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What is it about small people that's offensive?
I noticed that in Borderlands 4, they have completely removed the little folk. They are commonplace in 1 and 2 (not sure about 3). This seems strange to me, because I would have thought that small folk wouldn't like to be just removed from media, and it leads me to wonder why?? It reminds me of the latest Snow White. What's going on here? What is offensive and what isn't?
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o 18 hours ago 
Japan's Immortal Imperial Family has an average height of around 5'2.
No more mad loots? (I always thought they were in homage of golden axes elves with bags).
Lime 18 hours ago 
2K just has some really tiny skeletons in their closet
o 18 hours ago 
many family members are artists and have influenced culture heavily. at least one has inserted smaller people into any work of fiction that could possibly contain one, which as it turns out is most.

this obviously conflicts with other people who want to also use media as their personal expression place, so out of fear they have conspired to remove these "smaller parts" from many media, enacted discrete imperial-level anti-loli campiagns, formed an elaborate global power cult out of pedophilia, etc.

all to remove short people from fiction.
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Legolas would be insufferable without Gimly. Thats all im saying.
The media hates the little guy, that's been pretty obvious for years. They're just taking it literally these days.
I think little people are tired of walking into people's farts. I say it's time they have their own country on a little tiny island, where they can enjoy their tiny lives in peace.
there are many rules regarding carry-on luggage, otherwise backpacking can be a wonderful adventure
o 18 hours ago 
for some reason short fat characters get it the worst. this inhibits a lot of easy-layup tolkien-esque Dwarf media that is currently under-served.
OMG! 18 hours ago 
They got rid of the short people but in doing so they introduced eugenics to the whimsical world of Borderlands, which I think is very much a tonal mismatch.
o 18 hours ago 
Originally posted by OMG!:
They got rid of the short people but in doing so they introduced eugenics to the whimsical world of Borderlands, which I think is very much a tonal mismatch.

Brick's gang is eugenicist by default.

He's acting as a personal genome filter.
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Originally posted by o:
Japan's Immortal Imperial Family has an average height of around 5'2.

MacArthur was wearing pumps.
Too hard for the #ModernGamer to shoot. ;D
Originally posted by swillfly:
there are many rules regarding carry-on luggage, otherwise backpacking can be a wonderful adventure
JD Vance is too big to fail as a carry on and Marco Rubio fits in an overhead compartment if you need extra toilet paper.
o 17 hours ago 
Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:
Originally posted by o:
Japan's Immortal Imperial Family has an average height of around 5'2.

MacArthur was wearing pumps.

yeah about 4 inches; he had a pair with discrete heels too. heard he liked hanging out in gogo circuits, and the heels reminded him of that environment. like yakuza listening to enka, any person has a heart of some kind.

I also heard macarthur's hair went from brown to blonde before he went bald at 23. Saturnarian affect, I think.

The hat let him wear a low-profile 'sparse' wig without drawing attention.
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