Not that she’s uber-competitive or anything. Virgil quickly burned through what she describes as “kiddie games” like Super Mario and Goof Troop before challenging herself with first-person shooters in Call of Duty and Halo, quickly becoming known as Thee Gamer amongst her friend group. After her mom noticed that her youngest would pass hours of the day watching her older siblings shout and cheer playing video games, she purchased her baby girl her very own console (a classic Super Nintendo), and then, the love affair began. (Sorry, Mom.) But Virgil isn’t just your everyday streamer - she’s actually creating a more equitable, more inclusive gaming space through the creation of custom content.Įven with the very serious childhood career goal of practicing law in mind, Virgil, also known as Xmiramira online, has always been drawn to the world of gaming. Because as it turns out, we had the cheat codes all along, and it is in fact totally possible to play video games all day and all night for a living. “I never thought this was a thing.” By “this,” she means a career as a professional gamer and streamer. After all, the world is a big place, and there are so many beautiful and inspiring locations, cultures, and traditions to draw inspiration to allow us to truly play with life.“I wanted to be a damn lawyer,” laughs Amira Virgil during a recent Zoom interview. However, we'd also like to see more of the world reflected in DLC packs, including more diverse influences for fashion, features, and most importantly, worlds. There are still so many things we'd love to see.Ĭultural and lifestyle updates give a richness to the game that everyone should be able to see in their game and we hope to see them continue to appear as free updates. However, the team has consistently said that increasing diversity is a continual process, so we hope these upcoming changes aren't the last. The biggest mistake in the game's diversity has been the fact it's taken six years to get a proper skin tone overhaul since this should be one of the basics.
What matters is that continual efforts are made to increase diversity and cultural awareness.
The world is full of culture, and in a video game with limitations, there's no conceivable way that all the cultures that exist on earth can be fully represented. Traditions in Northern England vary from those in the South and when it comes to dialect there are hundreds of regional accents and we are only a tiny island.
For instance, I'm British, and not only do England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have their own traditions and customs, but there are also differences within each country.
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