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teen witch posted:I’m currently dabbling in instant photography with my Instax, and it’s fun, but it’s very particular, especially with lighting. I wanted to get into Polaroid but with the costs of film and finding a camera that either still works or is worth buying new, Instax is far more accessible. Oh you've come to the wrong place, we're here to enable all your worst impulses. As long as they involve clunky technology.
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Use your drug money to buy all the film before they stop making the kind you like!
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Computer viking posted:Oh you've come to the wrong place, we're here to enable all your worst impulses. As long as they involve clunky technology. Despite all that, it is pink and pretty adorable. Though my god FUJIFILM, whoever approves your “place viewfinder here and place the actual lens miles away” designs needs to meet their maker.
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I have the Instax printer because I cannot fit the giant loving Instax camera in my pocket and thus would never use it, and one way to make the experience more authentic (?) is to have Amazon send you expired film that barely produces an image. Don't worry about how I know this The prints make great stocking stuffers though especially if you shell out for the fun borders
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teen witch posted:My camera is endearingly clunky, the printer loud as hell and when the flash goes off, you feel it. Remember non-mobile flash? Spots and all. Oh that sounds annoying in a way I haven't had to deal with in decades; even the compact film camera I used as a teenager had the seeker as close as possible to the lens. I guess some of that institutional knowledge - among both makers and buyers - has been lost since then.
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This is when we peaked as a civilization. https://twitter.com/RetroNewsNow/status/1777156324037460037 
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Dick Trauma posted:This is when we peaked as a civilization. ...I need this in my life. Never more will I have soggy popcorn from where the butter was initially poured on!
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Imagine the humiliation and trauma a person would have if they grew up in a HotTopper home. And that household would likely have tons of other single use appliances too.
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There's probably something easier to clean made out of silicone nowadays. Heck, you can just perforate a cupcake tin and pour the the topping in from a microwaved cup.
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lobsterminator posted:Imagine the humiliation and trauma a person would have if they grew up in a HotTopper home. And that household would likely have tons of other single use appliances too. What's wrong with single-use appliances? Do you make coffee in a cauldron? Do you grind pepper with karate chops? Do you spread butter with a table knife?
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I want to fill one of those up with suntan lotion and get a job as a Las Vegas resort cabana boy.
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Dick Trauma posted:I want to fill one of those up with suntan lotion and get a job as a Las Vegas resort cabana boy. Microwave it first
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What's wrong with single-use appliances? Do you make coffee in a cauldron? Do you grind pepper with karate chops? Do you spread butter with a table knife? There's nothing wrong with them. The kitchen is the place where all the magical appliances informercials and advertising in general has been trying to sell you things that will make your life easier/faster/better actually happens. There are tons of single-use appliances for all kinds of kitchen tasks, and they generally do what they say they will do. The problem is balancing the ones you actually will use regularly or semi-regularly (and therefore justify their space and expense) while learning to ignore the ones you don't use that much and don't need. The automated pineapple corer/skinner someone posted in here or the tech relics thread is a great example - it's a giant counter mounted monstrosity, bigger than a fancy coffee maker. Most people don't cut up pineapples enough to make giving up that much space worth it. But if you are someone who regularly chops up pineapples, that's an incredible improvement in your quality of life in the kitchen.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What's wrong with single-use appliances? Do you make coffee in a cauldron? Do you grind pepper with karate chops? Do you spread butter with a table knife? I imagine most people are drinking coffee, grinding pepper and spreading butter a whole lot more than misting their popcorn with melted butter
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The hot topper just seems like a good idea for getting a more even coating of butter* on popcorn. Who doesn't like buttered* popcorn? *Substitute butter for margarine or other tasty oil-based product you put on popcorn.
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I love cutting up pineapples, but I learned to do it the right way, sixth, then cut off the core and the skin, done,
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teen witch posted:“sometimes film images will be less than perfect and that’s life!” I love this aspect of it. Every photo is all the more authentic. We also have and use an instax camera, but we also got a used (but good condition) canon point & shoot 35mm camera. I have like 3 rolls I need to get developed. I've forgotten what's on all of them, and I look forward to being surprised/delighted when I find out. The specifics of the picture quality is something that just isn't easily replicable via digital filters. I love it.
