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[–] 6 points 1 year ago*

A propane grill, I tell you Hwat.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The kind that requires this implement:

    spoiler

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I'm a fire performer. Slow motion, high framerate shots of anything involving fire in the dark are absolutely gorgeous. Every flame is beautiful, you just have to know where to look. My favorites are candles and lycopodium.

    Personal favorite form of combustion is fire eating. I used to fire eat on the cast at Coney Island. There's a lot of vapor tech you can do that is straight up witchcraft, like hiding a flame inside your mouth.

    I've done a lot with various forms of fire, ama

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    nice! so how do you hold a flame in your mouth?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Lots of practice and lots of safety precautions. The more advanced stuff is flaming vapor manipulation with the mouth, don't try it at home since that's something you really don't want to inhale. There's a major psychological aspect to all of it too.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago
    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The one that burns the heretic, kills the mutant and purges the unclean!

    The emperor protects!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think my favorite form of combustion is the slow and gradual oxidization of all life on this planet that leads us all towards inescapable death.

    It happens so slow that it can take 120 years to finally burn you to a crisp, but it will always, always destroy you, and there's nothing you can do to escape it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Butane lighters where it's under pressure and comes out like a little jet engine. It just makes my inner 12yo boy smile.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Friction.

    Be super hot to rub two dicks together until they ignite.

    No. That isn't a typo.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Deflagration-to-detonation transitions are pretty cool but my all-time favorite would be acoustic strobes.

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