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What is creepy?
Though I find nipple tweaking pretty funny, I would agree that it might be easier to change it to self-hugging if only to cool down the discussion a little. I think everyone's becoming a little too incensed by such a small problem.

By removing nipple tweaking, Goonstation doesn't lose a beloved mechanic or feature; it just replaces it with something that will be less-likely to make people uncomfortable. I rarely see people use the tweak emote in-game, nor do I often see someone actually grab themselves accidentally. I'm sure if the flavortext was replaced with "Yadayadyadason Smith hugs himself. What a loser!" or something you'd still have the humiliation factor minus elements that would bother people who see it as a sexual thing. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to keep the goofiness going without sacrificing too much of the already existing elements. Though I'm not personally creeped out by nipple tweaking, I can see why people would find it bothersome and understand the merits of replacing the emote with something else. I find it funny, but like creepiness, funny is also subjective. If it lessens the possibility of someone using it for creepy deeds (which I think have already been adequately covered in the thread), then so be it. As long as it isn't removing a HUGE gameplay feature or something I think we can all handle it.

That being said, I can also understand why people don't want the feature removed. Removing nipple tweaking because someone (read: not everyone) thinks it is creepy implies that other things could be removed too if someone found them problematic. Not saying it would happen, of course, but by removing something from the game that some (once again, not everyone) people find creepy, it raises the question "What else could be removed?" Some people I know would be uncomfortable if a clown stripped them and farted on their mouth; does that mean farting will be on the chopping block one day? I remember being kinda irked when poo was removed, but I understood the reasoning behind it. I've seen people go overboard with it before and I'm sure one screenshot could have doomed the whole server if the wrong people took a look at it. I did find the poo mechanics pretty funny and useful though (nothing like slipping up security with a well-placed landmine, so to speak) so I was still bummed when it happened. Removing nipple tweaking is difficult because, as you can see from the last few pages, lots of players are divided on the issue. No one's in love with the emote, of course, they're just worried that this will allow other things to be put on the chopping block in the future if some people find it creepy. Citing the earlier example with the "Making it Rain = Uncomfortable" thread, you can understand why removing things because they COULD make someone uncomfortable might spiral out of control. Anyways, my point is that nipple tweaking doesn't creep people out, CREEPY People creep people out. I can see the merits of both sides and though I'm not rendered uncomfortable by nipple tweaking (among others in this thread) I agree that it may be easier to just replace it with something that is just as funny and not as creepily ambiguous(?).


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