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Just like I love the "cleanness" of digital audio I love being able to see my photographs right away on a digital camera. I don't think that it lacks authenticity; it's just a different kind of experience.
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Butterfly Valley posted:I imagine most people are drinking coffee, grinding pepper and spreading butter a whole lot more than misting their popcorn with melted butter Americans put butter on their popcorn. Or so I've heard.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Americans put butter on their popcorn. We put popcorn in our butter.
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Gross.
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Butter up your cornhole cause I'm popping!
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ishikabibble posted:It wasn't the worst idea, and iirc actually also originates from their technical products division. I wanna say I remember my dad even talking about using it when he worked for Boeing as a metallurgical failure analyst in the 80s/90s, for occasionally capturing stuff like mechanically testing. I was watching a video slideshow of photos from the old Stanford AI Lab just yesterday; there appears to be plenty of polaroids in there, and in some shots you can see a guy taking pictures of his terminal screen. I've also seen Polaroids from early development on the Macintosh and Lisa computers; I guess it's just a good way to capture the state of the screen and know right away if you did a good job or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbKvlxWkHVk
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Dick Trauma posted:Just like I love the "cleanness" of digital audio I love being able to see my photographs right away on a digital camera. I don't think that it lacks authenticity; it's just a different kind of experience. The authenticity isn't a property of the medium, just encouraged by it. It's likely more authentic because you likely aren't taking 15 shots and choosing the best one. It's like the difference between posed shots and candids. You can pose with film and you can take candids with digital, but given the opportunity to easily and cheaply refine the desired picture, the digital medium leads people towards more posed, intentional photos.
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Wayne Knight posted:, the digital medium leads people towards more posed, intentional photos. *Posts the goats man
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What's wrong with single-use appliances? Do you make coffee in a cauldron? Do you grind pepper with karate chops? Do you spread butter with a table knife? i spread butter with the curved bit on the back of the bread knife, that's what it's for?
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I'm pretty sure I have a hot topper that I found at a thrift store in my collection of weird kitchen appliances. However it is incompatible with the most amazing microwave I have ever seen. Unfortunately I have never found a Panasonic Skylite microwave.  https://www.retroist.com/p/panasonic-sky-lite-microwave-oven
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What's wrong with single-use appliances? You should use your appliances more than once. It's just wasteful otherwise
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wakka wakka posted:You should use your appliances more than once. It's just wasteful otherwise Wait, you mean I don't need to buy a new fridge every time I finish the milk?
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Hot Topper...I should call hermy turn in the barrel posted:
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Dick Trauma posted:This is when we peaked as a civilization. I had a non-microwave Hot Topper, which is basically a stick-of-butter-shaped hotplate connected to a nozzle.  That thing was awesome.
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I got something similar as a wedding present (3 years ago). It was battery powered so there was a charging base to keep on your counter, but you kept the thing in your fridge so it was never charged. It was also impossible to clean so it just smelled of rancid butter within a month. We were thinking maybe it would have been better to use ghee/clarified butter so it wouldn't clog with milk solids. I gave it an honest try out of respect for my Aunt but it ended up in the trash when it started grossing me out.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Americans put butter on their popcorn. working at a cheap movie theater we had pure mazola in our squirter, people gobbled that up
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GoutPatrol posted:working at a cheap movie theater we had pure mazola in our squirter, people gobbled that up aww it's sweet you got to work with your mom
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I miss tropical oils, sure they were extremely bad for you but they were also Delicious.
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a porcelain 'gravy boat' is probably the best: easy to clean, microwave safe, classic look and style.
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Porcelain isn't microwave safe unless it says so.
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By popular demand posted:then that's the type to get. Yeah I'll just replace all my heirloom china so I can microwave butter  e: Not that I have butter. ee: Anyway if I did have butter, wood is microwave-safe so I could just heat it up in the butter box. 
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If my grandma's generation taught me anything it's that fine china wares are only for keeping in display cases numerous enough to reduce the space of your apartment by 10% at least.
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