Thread: Butt is flat again... Patch 5.15

Originally Posted by MsQi

Except it isn't pancake butt. It's a smoothly rounded butt typical of a person of such slender build.

As someone who has a slender build IRL, no. This is not a proportional bottom. Couple that with any female character who doesn’t have the bust slider at 0~25, and it makes them even more unproportional—because then they’re top-heavy.

It’s silly that, with literally everything else that clips in this game, they opt to fix this.

Originally Posted by Iscah

Having no personal interest in "butts" (I have one, I sit on it), I'm amazed just how much discussion goes into them around here...

Also you're eating some weird-shaped pancakes if smaller-but-still-curved is "pancake-shaped".

It’s meant to mean that the butts in this game are as flat as pancakes. Not that they’re literally pancake-shaped. It’s a metaphor.

Funny you mention "squeezed toothpaste tube" - that's the mental image that comes to mind when I try on the dresses. They don't just narrow the waist but also the ribcage, and it looks incredibly unsettling to me.

Well, the dresses do have corsets. That’s generally what corsets do: the cinch your waist but also squeeze in the floating ribs of your ribcage to make your torso appear more slender overall.

Originally Posted by Iscah

Are the middle and right images meant to be the same? I can't see a difference, and I assume they're both the non-flattened version since there's no other gear equipped.

Middle and right are the same picture. The middle is to show it unobstructed and the right is to show the "flatness" line. It bothers me when people put up a picture with lines all over it and you can't completely see the original. These were taken before the current patch, shortly after 5.1. If people really like it, that's their choice.

Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

It’s meant to mean that the butts in this game are as flat as pancakes. Not that they’re literally pancake-shaped. It’s a metaphor.

If they were "as flat as pancakes" they would be literally pancake-shaped with respect to flatness. It's not a metaphor, it's an exaggeration. It's fine to exaggerate once in a while for effect but people say it (along with the Hank Hill exaggeration) so often and matter of factly, it seems they believe it literally.

Originally Posted by MsQi

If they were "as flat as pancakes" they would be literally pancake-shaped with respect to flatness. It's not a metaphor, it's an exaggeration. It's fine to exaggerate once in a while for effect but people say it (along with the Hank Hill exaggeration) so often and matter of factly, it seems they believe it literally.

It’s a metaphor to say that the butts in this game are pancakes. A metaphor is a direct comparison of two things; and this metaphor is hardly an exaggeration. They are extremely flat, and it makes female models with any bust size that’s not as equally flat disproportional and top-heavy. Some of the “larger” female races like Roegadyns and Highlanders are particularly egregious because the body proportions are so off. More “petite” races like Miqo’te and Au Ra can somewhat get away with it, but it’s still there and noticeable. I’ve thought the butts were flat literally the minute I started playing this game—before reading all the hubbub about it on forums.

Originally Posted by Lily_Skye

when the endgame in shb is literally non existent and we have to talk about butts

Glamour is endgame.
Butts are glamour
Thus endgame is Butts

Did I mention endgame team is led by Ultros?

If you didnt know any better you would swear people want their characters to have rear ends that look like they got two Racoons wrestling in 50lbs feed bag.

Since this is about butts... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riVntlVtRbk