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“Obaa-chan, why do you live alone? Has your husband passed away?”

“No… I never had a husband… or the chance for one.”

“I’m sorry to hear that… if you don’t mind us asking, what do you mean?”

“Well, when I was young and had the beauty of youth, I was short, and a little less well-endowed compared to other young women… maybe it was due to poor nutrition, maybe it was genetic… Strangely, there were hardly any media or games showing women with my body type… since society always showed all these tall and well-endowed women in an amazing and glamorous manner, I felt insecure, and some of them even made fun of me for ‘not being enough of a woman…’ …it’s not my fault, it’s not as if I could have changed any of those things…”

“But surely there were some guys that didn’t mind your body type, right?”

"Yes, but they were shamed by society for liking people with my body type, and eventually they couldn’t take the pressure and left… I tried reaching out to them myself, but no man would be caught dead being seen beside me in public for fear of being shamed as well… eventually, as I aged, I lost the beauty of youth, and resigned myself to a lonely life…

“How tragic…”

“…yes. Clearly it was my fault for being born with the wrong body type… that made me too stupid to think for myself, unlike those who are tall and well-endowed… I should’ve roped myself from the beginning…”

Like it or not, weebs are entering Cup Sizes of Consent territory now. On top of the “Height of Consent” and “Face of Consent” rules, this rule seems to be “If you’re not at least a C, you can’t consent to the D.”

Said VN by u/Argent_OU is releasing on an smaller alternate storefront Itch.io (link NSFW) if you’d like to support probably the first and last game they’ll make with petite characters, since such actions by Steam’s Game Approval Committee will encourage future self-censorship in character designs from passionate game devs that don’t wanna starve.

And this dude was plenty passionate - enough to put his money where his passion was, even to the point of exhausting his savings.

Anyway, everyone knows that different body shapes and sizes don’t exist in reality, clearl-

Well, even if they do for genetic and environmental reasons, God forbid people in reality with these body types are depicted in games.

…but apparently 5 different “Sex With Hitler (link NSFW)” titles in the Steam store is perfectly fine as long as the girls are doubleplusgood tall and/or busty.

Sources:

  1. Steam/Valve in 2018: Article, full announcement
  2. NicheGamer article about banning of “Order Us”
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    When I was 19, I was dating a girl who was 18, who had a sister who was 15. The sister had a much bigger chest than my girlfriend. So… yeah. Larger cup size =/= legality.

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      One of my sisters got very busty very early. She got bullied for it. Fast forward a couple years and those same girls were bullying the flat ones.

      Humans have no fucking idea how to deal with body image.

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      I’ve a niece that hit puberty early and people thought she was older than she was which inevitably led to creepy stuff happening. Body characteristics are nowhere near as infallible as some believe.

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    It really sucks, but I get it. They’ve decided to err well on the side of caution regarding that “things we think are illegal” clause. If the wrong person claimed that flat chested adult were a minor and proved it in court it could be a real problem for valve. Hell, it’d be expensive just to defend in court, even if they won. I hate it, but I understand why they’d make that decision.

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      They’re not “erring on the side of caution”, they’re cutting deep into the meat of games with censorship and moderation overreach.

      it’d be expensive just to defend in court

      Large corporations like Valve don’t pay per case, they have lawyers on retainer. They’re getting charged no matter what. This just reeks of laziness and bad management.

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        Complaining that boob size in video games is upsetting a demographic doesn’t make me upset at Steam. It makes me question you.

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    grown men find a hobby that isn’t seeing how close they can get to legally depicting child porn in videogames challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

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        I think literally the whole point here is that women with small breasts exist, and steam banning this game as a way to avoid backlash from a bunch of people who can’t look at someone as a woman unless they have a large chest is ridiculous.

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        Look around in real life, a full third of adult women have small breasts. It’s a totally normal thing for an adult to have small breasts. Also, it’s pretty normal for adult women to be shorter than 5’8", again a full third of adult women are shorter than that. Should these women be excluded and treated poorly for something they had no choice in? Should guys feel bad if they find that third of adult women more attractive than the ones that are going to need surgery at some point just to continue normal life? Breast size in real life and especially in fake content has gotten disturbingly out of hand.

        Liking ladies that are physically fit instead of overweight is a pretty normal thing. Sure they’ll have “smaller” breasts without all the extra fat in them, but some of us find the extra fat to be gross instead of “better”. I’m glad there are people that prefer it, because those women need love too. But I like dancers, gymnasts and athletes better instead, sorry.