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Here's a comprehensive list of things I noticed from the trailer for Switch Resort during the recent Nintendo Direct.

• Wuhu's Redesign: Wuhu Island is, indeed, a full archipelago this time around compared to the original. We could see they were leaning into that with the first trailer, but this new one has confirmed it. I know a lot of people prefer the old Wuhu, but I kinda like, even if I miss having a full looping track around the island.
• Miis: Miis seem to be WAY more prominent here than they were in the first Switch Sports. Along with bringing back Matt (and possibly other Wii Resort Miis), there are Miis populating the sport areas alongside the Sportsmates, and even a full blown Mii suit that (maybe?) will compatible with both Miis AND Sportsmates. Too early to know for sure, though.
• Free-roam: It seems like fully free-roam options for Power Cruising, Skateboarding and Prop Plane are here (along with POSSIBLY getting different times of day to explore, as evening has been confirmed for the latter). Also, collectibles like hibiscus flowers and Spocco photos will at least be available to collect in both the plane and skateboarding modes (as well as challenges for all three), though it does NOT currently seem like stuff from the original game is here in that regard, as Ollie Hill is not a location in Wii Sports Resort. It's also strange, as sometimes a time limit is present in skateboarding, and it sometimes isn't; plus, prop plane and power cruising seem to lack one altogether at the moment. Not sure if this is indicative of them having time limits as an option (and not a mandatory thing), but we'll see.
• New Modes Confirmed: A bunch of these to get through. Lightning Round:
  • Dogfight is back for the plane mode, though it looks like you'll have to go to certain balloon areas on the island to get more instead of traveling to specific landmarks, and the balloons now trail in a row instead of having one big one. I actually kind of like this, as it allows for real hijinks.
  • Tennis singles is finally here (can't believe it took Nintendo THIS long to make it an option. Also, you may or may not be able to customize the size of the ball)
  • Volleyball has gained a solo mode, right now just looking as a sort of training mode for practicing bumps. Interesting.
  • Table Tennis Return Challenge has been confirmed to return, a welcome sight, as it was a mode that my cousins and I personally loved playing in the original Wii Resort.
• Menu Redesign: The game's main menu has seen a redesign compared to the first Switch Sports. Now, all the sports can appear in a grid or in a sliding row. Plus, there's now a row at the bottom for stuff like friend and online play, the jump rope warm up, the customization, options, and...
• Island Crown Mode: This deserves its own section. This brand new off-line mode allows you to take on champions of each of the 9 main action sports (not including power-cruising, skateboarding and prop plane). You start at the bottom, and work your way up, sort of like the progression seen in Wii Sports games on the, well, Wii. A very welcome addition, and the legendary Matt seems to be an "Island Legend" in Boxing, which, yeah, that's accurate.
• More Customization: Perhaps not as big as the others, but it seems like some new customization stuff has been confirmed for this game, such as the aforementioned Mii suit. Though, right now, it's unconfirmed if this stuff will be exclusive to online play again, or can be obtained through collectibles and the Island Crown Mode. We shall see.
• Stamps: Stamps are back, baby! Once more, a very welcome addition back from Wii Resort (and Wii Sports Club, but who cares about that game, lol). Of course, we don't know what the stamps will look like, yet. But, I imagine it's not TOO dissimilar to what they were like in Wii Resort and Club.

And, yeah, I think that's it. I pre-ordered the game already off of Amazon weeks ago, but this trailer, weirdly has me even more excited. Yeah, I'm still not SUPER fond of the Sportsmates, even if they have grown on me, and Wuhu's redesign was perhaps not entirely necessary. But, I don't know, I feel like Nintendo is REALLY pulling out as many stops as they can to make this game be as worthy of a follow-up to the original Wii Sports Resort as possible, just in the modern era. Of course, a full remake would've probably been better; but, with Wii games likely coming to NSO soon, I think Nintendo likely didn't see a point in doing that. So, yeah, once again, I'm very excited.

Feel free to let me know what you think of the game now, and if I missed anything.

Here's photos (really, video stills from the NTSB video linked below), of the car and van the 767 cargo jet slammed into as it overran Runaway 30 at Miami International Airport. I don't see anything NSFW about it, but I wouldn't be surprised if the mods somehow end up labeling it as such.

