Hey folks,
I appreciate the support and the kind words, so thanks for that. I'm glad the little bites of humour were appreciated ^.^
I do just want to jump back to an earlier comment – on the topic of physical communication and care; I full get what Zellin is talking about, and though we don't quite agree on the dynamics of it, that's okay; we have different experiences altering our perspectives. What I do want to say is that I've, ah, danced with partners more than two feet taller than me, and partners who, if they just went ham and hammered away at their leisure from the get go would certainly do me a great discomfort or hurt... having a hand close to the scene, or just simply somewhere where they can feel it if you apply pressure, DOES make a heck of a difference. It's about trust and communication though – telling your partner what you need, and what is okay, and what isn't; I can't even talk verbally – using a physical contact point to do that, actively, works just fine. I may not be quite halfling sized, but it really is the same situation here; partners will couple to the extent of their comfort and enjoyment,m and communicate with each other on what those limits are at any given time, and that's just healthy practice... we are assuming consenting agreeable situations here, after all.
If it helps, Zellin: Consider the poses here to be representing the 'tightest in' positions; these are the “how this fits together at maximum” stills, or the deepest point of a full scale of motion. It is entirely likely that if there is a small-sized vagina involved in the coupling, that the actual functional motions might only really utilise the outermost few inches of that scale, and not this full lock-in, at least in most cases or for mos of the scene – pace, rhythm and comfort levels generally increase as the act progresses, after all. Consider also that a lot of the 'final adjustment' suggestions involve positions that deliberately limit how much depth of penetration can be achieved at all – which are ideal poses for smaller partners who want to be in firm control of that.
Actually, I was fibbing when I said I didn't give the boys equipment... consider who I am... of course I did... but they're all just extra attachment models that are currently turned invisible in all the shots... but if you look, you might see a few places where the character models are clearly interacting with them... There's a certain halfling model kissing their partner while giving a footjob at the same time (small-sized opportunities ^.^), and several more holding onto their partner's instrument of enjoyment while they work out what to do...
Dez mentioned the physical models we have right now, and the whys of it... and I do want to answer that, though it's disheartening. Yes: right now, the halfling models that we have have hugely distended hips that are actually the same width and depth as human-sized characters... it's one of the features that leads them too looking like humans with dwarfism, as opposed to natural healthy creatures of their own... and yes... that detail would make a lot of this choreography 'easier' and require fewer adjustments...
But isn't that just upsetting, really? It's the lazy option.... but more than that... if I have to choose between:
A) “Distorted, unrealistic halfling models that have been deformed so that they can fit into existing intimate scenes designed for medium-sized creatures without having to make many changes”
or
B) “Realistic and believable halfling models, who, by their nature, need to consider the positions they use and adapt how they engage with larger-sized partners, so that their intimate scenes actually look fitted to them and acknowledge them as legitimate people worth considering.”
… I want option B. And I really don't feel like that's an unfair or undeserved thing to ask for. I'm tired of the characters I generally prefer to play being cut out of these things, or forgotten about, or not accounted for – tired of them not being options ,being arbitrarily disallowed, or being ignored in the choreography so they clip and don't align in ridiculous ways. I want to have the same full experience that folks playing, or romancing, humans are allowed to have. I don't think that's unfair.
So yeah... you're not wrong, and that may be one other reasons they look like they do right now... but I'm not going to give up on wanting the models fixed, and made to look good. I'm going to keep pushing for that.
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For the rest,
Maybe the easier, and less problematic way to handle this is to simply not allow it to happen.
No. This is what always happens, and I'm so unbelievably sick and tired of it. The developers have decided, already, to put these scenes in the game, for once, and aren't shying away from acknowledging halflings and gnomes as mature consent-capable adults... for once, they're actually making moves to treat all playable races fairly and equally. That's happening, like it or not; so if you're going too complain about animated sex with small-sized characters being problematic, well, get ready to complain hard about BG3 itself, because it's there and it's happening – I'm just here to try to make sure, as best I can, that they do it right, and do it well. I'm not asking anyone to do anything they aren't already doing – just asking them to make sure they do it properly.
I assume good intentions on the on the part of the poster of course but what this revealed to me is how problematic this sort of thing is and how it has been allowed to snowball and nobody has put their foot down.
We live in a difficult world where improper sexualization of children is a huge problem, and where exposure to pornographic content is damaging to young children - I would invite us to close this door, lock it and keep it shut.
These are *Exactly* the sorts of comments and topics that I specifically and politely asked people not to bother with and not to get into, and you've come here and made them anyway, despite my request. If this is your angle, and the way you are looking at this, then this thread is not for you.
I'd ask everyone else not to engage with these comments either. It's not related to this topic, and it's a fictitious, harmful line of reasoning to boot. I do appreciate those who have jumped up to answer the criticism, but at the same time, I'd just ask that both sides please not pursue that debate – it's not what this thread is for.
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