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So it was literally more than twenty years ago that I first put one of my dumbest creations on the internet: The Steven Seagal Movie Generator.
Like I seriously publicly launched that dumb thing back in 2004, and for those of you who were unaware, it assembles a title, cast and plot of a fake Steven Seagal movie from elements of his (real) bad films.
I honestly got the idea from a former-friend, who in high school wrote a comedic piece about how you could mash up the titles of Seagal films in the weird underground "newspaper" that got handed out for a few years. But I took it a few steps further, and made a whole thing.
Mostly it just sat there though, a thing I made once and never went back to. I followed it up with the Sci-Fi Channel Movie Generator (later retitled the Syfy Movie Generator) in 2008. I spent more time on that one, doing a later design update that made the "Syfy" movies show up on a fake DVD back cover.
But the Steven Seagal generator just sort of sat there, untouched.
And Steven Seagal kept making (terrible) movies with (predictable) titles. Like a lot. But the generator still only spat out movies culled from the nineties and early 2000s, ignoring all of his new stuff. There was a whole library of awful movies that just weren't in there, and it made the generator feel less relevant.
So, uh, I went and did something about that today.
First off, I redesigned the page. Now it looks like the back of a VHS tape box. Then I loaded the elements of about twenty-five additional films into the generator. And that was harder than I thought it would be, since some of the films are so obscure that they're not well documented. I literally had to do some deep research to figure out a lot of the basic plot details that are now in the generator.
But I did it.
And it's done.
And the generator is now fully loaded.
It's still useless and dumb, though.
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you’d have to sell to every person who walked in the door to turn a profit at that price
I can only assume the guest list includes Stan Lee, Dick Sprang, and Jesus Christ. The convention itself must cater to millionares who are expected to drop a few thousand in the artist alley….
Why is this reminding me of another con, that is NOT a midwest con, that was NOT a first year con, but had some outrageous prices on their artist alley, for their attendance?
And may or may not have put their AA in a damp, moldy garage? (not naming names, of course)
Wasn’t the dealers room AND Artist Alley in that black-mold infested garage?
Either way…I don’t remember the prices specifically. But if memory serves, should be something around the 120 range or something (Still flipping high)
Shesh the artist allies at the con’s down here are the same price and we get 10k plus for most anime con’s!
Even if that includes a membership, that’s hefty indeed.
For what it’s worth, New Englander’s say “wicked” on a constant basis;
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