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No one has asked for a breast slider with an unrepresentatively low maximum.

That so? And the activist that usually complain about beauty standards and not having enough representation were angry how "unrepresentative" that was and were complaining about it to Bioware?

I mean you can lie and say how no one has asked for it but the activist have complained about big breasted women in games for a long time usually under the guise of how it's sexualizing the women in games. And yes there have been straight up complaints about characters breasts being too large over the years usually when it's a non-western game.

People have complained about the predominance of women characters in games with unrepresentatively large breasts. You keep conflating things (including your own sexual preferences) and being imprecise to make arguments seem unreasonable when they’re not at all.

So women with large breasts don't exist? Or should they not be represented in video games? I'm also curious what is the appropriate size of breasts for women to have in video games and how you and others like you determined it. And of course, you also have such standards for male characters and complain about unrepresentatively good looking or buff male characters, right?

And this being about sexual preferences is just you blatantly projecting. What I'm doing is pointing out how all this talk "representation" and "inclusivity" has nothing to do with actual representation and is just a thinly veiled cover for censorship.

You need to read more carefully what I’ve written, I’ve never suggested that large-breasted women don’t exist or shouldn’t be represented, I talked about the trends and tendencies. I’ve been quite precise in what I’ve written. I’m also quite happy for men and all other genders and body types to see broader representation. I’m not for censorship, in general. There is a vein of conservative (self-described) feminists who are extremely anti-porn and so on; I’m not on their side. I am on the side of feminists who want to see a lot more balance in media, including video games - broadening options and horizons, not shutting anything down unless it’s truly hateful. I really can’t see anything wrong with that. It’s not “censorship” if it’s just you not getting exactly your preference all the time.

I read your deflections of how it’s totally not the same political groups advocating for all these things and your thinly veiled personal attacks.

You speak of not wanting censorship and wanting there to be balance, but balance of what and how? Without actual measurements and quotas on game content there can be no balance and it’s just censorship to please the side which has the most political influence, for video games this is obviously the far-left right now.

If it’s not about censorship and about having choice, why are there complaints when existing games that have attractive character come to western market ?

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