(12-22-2014, 02:17 PM)Iex Wrote: stuff about dimorphism

(12-22-2014, 02:37 PM)Whittledown Wrote: This just occured to me after a decade of playing MMO's with extreme sexual dimorphism between the males and females.

Giant male + Tiny female of the same race can only lead to one reasonable conclusion.  Those Giant males have to have genitalia compatibale with a tiny female.  So that giant Au Ra dude must have a relatively tiny wang so as to be appropriate to the task of breeding.

Huh.

(12-22-2014, 02:43 PM)Naunet Wrote:

(12-22-2014, 02:17 PM)Iex Wrote: stuff about dimorphism

I'm honestly unsure how you can look at the bodies, posture, features, and faces of the males and females and say that they are similar. o.0 The males are all angles, lanky limbs, sharp features, large and distinctive draconic parts. The females are soft and round with no muscle to speak of, horns that look more like hair ornaments, and barely discernible scales. >_>

(12-22-2014, 02:50 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: If you're unsure then you probably didn't read the post properly. He broke it down element by element and basically demonstrated that it's no more of a big deal than any of the other races.

(12-22-2014, 02:51 PM)Naunet Wrote: Y'know, now that I think about it, I think I would have preferred if the guys had been designed in a way that conformed to the girls. There are no dainty, fragile, non-muscle-bound men in this game. This would have been an excellent opportunity.

But nope.

(12-22-2014, 02:43 PM)Naunet Wrote:

(12-22-2014, 02:17 PM)Iex Wrote: stuff about dimorphism

I'm honestly unsure how you can look at the bodies, posture, features, and faces of the males and females and say that they are similar. o.0 The males are all angles, lanky limbs, sharp features, large and distinctive draconic parts. The females are soft and round with no muscle to speak of, horns that look more like hair ornaments, and barely discernible scales. >_>

(12-22-2014, 02:37 PM)Whittledown Wrote: This just occured to me after a decade of playing MMO's with extreme sexual dimorphism between the males and females.

Giant male + Tiny female of the same race can only lead to one reasonable conclusion.  Those Giant males have to have genitalia compatibale with a tiny female.  So that giant Au Ra dude must have a relatively tiny wang so as to be appropriate to the task of breeding.

Huh.

(12-22-2014, 02:51 PM)Naunet Wrote: Y'know, now that I think about it, I think I would have preferred if the guys had been designed in a way that conformed to the girls. There are no dainty, fragile, non-muscle-bound men in this game. This would have been an excellent opportunity.

But nope.

(12-22-2014, 02:50 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: If you're unsure then you probably didn't read the post properly. He broke it down element by element and basically demonstrated that it's no more of a big deal than any of the other races.

No, I read his post quite thoroughly. And I disagree on pretty much every assertion. They do not look the same. I'll also point out that one of the chief complaints is that "big male/tiny female" is an overplayed design trope, so attempting to point out other races that may conform to it doesn't exactly do the defense much good.

(12-22-2014, 02:51 PM)Naunet Wrote: They do not look the same. I'll also point out that one of the chief complaints is that "big male/tiny female" is an overplayed design trope, so attempting to point out other races that may conform to it doesn't exactly do the defense much good.

(12-22-2014, 01:43 PM)Steel Wolf Wrote:

(12-22-2014, 01:40 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote:

(12-22-2014, 01:35 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: We don't even know if the Au Ra come from this alleged union so it's just thought exercise since SE decided to give us all pictures and no words.

I beat the "realism" drum around here a lot and will continue to do so, but once things clearly become magical it's a lot easier to let go of the argument.

...do you think she laid eggs, though?

I HAD AN EXTREMELY VIVID AND MIND-BREAKING MENTAL PICTURE OF THAT -- and then I realized human women squeeze out kids. Suddenly an egg don't seem so bad...

Except, y'know...maybe it was a clutch of eggs.... O_O

...oh gods, why am I doing this to my brains?

(12-22-2014, 04:02 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote:

(12-22-2014, 02:51 PM)Naunet Wrote: They do not look the same. I'll also point out that one of the chief complaints is that "big male/tiny female" is an overplayed design trope, so attempting to point out other races that may conform to it doesn't exactly do the defense much good.

That's the funny thing, really. If your best defense is 'it's always been this way'! when the WHOLE ARGUMENT is about the fact that it's always been that way, obviously you really need to re-read the whole premise of the argument.

The whole "make your own game!" bullshit is sickening, btw. No, I don't HAVE to somehow scrounge up a hundred million dollars and build an entire studio from the ground up to make my own bloody MMORPG JUST FOR THE SAKE OF BETTER CHARACTER VARIETY. Come ON!

Crap like that is why I tend to complain about things out of spite. People trying to silence me with the most inane and completely irrelevant arguments that have nothing to do with anything other than trying to shut me up because they don't wanna hear it. If you're going to be contrary then at least present an actual argument instead of just being flippant.

(12-22-2014, 03:00 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: and it isn't going to change unless someone who wants to change it gets in there and changes it!

(12-22-2014, 04:21 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: No one is silencing anyone. As sickening as it seems, it is the cold hard truth. If change is too happen, the best thing to do is get up and make it. I'll thank you not to insinuate that I'm trying to silence anyone.