I'm not being badgered into it, I've never been happy with it—this is a quote from when it was first released: "Most of the time spent on this update was dedicated to the conversation with the landlady, which admittedly is still far from perfect, but for now, it's the best thing I could come up with."
I hope you understand what criticism is. Is someone not allowed to express an opinion or criticize someone else if they aren't in the same line of business?!
i have several very short people in my family, and i tend to get a bit defensive when people complain about someone being too short, in games. There is nothing wrong with short people, there is nothing wrong with liking short people. Short people do exist, they have families, fall in love, play sports, etc. It is a perfectly normal thing.
That's totally fine, but as you've probably noticed from my reply and the original, I didn't comment about one of such height not being able to do anything, rather, the stigma associated with it should have been addressed. As the author wrote, the unpatched game's standard is 5'6'' which is actually also the average for the sport she wants to compete in.
There is no stigma, the stigma is in your silly head. My mom was barely 5 feet tall, my older brothers wife is well under 5 feet tall, and she's in her 50's! short people are all over the place, and are entirely normal in society. There is Nothing wrong with short people. Sure they may have problems reaching the top shelf in the store. and they may put their car seats all the way forward. But that is OK. it is NOT a stigma.
Why are you so strongly defensive then? The stigma is unfortunately social, it's a fact. People of average and shorter than average height, get picked on for that attribute more often than taller people. To be honest, I can count on one hand the number of times someone was derided for being too tall. Have regrettably heard plenty of insults towards short people. Even in popular media.
I explained it in my previous post. read the edit.
Just wanted to post the definition of stigma which is
I completely agree with this. Though I still notice an observable bias against shorter people in society and media. Perhaps stigma might have been too strong of a term, as stated above, though.
For my part, I am not. But a sound and civil, although long, argument between two people about something vaguely relevant to the game, might, if nothing else, bump the thread page count enough to help more people check it out next time it's updated?!
Oh i'll fight, not afraid to stand up for what I believe in. - especially when someone makes a bad suggestion and gets the dev to make a change to take out something that was in a game that I really enjoyed.
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But, at same time, I rather not have two people who like my game get into an argument.Nothing is being taken out, and you can make the girl exactly as tall as you want, it has little relevance on how the game plays out. The benefit of a text-only game is that you can make the character's in your mind's image, and have them be exactly the way you want them to be. That's also the main reason I offer the customization, to make everyone as happy as possible.
It will change the description of various parts of the body when not exactly talking about height. For example, when hugging, where will the girls arm's be during the hug? will they be around the waist? or the shoulders of other characters>? and that's just one example. it makes a lot of little changes throughout the story to properly convey height.Maybe
Nothing is being taken out, and you can make the girl exactly as tall as you want, it has little relevance on how the game plays out. The benefit of a text-only game is that you can make the character's in your mind's image, and have them be exactly the way you want them to be. That's also the main reason I offer the customization, to make everyone as happy as possible.
Yes, but, due to being a text-only game, I intentionally don't go too in depth on the exact logistics of such things, to allow players to let their own imagination paint the picture.
well i hope it works out as you say. But there are lots of little things that help paint a picture, for example, sitting in a chair, will the characters legs reach the floor? or will they be swinging back and forth playfully? (it's hard to swing your legs if they scrape the floor when you sit, and when I sit in a big chair, I like to swing my legs!! It's just plain fun sometimes.) There are lots of little descriptors which help paint the picture for the reader which will get lost with such a change. That's what i'm worried about.
Hey, I didn't say I disliked it!!
after going through and re-reading, I did run into places where I might have misinterpreted your messaging. Also, modern dictionaries are constantly being changed these days, I personally prefer old dictionaries in print, where they came out at least 15 years or so ago. Because the modern ones are changing definitions too much to fit my taste. Sadly, we can't rely on internet dictionaries as much anymore.
