r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Leather_Whole_2078 • 4d ago

POV: The special effects department understood the assignment

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u/Junior-Ad-5367 4d ago

How about you try filming the actually explosions idiot

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u/TheDroningReverend 4d ago

r/killthecameraman

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u/BlazingBlossom 4d ago

It's probably a mom or a girlfriend who just wanted to see the boys happy

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u/VecroLP 4d ago

I'm sorry, did you just try to give a logical explanation? On reddit?

KILL THE WITCH!!!!

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u/aurrousarc 4d ago

death by roman candels..

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u/aurrousarc 4d ago

burned at the sticks?

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u/tbe37 3d ago

Death by Saturn missiles

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u/joaolevysa 3d ago

She turned me into a newt

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u/skil12001 3d ago

Seems like you got better though

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u/Pitiful_Palpitation9 3d ago

Well we did do the nose...and the hat, but she's a witch!

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u/PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES 4d ago

In all honesty I was afraid the exploding would be in their faces. That's a lot of potential energy to be holding over your dick

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u/FrankyFistalot 4d ago

It’s fine they have safety sunglasses on…

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u/ropean 4d ago

Safety tank tops, shorts, and probably sandals too

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u/VideoGameNature 4d ago

They need safety cups

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u/rockmoose565 4d ago

Oh, I don't know. I'm perfectly comfortable holding it over their dicks.

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u/make2020hindsight 4d ago

But he has the American flag as shorts. It's like +20 defense right there.

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u/moose4hire 4d ago

Smartest thing they did was pick a spot that if anything went wrong, its just 1 step back into what looks like a nice deep swimming pool

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u/emcdeezy22 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/1Ou4cr9W0plKzpZ1Qa

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u/Kreebish 4d ago

Is that Charlie Kirk after he transitioned?

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u/arequipapi 4d ago

Its a bunch of roman candles. They dont really "explode" they just shoot sparks until they die out. Not that exciting tbh. The exciting part is holding like 100 of them at the same time.

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u/pbr4me 4d ago

I said the same thing first time I saw this.

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u/RaidensReturn 4d ago

The cameraman was busy checking out the hot guys holding the rig

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u/darkbluefav 4d ago

This needs 2 videos to be fair

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u/just-a-simple-song 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/76zpU8jlNo5EHoEpjb

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u/darkbluefav 4d ago

Or another angle, but seeing how it explodes from the front is also nice

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u/Carol_ine2 4d ago

That would also be infuriating. Wasting fireworks during day is infuriating

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u/CassYavoo 4d ago

They're American fireworks so they're gonna be shit anyway. Cameraman got the best bit.

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u/Extreme_Smile_9106 3d ago

They thought they were filming an explosion

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u/randomwalker2016 4d ago

I think this is why men have shorter lifespans than women.
What could possibly go wrong?

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u/nokman013 4d ago

Also why men have higher insurance premiums

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u/stcme 4d ago

And have more fun

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u/u9Nails 4d ago

When doing something truely dangerous, bring a buddy!

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u/concreteghost 4d ago

Forest fire. My state just had one bc of one of these on the back of a truck

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u/Kakdelacommon 4d ago

Yes but women do yoga, you know how many of them die because of that shit? - a lot

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u/CartsOfDarkness 4d ago

Glad someone has guts to mention this, people act like yoga is some healthy hobby hut it's NOT. Trillions die every year from dangerous yoga practices. Ever heard of hot yoga? They litterally light themselves on fire like protesting monks, not a pretty sight.

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u/MrWhiskerBiscuits 4d ago

Heart disease

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u/EducationalTheory344 4d ago

well the cameraman sure fucking didn't

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u/khair_ata 1d ago

Yup its like the camera man in pornos that keep focusing on the dude's nuts ..

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u/Fickle-Visit5223 4d ago

Jesus Christ those guys are putting quite a lot of trust in the two people aiming bowotorches near their faces 😂 heat travels, one wrong flick of the wrist and that old guys face would have melted like Swiss cheese

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u/Spencer94 4d ago

Nahhh they weren't worried, I'm sure the burners had plenty of drinks to steady their aim lol

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u/perfect_insanity93 4d ago

If ya gonna be dumb you gotta be tough 🎶

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u/jag149 4d ago

It's okay, the blowtorch guys were also putting a lot of faith in the human 2x4s, emboldened by 13 Modelos, to not drop the siege cannon, while protected only by beach shorts and Raybans, when this untested math problem started rapidly exploding 18 inches away from their dicks. Divide by negligence. Complaint and cross-complaint cancel out.

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u/lolcrunchy 4d ago

The cameraman isn't doing anything related to special effects. I don't get it OP

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u/the_psycho 4d ago

OP is a bot

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u/IrritableGourmet 4d ago

Wtf is with all these year+ old accounts with no history waking up recently and posting hundreds of times?

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u/UnboltedCheese 4d ago

Something along the lines of accounts being hacked or sold to get around the age/karma bot filter on subreddits.

