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Captain Disillusion

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Videos. Educational? Not really. Funny? Eh. youtube.com/@captaindisillusion patreon.com/captaindisillusion

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · May 22

NEW VIDEO!
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YouTube video by Captain Disillusion

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Logical Drivel 𝄢 ␈ ␥ ᐰ 🖖 @logicaldrivel.bsky.social · 12h

Im not sure who the dude talking is, but he does a pretty great breakdown of a classic video from @captaindisillusion.bsky.social

Captain Disillusion Makes a Hollywood Classic Better Than Hollywood

YouTube video by Digital Spaghetti

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 11h

Having misspelled soul, I have no choice but to delete my account.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 13h

The words have become meaningless noise. Noise that never ceases. At worst a formless avalanche of sine waves. At best something akin to a walrus falling down the stairs. Am I splicing together mere scraps of auditory pareidolia no one will understand? Can my sole endure the completion of this task?

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, mutual. See you at our usual meeting place. Inexplicably, the Discover tab.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

But you can’t possibly defend the later seasons’ remix with double-time drums.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

Sudden... sharp... pain... in my IDGAF gland

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 2d

And after, it’s easy street …😞

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 2d

This is the exact energy I was channeling with Dr. Squirfuth P. DeTilda

Colorized archival photo of Victorian era villain and cinematography pioneer, Doctor Squirfuth P. DeTilda (Captain D in a top hat with a handlebar mustache)

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 3d

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 3d

THE ALTRESS

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 3d

A gritty drama in which it’s established that I always diligently add alt text to my pics, but one night I’m quite ill and a bit depressed, and post a cute pet pic without alt text, and some random Bluesky lady sees it, hunts me down and burns me alive.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 4d

I could've stopped at 3. I could've stopped at 5. At 7 even. But I didn't, did I? DID I, ME? NO. Now we have sit here. And pick. The best one. Out of fifteen.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 4d

15 takes of me saying "thumb glitch!" sort of in the style of Mortal Kombat "toasty!" but not really.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 4d

she needs to be draped on a piano singing some cole porter standards

a rusty colored pussy cat reclining on a table and serving you know what

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 4d

You should've used a shot from the scrapped footage of Geneviève Bujold as Janeway :)

(I know French Canadians & French are not the same, but everyone down on Earth seems the same to me)

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 5d

You do NOT want this. It's just me repeating every phrase in the 15 mins worth of script like, 27 times in a row until the words sound close to legible human speech.

Raw audio of my VO recordings is considered a form of torture in some jurisdictions.

Ten / TheLetterTen 🔜 PRGE @theletterten.gay · 5d

Will you release the full cut on Patreon? 🤔

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 5d

Gotta edit this down to about 15 mins of voiceover 😑

Part of a Pro Tools interface with some waveforms of recorded clips. The timecode display shows 01:38:50:13

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 5d

Gotta dial in the right Trans Mode

JoeRalat @joeralat.bsky.social · 5d

Star Trek Enterprise Universal translator from "Demons.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

people on here apparently need to learn a lesson most of us learn in elementary school, which is that it’s fucking rude to correct people on zero stakes things and doing so leads rightfully to social ostracism

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, but what a bratty way to let me know that detail. Is it relevant as a reply to what I said? And oh, I guess I’m sooo dumb for following the only Blender acct around, back when I joined bsky, after I saw that a bunch of other CG ppl I know/respect were already following it. OOPSIE SILLY ME 🤪🤭

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 5d

I haven’t delved into those tools but use a couple more modest ones like Grid Modeler (by Kushiro) & trying to get the hang of Creative Flow & Random Flow (by Blender Guppy).

But too often I sort of… forget addons exist and find myself manually suffering through the process.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 6d

That’s... insane.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 6d

And I'll have to reupload 😞