I think what makes the note worse is knowing that y'all became aware of the accusations and then... recorded another 90 minutes of podcast? It'd be unpleasant but not the end of the world to say "oops no emails this week," privately apologize to the other two guests and go back to the drawing board instead of continuing to engage and goof off with an abuser for well over an hour longer.
The note sucks and isn't enough, the majority of folks who listen to this episode will never see it (even the youtube description makes no mention of anything) and Merritt will continue to get a pass. Leaving this podcast on the site as it is is a bad look and I'd honestly just scrap it.
Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but while it's been nice to see East videos going up so quick it stinks that the download consistently isn't ready for at least another 6+ hours.
Inspired by both Ranking of Fighters and also of the ongoing debate on the oversexuality of female fighting game characters, how about some actual research into finding out which character indeed has the biggest bust size? I call it, "Ranking of Fighters Busts"
Since people like to call certain characters "pure fanservice" let's see just how fan-servicey they are and see which franchises over-represent busty female fighting characters? Every figure you see in this chart is indeed canonical, gotten from the legit BWH measurements found in various art books or even the websites of the fighting games themselves. The only thing that's not 100% canon is the cup sizes which I did via estimate basing them on various JAV models (since in Japan they measure busts completely differently than anywhere else, so actual Japanese models are the only ones I have to go on for reference)
For those curious, in Japan unlike the rest of the world when they measure bust size they do it over the breast, as opposed to the United States/UK where bust size is determined by measuring under the breast and the actual breast is a different stat. This is why I am unable to input certain characters from Western franchises like "Skull Girls" despite having their measurements out there because it requires way more actual conversions than I care to do. Thus the quickest way to determine which fighting game character has the biggest breasts is to simple look at the Japanese "bust" measurement in centimeters.
Absolutely floored that Kirby Star Allies apparently didn't warrant getting mentioned in the upcoming games discussion, especially with at least one noted hunk enthusiast among the staff.
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