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Eric Ravenscraft

@lordravenscraft.bsky.social

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Clearly fake name. Freelance writer. Video essayist on YouTube. Formerly Lifehacker. Will shitpost for cash. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lordravenscraft

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 26d

NEW VIDEO! FINALLY! Beast Wars Is Shakespeare: The Value of Garbage Media

I truly hope this one was worth the wait, because I've never made something so huge. Massive thanks to Dr. Drew Lichtenberg for sitting down with me for this one. youtu.be/8y_KsFaHRQk?...

Beast Wars Is Shakespeare: The Value of Garbage Media

YouTube video by Lord Ravenscraft

youtu.be

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 16h

do NOT make jokes about my best, personal friend capitalism, or I WILL turn on all caps!!!

I'm so sick of people ragging on 'capitalism'

one; its a free market, not a religion, two; its not perfect we all know it, everyone older than three knows it. Yet what else would provide realistic incentives to produce as much as it has? Not Marxism certainly, that thing which causes idea to die on a vine, then uproots the vine to put up a block of gray depressing housing. We would have much more out of Russia post world war II if they hadn't tried and then failed system. As all fail to adopt a system with one big government trying despite to process information on the order of a thousand, million lesser actors all making choices based to. Not to even broch the topic of how to create incentives in a society which actively punishes the pursuit of a better

life.

You would not be here on the internet making video essays or commenting on comments if marxism could EVER function in the real world. IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HUMAN NATURE.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 1d

I have to admit, this never made sense to me

If I buy a console, I want it to have games that are fun to play and the console runs well

I could give two shits if you can play the game somewhere else, too

ALCA, Goddess of Lust 💜 @flailmorpho.bsky.social · 1d

giving the ps5 shit for not having enough exclusives will perpetually baffle me

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Dr. Lizzly Atoms @iamplatypus.bsky.social · 2d

giving my dog lots of scritches and reminding him to "make good decisions" before I head off to work when he's one of the handful I've personally made in the past 10 years: 😐

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 2d

but like...if it made sense, it wouldn't need explanation

Maybe there's some supervillain origin story. Something happened to Stephen Miller when he was a kid that made him a racist POS

but also...the sanity of the plan is of no consquence

what matters...is that he can do it

Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 2d

I can't help but feel like the desire for sympathetic villains comes in part from a desire to understand why real life villains are the way they are. Why there are powerful people, unsatisfied with unfathomable amounts of wealth and freedom, who insist on hurting the poorest and most vulnerable

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 2d

there's a bit I have never forgotten in the first Captain America movie:

"[The Red Skull] believes he walks in the footsteps of the gods."
"You do realize that's nuts, dontcha?"
"The sanity of the plan is of no consequence"
"And why is that?"
"𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵."

I think about this a lot...

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 2d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 2d

Way cooler

Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 2d

embarrassingly spent way too much time trying to figure out if New Breads was a game or a show

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 3d

I love the game but yeah I don't know if it needs to be a multiverse! lol

Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 3d

i legit felt my spine tense up before i read the context here

Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 3d

this person met someone while drinking at a bar on Friday

and a robot said the best time to see if they're still horny for him is when they're actively trying to get back to work on Monday morning

the fact this wasn't an immediate red flag is why this guy is struggling

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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tyler @bearnurse.bsky.social · 3d

A few weeks late (thanks work) but I wanted to throw out a recommendation for @lordravenscraft.bsky.social’s exegesis on Beast Wars. Eric’s crafted a compelling and interesting video essay on how a toy commercial (and trash media) can grow beyond that into art. Check it out. Good stuff

Beast Wars Is Shakespeare: The Value of Garbage Media

YouTube video by Lord Ravenscraft

youtu.be

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 3d

thank you for the kind words, my friend 💙

Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 3d

i should get paid $1 a word for reading that, fuck

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 3d

you can't get paid $1 a word to say "she pegs my MILFage meter" anymore, because of woke

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3d

I sometimes read old gaming magazines and stumbled upon this "babe of the year" section from Playstation: The Official Magazine.

If I was the editor I would have gently suggested this writer be put down like a rabid dog

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 4d

damn, looks great!

Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 4d

"oh that's a little cringey but whatever, ah yeah that's silly but okaEXCUSETHEFUCKOUTTAME"

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 5d

there was a small startup that had a novel approach to music curation: humans do it

the novel tech component was that it would present appropriate playlists for moods or time of day, but humans chose the music

it was called Songza, Google bought it, then retired the feature

now we get this shit

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 5d

You can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.

You can now connect your Spotify account to ChatGPT. Here’s how to do it | TechCrunch

You can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.

techcrunch.com

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 5d

At this point, most of my conflicting feelings about it are so old that I need to finish my rewatch before I decide, but already there's so much cool shit here....but also so many weird choices? I dunnnoooo

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 5d

they do eventually introduce a few bad guy characters but (skipping the part where they end up being old characters again) they're not all that interesting. one is a quiet brooding type and one is a dumb, one-word sentences type

they fit their designs but they're just not...interesting

Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 5d

in Beast Wars, both factions had a minimum of five, distinct characters with vibrant personalities

by the beginning of Beast Machines, the Maximals are down to four, and Megatron has...himself

there's just not as much room for dynamic character interactions

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 5d

I think a big part of the reason Beast Machines struggles to land as hard as its predecessor is how absolutely paltry the cast is compared to Beast Wars

in the first few episodes, not only are many characters removed, but no new characters are introduced until...this guy. a diagnostic drone

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 5d

Meta employees have also been instructed to reduce baby production speed to a single month by getting as many as 9 women pregnant

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

Meta executives are telling their workers they must use AI to "go 5x faster" and expect a "5x leap in productivity"

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 5d

You're great 💙 Take care of yourself

Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 5d

I suppose listening to anyone who actually knows what they're doing is right out?

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