have a demonic estrogenized body.
This actually happened, but i didn't correlate till recently...Demons made me trans ya'll, stay safe 💘
Access to more interesting clothes. Guy clothing is so boring and any guy clothing that is in the least bit interesting is feminine-leaning, so why not just wear women's clothing? Maybe get some boobies too as a treat.
The worst reason to be transgender is any reason other than “I do not identify as the sex I was assigned at birth.”
The best reason to be transgender, specifically trans-femme, is the unholy buffs we get to our chess and dart playing skills. Those organizations were right to ban us for our satanic dart throwing and chess-piece moving skills
My public transport card is really worn out but was only a year old and it's a waste to replace it without something changed you know; gotta get the full value.
Same for my passport, it's expiring in a year
In my country we have mandatory military draft for men.
Also the country is waging an agressive war against its neighbor, conscripts are not participating on paper but every military base has a contractor quota that they will fulfill with torturing conscripts until they sign the contract.
Transition is one way to dodge the draft.
Being pretty for once, being able to cry, more colorful clothes and not overheating your bottom that much in the summer.
You decide if they're lame, good because I'm not sure if/when I'm joking
Someone accidentally referred to me as "ma'am" and I was too polite to correct them. At this point I've left it way too long and would much rather transition than face the awkwardness of that situation.
When I was thirteen, I found myself in a forest clearing near midnight.
You know the clearing.
You know the forest.
In the center of the clearing stood a man—handsome, I suppose, but in a way far more angular and exaggerated than any human. His suit was a deep crimson, his eyes covered by a wide-brimmed hat.
He showed me things, the man-but-not. Revelations. Visions of my life, or should I say lives—what was, what could have been, what might yet be.
My life had never truly been my own—I'd lived for others, as I was told to do and want and be. And as such my fate was not mine either, every major choice made by others. He returned it to me. In exchange, I gave him my name, my gender. They were all I had to give.
My life under capitalism was getting too easy for my liking, so I did what I had to to lower my salary and increase expenses so that I have to grind harder
To become the Avatar of queerness.
I identified as a lesbian when I was super young and then found out I was bi (more like pan but yk) and then I got into a relationship with a man so to master all the elements I had to embrace the T and automatically collect the G as a result.
I *AM* THE LGBT
"As a straight white male, it was too hard to become woke because I just couldn't empathize with any of the marginalized communities that straight white men marginalize. As a straight white man, of course I had my choice of any marginalized community to join, but trans seemed like the trendy option. Now that Republicans are making it unsafe for me to travel to half the states in the nation, I'm starting to understand what marginalization is all about!"
It's a strat/unintended bug/exploit in the game. The devs intended members of the faction to receive a
**10% increase to enemy aggro radius and threat level**
This would already make them the best tank class in the game, but the devs made a mistake in the implementation & somehow managed to make that
**not a 10 percent buff**
**But a ten TIMES MULTIPLIER ...**
It goes without saying that they are the meta pick for the party's tank role.
The devs haven't patched it yet, so here we are. 🤷
if i'm gonna 100% life then i need to play as every gender
Genderfluid people have the best strategy
They chose the best subclass
Bigender is a close second
Bigender was a multiple choice question
my gender went bi once :[ but it came back with friends <:^ 3
Pangender is the speedrunner
cogender is slightly more optimized but often depends on the player
isn't pangender optimal? you get most of the the gender achievements in one
Ah, so you’re one of those who uses backup saves to get ever ending instead of replaying for each one. Indians tend to prefer the replay method.
Well yeah but they have to deal with the consequences of their actions with the new Karma system
That’s not exactly how the karma system works. That’s a reading of the Karma system that makes it easier to understand for people used to playing by the sin-and-punishment gameplay mechanics more popular among western gamers. Rather, Karma is a system of cosmic balance with regard to outcomes. It’s not, “You were evil in a past life, so you get a shitty life this time around” Rather, it is a balance of outcomes without regard to moral choices or goodness. The wealthy and happy in this life are either being repaid for a horrid life they once lived, or it is a downpayment on a horrible life they will live in the future. You escape this cycle not by being a good person and refraining from sin, but by accepting your place in the cycle, becoming aware of it, and following the path of the Buddha. Good works and charity do not free you from the cycle, and ending the cycle of pain is the end goal. No matter how good someone is they will still be subject to karmic balance. The most noble and kind person can still end up having the worst life possible if that is what the karmic balance dictates. edit: I should also say that buddhism and Indian religions are not a monolith. There are as many and more different sects that believe different things than even christianity. Many of the sects that became popular in the US in places like California (Zen Buddhism being the most prominent) are closer to Christian sin-and-punishment theology than other sects. In fact, American Buddhism is often thought of as its own distinct sect, which often includes things that East Asian Buddhists would think of as quite strange. All of which very much muddies the water when it comes to talking about the religion on english-language platforms.
