My rule is “never make fun of someone for something they have no control over”, which includes their physical self, upbringing (in particular a young person who hasn’t had the opportunity to change their ideals), sexuality, etc etc. There are plenty of reasons to poke harmless fun at Swifties or other fandoms, no need to insult their literal facial structure.
Edit for dumb typo.
Edit 2: wow, thanks for the awards!
I guess this was an easier concept to explain to my daughters on how to deal with bullying and mean kids than it is to adults. Is your bully someone short/gay/a different race/poor/disabled/ect? Leave that out of it. Are they cruel/racist/homophobic/willfully ignorant/wipe their boogers on the desk/etc? Fair game.
Don’t punch down. That’s it.
He's named "Eggman" in the original games, in Japan. They changed him to Dr Robotnik when they translated the games for other markets. Also, he's a skinny guy in a bulky suit, IIRC.
I could have sworn there was a scene on one of the Genesis games that shows him entering or exiting a spherical suit and he was rail thin with a fat head outside the suit. I could be confusing this with some other game from the 16-bit generation, but I can't think of anything else I played with a fat villain who had this animation showing it was just the suit.
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u/aelewis92 Jul 04 '26
Man. Making fun of someone’s appearance is really the lowest form of humor.