Weight slider and more fat NPCs please!

[Breakbeat]

Do you see a lot of overweight or obese elderly people? No. Because carrying extra weight isn’t healthy or good for longevity. Don’t bring that crap into the game, thanks.

Actually, yes. Likely all the folks that upvoted your post haven't paid serious attention to every elderly person they've seen, or worked or lived around enough elderly people to make any sort of educated claim. Y'all's brains go right to the image of a tiny, petite, skinny old lady or man and you then make the jump to, "all old folks are tiny and skinny."

I worked at a senior recreation center for the city of Burbank (the Joslyn Center, quite famous around these parts, actually) for the better part of eight years. In that time, I saw a plethora of overweight and obese elderly people. One of my best friends there, actually, was probably a good eighty to a hundred pounds overweight and in her eighties. She had a knee replaced and was in a wheelchair for months, but before and after that, she walked around just fine.

We threw a 100th birthday party for a woman named Mary, one of our senior volunteers, and she was fairly overweight.

But, those are just a couple of examples. With an average occupation of two- to three-hundred guests per day (we served breakfast and lunch there as well for seniors - over a hundred people showed up just for that), I saw tens of thousands of seniors over each year I worked there.

Yeah, open the door on Wednesday morning's exercise class and you'd see just how many fat seniors used our facilities. Actually, never mind exercise classes, there were overweight and obese seniors everywhere - in the pool room, in the dining room, at computer classes, in the card room... everywhere. I'd say (wow, get this!) about the same percentage of fat or obese folks you'd see if you just went to the mall and people-watched those of all ages. Go friggin' figure.

Anecdotally, my mother-in-law is just under 80 years old and she's carrying around an extra sixty pounds on a 4'11" frame. She goes to the doctor regularly, does all her blood work, etc., and she's continually told she's in fine health. She's always told to lose more weight, but she's told that besides that, she's in fine health. No heart disease, no diabetes, correct blood pressure with no medication, liver and kidneys are fine, etc.

The idea that "there aren't many overweight or obese seniors" is complete nonsense fueled by confirmation bias. You conveniently note each and every thin, petite senior as you pass them in life, but you completely ignore the fat and obese ones, so that your "reality" perfectly fits your nonsense narrative.

[MagiusNecros]

Butt slider first. Thanks.

[RavnEerie]

Do you see a lot of overweight or obese elderly people? No. Because carrying extra weight isn’t healthy or good for longevity. Don’t bring that crap into the game, thanks.

I guess it depends on what you consume as well.
My country is full of thicc older people, and statistically they live longer than their skinny friends.

I would love a slider in FFXIV. I want my viera to have the bodyfat% of a lalafell lol

[Alestorm]

It's a titanmen thread, just report it and move on.

[_Pigzig]

viera male big chungus

[TitanMenII]

So we can have Dulia Chai in the game but we still don't have options for body positivity? Square Enix please do the right thing.

[Renalt]

I approve of the necro just because it's more stuff for people to argue about. I relish the entertainment.

Do your thing OF.

[QiyoJoyo]

Renalt!

Would you play a dad-bod-hyure! Tell me! Now! AND: Do fat lalafell get a rolling animation instead of a running animation?!

[Bsrking5]

For PC I wouldn't care if they added a slider, other then it's dev time used kinda poorly. But npcs to fill check boxes rather than story is a big no from me. I mostly ignore other player characters and models anyways.

[Imora]

Why necro this?

Also no, unnecessary.