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The World Slime Convention

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Wtf? Closing the 'x free articles remaining' modal triggers the same behaviour as clicking the subscribe button (redirect)

How are we supposed to read an article with most of the screen obscured

>How are we supposed to read an article with most of the screen obscured

The easiest way is probably to subscribe...

Slime toys always remind me of video artist NobodyTM's take on the social context of the stuff https://youtu.be/U2Odw8okDls

From the title, I was hoping this was some sort of SF/fantasy thing:

Keynote speaker: Rimuru Tempest.

Panel Discussion: "Is Dragon Quest still the face of our community?"

Gelatinous Cubes protesting outside because they aren't getting the same respect as other slimes.

The convention breaks down into hostility when the water department has to shut off the conference centre for repairs and all the guests start drying out.

Good,... as long as you don't injure yourself using borax.

How would you go about injuring yourself with borax? It's poisonous, so a small child might eat it. It's an eye irritant, so keep it out of your eyes. But is it significantly worse than other household detergents? This is a genuine question. It might be more hazardous than I think, but my prior impressions and my quick web search didn't make me worried. But I might easily have missed something...

We don't use other household detergents as toys, we use them as cleaning chemicals and keep them in safe places.

If you’ve never made a baking soda and vinegar volcano (or rocket), well, there’s no time like the present!

He probably didn't make a big jelly ball from borax, random glue, and whatever, and mashed his hands in it and inhaled it for hours.

Sure, have fun with chemicals, but some sense is needed.

I feel like bubble solution and bubble bath products fall squarely in the household detergent + toy department

Bubble solution is glycerin and not a great cleaner. It is also very safe. You could at most say it is hand soap and a toy.

> How would you go about injuring yourself with borax? It's poisonous, so a small child might eat it.

That's a significant issue when you're using it to make toys for children.

Mhmm, borax is very safe. I have even eaten it (food grade obviously) for weeks without problem. For some people with arthritis it can be life changing. It was far more frequently used a while ago and do not really understand the bad reputation it has recently acquired. Maybe it is the scary sounding name

Boric acid on the other hand is much more toxic. However I have bought OTC eye washes containing it and they work very well.

This is the first time I am hearing about this. No slime conventions in India as far as I know.

Why & how slimes have become something people want?

YouTube and Instagram are two enablers IMHO.

I was obsessed with Gak before either of those things existed.

Silly putty and Gak were big in the 90s.

Edit: Also those aliens that came in an egg full of slime

This article conveniently sidesteps the fetish aspect of slime, I see.

Almost anything you can think of has a fetish community somewhere. That doesn't make it relevant to general discussion of the thing.

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