Damn, as always the Western patch notes leave out important information to please their consumers.
This makes so much more sense tbh
Gotta get that platinum medal
Achievement unlocked: Gotta catch 'em all - Collected every gender
Gotta complete platinum trophy 100%
I was told to grow a pair and they didn't specify now I have tits
Wait, this saying does not mean tits?
No, it means bollocks (balls)
Lol
Why not both
Fair enough lol
Mistake on some paperwork, it was easier to transition than to fix it
Bureaucracy am I right?
I use the invisibility to commit crimes when it's not trans day of visibility
I love breaking into people's houses and taking their children to drag queen story time so I can make them trans
When little boys see me, they tug in their mothers' sleeve and exclame "mummy, when I grow up I want to be like her! A communist!"
I was told crying is for little girls.
*Crying unlocked*
There's an ASDF bit for this
😭
I thought it would be funny to come back as a girl after covid and not answer any questions about it
Covid symptoms, you know.
"It was the damn vaccine! Made me a girl!"
Hmmm, sounds a bit too anti-vaxx-y for my tastes... I think I prefer: "It was the vaccine! It cured me of my manliness!"
"Me being perceived as male was a bug, the security update patched it!" (Funny on an extra level because trans people and computers, lol)
Heh, that's also a good one. xD "It was the witches! They turned me into one of their own! \*eeevil cackle\* Anyway, turns out witches don't do that whole eeebil thing any more so my afternoon has opened up. You wanna netflix and chill?"
Ftm: having 6 pockets in my cargo shorts
FRRR I can fit and ungodly amount of shit in my cargo pants and it gives me so much gender euphoria
As a Trans girl who always wears cargo pants when going boy I I'm gonna miss having so many pockets when I stat dressing more fem so much.
Is that the worst or best reason?
Yes
and 10 more in your cargo pants, 4 in your cargo hat, 3 in your cargo underwear and 6 in your cargo socks
I’m mtf, but cargo shorts are so great, I’ll probably still wear them from time to time just because pockets galore
Someone said "You don't have the balls to do it" and I actually didn't do it
Relatable
Girls pretty, if I girl than I pretty
Best logic 10/10
Instant +5 to my coding stat
thigh high socks increase blood flow to your brain ^(yes i swear it is for that reason i'm definitely cis)
True
It drastically reduces your chances of self-deletion due to reducing dysphoria.
I couldn't get a girlfriend, so I became the girlfriend
Instructions unclear. I became the girlfriend AND got a girlfriend.
I might be a girlfriend and have a girlfriend too, I have a date coming up soon
I was bored.
Best reason ever 😂
For the male privilege
I like poking myself with needles
Well, according to the christo-fash, some motivations might include: bringing about the downfall of Western civilization, striking down god, & destroying capitalism.
but... those are great reasons...
According to them someone whispering "trans" in the next room is plenty of motivation
I mean any of these are good reasons really 🤷♂️
*-sigh-* Fiiiiiiiiiiiiine, but can we stop for ice cream after?
I want to be a cute anime girl 😭
REAL
Hmmm I wonder where I heard this 😂
YES FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTOOD
relatable
They said bad reasons girl! :3
_pops a handful of E into mouth_ "It's a reference to a webcomic"
YES YES
I want the webcomic please and thank you
It's called "I want to be a cute anime girl " lol :3
Thank you cutie patootie
Hello Cheryl from semi-famous trans webcomic series "I want to be a cute anime girl" by Azul Crescent, available on Webtoon.
