I think you should get a buff from wearing baby clothes to a Rook attack...called 'Cute Overload'...the rook will be more vulnerable to everything, but you'd lose more energy.
Well you can't exactly have booties, pacifiers and baby bottles and NOT have diapers. Sheesh. I mean unless you believe in not diapering your babies. In which case, EW. >_>
It might be interesting if ALL new Glitches started out in diapers. It would be cute and it would make it easy for us to spot them and help them. And it would be funny.
(that first one is my daughter by the way and if you find her creepy you need to be drug out in the street and exposed to the sun for as long as it takes for your mind to clear. >_> )
See? Diapers and footie PJs, SO not creepy. Okay?? I don't mean like "adult baby" type weirdness. Our Glitches are already *shaped* in a very toddler-like / plush-toy-esque way... I don't see how dressing them up as littlies would make it weird or creepy. I just do. not. get. it.
Do you think REAL babies are weird and creepy? I mean I could understand it then but really? In-game toddler-like looking glitches wearing baby clothes would creep you out? WHY??? Help me understand please... and if you can't think of a convincing argument I think the artists should go ahead and make the stuff for those of us who want them. I mean it's not like you'd be forced to purchase the stuff. Golly.
A great many people feel very strongly about the game being an overall 'weird' aesthetic rather than a 'cute' one, as there are many places one can find 'cute' and not nearly as many to find 'weird'.
Many people do not want to interact or see people who look like adults dressed in baby clothes. Footie pajamas I could see, if only because it's possible (if uncommon) to get them at any age. But I think what people are reacting strongly against would be pacifiers, diapers, bottles... basically anything that is associated only with babies and toddlers.
Personally, I would find it very uncomfortable to interact with a Glitch who was wearing diapers and sucking on a pacifier.
Magic Monkey and I were just talking about this and I was saying I don't think Glitches are toddlerish at all, despite the big heads. If you look at the faces, they don't have children's features. Our clothing options aren't children's clothing. Our actions aren't children's actions. I wouldn't want a toddler stroking wood trees or accepting hot meat injections up the wazoo, if you know what I mean.
I also think Glitches appear sort of ageless, and I think this is by design. Putting on diapers and such would work against this.
I don't want to play Glitch with children or babies, or people who look like children or babies, or who act like children or babies, or who treat me like a child or a baby. For me, it's a children-and-babies-free zone.
There's plenty of cute/charming to be had without evoking children and babies. Baby/child-specific affect in the context of adult interactions just skeeves me out.
(P.S.: I don't think diapers are ever cute. The children might be cute, but the diapers are poopy-pants, and that's all there is to it.)
I think some people like things that are cute, and some are into things that are weird, and I think Glitch should be a world where both kinds of people can come together!
I personally agree with the idea of having footie pajamas but no diapers. I feel, for me personally, that adults dressing up as babies is weird. But that's me, so I wouldn't put my glitch in a diaper.
We have adults dressing up as frogs, and blue people with horns and and purple people with kitteh ears, why should diapers or bottles be any different? I think Glitch is a world of acceptance. You can't be accepting and tolerant only when it agrees with what you believe.
I've recently been redesigning my Glitch persona from a distinct gender to hopefully rather gender-less. Glitchen to me are also rather ageless. Since young children are not allowed on the site, I know that everyone I am interacting with should be backed by an actual adult. If some folks want to role-play babies that's up to them, but I would in fact find that kind of creepy. There were some previous suggestions in the forums to have babies kind of like pets, or have newbies show up as babies, but those ideas didn't appeal to me either. If the Devs created baby clothing styles, I don't think I would want to use any of them, so I'd prefer them to work on something else, like more Japanese furniture, and cool free-to-everyone jackets, and making sure all hats work with all hair, and balconies.
@LilySunshine, I don't think this is about a generalized form of intolerance or lack of acceptance. I think most people would feel uncomfortable seeing or interacting with an adult dressed in diapers and sucking on a pacifier in the real world. I know I would. This doesn't mean I'm intolerant of consenting adults who want to do that in private.
I know Glitch isn't meant to be a perfect parallel to the real world, but I'd feel the same discomfort at seeing or having to deal with an infantilized Glitch. If the OP were asking for the ability to wear diapers ONLY in the privacy of homes (maybe they would disappear once she exited onto a home street or went back into the world), I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Edited to add:
And it's true, seeing a blue person or a person wearing cat ears in the real world would make me do a double-take. I'd probably find it a bit weird. But I don't think it would give me the heebie-jeebies; I think it would make me laugh. A frog hat would definitely make me laugh. Okay now I kind of want a real-life frog hat.
@Sirentist How would you feel if, in real life, you encountered a cyclops or someone with his mouth sewn shut? I would certainly get the heebie-jeebies from something like that! But both those things (and much more) are fine in Glitch and I think that is the way it should be.
I think there are two arguments being made against the diapers. One is aesthetic, that diapers are too cutesy-cute in a hello-kitty kind of way. The other is based on disgust, that diapers are icky because they suggest the adult-baby fetish or perhaps inappropriate interest in children.
As far as the cute, if you look around on the forums there is already a load of ultra-cuteness being expressed in the form of songs and stories and (almost) everyone is very tolerant and accepting of it.
As far as disgust with suggestions of disturbing kinkiness, where do you draw the line? We already have a lot of gender-bending avatars and nude avatars etc. A few people might feel more comfortable if those were confined to the inside of people's homes. But I don't think anyone really wants Glitch to become the kinkiness police.
I think that, as long as something is not inherently offensive (swastikas for example) if it is something that people want then it should be permitted.
No. Just no....
again, i'm sure i'm repeating everyone else but glitches in diapers would make me think of adults in diapers. Not something I want to see in a game I use to escape disturbing thoughts.