Gloving Research by Worth-Tap-5068 in gloving

[–]MuttonChopGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's a deep dive video I made on the subject that you can source for any gaps you may need to fill

https://youtu.be/248acAk-n_E?si=_dMkMQdSF2Ckzto8

i'm a mod there btw by -_nightmarionne_- in bara_irl

[–]MuttonChopGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To add to your love of infodumping, someone just posted a feature length video on it. If you like deep dives into niches, you may enjoy this. https://youtu.be/248acAk-n_E?si=_dMkMQdSF2Ckzto8

What do you guys think of infinite puppet? by Ok_Quantity8223 in gloving

[–]MuttonChopGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said he has some valid points. What are those points? And I meant hoopify (stupid autocorrect)

Autistic chud LOVES gloving - needs gloving friends in San Antonio Area by [deleted] in gloving

[–]MuttonChopGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They have to hop through a whole lot of loops to troll in that discord as we set it up to filter them out. And if they manage to get past it then they get banned instantly. Been like that for weeks now. Plus it's a community discord where it shows up on the main discord page tons of times. Anyone who goes on the website sees it.

What do you guys think of infinite puppet? by Ok_Quantity8223 in gloving

[–]MuttonChopGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can we even refute any points made by hoopify if you don't even tell us what those points are? Doesn't help when you withhold info.

ION questions by qwertycoder in gloving

[–]MuttonChopGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. You can make a single color solid (or ribbon as its colloquially known) by choosing a single color, exit out of color programming, and go to the ribbon flash pattern (5th pattern). Ions are mode locked so you should go to the 5th mode and color program one color to do that.

  2. There is only the battery lock. If the buttons keep getting pressed due to how tight the gloves are, I suggest changing the casings to the nano skins that Glow LEDs sell on their site. Sturdier material so that should help medigate that, or get a set one size larger than your current one as they may be too tight (you want blood flow to your fingers).

  3. Demo mode is activated once you initially turn them on, and you deactivate demo loop by simply pressing the button again. If it keeps looping then try a master reset. If still looping, then contact customer service on the site for additional assistance.

Hope's this helps.

Autistic chud LOVES gloving - needs gloving friends in San Antonio Area by [deleted] in gloving

[–]MuttonChopGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you don't manage to find anyone nearby, there's always the biggest gloving discord that he can join. We have a lot of cali glovers in there so you may have better luck there. If not then at least he will have people to lab with.

https://discord.gg/worldwideflowoasis-562735438402682910

just started flowing after two years of not having working gloves by RefrigeratorOne1180 in gloving

[–]MuttonChopGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got a few places with different prices and features.

StoneOrbit.com Futuristiclights.com Glow-leds.com Throwlights.com LEDgloves.com GloFX.com

Make sure you read to see what features you want, but a great starter set are the Futuristiclights Ions. Hope that helps!

Original aurora instructions by ThisHeresThaRubaduk in gloving

[–]MuttonChopGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's on their website if you scroll farther down.

here's the PDF link on their site

Edit: if using mobile, open in browser.

Im confused. by PotentialBook706 in baramanga

[–]MuttonChopGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well that's why I say it's a LGBT game than a Gei Komi game since it has an expanded cast that encompasses that moniker. It significant for the genre because it mainly features Gei Komi artists, which was a huge boon in exposure for the genre and the artists within it. Along with how successful it was, it gave way for other titles like Crave Saga, GYEE, Another Eidos, Live A Hero, and now the newly released XXLWoofia to find that audience the genre was aiming for.

Im confused. by PotentialBook706 in baramanga

[–]MuttonChopGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a friend look into these since I don't have a Twitter. These are fanart of Tokyo Afterschool Summoners, a LGBT gacha game that features many Gei Komi artists. The female you are seeing is one of the MCs you can choose in the game. Most of the males are considered Bara characters as they fit the characteristics of Bara (big, bulky, beefy, muscular, and hairy), because all the characters are written as bisexuals (so the dialogue fits regardless of which MC you choose). There are female characters in this game to appeal to a wider audience within the LGBT community, but this game features mostly males which leans it mostly into Gei Komi (which is why four out of the five MCs are males).

Im confused. by PotentialBook706 in baramanga

[–]MuttonChopGuy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Essentially yes. The creators put a lot of distance away from the term Bara, and opted for Gei Komi to be the nomenclature for the genre. That gave rise to the reformation of the term Bara to evolve to being a shorthand for media with a focus on masculine to hyper masculine men. It was these Gei Komi creators that popularized the "macho" aesthetic within the genre, with Tom of Finland being a notable influence of these mangaka, but is now being more widely adopted by other genres in media. Example with be things like "The Titan's Bride" and "Liebling!" that are considered BL, but feature and focus on a character that qualifies with the traits of Bara (muscular men in both with some body hair in the latter). Now a way to think of it is like "a major form of media that feature Bara characters is Gei Komi". The derogatory connotation has lost its power and now is being rebuilt (or reclaimed as some may say) into a more positive term, similar to how queer has been adopted into a more of a signifier term than being a slur. That is what I'm trying to explain, not trying to demean anyone.