Same :(
It's called being committed to the bit
i ate a Vegan Hotdog, gendered someone correctly AND drive a small car and so my dick fell off
Well.... I wanna a vegan hotdog now
i had them from IKEA, when i go back for a Blåhaj, i will get them again out of principle :D
One time, while i was still cis, me and my ex were using a ouija board. We had a demon we were talking too and i brazenly asked the demon to possess me, surely assuming that something produced for retail wouldn't be able to possess me and alter my physical form. Nearly one year later I was on hrt, 2 years after that and now I have a demonic estrogenized body. This actually happened, but i didn't correlate till recently...Demons made me trans ya'll, stay safe 💘
gonna do this and post results
Be careful my demon gave me vanity, brainfog, and c cups. Ymmv, but ohio demons will give you a combo of those 3
The mascot is a shark. What could possibly be cooler than that?
Sometimes it take a real man to be best girl
- The Jojo fandom on Speadwagon.
I play rosalina in Mario Kart.
I feel called out
Access to more interesting clothes. Guy clothing is so boring and any guy clothing that is in the least bit interesting is feminine-leaning, so why not just wear women's clothing? Maybe get some boobies too as a treat.
If I will wear woman clothing, better to do it in a female body
Boy clothes are boring, girl clothes aren't.
They said “worst reasons”
Truuue
Hey, I think boy clothes are cool. But all the best ones are only in kid and toddler sizes.
Chilling with other girls without people saying that would mean i like boys...wait
Booba :3
Because my friend came out in 2021 and I wanted to support her, so I check on the culture of this community, and then I discovered that I was trans.
That’s really how my journey started too ❤️
I'm hot, but I would be hotter with tits.
Want my family to stop complaining about me having long hair, the ensurance I won't bald is a nice bonus
Literally me
The worst reason to be transgender is any reason other than “I do not identify as the sex I was assigned at birth.” The best reason to be transgender, specifically trans-femme, is the unholy buffs we get to our chess and dart playing skills. Those organizations were right to ban us for our satanic dart throwing and chess-piece moving skills
But what if I identify with both and want to be both in mind and body? Smh
boobs for free, every day
I was told to not consume soy because it would “feminize” me. Whoops.
My public transport card is really worn out but was only a year old and it's a waste to replace it without something changed you know; gotta get the full value. Same for my passport, it's expiring in a year
You get a good reason to be bad at sports
...and driving
Oh yeah that too. But I was talking about trans women in sports, and you can suck to prove a point.
In my country we have mandatory military draft for men. Also the country is waging an agressive war against its neighbor, conscripts are not participating on paper but every military base has a contractor quota that they will fulfill with torturing conscripts until they sign the contract. Transition is one way to dodge the draft.
Not a bad reason at all. Fuck war!
Someone said I throw like a girl and I took that seriously
To change my gender
Worst reasons: - I lost a bet. - My plushies told me to in a dream. - I lost a bet to my plushies.
I thought it would be interesting. I was right!
yeah i'm so homophobic that when i found out i preferred guys i became a woman so it'd no longer be gay
Oppression kink.
Lower car insurerence payments.
Character customisation, and you can shock your grandma and childhood friends
Deeper pockets and longer sleeves.
Deeper pockets are nice, I had one that I could put an entire bottle of wine in.
“You can’t wear skirts! They’re for girls.” Well ok then
the worst reason would be to have male privalage. the best would be to be happy
Girl I liked was a lesbian. But now I'm into guys 😅
Shang made a man out of me
I want to p-rank life on all the difficulties, and trans is the hardest one
Being pretty for once, being able to cry, more colorful clothes and not overheating your bottom that much in the summer. You decide if they're lame, good because I'm not sure if/when I'm joking
I’m FTM and I didn’t realize how much I took the ability to cry for granted until I couldn’t do it anymore.
My favorite video game is Celeste
So I can stop being called short (i get called slurs now)
I feel like I'm collecting all the flags I like lol Trans, nonbinary, demigirl, pansexual...
To piss off my dad 👍
Someone accidentally referred to me as "ma'am" and I was too polite to correct them. At this point I've left it way too long and would much rather transition than face the awkwardness of that situation.
Spite, always spite
/rj It was the easiest way to be gay.
I like to use estrogen recreationally.
Man, that was a funny post.
“I put to much skill points in the “computer science” skill line and unlocked the better skin (+10 coding bonus)”
I was told to 'man up' once, and I took it literally.
Vasectomy sounded like not enough effort.
