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How did you all discover Captain Disillusion? For me, someone on Mastodon linked it maybe a year ago. I've watched at least half the videos back and became a P
by lucb1e 2y ago
How did you all discover Captain Disillusion?
For me, someone on Mastodon linked it maybe a year ago. I've watched at least half the videos back and became a Patreon for a while. I can't believe I never heard anyone talk about the channel before or since -- until this HN post. I've shared it with some friends but nobody knew it. People here seem to be familiar, though, so I am curious how you discovered this gem of a creator
- TechSquidTV 2y agoBeen following for so many years, I can't remember anymore. I watch a lot of VFX related content, it could have been in my feed because of that. He's had so many viral videos, it could have been totally unrelated to my personal feed. If it wasn't on my homepage 10+ years ago, it was likely Reddit. Been a huge fan since. He's somewhat in the same mental collection for me as the old Corridor Digital videos.
- airstrike 2y agoFirst I ever hear of the guy and I'm an immediate fan
- martyvis 2y agoI think my one of my adult kids that was interested in video production pointed him out to me quite a few years ago. What is amazing is that you can see his comedic schtick was already in his earliest videos from 16 years ago
- TOGoS 2y agoAt Factorio office. Rseding was working nearby and seemed to always have these weird videos playing. "Why is that guy chromed?" I asked. "That's just how his face is", or something, was the response. I was curious so went and found them for myself. Was not disappointed.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoIIRC I discovered it via some random HN comment a few years ago. Binge-watched everything he made back then. I'm happy to hear he's making videos again, I'll catch up as soon as I have a spare moment.
- duggan 2y agoNever even heard of him before this post. Subscribed now!
- weinzierl 2y agoBlender Conference Keynote he gave a couple if years ago.
- SirMaster 2y agoWhen he was a guest on Corridor Crew channel.
- DHPersonal 2y agoI think for me it was r/videos on Reddit.
- myself248 2y agoI was reading about VHS captures and the argument on whether to deinterlace, and realized I could explain how interlacing works from a signal-on-the-wire perspective but not how it actually affects the picture. I went searching for videos that explained it, and found Captain D's video which was so much better than everything else, like just breathtakingly done, and funny, and I watched it like 3 times to let everything sink in. I probably watched a few other videos on the topic from other creators, but they weren't remarkable enough to hook me and make me gorge myself on their other stuff.
- Macha 2y agoPretty sure it was a YouTube recommendation for some of his av explainers when I was watching similar videos from Technology Connections.