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This channel is amazing. If anyone has any recommendations for more stuff like it, do share!

It doesn't have the same flair or humor, but I've found Technology Connections scratches a similar part of my brain.

Absolutely. If you like CD, you’ll like TC. Though TC’s videos trend to the longer side (approaching an hour for some), but they are a fascinating way to spend time.

Bobby Fingers has a similar vibe, though less family friendly feel.

Someone casually doing amazing feats of technical and artistic craft, while making each video a self contained story and having throwaway jokes that are deeper and more complex than the average YouTubers entire career.

He also did a crossover episode with Adam Savage the Mythbusters dude as they are apparently mutual fans.

https://youtube.com/@bobbyfingers?si=kVZmlP13EqFiO9OO

Probably best to start at the beginning and go in without any research that might spoil surprises. Another reason to start at the beginning is that the current video is him narrating an erotic ebook that he wrote as side quest during a previous video.

Not the same vibe, but I feel similarly fascinated by Posy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSS6yAMZF78

and TodePond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4OIcwt8vcE

That TodePond link is what I hoped the internet would be as a kid. Weird people doing strange, beautiful things out of passion.

It didn’t turn out that way, of course, but it’s nice to know it’s still possible. Thanks for the link.

thank you! glad you like it

suckerpinch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c8i5SABqwU Doesn't have the same level of presentation as captain D (who does?) but he combines humour with whimsical technical achievements.

Old AvE did great breakdowns and explainers of electronic tools and manufacturing and stuff while mixed with colloquialisms, stories and jokes, but it seems he went off the anti-vaxer deep end during the 'rona and got violent with his wife (or the police) while drunk, got tazed, and spent three months studying scripture.

Wow... I gave up on AvE around the time of the Canadian Truckers protests. It seemed like his videos were going more sndnmore into conspiracy BS instead of "making cool shit on the internet." Sad to hear about his further decline.

For VFX breakdowns and debunkings there's also Corridor Crew: https://www.youtube.com/@CorridorCrew

Corridor Digital has always been cringe and weak for me. They try way too hard in everything but VFX skills. Kind of reminds me of really bad acting and writing mixed with passable VFX.

They use overly clickbaity thumbnails and hyperactive video editing techniques to maximize the drama. But they are technically very accomplished.

Not sure what drama you're talking about, but the clickbait is just there because the content is several stages of lame.

> But they are technically very accomplished.

I don't agree. They are technically apt, not very accomplished.

> I don't agree. They are technically apt, not very accomplished.

I would say they are approximately on the level of Captain Disillusion, which would easily count as very accomplished.

They aren't. They're also an entire team.

They are, look up their short films. The fact that they are a team makes it easier for them, not harder.

People don't become accomplished because it's easier. They become accomplished because they did hard things.

All their work is very lack lustre.

Corridor Crew was great until some of their shock value videos started to get big and they decided that was a high value niche. Some of it was funny but the underlying joke got old.

They made a video glorifying killing dogs and I was absolutely done with them.

Wait, what? Glorying killing dogs? I missed this. Are we still talking about the guys who sit down on a couch and discuss VFX?

well, they make tons of different videos. to be clear, i'm a subscriber to their online streaming platform and like their casual videos a lot, so probably a bit biased.

they do make some videos which are very edgy, i guess. the bowling animation videos come to mind, where they try to be as edgy as possible. imagine a bowling ball with plane wings slamming into two towers, as an example.

but i never got the impression that they're actually disrespectful or problematic.

> They made a video glorifying killing dogs and I was absolutely done with them.

I suppose you're referring to this video? https://youtu.be/y3RIHnK0_NE?feature=shared&t=180

I don't see how it's glorifying killing dogs. The CGI robot is given the task of killing a CGI robotic dog, and it refuses the task and runs away with it.

They used to be one of my favorite channels. Then they started pushing AI generated content (that was garbage) and threw the entire VFX industry under the bus. Fuck those guys.

These guys have no idea what they're talking about. I've seen them talk about things I know about and they weren't even remotely in the ball park. They have cheap reaction videos where they criticize stuff they know nothing about since they haven't ever actually worked in vfx.

Scott Prop and Roll does great breakdowns of special effects and how various scenes of famous movies were made.

i really enjoyed the 4 videos made by 'The Movie Rabbit Hole' which explores the "No CGI was used in this movie"-lie/exaggeration/misdirection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo

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