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Captain Disillusion

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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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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 3h

That’s... insane.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 14h

And I'll have to reupload 😞

Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 15h

The part where the Titanic's stern goes way way up.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

One of a bunch of CG props I'm working on for the next video. I won't explain what it is. You'll have to watch. If, for whatever reason, I am unable to complete the video, you will simply never find out. So I think it's in all our best interest that I'm allowed to remain in the solar system.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

I choose to believe that this is the canonic medieval past of LazyTown.

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a journey that courts great peril, but I think it’s time we all acknowledge that there once was a Burger King Kingdom, and it was a frightfully odd place full of disquietingly weird characters…

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

Been doing that for the past 7 years

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

ME: Wow, ok, so just $15 a month?
WIZ KID: No... $15 flat. One time.
ME: *suspicious* What is your game, son?
WIZ KID: I dunno, sir... I'm sorry! Here it is for free! But just be aware it only works with the latest version of Blender and also the last 10 versions of Blender.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

That Blender is free is pretty well communicated. But also most paid addons the community makes are outrageously inexpensive. There's always some wiz kid with like, a one-click infinitely variable scifi cityscapes generator - $15 (or whatever you think is fair), commercial use, free updates forever.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

But… in both my posts I kept referring to streaming services. That’s the version that has issues. The last time I watched it on disc, it sounded great.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

...until there's an explosion sound, when all of your speakers blow out.

I honestly think someone screwed up in the mastering process and accidentally did the OPPOSITE of a gentle home theater compression.

And now it just gets blindly passed around streaming platforms in this unlistenable state.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

What is up with the streaming mix of Heat (1995)? I know theatrical mixes have crazy dynamics everyone hates, but rewatching it on a few diff platforms in recent years... it's totally busted. With all auto-leveling features on and volume cranked ALL the way up, it's impossible to hear the dialogue..

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 2d

new paradigm

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 4d

(**Actually, not even that! I had the oldest model and here's the newer one in a '93 catalog for cheaper. So we def paid even less.)

Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 4d

(*Well, I guess the Sega)

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 4d

Uh, no item in the room was anywhere near $95.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 5d

I just don’t trust these new-fangled LED lights. If the casing isn’t physically as hot as the emitted color temperature, it ain’t real photons!

Behind-the-scenes photo of the CD red room set. Various camera and lighting equipment is rigged on the floor and hanging from the ceiling.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 5d

Got the ‘90s covered 👋

Photo of a teenage, pre-intern Alan in his sparsely decorated room, surrounded by various ‘90s era items — CRT TV, VCR, Sega Genesis, dual cassette tape recorder… He is wearing an orange sleeveless hoodie, stonewash sweatpants, and large furry slippers. Walkman headphones, a microphone and a synth keyboard on his lap complete the look of an artistically promising young geek.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 6d

No one show him the training data.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 7d

RIP renowned Italian film poster artist Renato Casaro.

Considered one of the most influential Italian poster designers, Casaro leaves behind a legacy of hand-painted artwork for thousands of films, including such classics as Conan the Barbarian, Octopussy, and A Fistful of Dollars.

He was 89.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 8d

Ok, I think I've fixed it with this, thanks!
But I still do not understand what mysterious forces cause this to happen. What actions did I take that fateful day to command AE to trap these paths in the purgatory of the text file? This, I fear, is knowledge that I shall never possess in this life.

Tamás Deme ‘tomzorz’ @tomzorz.me · 8d

reddit thread linked to this forum post with a possible solution community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

After effects defaults to old project location

Hello community, hoping someone can help me with a small issue, but that has been driving me really crazy. After Effects always defaults any new file I create to an old project location. Both when I f...

community.adobe.com

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 8d

I don't want to spend the rest of my days navigating away from "/Captain Disillusion/2021/03 CDxAG/VFX/Silhouette/Exports/0x040 Player Clean/"

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 8d

Ok but seriously: like 3 years ago something happened to my After Effects that on new launch it always defaults to a particular project folder when opening/saving. There's no setting for this, AFAIK. It just decided to do it. Forever. How do I make it stop? IF U KNO COMPUTER TELL HOW

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 9d

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 9d

Crew of 1 person other than me.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 9d

That was horrible. Now it is time for pizza.

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 9d

Crew of 1 person other than me.

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