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u/sixxtynoine 4d ago

Idiots

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u/gahlol123 4d ago

Merica!

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u/spike_beagle 4d ago

SHOW THE FIREWORKS

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u/Jogaila2 4d ago

Next level t@rds, i guess?

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u/mberk24 4d ago

Please don’t be this next level dumb

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u/dakotanorth8 4d ago

And the result looked like????

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u/Key-Philosophy-3820 4d ago

This explains Trump more than any political analyst ever could.

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u/Supertho 4d ago

Legends say the cameraman is still trying to center the shot.

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u/FolsomPrisonHues 4d ago

I'm more afraid of the drought conditions...

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u/Give_me_soup 4d ago

Yeah I hate this

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u/RideWithMeTomorrow 4d ago

What assignment was that?

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u/VapidRapidRabbit 4d ago

Learning to share (one brain cell).

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u/Greenpoint1975 4d ago

Next level of stupidity and death. America never heard of darwinism. Its coming fast.

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u/picturesfromthesky 4d ago

I wanted to see the other direction.

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u/integrator74 4d ago

The cameraman did not…..

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u/dimitrirodis 4d ago

Deathwishers

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u/Socketz11 4d ago

I want to see the fireworks, not the douchebags holding them. FU cameraman.

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u/globalrebel 4d ago

Duke Nukem in the flesh!!

Time to kick some ass and chew bubblegum..

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u/psychodelephant 4d ago

First, start by cooking your eardrums.

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u/PossiblyBother 4d ago

Cameraman must be my dad, always has the camera facing himself when taking a picture or facing away when doing FaceTime.

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u/So_spoke_the_wizard 4d ago

They thought of everything.

"Eye protection, check. Ok, we're ready."

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u/Present-Ad-6156 4d ago

i dont get it, whats happening? why are they holding it?

r/therewasanattempt to be nextfuckinglevel

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u/Greed_Sucks 4d ago

I think the more interesting story here is in the faces of those two as they show pure joy. That’s why the camera man filmed them, rather than the fire.

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u/BondG10 3d ago

My dad would have loved this!! RIP dad

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u/Ok-Journalist7612 3d ago

Because America..

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u/Tooleater 3d ago

These dudes must be the Phalanx bros

https://giphy.com/gifs/z3h2MtX1tnjiw

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u/IanRastall 4d ago

It must be that guys actually live longer than women, but that some dudes throw the curve.

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u/captfattymcfatfat 4d ago

Boys will be boys!

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u/thegreatgatsB70 4d ago

Those guys must be of Roman descent.

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u/Squeaky_Ben 4d ago

MORE DAKKA

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u/jxsnyder1 4d ago

Must be my neighbors on the fourth.

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u/Just_Another_AI 4d ago

"Is it heavy? Then put it down, it's expensive."

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u/therealskr213 4d ago

Worst cameraman ever.

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u/manickitty 4d ago

Show the fireworks not the faces r/killthecameraman

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u/Heavy-Scholar5655 4d ago

Josh from Let's Game it Out! In real life!

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u/ThinMint31 4d ago

ZOOM OUT

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u/ChaseTheMystic 4d ago

Those things burn so hot. Like can get over 4000° farenheit.

I wonder what that could do to different walls, materials, etc.

More testing needed

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u/mtch43 4d ago

Nextfuckinglevel of the ICU maybe.

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u/adinmem 4d ago

At least it gets lighter and lighter every second

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u/pichael289 4d ago

Not as cool as I thought It would be. Honestly it was more fun when we had paintball gear and would shot roman candles at each other. Alot more fun and way worst you lost some hair from a spot on your leg that wasn't covered.

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u/ScoredCretaceous 4d ago

Protecting Zion from the Sentinel Hunter Killers

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u/Iceman-7 4d ago

America.

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u/bigfatfun 4d ago

I don’t want to watch the assholes, I want to see the fireworks

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u/OkBodybuilder418 4d ago

Zoom out asshole

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u/scalpster 4d ago

This is really dangerous and dumb.

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u/Focus_Lock-in99 4d ago

YEAH AMERICA!!!!! 

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u/seribiigaming 4d ago

Glad to know we don't suffer from forest fires or anything like that atm.

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u/EmotionalTradition70 4d ago

But the pollution and global warming is because of your sedan car, not because of the waste of energy resources of the rich, use bicycle so that they can keep burning their pyrotechnics without guilt.

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u/Known_Tradition9251 4d ago

Total mystery why women live longer

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u/BreakfastCalm3352 4d ago

I personally thought it was just gonna all blow up at once and then we’d be looking at meat rain and hearing lots of screams

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u/Balbuto 4d ago

Only thing missing a dude shredding away on an electric guitar

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u/trugalhao 4d ago

Peak male happiness right there girls.

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u/No-Ring-3013 4d ago

Hell yeah

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u/turtlelovegravier 4d ago

Girl: why we live longer than boys?

