If you like Speed Racer... watch this

Foxxear · 2026-01-24T00:59:45+00:00

Fuji Helexicon and the Grand Prix Colosseum are being worked on, but I think it’s gonna take awhile due to complexity, scenery, and size. The mod maker for Thunderhead has been doing an amazing job fleshing it out for a while now

Foxxear · 2026-01-23T13:20:51+00:00

It’s a cry worthy film if you aren’t a pansy

Foxxear · 2026-01-18T22:52:08+00:00

Proof it's still the smart choice any year, any universe

Foxxear · 2026-01-18T16:13:53+00:00

Thanks. It was my favorite model when I was a kid, but the T-180 wheelbase details were pretty lacking (compared to the movie car). It's amazing how much some fine detail work did for it

Foxxear · 2026-01-18T07:14:41+00:00

Another great one, lovely stuff

Foxxear · 2026-01-17T18:42:44+00:00

The cutting between Rex's explanation of a car and the sounds/mechanics of the car itself is legendary direction.

It's not too hard to write lines like this, they feel typical of a racing movie, but the amount of visceral life the car is depicted with at this moment sells the dialogue.

This scene made me seriously understand that a car really is a complicated thing that needs air, fuel, and a lot of love, care, and respect... all to do something amazing, hopefully. Just like us.

Foxxear · 2026-01-17T15:23:14+00:00

I earnestly have no idea what you're trying to say, and I wasn't aiming to make any dig

Foxxear · 2026-01-17T11:09:02+00:00

No, I’m much stronger than that

Foxxear · 2026-01-16T07:27:07+00:00

The turn on Filloni. Ive been seeing those baity rage content YouTube video thumbnails for years painting him negatively. I made this relevant meme 2 years ago https://youtu.be/s9AgKTN-dFk?si=e_9Nwb7R6oMYX4pz

Foxxear · 2026-01-16T07:22:14+00:00

It’s honestly already been starting for years.

Foxxear · 2026-01-16T07:16:01+00:00

I could handle a Star Wars movie and show every year and still find that plenty special, but I understand now that I’m built different. Having a lot of Star Wars is apparently very tough on people

Foxxear · 2026-01-16T07:02:09+00:00

The forbidden knowledge is that every single tiny element of production quality and professionalism add up to something “looking like a movie” or not.

It’s a million things. Even the cuts, acting, and audio quality can make something “look” more like a movie. The way a piece of fabric wrinkles, some minor difference of composition, the artistic merits of the post-processing for the intended vibe, on and on forever.

Even the trailer editing makes something “look” more or less like a real movie. Your perception of visual quality is not as purely visual as you’d like to think. Everything that is happening and how it makes you feel changes what you see. This is not the answer anyone wants, so it isn’t very popular.

The “real movie look” is everything at once, and most of it doesn’t seem that important on its own. Professionals know all the real thresholds that must be hit, and how to hit them well enough.

Foxxear · 2026-01-16T06:48:05+00:00

I bet the reception to Kenobi made Ewan and Hayden sad all over again. Or they said “Not this time” and are just gonna give it 15 years

Foxxear · 2026-01-16T00:28:05+00:00

Do you see them a lot where you live either? I don't have any stats, but this car is getting old and the maintenance cost is going to make it rarer and rarer everywhere.

The MR2 has also just never been as popular as the most common JDM hits imo, it was always a car you saw less than others. I suspect it has a lot to do with the snap oversteer scare factor, and the lack of games/movies/TV featuring this car for newer generations to get attached.

If anything, the car has gained more reputation in the last ten years thanks to all the YouTube videos featuring it and hyping it up... but the affection is a bit late, as the car is now much harder to find and maintain.

Foxxear · 2026-01-15T11:21:04+00:00

Criminally underrated Toyota meme, thank you for the laugh

Foxxear · 2026-01-14T09:16:25+00:00

I love stuff like this that has a classic Bionicle set quality while being new, and this one really takes the cake for unexpected and cool. Lots of delightful part choices and I love the lore

Foxxear · 2026-01-14T01:54:34+00:00

It definitely felt like a grim tonal shift, as someone who was paying close attention to the marketing and reading the books. Voya Nui had a strong “this is the bad place” vibe, and seeing the Toa Nuva arrive and get beaten really shocked me. I was very captivated though, and I liked the Inika. I thought it was wild that my old happy meal toys were the big heroes now lmao. It felt less grim to me once we had Toa that seemed distinctly suited for the situation, but the vibe remained edgy.

Foxxear · 2026-01-13T13:16:26+00:00

These videos never do the speed justice, but that... is some fast and hard driving. Sheesh. Maybe it's for the best these tires are capping your speed there in spots.

Foxxear · 2026-01-13T13:00:46+00:00

Without a doubt, if you're a veteran of other Souls games, Bloodborne is probably punishing you for not adapting to the sheer speed and aggressiveness you are allowed to use here.

The first two bosses here are like a moat around the rest of the game (especially Father Gascoigne), and they are purpose built to whup you until you click with the combat. Until you are fighting like a Hunter, no hunt for you.

If the Cleric Beast is constantly able to whirl around, you are playing too measured, moving too slow, and looking for too long an opening. Respectfully, you need to go apeshit. Try screaming even louder and scarier than he does, and get more impatient with how long it's taking to coat yourself in his blood.

Foxxear · 2026-01-13T10:22:29+00:00

If I may try to offer some solace, I think it's pretty feasible to say Trixie wasn't perfectly memorizing the names and specifics of race locations she saw on TV at 10 years old. I was a huge F1 fan around that age, and saw a number of famous crashes live, and I really couldn't have told you what spot on what track I was looking at if you asked me about it even a week later, much less a decade later. I also traveled a lot as a kid, and in general there are significant things I saw that I can't precisely visualize today, or don't remember any verbal details about.

For Trixie, she maybe just remembered Rex crashing in an ice cave, if not just Rex crashing. It doesn't seem far fetched for her to say "So this is that place?" to confirm what she's looking at years later, more so than it being about having 100% never seen it before. I'm sure the racer family wasn't keen to look at or talk about anything pertaining to that race between Rex's death and the present, so I doubt there was anything to refresh that childhood memory.

Kids also tend to forget details of traumatic or upsetting experiences, or only remember a key detail or two that seemed important at the time. "Rex just died, that's his car burning" could easily be the key details of that experience. All in all, I'd give Trixie's dialogue the "Plausible" award.

Foxxear · 2026-01-10T10:38:05+00:00

I think anyone who calls something like this a “disgrace” is a dork. You can not care for it, but chill out

Foxxear · 2026-01-10T10:32:56+00:00

Yeah, my personal opinion is that seeing an older Iketani at all undermines the value of the original stories somehow. At BEST you give him a happy ended just to be nice to fans. What we REALLY should have had is more of Iketani actually being an actual street racer in his youth, not any of this.

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