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why do men get a weird hyperfixation on cooking every couple of years

Like I never got why my father just started making pasta and cutlets every 4-5 years for a couple of months, but now I see something that looks tasty, wonder how to make it and I just start cooking every day. I spent like a gazillion bucks every week on sage, fucking wood ear and make stuffed sweet potato gnocchi from a rye-spelt flour mix with thyme infused olive oil in the dough fried in sage infused brown butter

I watch The Bear when I eat, have Michelin-starred restaurant vlogs and hour+ long recipe videos when I draw as background noise. I legit think at work when I do repetitive tasks about cooking

seriously, why? Why are men like this?
 
Platinum God n1n1 said:
Do you believe in wormholes?
They could exist according to some space experts. But it is theoretical and require existence of other poorly understood and unencountered things.
I would like to believe but I do not at this point. As far as I can understand it all seems like science fiction that is support by ideas of very smart people. And I wounder if investigating these ideas will yield better understanding of the universe or if it remains to be just theoretical ideas that lead no where in the grand scheme of things
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Our understanding of special relativity 100% allows for wormholes to exist. The problem is, it allows for a lot of things to theoretically exist. We have never observed a wormhole. We haven't observed prerequisite structures that suggest wormholes might plausibly exist, such as white holes or negative mass or a fourth physical dimension. Until such time, I see no reason to "believe in wormholes" as anything more than an interesting hypothetical and plot device for sci-fi stories. Even if wormholes do exist in some form, actually being able to utilize them in any practical and useful way would probably require unfathomable amounts of energy, so it's unlikely wormholes will be revolutionizing society any time soon, maybe ever. There would likely always be something more productive we could do with that energy.

I'm also not aware of any physicists who would say wormholes definitely exist, only that our understanding of physics doesn't rule them out.
 
Shandeur said:
A bit of a rant, but…

Art is simply not the way it used to be.

I’d argue that it is important to enjoy all kinds of art, high and low. It is important to enjoy, things such as The Ghent Altarpiece whilst owning the entire collection of the Jackass series. But the question is this: Why is art not the same?

1. Authenticity.
Most artists do not remain authentic to their art. This jarring idea is what causes such shock to the system when they see artist contradicting themselves. I will die on the hill that Martin Scorsese is one of the great American filmmakers, but I will gladly roll my eyes and tell him to fuck off if he’s making American Express commercials. Obviously, some examples are much more extreme than others, but my point still. I could go off about how much Taylor Swift loves being an industry baby, but it’s important to know when to end.*

2. Audiences.
Audiences have become more cynical about their art. It’s become so dumbed down that anything that requires any sort of thinking has been tossed to the side by a good 70% of audience members. Anything remotely challenging or seen as grey, questionable, or the big one, morally ambiguous, is seen as pretentious, snobbish and arrogant. If they see an actor they don’t like, they will immediately shun whatever they’re witnessing.

3. Today’s Social Climate.
In today’s world, people’s image are held in incredibly high regard. If we are to, say enjoy a movie with a scene in bad taste (For example, Quentin Tarantino’s self insert in Pulp Fiction), we would be seen as a horrible person by others. It’s this need to be squeaky clean that grows us more into the idea of not being who we truly hard, which is the breakdown of identity.

4. Moral Assertions
Most often, alongside Number 3, movies usually are falling into this. Moral Assertions are used in media a ton, not to draw feelings out of the audience. It’s this tool that serves not the people, but rather, the director, and by extension, the company.

I am way too fucking tired to talk about this right now. If you want anything updated just let me know
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another big issue is that basically every (breakout) artist is a nepo-baby/industry plant to some degree because you can't sustain yourself on a 30 hour low-skill job in a major cultural city anymore. even just 15 years ago it was realistic to coast off a part-time barista job or whatever in most major cities. there are less "real" artists because under current costs of living, they wouldn't be starving, they'd be dead.

do note that there are plenty of great artists in more affordable areas, but those places aren't conducive to breakout success in the same way major cities are. less connections
 
Yung Dramps said:
The Megaman fanbase is the best/smartest fanbase for a dead game franchise cuz they locked in and started making their own new content even before capcom gave up
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You hit the nail right on the head there. We Mega Man Bros have an entire business of hacks and I love it. We have a catalogue of many articles of ABSOLUTE CINEMA, including the mega man x8 demake, Unlimited, Rock n Roll, the Make a good mega man levels, and 8 bit deathmach.
Not to mention there are about 7 fangames in development.
Each day I wait in anticipation for the rockman. I can sate it by making my own mega man game, it's called mega man devil's advocate. Mega Man has to fight the devil. Here he is.
 

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I wanna make traditional spaghetti carbonara but I'd have to buy a block of real Parmigiano Reggiano and guanciale/bacon :psycry:
ig I'll stick to cream sauces...
 
EpicGuy321 said:
I wanna make traditional spaghetti carbonara but I'd have to buy a block of real Parmigiano Reggiano and guanciale/bacon :psycry:
ig I'll stick to cream sauces...
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They don't go bad if you store them well. I have the parmigiano reggiano block since two years, not a speck of mold, tastes like day 1. And you can use Parmigiano for a lot, just top your pasta and Risotto with it (not those with seafood though, that's offensive to Italians)
 
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