Weird furry.
RaccoonRobot
Spicy alt: @LoosfButHornt
unrelated to anything else, i do need a Maxa Beam searchlight for photography reasons
you may know it from: the x-files. jurassic park, and other productions where you need someone in a position of authority with a big fucking light (whose beam is easy to make show up onscreen)
Man's eternal fight against the darkness slamming into the limitations of both how much incandescent bulbs suck, how terrible batteries were, and that you don't want a fire hazard.
i will be buying used, as i have done for everything for many years except my food and vape
cool. thought they achieved this with mains powered ones and hid the cable
after a few weeks of cycling home over pitch-dark country roads and learning a lot about drivers' attitudes and proficiencies re: dipping their fucking headlights, i will be investigating this for purely vindictive reasons
I have in the past fantasized about covering the entire back of my vehicle with silver Scotchlite reflective sign film to set fire to the retinas of the drivers of brodozers with 300 watts of blue and white LEDs on the front
return to sender, beehive
I think there's a bunch of Nuclear Revenge posts about using fucking LEP lights to, uh
return fire
so to speak
I like how they both kept upgrading the product for serious field use, but also have a "-MP" variant for motion pictures, where the description goes straight to "The Maxa Beam Searchlight is featured in movies and TV shows including Alien vs. Predator, Blade, The Day After Tomorrow, Demolition Man, Earthquake, Ghost Ship, Gone in 60 Seconds, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Sahara, Sphere, True Lies, X-Files, Volcano, NCIS, CSI: Miami and Crossing Jordan."
it's not nearly as famous, but somewhere around here I think I still got two of the cylindrical multi-mode utility lights like the ones they used in Aliens. this type of thing (there were a bunch of clones): https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/aliens-uscm-utility-light.339782/
been wishing for a decent modern LED equivalent but I haven't seen anything that hits enough of the buttons...
