also love cyberpunk to death but hate how you can’t be fat like you’re telling me it’s 2077 and i can’t choose to be fat . fuck you
had a similar problem with bg3 like its cool i can play as a dragon and all but would love if i could have my body size accurately represented too
and if you mention this at all everyone gets really mad i wonder why that is
i think what the problem is honestly and truly is that game developers (and honestly lots and lots of people) don’t ever believe that a fat person could be comfortable in being fat , or that anyone could ever want to be fat or play as a fat person, period. and both these games share a similar issue where they don’t really have any fat main characters, and the fat characters they do have are evil and disgusting and constantly dunked on for their weight. it’s “escapism” and in people’s perfect escapist fantasy fat people don’t exist. everyone is beautiful and skinny and perfect. kind of evil if you ask me. escapist fantasy is very reflective of what we subconsciously believe.
like lol. really
and people love to make the “well if you’re an adventurer/fighter/mercenary/edgerunner you wouldn’t be fat” like oh so now we care about realism in video games . that’s what this is about? in our role playing games?
that’s what fuckin kills me every time. for years the body positive movement had to argue against people saying “animating fat characters is impossible!” and then BG3 has like five of them and they’re all some variety of greedy fucked up hedonist who’s either an idiot coward or evil or both
and that it’s 2026 now and your options for Fat Characters in shows/movies/games/whatever boil down to “this one isn’t fatphobic (because no fats exist)” vs “this one has fat characters (the narrative is wildly horrible about them)” is fucking infuriating
hello tumblr user who wrote a post about the inefficacy of callout posts. i’m going to scroll your blog and you have to survive for 45 seconds without me finding an incest p oh the bomb collar went off. it already exploded. it went off already
i love this image because not only is it accurate but also every time i see it i subconsciously scan the image to make sure its not somewhere i know. because everywhere in england looks like this. could be literally anywhere.
ALT
