I've found that even with adults, color sometimes brings things much closer in an emotional sense. The color photos of Hitler and the the Third Reich are an excellent example (though truly in color rather than colorized, but the idea holds). When something is in black and white, it's so easy to dismiss it as from a…

I think it's less that the separation of church and state in the US is actually strict as that it's a very public, contentious, constantly challenged and discussed issue (and thus seems more well-known). It's certainly not universal for many, and is very much in contrast to everything I've experienced in various EU…

I'm quite fond of the penis myself. ;D I just don't know that "attractive" is really the word!

This is my initial motivation, to study one of the oldest and probably the most attractive thing that humans interact with.

Almost every iteration of "Masquerade" from the musical versions of Phantom of the Opera sounds like the crowd is proudly announcing "Master raaaace!"

Absolutely. Poetry spoken aloud is a completely different art form, to me, than written (though I adore both), and this was something different as well. Just amazing, and for some reason, almost more evocative than an interpretive dance, too, just because of the... utility, perhaps, of it? That a person could move…

This is fantastic. The spider one was incredibly evocative.

That's so bleak. It only adds to my distant, viewer sadness over it all.

I'm actually quite fond of the show. It's not good, but there are moments where it tries so hard it's just like a gosh-darn little puppy you just want to cuddle and squeeze and let know that it's all okay, it tried.

I think the only reason more people don't consider this one of the great tragic cancellations of our time is because not nearly enough people know about it.

To be fair, it totally works if you just imagine that Thor is a sociopathic liar and giving her a spiel about why a second date just wouldn't work for them, sweetheart.

Earth: Final Conflict. Pretty much every season cliffhanger (gasp, how will they explain away the protagonist's apparent death? What will they do now that the mothership is destroyed? Exploding volcano containing pretty much everyone of import?) is essentially a lead-in to an entirely new main character or species…

I was wondering why this wasn't the topic picture!

PC and it's on Steam, yes. I always welcome suggestions for mods! I'm not big on mods that break immersion to a significant degree, but I also don't quite match your play style and focus on armor immersion. I just need to download it and play around for a while before I figure what I want. UI stuff is always the…

Basically, it's pretty hard for me not to give whatever I'm playing at least some kind of space in my big plush brain-couch all my characters mooch around on, haha! And I always adore hearing people's creative processes. :) Really great to see how everyone's brains work.

Skyrim and Fallout (sadly, New Vegas has been sitting unplayed for a long time...someday!) definitely both did a great job on creating armored characters who, at least in a fantasy sense, looked like they could reasonable go out and kill something without getting skewered. I'm definitely not opposed to sexy, even…

I don't RP in games, but I'm very fond of writing and generally my own private worldbuilding (unrelated to games) and I can't help but imagine at least some general backstory for my character in just about everything. It's usually not super involved (I don't really do fanfic stuff so they wouldn't really get that…

My FFXIV character always looked fine (male, the uh, big hulk race, paladin), but lord oh lord did my friend's female cat-person pugilist's armor ("armor") get tinier and tinier and frankly, more bondage-y as she progressed in level. Admittedly, I didn't see end-game armor content for that class, nor do I know if it…

I hadn't really thought about someone coming at it from a different genre (anime/JRPG/presumably more non-western stuff?) with a different standard "default." That's really interesting, thank you. :) For me, it's almost the opposite—not that I hate all hulking muscleheads, but man, I have played plenty of grizzled…

It certainly does! Just not that boobs would automagically be the distinction in beast race between a hulking, practically quadrupedal male and a neat, straight-backed and considerably more "humanoid" female.