The sedan looks like it got torn almost in half, and the van's front end (and even the middle somewhat) got crushed.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W4o1gmxx48

So, yesterday's accident involving 21 Air/Prime Air Flight 7598 has made me look into the airline to see what it's like and how it's operated. Of course, it's WAY too early to speculate on whether or not anything involving 21 Air led to the crash, but I wanted to get any and all info I could find out there so that way we know what kind of airline we're talking about here. So, with that out of the way, let's get started.

21 Air is a North Carolina and Florida based cargo airline founded in 2014 by Adolfo Moreno, a veteran in the aviation industry, and who served as the founder and chairman of the airline until 2021, when he sold his share and moved on to other ventures. During some of that time, 21 Air was a virtual airline operated under Dynamic Airways, which eventually became Eastern Airlines (no, not THAT Eastern) in 2018, and operated originally to serve South America. The airline also primarily operates 767s, but it does have one 757 in service.

Moreno actually created it in the first place for mostly one reason. According to an article from FreightWaves, "Frustrated with all-cargo carriers that wouldn’t customize service for smaller customers, Moreno started his own airline that he envisioned as more attuned to 21st century practices. He acquired an aircraft and then rented crews until 21 Air received an operating certificate allowing it to fly on its own." This certificate occurred in 2016. The company reached a deal with DHL in 2020, and has serviced crews for the cargo airline since. However, not long after Moreno left, still in 2021, Texas based businessman Jim Crane became the majority owner of 21 Air. Aside from being the former chairman of the Canadian cargo airline Cargojet (Kulish, 2026), Crane's perhaps most famous (or, maybe, infamous) for being the owner of the Houston Astros baseball team, and he was actually the owner during the Astros' infamous 2017 World Series winning team, a team that cheated by stealing signs catchers made to pitchers and banging on trashcans (and also using cameras). Now, no evidence was found that Crane was personally involved, but he was criticized for his response to it, when he said that cheating "didn't impact the game (Passan, 2020)."

Around November of 2024, the company was hired by Amazon/Amazon Air to be the new primary carrier for the package delivering service. Around the same time, according to FreightWaves, "Tim Strauss, the former CEO of Amerijet International and vice president of cargo at Air Canada, has quietly resurfaced as CEO (Kulisch, 2024)." According to an article by Yahoo Finance, Strauss had "a rocky three years as CEO of...Amerijet." Strauss also was CEO of Cargojet, which had announced a minority investment in 21 Air in 2021, before letting it go in 2026 to focus on its own ventures; Strauss was also let go of around the same time, and an internal executive had to be called up in his place (Kulisch, 2026).

Also, I did some investigating into what people thing of the company, and -- perhaps unsurprisingly -- there's not much. I did find one 2023 review on Glassdoor that said, "Extremely disorganized. Joined during an acquisition. Some prospective clients were lost due to the incompetency of HR." Another on the airline pilot central forum said the company is, "Just one of the scumbag 767 operators in Miami." Though, they didn't offer much beyond that, so feel free to take that with a grain of salt.

Now, all this stuff behind the scenes, again, doesn't guarantee that something within the company led to the crash of Flight 7598, which is the airline's first accident, fatal or otherwise. However, once more, I wanted to show y'all the history of the company (as much as I could find, anyway). Also, sorry if any sourcing looks off or has gone awry; it's been a bit since I've been in university, where I did this all the time for my history papers, and I tried using MLA for in-text citations (even though this isn't much of a formal thing, lol). Also, if any of you find something about the airline, especially a news source or something, please feel free to leave a comment about it, and I'll look into it and see if I can add it to this post.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Air

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adolfo-moreno-a485118/

https://centreforaviation.com/data/profiles/airlines/21-air-2i

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Air_Flight_7598

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/21-air-eyes-larger-boeing-777s-to-access-long-haul-cargo-market

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Astros_sign_stealing_scandal

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28693762/what-make-houston-astros-owner-jim-crane-public-non-apology

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/former-amerijet-boss-resurfaces-as-ceo-of-cargo-airline-21-air

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/canada-cargojet-plays-role-ceo-150630408.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHsYUk98SI7Og0BH7QqjuJ6aic4udSWuMdy3sJaaHQGv1iuTJ3FZzaz4zbWMIFWc9a6Djjmb5yBGH49HF4KzhFP4bWbNnmKlLhs4yvmC7lN0tpn8LNZuGp5U3Go8XROGNGYFz9dusarOEqn9CT2H3mS6VytO7mUE4v3i5nOXxjlT

https://cargojet.com/cargojet-announces-a-strategic-minority-investment-in-21air/