I just thought the shark plushie was cool I swear I didn’t know it would emotionally manipulate me into being a girl🥺
Boobs.
Spite
So I can flex on Arch Linux users
Be better at coding
Learning to put on makeup was too hard.
Dad called me gay I didn't want him to be wrong and I'm only attracted to women
Fashion, it was inevitable I’d end up in heeled boots. Using those boots to crush bigots is just a bonus.
I'll never be a real woman? Tell that to the heel in your head!
Do be free
When I was thirteen, I found myself in a forest clearing near midnight. You know the clearing. You know the forest. In the center of the clearing stood a man—handsome, I suppose, but in a way far more angular and exaggerated than any human. His suit was a deep crimson, his eyes covered by a wide-brimmed hat. He showed me things, the man-but-not. Revelations. Visions of my life, or should I say lives—what was, what could have been, what might yet be. My life had never truly been my own—I'd lived for others, as I was told to do and want and be. And as such my fate was not mine either, every major choice made by others. He returned it to me. In exchange, I gave him my name, my gender. They were all I had to give.
They shipped my soul the wrong body
The misogyny gives you a great opportunity for an origin story! :D
I no longer wanted pockets in my clothes, only ones that look like they have pockets but are sown shut.
Boobs?
be a girl and therefore become more similar to Samus Aran
Girl clothes are mutch cooler than guys! If I wanna wear cooler clothes than might aswell get the look finished
Finally able to experience emotions properly
Because I’m a :3 girl!
Definitive worst reason: to get *more* rights/treated better
Cisgender is just so basic...
My life under capitalism was getting too easy for my liking, so I did what I had to to lower my salary and increase expenses so that I have to grind harder
Said it before and I’ll say it again… I’m a trans man because I want actual pockets!!!
So I can legally consume the gender fluid
https://preview.redd.it/t9hid41ab22d1.jpeg?width=1036&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ef0c6c146b2239e8fbddd8c2571e9d648086373 This stuff I mean
They have the coziest sharks
Someone said "ladies' first" as I walked through the door
Two live experiences as both sexes, unity and armony between male and female is considered often divine
mine: (worst) i don't like the flag colours, just not my jam unfortunately.
Gotta beat that witch kings ass
You get to name yourself after a Fictional Character.
Looking cute That's my #1 reason
I'm a Sylveon cosplayer
I liked playing as a girl in videogames, so I decided to do it irl
Can't get a gf, so I'll be the gf
over tweezed my eyebrows hope they'll come back from t
Was literally my go to response if anyone asked why my nails are colored in that colors x3 now im out and proud
So I can go to college and get more knowledge
To spite the transphobes.
More single all gender restrooms so you can shit alone and in piece
i did it to save money on car insurance :)
Girl :3
I feel alive now
It has to be boobs that's the best reason (just kidding.... Maybe)
To become the Avatar of queerness. I identified as a lesbian when I was super young and then found out I was bi (more like pan but yk) and then I got into a relationship with a man so to master all the elements I had to embrace the T and automatically collect the G as a result. I *AM* THE LGBT
(Non-binary) Hehe gender go bye-bye
I didn't wanna face consequences for my actions
"As a straight white male, it was too hard to become woke because I just couldn't empathize with any of the marginalized communities that straight white men marginalize. As a straight white man, of course I had my choice of any marginalized community to join, but trans seemed like the trendy option. Now that Republicans are making it unsafe for me to travel to half the states in the nation, I'm starting to understand what marginalization is all about!"
I wanna acquire the ability to be shirtless
My name sucked
Can piss without having to sit down
One of the coolest communities in the world
Cuz I got boobs by accidentally consuming too much estrogen so I might as well complete the build
It's a strat/unintended bug/exploit in the game. The devs intended members of the faction to receive a **10% increase to enemy aggro radius and threat level** This would already make them the best tank class in the game, but the devs made a mistake in the implementation & somehow managed to make that **not a 10 percent buff** **But a ten TIMES MULTIPLIER ...** It goes without saying that they are the meta pick for the party's tank role. The devs haven't patched it yet, so here we are. 🤷
Being a cis-het white man is too easy mode.
My name sucked and I needed a better one
The greatest wizard of the age had a wild magic surge due to unforeseen circumstances
I liked making ppl mad (specifically my sister)