Now that I've had time to think about this...2026 REBOOT TRAILER THOUGHTS THREAD‼️ 🧵🪡
Positives:
-Thomas looks okay THANK GOD🥹
-It seems like Rosie is actually going to be relevant this time👀
-The lighting looks really decent in some shots😌
-THE VIADUCT RETURNS 🎊🎊
1/9
all racist stereotypes about food like "lol you eat food that's cheap delicious and easily avaliable to you lol" powerscalers come up with better slander than this every day
The golf cart, the architecture, the gaudy decor, the grab-bag theology, the complete rejection of community and tradition… this is a crueler mockery of America B and their anxieties than anything I could come up with
My friend worked at a juvenile detention facility and there was a kid who could’ve gotten out at 16 if he just changed his religion from “juggalo” but he refused and stayed another two years until he aged out.
This is real. One of my grandfathers was pulled out of the Philippine jungle, where he'd been eating rats he stabbed with a knife on a pole. They put him on a boat to the US, and let him off in SF with a train ticket and zero other steps. Have a nice life, sorry about all your buddies getting killed!
He came back to MA, married my grandmother, had a kid. Haunted by nightmares and drinking heavily, he lost his mind, went back to Cali, started a second family. Then wracked with guilt and also more nightmares he left them, came back to his first family.
For the rest of his life he had to sleep in a separate bed, because if you got near him while he was sleeping he might wake up trying to kill you. He kept a sawed off double barrel 12ga under his car seat and pulled it on people multiple times.
He was generally jolly, fun loving, fearless, and generous. But about certain things was on a hair trigger and would become violent, mean, and triggered to drink heavily.
He was a fireman who risked his life to save children from burning buildings in the era before good safety gear, and he also stole a slice of land from the town with forged paperwork.
As the eldest grandson of his eldest son he'd plop me in the car seat of his gigantic 70's Lincoln, and drive me around aimlessly, no speaking, no radio, "running errands". Occasionally he'd break the silence to tell me a fragment of a crazy war story, or to give me life advice about women or how to fight or why to never, ever join the military unless the Continental US was under attack.
He was a complicated man who left much unsaid to the end of his days. He was one of my childhood heroes.
Now thinking about it, they probably could've genuinely have made Rosie just by reusing Märklin's chassis & rebuilding the body shell, considering how similar the two engine's classes are
Not being able to afford a thumbnail artist or editor is not an excuse to use AI. Practically every successful channel started off with no funds and did everything themselves at one point. If 15 year old me could do all my editing and thumbnails with free software, so can you.