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/21-Air-Reviews-E7821769.htm

https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/cargo/103952-air21-767-operator-mia.html

Here's some ATC audio of the aftermath of the Prime Air/21 Air Flight 7598 crash at Miami-Dade today. Again, not sure if it's gotten posted before (and I realize it's not much compared to what VASAviation will likely post to YouTube in the coming days), but -- if it has -- please feel free to let me know, and I will take it down.

Also, the ones talking to ATC at the start before the American jet were likely the ground vehicles that were pulling up to the aircraft in that one video (or possibly the fire trucks).

Now, it's likely that more will pop in as we move into the next day, but I have noticed there are a few photos of the incident that, reportedly (EDIT: now officially), killed an airport worker at Montreal's Trudeau Airport today -- supposedly by being run over with a landing gear (the front one is what a lot of people are talking about right now).

Image from video by Quinn Design Associates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSIQ3F9ERc4

Not sure if this has been posted on here before at all (pretty sure it has); but, I was recently down the 'Replica Titanic' rabbit hole (partly thanks to remembering...Clive Palmer's Titanic II, ugh), and came across this oldie from 2020.

The plan would essentially be to make a 1:1 replica inside the old graving dock where the Olympic Class liners were fitted out, although the render here looks more like Olympic post-WWI than Titanic with all them lifeboats.

Honestly, this is the ONLY Titanic replica idea that has a glimmer of potential. It'd be in the city that built it (possibly even by the same company if you really wanted it to, though I'm not sure how Harland & Wolff are doing at the moment), it'd be almost as perfect a replica as one can make it, and it'd have the best chance of actually being made (though cost would certainly still be a major factor here).

If someone with an astronomical amount of cash, a deep passion for Titanic, and ISN'T someone like Palmer, strolled up to the Befastian (is that you say that?) and/or Irish Government(s) and asked, "Hey, can we do this?" while showing them this concept, and making it clear it'll be something like the Queen Mary Hotel and Museum (just a LITTLE bit easier to maintain since she'll not be floating), I think this project COULD seriously end up happening.

What do y'all think? Am I getting too caught up in this, or is it somehow feasible?

This ball was fully in the zone, too.

Also, this was a repost due to missing context.

Just decided to edit the break-up scene from the James Cameron film with some better sound effects, and also included my own personal break up sounds I made. It's not perfect, and I had to slow or speed up some scenes to match the sfx better; but, an attempt was made. I made the video black and white, too, just for fun.

Yet again, I edited everything in this video myself, with NO help or aid from you know what. Headphones are recommended for the best listening experience, as well (though, please be warned, this video will be rather loud past the mid-volume or so, especially as it goes along and then during the breakup, which is even louder than it was last time. Also, please don't go max volume, either.).

Movie Scene from "Titanic splits in half" by Titanic Movie/Pelicula

Additional SFX from these sources:

• "The Final Hours of Titanic - New 2026 Real Time Sinking Animation" by Titanic: Honor & Glory
• "TITANIC SINKS IN REAL TIME: 2025 HISTORIANS EDITION!!! (With Immersive Audio)" by The Steam and Splendor Network
• "The Final 30 Minutes of TITANIC in REAL TIME I Unreal Engine 5 Animation I 2026 Edition" by Danny Molloy
• "Titanic Break Up sound effect (Credits if used)" by TS: Titanic Animations
• "Titanic Final Moments in Movies | Real Time Sinking" by IceCard
• "Sleep to Big Ocean Waves Crashing | Stormy White Noise Water Sounds 10 Hours" by Relaxing White Noise
• "Positive Lightning Strike (HQ Sound)" by Spike95ist
• "Crowd Scream Sound Effect - Panic Reaction" by Audio Vibrations
• "Deep Rolling Thunder in Summer | No Rain | Calm Before the Storm | 3 Hours" by Silent Field
• "Steam Safety Valve Blowing Off" by jason shalders

Taken from this video: https://www.today.com/video/exclusive-discovery-channel-finds-pan-am-wreckage-from-1952-267006533638