less gooey

a literal embodiment of

nuke war no. H1N1 pandemic yes

if only all product names were this blunt and to the point

yeah im kind of the opposite. i treat it like im doing lab work and obsessively replicate a recipe with precise measurements and little deviation

then over the years i slowly modify it to my taste or build off the foundation and start going wild. wish i could do the purely intuitive thing.

luckily the internet is a godsend for recipes

yeah pretty sure even the super racist ones

there is a very specific english dub anime voice i read all your posts in

you know, the "kawaii" one

but like at slightly different pitches

love to hate her

love these names and units of measurement

if summer ever ends i'll have to make some barley slop and dip rolls in it

love them setting good examples like this

more please, and in other places

i used to read Tintin as a kid (they had all the books at my library)

really wish this page was real it would have helped so much

i wish i could go more in depth. i get a bit passionate because it really helps with my anxiety and I am one of the rare people that experienced the whole "tingles" thing since I was a child

i only watch femme presenting artists so i can't speak for the male presenting but i'm happy some of these super talented artists found a niche and a way to make a living

sorry hope i didn't seem too boomer-style upset

it's not at you

they all know they are safe they just want that $

Trump will go after a few token bureaucrats but he ain't touching the ruling class that's why they are making this so smooth and easy for him

i know nothing about mukbang so i can't comment on that

but there are plenty of ASMR "slop" artists trying to draw engagement just like there is plenty of corporate "slop" art. but many of the early artists as well as some unknown percentage do masterful set design, stories, roleplays, characters, worldbuilding, audio design, and essentially create immersive short films or aural/visual experiences that go far beyond someone just making mouth noises into a microphone

off the top of my head, and i'm sure others can add more, some prime examples would be Goodnight Moon and Dreamscape ASMR for storytelling. Ardra -ASMR would be a good example of immersion, especially her later works

like EVERYTHING in this hellscape capitalism is perverting the shit out of it and it will ABSOLUTELY die as an artform and become pure slop

as others here stated, Bob Ross just did a specific type of painting well but didn't pioneer anything: except

he is the father of ASMR. he may not have known it, but the arrangement of microphones and the use of the soft brushes, along with his cadence and personality, all laid the foundations

most people tuned into his show to relax and feel good. as a kid, my grandmother would watch because she painted landscapes but i just liked my hairs standing on end and the squishy feeling from the scratch scratch, watching a task be completed, and hearing someone softly talking positive stuff to me

and i know people will argue against this but ASMR, despite plenty not "getting it", is a legitimate modern artform

im busy learning Vicky 3 but i do get that craving to fire up Caveman to Cosmos every now and then

especially since it has that more complex political system that actually acknowledges how OP socialist policies are for population happiness/growth

and i love the whole collapse of large empires into smaller states mechanic.

the 1860s: the UK sends a handful advisors to both sides of the American Civil War. it's useful to see how warfare in the current age, between near-peers, will be fought afterall

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Britain may deploy up to 100,000 redcoats to support the Union in the war between the states!

took me some time to realize all encompassing, radical direct democracy is not the solution to states under siege from every attack vector in existence

in isolation this kind of direct democracy would likely not have "saved" the Soviet Union. would more democratic accountability have helped? possibly, i'm not educated enough to say

doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for it. i believe libertarian socialism/communism/marxism is a transition state that we should absolutely strive for in the post, final-conflict era.

once socialism is dominant and capitalism is on the ropes it would be criminal not to work towards it on the way to advanced socialism and full communism

liberation should be in totality

lifelong civ head who gave up on the series by 5. then i fully embraced the paradox map games.

civ 4 had some banger mods though but i was always more into the "historical period" ones. even made some myself (for civ 2) that ended up doing ok on civfanatics.

looking back though damn those are some lib ass games. just pure Great Man Theory, philosophical idealism, and End of History vibes

cool and good scenario: Putin does big government FDR style programs post-war to keep vets productive, people begin to trust the state's capacity again, Putin dies naturally, United Russia breaks up into it's constituent parties without a solid successor, Russian Communist Party gains a slim majority and leverages this state power, we get a reborn but significantly more lib Soviet Russia closely aligned to China

Sino-Soviet split finally vindicated