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"I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine," as modder Kevin "Trainwiz" Brock says in a Bluesky post announcing his new Morrowind mod. (Thanks, PC Gamer.)

"I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people."

Brock is, in fact, the same modder who brought Thomas to Skyrim in the first place.

"I got in so much trouble," he told The Face back in 2019. "Mattel pretty much want me dead at this point – it's the reason why the Fallout 4 mod can't be found on any normal website." He added, "It was some intermediary law firm based out of Macedonia, saying how I diminished the brand of Thomas by showing him blowing up (nothing about him violently murdering people)."

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"In between working on my game and dying of various accidental injuries, I sometimes feel like I need to milk a particular joke until its inevitable demise,"​

Brock says on the Nexus Mods page for his new creation.

"I will do this no matter how many legal threats, actual threats, black vans with the Mattel logo on them, or severed Barbie heads are mailed to me. This is because I have issues with authority, particularly authority derived from intimidation. I kicked a lot of bullies in the nuts when I was a kid."​

Article:

Modder who first put Thomas the Tank Engine into Skyrim flips the bird at the lawyers, does it again in Morrowind: "I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people"

Source: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/modder-who-first-put-thomas-the-tank-engine-into-skyrim-flips-the-bird-at-the-lawyers-does-it-again-in-morrowind-i-fundamentally-do-not-view-toy-company-ceos-or-media-ceos-as-people/

 

[Gonzito]

 

[kpopSuperstar]

I don't view anyone on bluesky as people. Or organisms for that matter. I value dirt more than people on bluesky.

 

[64gigabyteram]

"I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people."

I think we should ALL have this approach for corporations and their stupid lawsuit BS.

 

[Punished Miku]

I don't know if he flipped the bird, so much as deny that they're human beings and vow to fight them for all eternity while revealing a severe personality disorder.

 

[RoboFu]

sooo edgy!

 

[Miles708]

CEOs are not people so this checks out

 

[Punished Miku]

CEOs are not people so this checks out

Everyone knows that the main job of a CEO is to send modders cease and desist letters. It's why they make so much money.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I didn't know there was an issue with it. But that explains the prevalence of seeing Thomas the Tank in so many videos now.

 

[AJUMP23]

This guy is very tough.

 

[simpatico]

If we could add a few professions to his list, we could really start cooking.

 

[Tobimacoss]

So this guy is the one who started the Thomas mods trend in all games?

 

[adamsapple]

Shades of the guy who kept streaming pirated Nintendo games before getting sentenced.

 

[Sp3eD]

 

[ClanOfNone]

Did he do the Macho Man mod too?

 

[CuteFaceJay]

CEO you say?

 

[keraj37]

 

[MidGenRefresh]

 

[The Cockatrice]

Stupid or not, at least he has the balls to stick to his guns, unlike many gaf people here rolling their eyes at this who lick the balls of their favorite corporate overlords.

 

[Poppinfresh]

I hope Mattel's lawyers kick him in the proverbial balls.

Sue him until there is nothing left to sue and then sue him again.

 

[JackHanma]

CEO you say?

I know this guy is considered a hero in some circles, but I just view him as wasted potential. Educated and handsome, and now he is rotting behind bars.

 

[Poppinfresh]

I know this guy is considered a hero in some circles, but I just view him as wasted potential. Educated and handsome, and now he is rotting behind bars.

He's a scumbag that deserves the death penalty for murdering an innocent man in cold blood.

Anyone who considers him a "hero" is a psychopath

 

[JackHanma]

He's a scumbag that deserves the death penalty for murdering an innocent man in cold blood.

Anyone who considers him a "hero" is a psychopath

I don't disagree with you. We live in strange times.

 

[El Hee-Ho]

This is because I have issues with authority, particularly authority derived from intimidation. I kicked a lot of bullies in the nuts when I was a kid.

Dude's so good at modding he just modded his own childhood memories. Wow!

 

[jshackles]

 

[bender]

Scottbakulathrowingafootball.jpg

 

[Durin]

The man has my respect for flipping the bird to dumb companies, though less for using Bluesky though.

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

What's up with these gangster nerds lately. Didn't we have a story about some retard picking a fight with Ninty since he owned the streets or some shit a few weeks ago.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Is this skibidi toilet humor?

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

just another attention whore on the net

 

[Aesius]

I don't know if he flipped the bird, so much as deny that they're human beings and vow to fight them for all eternity while revealing a severe personality disorder.

He's a Bethesda game modder. Having a severe personality disorder is assumed.

 

[MayauMiao]

He's a Bethesda game modder. Having a severe personality disorder is assumed.

Why Thomas the Tank Engine though. Must have been part of a trauma.

 

[TheChadOfGaming]

bluesky weirdo

 

[MayauMiao]

I don't view anyone on bluesky as people. Or organisms for that matter. I value dirt more than people on bluesky.

I view the same for Reddit super moderators.

 

[kiphalfton]

I know this guy is considered a hero in some circles, but I just view him as wasted potential. Educated and handsome, and now he is rotting behind bars.

He can still be handsome in prison. And I'm sure his fellow inmates really appreciate that.

 

[Kikorin]

Ok, but you are not fighting corporations by putting a toy model in a game. You are, instead, possibly getting huge legal troubles for the most stupid reason.
But if this make you happy, I think is fine.

 

[Pejo]

The Macho Man Skyrim mod is better anyways. And I bet the guy that made it doesn't post on Bluesky.

 

[StueyDuck]

Ruh roh... he posts on pedosky and loves Thomas the tank engine, a childrens property...

That aside, if hes not charging for it then Mattel can fook off

 

[archangelmorph]

I don't understand this site sometimes.

Whilst this guy clearly is unbalanced in terms of his mental state and public tone in projecting his protest.

I'm not sure why he's being shat on for using some rando anti-musk Twitter alternative? What? as opposed to the ultra-right wing, uber-racist porn cesspit that is now Twitter?

Then there's the fact that people here are actively calling for support of Mattel here?

What?? Because he put Thomas the Tank Engine in a fucking free mod? We should think it's ok for him to be legally threatened and intimidated for this? You do know satire laws exist to protect exactly this kind of shit right? How is this hurting anyone?

Mattel are being fucking corpo dick babies here, and how people can't see that I have no idea.

They should have responded by photoshopping a Skyrim character into a still of the Thomas the Tank Engine cartoon, posted it online on April 1st and announced that they've brought him in to lead a collab with Bethesda for IP crossover as clearly the market needs this.

No one has a fucking sense of humour anymore…

 

[calico]

He seems very enamoured with himself.

 

[pachura]

Leave the multi billion dollar company alone!

 

[digimaster7]

r/IamVeryBadass