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Customizing Male and Female Bodies in the Video Game APB » Sociological Images
Andrew M. sent us a link to an interesting post by Lewis Denby at Beef Jack about the video game APB. The game lets you customize the characters in a variety of ways, including height and weight. Denby noticed something interesting about the customization, however. Here's a male figure with the weight at the maximum level:


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by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Jul 6th, 2010 at 03:07:54 PM EST
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waddaya expect when games writers and players invariably have the social development level of Beavis and Butthead ?

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jul 6th, 2010 at 05:10:19 PM EST
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Second Life does a much better job of allowing customization of body shapes...

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jul 6th, 2010 at 05:14:39 PM EST
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