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New Episode Early Access Pass (Patreon)

Published:
2015-11-29 01:11:19
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2026-06
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Content

Please enjoy this new  video in the "classic Captain D" style and be sure to let me know what you think before the rest of the world sees it tomorrow. Thanks!

Files

Previews only

Floating City DEBUNK

Captain Disillusion soars above the rest with a thorough explanation, deconstruction and recreation of the 'Mysterious Floating City Over China' video.

Comments

Eric Blom

Great video. I hope CNN picks your video up.

Blake Partridge

Amazing episode, I really enjoyed it. It's really cool to see you not only explain how it was done, and about mirages, but also to recreate it. And I couldn't help but laugh at the media criticism. Nice job on the ducktales reference too.

Michael Krehan

So good. So, so good. Btw, do you keyframe Mr. Flare by hand, or do you somehow magically pipe the amplitude of the soundtrack to his animation?

Bill Kerr

Can't find a USB4 cable to charge my SlackWave :(

Bizzaro.

I was very pleased to see a Darkwing Duck reference in this video. Totally worth the money I am contributing.

Susan Gerbic

That was awesome! I haven't seen the floating city video but I was just in Dongguan, China last month. It wasn't me, I can barely video a few buildings and upload that to YouTube. What I liked most was your message that no one checked sources and bought completely into the mirage idea as it was the most comfortable answer. You are 100% correct about the media (and public) using Wikipedia for their information. We at GSoW are trying very hard to get great content onto Wikipedia (focusing on the lede, as we know that is all most people read) but in this case the good content was there, the media was too lazy to read it all the way through. Many times we are finding that the media is just copy/paste Wikipedia into their articles. One I found had the little citation numbers still in their article but with no citations used, just the numbers! How lame is that? Terrific work as usual!!!

Anonymous

Thanks again Capt D. Love mr Flair, keep him coming back.

CaptainDisillusion
>>1026923

Thanks. Mr. Flare is a few different flare effects stacked on top of each other. The high frequency flickering is controlled with an expression, but where the flickers start and stop is keyframed by hand. One of the flares is also resized by hand to emphasize certain vowels. I've experimented with using the audio to drive it, but manual key framing seems to add more character.

Blake Partridge
>>1026903

It really helps solidify what you're explaining. I really liked it in the spinning water video too. I imagine it takes a lot of time though, so it's understandable if you don't.

CaptainDisillusion
>>1027029

If I didn't consciously edit myself during the writing process, there would be a reference to some 90s Disney animated show in every single episode.

Jim Battle

Solid work, Captain D! I have a teenage daughter and I always show her your videos when they come out to make her a little less gullible and to think a bit before believing what she sees online. Your short passage about the media being in the entertainment industry, not the fact conveyance industry, is an important one.

Ian Kennedy

Ahhhh. Patreon money welll spent!

Timmo Warner

Excellent episode! And I'm really loving the improved silver face.

Doug Wills

That was awesome. Nice Metaskills.

Anton

@ Captain: this one is great! Thank you! @ Doug: It is heartwarming to see CD videos appreciated by dogs too!

Jeff Wagg

The embodiment of quality.

MagikGimp

Guess what, I missed this one too; as usual. And it seems to be quite a biggie this time. Had I read about it somewhere I'd have known where to come for the cold, harsh logic of reality presented in yet another quality presentation of fun, excitement and hilarity! (and harsh reality) it's very sad that so many 'reputable' media outlets chose to go with the warm, fuzzy fantasy option but the world's a bit like that these days. Personally I'd rather know the truth than be whisked away on some conspiracy theorist's escape from his awful life. And anyone who gives the Independent and Daily Mail a swift knock while they're at it is a greater man than all those who work for that overexposed gutter-press.

Gega _

Excellent

Eckhart lol

Top notch CD. Thanks for this.

Jim Preston

*This* is why I support you, Captain. Excellent video, informative, educational, and entertaining. Just great.

Susan Gerbic
>>1027156

Jim that is a great idea. I think I'm going to have to remember these when I have gullible friends that need a wake-up call. Its a pleasant way to say "see, don't believe everything!" Very entertaining and professionally done, and I know him. :-) People watching will learn without really knowing that you are trying to prove a point. That reminds me, the video is live, so I'm going to share it around my social media. :-)

Susan Gerbic

if I click on the above Facebook icon, then it wants to post the URL to this page, will people be able to see the video? It says Early Access Pass, Should I just share from the YouTube link? What would be more effective?

CaptainDisillusion
>>1029843

Even though the video is now visible to all, this page is only visible to patrons, so yes, to share, you should link directly to the video playback page on YouTube (accessible by clicking the title inside the player or the YouTube logo watermark.) Thanks :)

Mike B.

Perfect CD episode - informative, skeptical, funny. Well done (as usual).

Anh

Wow...you vs the world...as always, keep up the good work