As someone who occasionally builds and paints models, the idea of painting a model to look like it’s from a comic book is just awesome. The links to this guy’s Gundam models, painted to look the same way are just as cool.
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I’ve been trying to find a 1:10 scale body for my HPI E10 and now I want to find one even more so I can try to paint it like this.
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Gaijin Goombah talks about his experiences in Japan when he lived next to a Yakuza house.
That’s interesting. For some reason I always thought that both players came back in the event of a tie.
Here is one of the best talks at MAGFest on film (the beginning is missing but you didn’t miss much of it) it is about legally streaming music online while broadcasting.
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I thought the animation looks familiar. These guys also do adorable little shorts on the different DOTA heroes.
Really interesting article that gets at a profound truth concerning how men interact with each other:
“In America in particular, if a young man attempts gentle platonic contact with another young man, he faces a very real risk of homophobic backlash either by that person or by those who witness the contact. This is, in part, because we frame all contact by men as being intentionally sexual until proven otherwise. Couple this with the homophobia that runs rampant in our culture, and you get a recipe for increased touch isolation that damages the lives of the vast majority of men.”
Except in other countries there is TONS of male-male touching going on, yet still plenty of homophobia there as well.
It’s not just homophobia though I’m sure that’s the major reason. I generally don’t like other men I don’t know well touching me at all for fear of violence because that’s what male touch meant as a kid. Not abuse but bullying by peers, which I suppose is still abuse.
True, but the article is only talking about male-male touching in an American context. And here, male-male touching IS associated with homophobia.
Good point, and the article kind of touches on this, at least I think it does, when it talks about how “By the time they are approaching puberty, many boys have learned to touch only in aggressive ways through rough housing or team sports.” While the article doesn’t specifically address bullying, I would consider that falling into this same category of “aggressive” male-male touching.
Regardless, I thought the article was a good starting point for thinking about how men interact with each other in America, and the implications that has for them, and the women around them.
My point is that while homophobia may be one of the causes of lack of touching, more touching is not somehow a cure for homophobia.