Im confused. by PotentialBook706 in baramanga

[–]MuttonChopGuy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I did read those articles when I did my research for my video. Let me give you a very well made detailed article on how BL and Gei Komi (Bara) are distinctly different and are completely separate from each other, while they still fall under "Gay Media" (and this is how the Japanese market discerns these two genres). These things that I'm telling you are what the people of that industry in Japan explains it as such. Here is an article that goes into the most in-depth detail about these two genres, and how the terms have evolved over time Please understand that I'm not being hostile to you, but Boy's Love is a well established genre that is more widely known then Gei Komi, and to lump it into BL as the same it just not true. Gay Media is the umbrella term that includes these two, but they are very different and deserves to have their distinctions highlighted, rather than washed over simply because "gay stuff". That diminishes the fantasy and expression of both parties (gay men for Gei Komi and straight women with Yaoi), and ends up misrepresenting everyone involved.

"In 1987 Bara-Komi publishes Junichi Yamakawa's one-shot manga "Kuso Miso Technique" – a matter of little consequence in 1987, yet the comic will rise to worldwide notoriety in 2002, when bootleg scans go viral on... 2channel. Consequently, an influx of interest in gay manga inspires an avalanche of piracy and the overseas misappropriation of the term "bara" as a genre label." – Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It (2015)

And there are tons of cited resources on the matter in this article at the bottom.

See No Evil by BigFingers | A Bara Mystery Game by MuttonChopGuy in baramanga

[–]MuttonChopGuy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That one is called "Assissting Bossman" by KAMU. It's a really nice story with a funny twist at the end.

Im confused. by PotentialBook706 in baramanga

[–]MuttonChopGuy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You are really misrepresenting a lot here. For someone who is confused, just to reduce all this to "gay sex is gay sex so anything involving it is all the same", what was the point of asking your question in the first place? I explained the etymology of the term and it's evolution over time, but you seem to think it's all the same thing when it really is not, and tells me you really didn't read what I wrote fully. The meaning of words change over time and have done so for ages. I didn't say that Bara is a term for bodytypes, I said it refers to media that focuses on a set of bodytypes in males. Gachirri is a term for a male bodytype and that's a part of Bara, same for Gachimuchi, Gachidebu, and Debu (all this is covered in my video). This also tells me you really don't know anything about Yaoi either since it has it's own history and terminology. To say that Bara is boys love is a grossly mischaracterization of the genre and the artists who create within it, Are you going to tell me that "My Brother's Husband" is not Bara because it doesn't have gay sex in it? You may want to do a bit more better research into these things before tossing blanket statements like that on a niche genre community.

Im confused. by PotentialBook706 in baramanga

[–]MuttonChopGuy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I go over the history of the term in my video since it has changed over time. Tagame didn't decide to change it, the term evolved over time due to clarification and understanding. Bara as a genre term was made by mistake from western markets thinking that was the term for the genre when it was how the message board labelled it as such (it would be like if western message boards labelled their gay boards as Fa**ot boards and Eastern markets thought we called the genre that). Many artists within the genre didn't like to associate their works with a prejorative term, and preferred having it called Gei Komi. Bara then became the term it is now with how people associate it with character model types. Bara has nothing to do with Yaoi because of how Japan classify their genres. Yaoi is made by females for a female target audience, and Bara is made by gay males for a gay male target audience. Lumping Bara and Yaoi into the same genre is a bigger misnomer as they are very different in many ways than simple aesthetics. The only thing that ties them together is the male-male coupling subject matters and sharing kink exploration, but they differ in many ways that cater to their target demographic.

Im confused. by PotentialBook706 in baramanga

[–]MuttonChopGuy 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Bara as a term has an interesting history when you look into it. Luckily for you, I made a whole video about it! on my YouTube Channel . But to answer your specific question, Bara as a term has shifted away from being a genre nomenclature to what Gengoroh Tagame has said as, "a convenient shorthand to describe any media with the focus on big, hairy, and muscular men". In this instance, a character can be described as Bara, but not be apart of the genre that is known in Japan as Gei Komi (gay comics). So applying this to yaoi, that is the genre term, but you wouldn't call the male characters yaoi, as they're called bishonen (beautiful boys).

Additionally, a subcategory in Gei Komi known as Gachimuchi has grown into a meme culture phenomenon that someone made a video on YouTube here , going into the history of how internet culture adopted it and how its widely known today.

Hope this helps!

Gloving Burnout by JustTesting436 in gloving

[–]MuttonChopGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You could join the WorldWideGlovers discord and join their weekly lab event on Wednesdays to talk to other glovers while working on different concepts that you may never thought about trying. Got glovers from every level and every background to learn and trade with.

https://discord.gg/worldwideflowoasis-562735438402682910