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Victorreply
lemmy.world

I'm kind of not, but I'm kind of into film and kind of into history in general, so it might be cool. 😁

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feddit.org

While interesting as an important piece of early movie history, the movie itself isn't really anything great. The visuals are interesting, but the story is really badly structured and told.

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Eh, I enjoyed it.

I also enjoyed the bizarre version that came out in the 80s.

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Victorreply
lemmy.world

I bet it is. There's a certain charm to older stuff though, IMO. I bet I won't come out empty-handed in the end. 😁

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I'm surprised a 1927 handheld fan is so compact and modern looking. I wonder if it was cutting edge.

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It was must pre-enshitification, I think, they later used plastic to make them look bigger to sell them with larger margins.

A lot of products got needlessly bigger bcs customers thought they were being "more".

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mander.xyz

You can turn the blower on and off separately from the heating element in a hairdryer

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Skeezixreply
lemmy.world

Cut him some slack he’s a Gen Z and they’re not very technically inclined

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Well you see we make a broad sweeping assumption that makes us feel better about approaching the point our generation falls off.

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What material was used for the suit? Too soon for any sort of plastic, aluminium would have been very expensive.

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Brigitte Helm cooling off on the set of Metropolis, 1927 | Spyke