I made a few changes to the site themes (apart from dusk) and altered some of the ratios and colours of the transparency to reduce the contrasts a bit and make it easier on the eye.
I improved the system so that you can choose whatever colour you want from the theme selector, rather than just having it default to blue or having the chameleon mode set the colour based on the time of year.
I would be interested to hear peoples' thoughts on how else the site's presentation can be improved.
I've seen images of this little playset before, in its packaging, but Dan from SFFB sent me some images of the individual items close up.
The white shuttle looks to be a spring-loaded launcher that 'fires' the little 4-wheeled trolley.
In turn, The X-Bomber and battlecruiser models can be fitted on top of that.
The other week, I saw on Trekcore that Prodigy was apparently being removed from netflix due to licensing renewals (or lack of same).
The commenters were very positive about the show, so I downloaded the two series that were made.
A couple of episodes in: once the series set itself up, it got really good.
This show was clearly made by some very talented people who love the show.
This was the first Star Trek series in quite some time that I was really quite sad to see the end of.
I saw that X user: kiijmesuga175 had designed some characters for an online game: When the World Ends, which seems like a cheery setting...
In any case, the artist had based Kanetsugu-kun's helmet on Shiro's in Star Fleet.
The other day, I spotted on nitter that there had been a 2012/2013 manga, called Devilman Grimoire, that was written by Go Nagai.
It has two characters: Agwel and Ghelmer, that are based, cosmetically, on Shiro and Makara.
These characters work for the main antagonist: Sirene, which is all I know about the series.
I put the images of the two characters here.
I was looking around on Deviantart for anything new related to Star Fleet (which I didn't find) and I clicked some banner by accident that took me into their AI image generator that apparently gives you 10 free spins of the carousel wheel per week.
I was quite happy with some of the results. I like the mode that it's chosen above.
It's neither creepily photorealistic nor insipidly cartoonish.
In any case, it finally gave me a good depiction of Dr McDonald, who is completely not-at-all based on any real person. She walked away from Simetra's medical-industrial complex and uses actual medicine to keep the Sylph squadron pilots in the utmost fighting condition.
For long trips and holidays, I thought it would be good to have something better than a phone and smaller than a laptop.
The FZ-M1 also resembles, a bit, the pup pad from Paw Patrol, which is quite a lovable show.
Unfortunately, there's no good screenshot of the pup pad's GUI, or the geometric background that they use in the show, and nobody seems to have thought of mocking one up either.
So I had a little play in Photoshop. The background is from Pngtree and the individual logos were helpfully provided by PNGEgg.
The resulting file is here for anyone that can use it for a similar project.
I found the link to this AI-generated animation of Dai-X on nitter:
X Bomber Big Dai X Animation - Iromirai
I found the way that the top of the mask 'wobbles' a little distracting, but the overall impression is quite impressive.
It looks to me that the AI engine drew reference from the 2000s Transformers movies, as well as the styles of the machines from Gundam 00 and AGE.
I think that, if they did a Star Fleet-based movie today (especially, if it were made in the West), then Dai-X would probably look something like what you see in this clip (even though the original design hasn't really aged).
I feel that, if there were any risk of a remake ever being produced, that they would want to 'tweak' the original design to try and meet the expectations of any new audience.
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