It's not often a product description like this comes along, so I'm going to let it speak for itself:
Frantic and fun, Fat Princess pits two hordes of players against each other in comic medieval battle royale. Your goal is to rescue your beloved princess from the enemy dungeon. There's a catch though: your adversary has been stuffing her with food to fatten her up and it's going to take most of your army working together to carry her back across the battlefield.
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Yes. It's 16v16, online carnage, as you fight over - and drag - a morbidly obese woman across the battlefield. There's 10 maps, five character classes, and one writer's captured heart.
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DISCUSSION
@supercrap: I totally agree. In most cases it is our own fault when we are overweight (it certainly was mine). But at the same time, like people of other races, creeds, genders, gamers, et al., no-one has the right to make fun of us because of what we are.
When someone characterizes gamers as lazy, sociopathic or what have you, it's a stereotype. A negative (and for the most part) wrong stereotype. We're not born gamers, we learn to game. And we love doing it. And we hate when someone makes fun of us or puts us down for it.
Yes, when we're overweight it is usually our own fault. We made ourselves that way. Is it going to help us lose weight (if we so desire to) when others make fun of our size, or is it going to make us even more resistant to change? Or worse, make us so much a headcase that we end up anorexic and starve ourselves to death?
I made a conscious effort to start losing weight a few years after my mom died of congestive heart failure, in combination with diabetes. At my heaviest I was 320 lbs. I am now 195lbs and I hope to get to 180. So-called "tough love" certainly didn't work for me, it just got me pissed.
Encouragement helps far more than fat jokes.
And for the record, the game itself is intriguing. But I have had it up to here with intolerant fat jokes, knowing full well that if we switched the butt of the joke it suddenly would be offensive on a wider scale.