ericravenscraft
Eric Ravenscraft
ericravenscraft
Eric creates video essays as Lord Ravenscraft on YouTube. He's also a freelance writer with bylines in The Inventory, Wired, The New York Times, and a former Senior Writer for Lifehacker.

I held out for the first two seasons, because I’m a fucking snob. My loss, the show is great. Read more

Now that you got that off your chest.... The question was, do you stand up whilst playing your switch? Not the too cool4skool, are you “done” with Nintendo? Read more

Wow.. miss sarcasm often do we?

T. Fey isn’t a fave comedian of mine, and her politics skew a bit from my own. But it was fairly obvious that she was presenting a ridiculous satire of what not to do. She presented an obviously useless act while talking about a stream of important events, in what seemed an obvious Read more

Can someone explain to me why the insulting stereotypes asserted here as general facts are permissible? I am generally really impressed by Lifehacker’s forward thinking, but as a father I found this straight offensive. Read more

I solved it by lining up metal weapons on the floor, because I somehow missed that the chest was metal and thus missed the “intended” way you’re supposed to solve it. Read more

It really bothers me the way people get sucked into the meta-narrative of a games development. Read more

Ugh. I thought for a moment there this is how you were going to say goodbye and post your last article.
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That’s just journalist Clark Kent. Is he some kind of hero? I’ve never thought his Planet stuff was particularly heroic, so unless he has some kind of secret identity that nobody has told me about, I don’t see what you are getting at. Read more