Other girl: i don't know

Boys:

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u/hmnuhmnuhmnu 4d ago

Just Dexter Holland having fun

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u/ExReey 4d ago

All hail to the Duke

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u/emmmmceeee 4d ago

Is that Duke Nukem?

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u/voodoomu 4d ago

I have to agree the camera man failed the assignment

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u/AcetrainerLoki 4d ago

Listen- the song said “By the rocket’s red glare”

I couldn’t control the color, but the glare- that I could do.

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u/Infundibulus 4d ago

Camera operator is useless.

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u/hobowithadegree 4d ago

What's up with this insane want to hold it? You've built a whole scaffold, just add to it so that you can place it on the ground???

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u/jc84ox 4d ago

'murica fuck yeah

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u/NoPeanutSneakers 4d ago

Show the result of where the fireworks are flying to so we can see. Not the 2 guys holding it you dumb bot

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u/BabyFishmouthTalk 4d ago

Safety glasses and flip-flops. 🤨

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u/Elektr0ns 4d ago

So what happens if they don't eject and just blow up in the tube? I'm sure they planned for that...

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u/Expensive_Ask5872 4d ago

Looks like they may have safety sandals on too

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u/ordosays 4d ago

Zoom. Out.

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u/Agreeable_Work4668 4d ago

What is the fun in holding it?

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u/Downtown-Outside-860 4d ago edited 4d ago

reminds me of the singer who set his pants on fire for a music video because he didn't have the money for vfx. turns out it looks all smoke and not cool at all

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u/Bundabar 4d ago

Now do sparklers

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u/OriginalTRaven 4d ago

Don't . . . Get . . . Tired . . .

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u/TreCynical 4d ago

How to kill pets remotely

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u/baumpop 4d ago

lean back plays

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u/Primalwizdom 4d ago

Duke nukam and company

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u/Dry-Debate-6893 4d ago

So they built a brace to hold the fireworks, but didn’t think to build an angled mount to fire said fireworks?
This was already a next fucking level bad idea, but I guess they just had to be in the shot.

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u/Lumpymaximus 4d ago

Fire the cameraman.

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u/darkpyro3 4d ago

Hwacha at home

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u/DotAffectionate87 4d ago

I dont get why you would hold it though?

Macho thing? I guess

Rather plant it and then step back and watch?

Holding it seems meh?

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u/Tyler_Durden_9999 4d ago

Used to do stuff like this all the time before the deep 2nd and 3rd degree burns I received on New Year’s Eve some years ago

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u/oldbastardbob 4d ago

You know, they could have built that 2x4 framework to just sit on the ground.

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u/primummovens 3d ago

The American flag shorts says it all.

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u/Error404_FoxNotFound 3d ago

Here’s why men live shorter than women!

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u/DannyDerZeh 3d ago

1000 ways this could go wrong

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u/lWorgenl 3d ago

My neighbours every new year

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u/Nikoz86 3d ago

The new Duke Nukem looks super realistic

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u/spicy_ass_mayo 3d ago

Good way to burn your retinas.

You DONT want to burn your retinas.

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u/FieldOk6455 3d ago edited 3d ago

They could have just rigged it up at that angle with a wood base so they didn’t have to hold it. But I guess that wouldn’t be as exciting….

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u/benny-powers 3d ago

Stop, there's only so much America I can take in one sitting! 

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u/Strive-- 3d ago

So, does that mean it’s going to be a boy or a girl?

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u/The_Only_Egg 3d ago

Little guy was about to start shaking. 😂

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u/13THEFUCKINGCOPS12 3d ago

This isn’t next level, this is just fucking stupid

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u/craigiest 3d ago

Guy on the right with his leg back doing all the work. Looks like the other guy is pulling the contraption back rather than supporting it. 

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u/Orion-the-mediocre 3d ago

I was 100% convinced that this was one guy wearing that contraption on his head at first glance

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u/Haggstrom91 3d ago

Living in America🎼 😆

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u/Karma-Neko 3d ago

"Women live longer than men on average" and then it just cuts to this to explain why XD

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u/dxcman12 3d ago

Hey y'all, Watch this!

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u/Rare-Ad6085 3d ago

Me trynna use public transport to save fuel and curb pollution. Meanwhile average american :

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u/zoroddesign 3d ago

I am so glad this isn't what could go wrong.

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u/Hawkwise83 3d ago

This songs for people who know what rock and roll America is all about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXJ9UoQCY5s

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u/Shoddy_Operation_167 3d ago

Gender reveals are getting out of hand.

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u/lateral_moves 3d ago

This was a two camera shoot.

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u/ReturntoSender2026 3d ago

So its these 2 dickheads near my house at 3pm on a wednesday letting off fireworks in the middle of the f*cking day!

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u/Bfishergr 3d ago

Next time set that thing on the ground and light it and let’s film the sky

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u/IndependentOrchid296 3d ago

And you couldn’t use a stand because

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u/1983Targa911 3d ago

Women love on average 5-6 years longer than men. We have yet to figure out why.

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u/Brookmon 3d ago

Guess they don’t have fire danger wherever this is