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Ok I'll change it! I was very unclear in the end, that one line was meant to be comparing the player to the MC's appearance not the big duck's weight, and I wanna be clear: there's absolutely nothing wrong with being "ugly" either - I love the way he looks or obviously I would have not designed him like that - in my mind he was sort of in that very haggard state because he spends so much time at his computer / has been out of sun so long he's literally shrivelled and grey, I was referring to his state of health being sort of tragic because he's a game dev. If anything I'm making fun of myself as well as the player here, but it's not very clear. I don't actually think of myself like that, nor do I actually imagine the player like that. The humour I was trying to go for was "I'll rip on the player, they will see that it's clearly a completely over the top, unfair criticism since obviously I don't know anything about them and have no right to comment, but they won't be able to fight back and will therefore find it funny."

When I was writing the dialogue lines there, not only was I REALLY short on time and super sleep deprived (a combination which maybe inevitably results in going for the low hanging fruit kind of humour 😄), but I was not thinking about an actual person at the other end of this, or trying to say anything real. When I say "When was the last time you went outside?" I'm also thinking about myself. I hadn't been outside in 2 weeks because of my lifestyle choices in making this game! so didn't even consider the fact that someone might ACTUALLY feel like I was talking about them or being serious with my roasts. In fact when I read the first comment of this thread I thought OP had had the desired response, being faux-insulted. I didn't realise until I just read all these comments today that people were actually taking offense, but I get it. The "you smell, have a bath" joke was also mostly thrown in there as well so that I could make reference to the rubber ducky.

All I wanna say is that it was a quickly written joke and while it may come off as mean-spirited, it was absolutely not meant with any hint of seriousness or judgment of someone's actual lifestyle. If I told someone to have a bath in real life, you can guarantee 100% that they do not smell and that they're a good friend, I would never want to actually offend anyone 😂 I will change it though, sorry all!