Well, yes and no... it's usually the scale of the effect that he's into.

For example: Patrick (aka GOD - I am regretting starting this now, but NOOOO, my stupid felt tip has a mind of it's own...) finds an old Magicube flash box. Now you and me, maybe we go and find an old car battery, and just for a laugh we would flash the terminals to see them go FUMPHH!!! and then stagger about blind and giggling for five minutes, remembering the good old days of Kodak 110mmm flash photography.

Patrick's version: "I suddenly get the idea that I could make the biggest flashbulb in the universe: so I dig out that old 25 gallon glass pin bottle, stuff it full of magnesium wool, poke two electrodes through a cork and wax it into the bottle neck. Then I go to the top of the bluff overlooking the town and THEN I get out my old car battery, and just for a laugh I flash the terminals....."

Oh my GOD