Please do NOT add weight sliders/fat player characters

[TaleraRistain]

Wow, body shame much?

[Breakbeat]

Psuedoscience of the other thread aside, the begging for obesity in Warrior of Lights is a fringe opinion you'll only find on the official forums. It's an unreasonable request and an unhealthy/dangerous request to say the least.

No. Thank. You.

A slider for fat bodies? Eh, take it or leave it. What I'd really like, though, is a slider that increases the scope of vision of people on the forums and the rest of humanity in general.

Dear skinny people: fat people don't generally choose to be fat. Yes, we know if we eat better and exercise, we get thin. Not understanding how to be thin isn't the issue. Durr? So good for you if you're skinny naturally, or skinny via hard work. Super kudos to you.

Now for the news flash... just like virtually everything else in life, just because you can do something, doesn't mean others can do it as well. Some brains are addicted to sugar, some brains are addicted to eating in general, some brains obsess about food when eating isn't necessary, some people are compelled to eat when they're nervous or anxious. Some people seek medical help for this - and in the United States, at least, asking for appetite suppressants is akin to asking for bars of solid gold from your doctor. You get this slack-jawed look when you ask, and the answer is always "we don't do that here".

My experience, and that of my close family:

Doctor #1: "You have heart issues, here's a pill, and try harder with your weight, heart disease is deadly."
Doctor #2: "You have Diabetes, here's two pills and an insulin pen, and try harder with your weight, Diabetes is deadly."
Me: "But doctor, doesn't my weight directly affect my heart and diabetes and other stuff?"[/B]
Doctor #3: "Here's a pat on the back. Try harder."

Me: "OK doc, it's been fifteen, twenty, thirty years now and I've been unable to resolve my weight issues. Help me, please."
Doctor #4: "Here's a bigger pat on the back and let me chastise you for not getting your weight under control. Try harder."

Yes, maybe I will get it right after forty or fifty years, if I last that long. Thanks, medical professionals! You too subscribe to the nonsense that if person A can do something, so can person B! And, of course - obviously - risking addiction to appetite suppressants is far, far worse than death via Diabetes, as your organs slowly waste away... or that sweet, sweet heart-attack pain. As you lie there on the floor clutching your chest, at least you'll be happy you're not addicted to "diet pills". Yay.

(Side note: this isn't 1987 anymore, so I can't like, photocopy my prescription or whatever and turn it in at five different places for five bottles of pills. As soon as I turn in the prescription at one pharmacy, it's immediately "locked" from being distributed at any other pharmacy. And on a 30-day supply once a month, I really can't abuse the pills either; if I want to "binge" and "party" on those pills, I'd have to wait X number of days to get more. Break your back and get 240 Oxycodone every 30 days. Heart wasting away? You get nada, sir or ma'am - you might abuse those pills! Good day.)

Doctors can be idiots. Especially GPs. GPs are overloaded, overworked idiots with no concept of the brain interacting with the rest of the body. Guess they weren't edu-ma-cated that way - and believe me, I put them on no pedestal. They've simply memorized a bunch of crap I can look up on Pubmed or the NLM. I ain't saying I could do surgery. But GP work? With 24 hours before each case, I could likely figure out what needs to be done next, what medicines are appropriate for the situation, and who I might refer the person to next. The information is no longer under lock-and-key in some ivy-covered college library anymore. Sorry, GPs. You're all but useless.

I've digressed heavily, but perhaps I've given a glimpse into how hard weight control can be. If one thinks it's simply a matter of eating a salad instead of a burger, or getting out and jogging for an hour every day or doing some cardio - then one is sorely, sorely mistaken. If that were true, everyone would be their correct weight.

Folks here and "around the internet," please, pretty please, drop kick the hate for fat folk off the cliff nearest you. Whoever you are, you ain't perfect; you have your problems as well, secret though they may be.

[Momo_Kozuki]

Why not though? I would love a race like the kul tirans.

Eh, I prefer SE spends resources on overhauling glam system instead. It won't happen instantly, obviously, but maybe there will be some good news toward 7.0 if they start it now.

[AlyaNimfa]

If people are fighting for equality in games about homosexuality, transgenders etc.. why exclude the size of a person?
Equality should be equal to all, no matter the shape or size.

Because you have to draw a line somewhere, otherwise the game would just be a character creation screen with no content.

Also, people with little to no life experience tend to miss one big thing in these threads. Life isn't fair.

[JisKing98]

Eh, I prefer SE spends resources on overhauling glam system instead. It won't happen instantly, obviously, but maybe there will be some good news toward 7.0 if they start it now.

Same. I've been wanting more beard options for awhile now for male races. Been hoping for a thicc beard since 2.3.