Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

DTM Gallery – Rejected Moon Montage

Some random clips of the “lost” Toonmakers’ Sailor Moon pilot make up the background while sad Moon from the 2003-2004 live drama sheds a tear. I don’t recall the actual date, but I’d imagine this was made during PGSM’s initial run, shortly after the debut of cat-turned-plush toy Luna in kid sailor fuku mode…

It’s safe to say that I wasn’t a fan of these kid characters because they’re generally done poorly, although in hindsight, calling Sailor Luna ugly when she was a kinda, sorta cute little kid may have been a bit much. It is what it is.

In hindsight, Sailor Luna was kinda cute and not ugly… so I don’t know where that came from.

The Adventures Of Captain Wesley Crusher (PILOT Episode)

2025 Notes:
A one-shot “pilot episode” of a series that was never intended to be. The general idea was to take the first season version of Wesley Crusher – the version that was obnoxious and was made to be smarter than all the professionals on the ship – and make him captain of the Enterprise. This was based on readings of Wil Wheaton’s TNG reviews that were eventually compiled into a book called Memories Of The Future.

Shortly after posting, I got a couple comments accusing me of being a Wesley hater – “obviously” because of the overexaggerated nature of his caricature. People seemed to have overlooked that it was intended to be overexaggerated. It says so in the disclaimer as stated below. This was harmless comedy that took something from an actor’s rummaging of his older work and took it to eleventy billion. Also, a Wesley hater would have seen Wesley die at the end of this story; mine ended with Wesley’s daydream interrupted by Captain Picard demanding he get off his chair.

No ill-will towards the character… though I sadly can’t say the same for the actor who portrayed him these days.

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A Trekkie Wants To Boycott You-Pee-Inn.

From a Trekweb posting:

Well, now that’s all said in done. Let’s let our final voices be HEARD!

I, for one, resent UPN for NOW finally promoting ENT now that it’s ending.

Star Trek has been it’s flagship show for as long as it’s been in existance.

BOYCOTT them even it if hurts. Let them feel the loss of our total viewership!!

EFFECTIVE MAY 14th..join me…in NO MORE UPN.

Gee, man. I would absolutely LOVE to boycott UPN, but I haven’t seen UPN since I found out Smackdown aired an hour earlier on another Canadian sports channel years ago. And besides that, Enterprise aired on other channels besides UPN too.

So yeah, I’d love to Boycott UPN, but I never touched the network to begin with…

PPV Predictions – WWE Backlash 2005

Okay. Since Wrestlemania 21, I’ve made it a conscious promise to make a conscious effort at posting these predictions (2010 Update: So much for that.) Today will be a little quicker and shorter because time is short, so here are my predictions (along with a short retort here and there):

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Wallpaper – Darth Vader The Movie

Fits 640×480 desktop sizes.

The following blurb was written on September 5th, 2012:

A wallpaper manipulation from back in day reflecting a more accurate portrayal of the marketing behind the final film in the supposed prequel trilogy of Star Wars.

See, kids, as much as people want to praise the prequels for all their worth these days, Lucasfilm knew that the only reason anyone would give a flying flip about the final chapter of this was because it was going to be the first time we see Darth Vader in years. Nobody cared about the conclusion of the Clone Wars or the sorry excuse of a romance saga between Emo Anakin and Panda Bear, but rather we were gonna see Darth Vader on the big screen. Oh man, it’s gonna be so fucking epic!!

And then we saw the film… and Darth Vader appeared in the movie for all of two minutes… and those two minutes was all it took to systematically destroy the image of the Dark Lord of the Sith that had existed since he first appeared in cinemas back in 1977.

But that didn’t stop Lucasfilm and company from focusing the entire marketing campaign on Darth Vader; from the promos to the merchandise to everything. All for that fleeting appearance at the end of the film. Made to look like a complete fool.

Such a shame too.

Link’s Far Out Adventure Begins… Somewhere

So for the past week, during my free time, I was attempting to get back into Zelda Classic and its more important component, quest building. After getting the basic feel of things and trying out a few custom quests, I started work on a couple of them. One being a full-quest using the original 8-bit graphics (along with the new ones that comes with it) and the other being nothing but an action game where you do nothing but slay monsters while earning useful items along the way.

I’ve been wanting to put out a full-on quest for the program and have attempted to do so numerous times, but previous attempts usually came to a halt and entered a long period of stagnation afterwards. The idea here is to try and maintain some sort of progress journal and record what I’ve been doing. I hope to parlay this into a separate blog.

Here’s to a successful experiment.

Later.

DTM BLOG Classics #07 – The “Saga” Of The “Secret” Spider-Man Movie

Today, I’m going to be revisiting something I’ve touched on a couple times on the old DTM Blog and frequently updated on the old Webstation. Considering that there’s a Spider-Man reboot in the midsts, it might seem appropriate to take a look back at this rather bewildering project that ultimately went nowhere. And while I will generally avoid adding in my own modern-day additions to the proceedings, I will add a couple notes here and there (usually denoted as such and in bold).

Originally posted July 27th, 2004, with additional postscripts and addendum posted later on.

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DTM Webstation Splash Image (Webstation Blue)

December 19th, 2013 Notes
Been looking through some old Photoshop files and came across this little thing. This was the first thing you saw when you got into my old DTM Webstation webspace. A rather unremarkable design, but it kinda worked for the most part.

I remember a message that someone sent me wondering when the Webstation was coming back and I hadn’t really thought about it. Probably because in my mind, the Webstation was a concept that died ages ago and was supplanted by the Twisted Realm blog, which is the closest thing to a functional no-frills website that I had in years. I would think that the registering of the domain name and linking it here would have killed that idea dead.

Part of me misses the thrill of creating a website from scratch, though. Building your own template to suit your particular design tastes, learning the process, getting an eye for web design… it’s probably why I spent much of that website’s life span coming up with new formats and site designs, because every subsequent design was much “intelligently” designed than the last. But is it something that I would actually consider revisiting for old time’s sake?

Not really. I like the simplicity of the blog format, most of the painful stuff is taken care of, and all that needed to be done was just the tweaking of details. And really, nothing I can put together is going to compete with what’s out there… but then, I’m not really trying to compete. I’m merely content in my own corner of the world… wide web.

Good times, though… Good bloody times…