Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
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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Have we heard about the restraining order before? I don’t remember hearing about the restraining order before.
Also, if he’s the subject of a restraining order against a staff member, wouldn’t that have, in essence, already banned him from the con? I mean, if I had a restraining order against someone, I’d notify the con I work for, and someone on registration staff should have checked their database to make sure he wasn’t on the attendee list.
The restraining order mention is literally how Chapter 8 closes: http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2017/11/breaking-point-murder/
As for the ban — yes, he should have been, but a lot of smaller cons don’t check names for at-door reg, and as they are a couple of hours from the town they live in, Ruth and Sarah may not have thought to inform the reg staff.
Ok, gotta admit I didn’t see that boomerang zooming in behind Terrence – well played sir. Also, it’s not often that you get to see the person being stalked cynically manipulate the process and regulations to make the stalker’s life go to hell – usually rather the opposite.
So ten points for that too.
STOMP HIS FACE!
This is the best comment,
If I gave out prizes, this would win one.
You could take a page from Stan Lee’s book…
And don’t forget to stomp the family jewels too, we don’t need him being able to reproduce. Even if women would no chance in hell, date him, we still don’t need him being able to spread his jerkface genetics. Because sometimes you never know what kind of women might actually give him the time and day.
Okay, so you had them talk about getting one, but not that they did get one. (Moot now that Lynn has said they have it).
Terrence maybe could be in trouble for going to the convention; but only if he knew Ruth and Sarah were/are on staff at this convention. Ruth being in the room merely means knowing she’s there he has to leave/maintain distance. If he neither knew she was at the convention, nor did not see her until Lynn pointed it out, he only has to leave now.
The convention I work with, we do have a permanent ban list, and if any staff member (sometimes attendees, but that ones rare) has someone they need banned or kept away, we expect them to tell us or it’s not our fault if someone they don’t want there shows up. I myself have had to deal with an attendee who she and her ex had mutual restraining orders on each other: whomever got to the convention first, got to stay.
Lynn is counting on the cops not taking his word for it that he didn’t know they were there.
Terrence also doesn’t think the cops will believe him, as he’s not an idiot (just an asshole)
Bluff. This is how you bluff.
I’d worry about cops who’d believe a guy in a Nazi uniform.
when word gets out evey con in the state will pay Ruth and Sara to be on staff to keep F***Boi away from them
Totally forgot about the restraining order!
I suppose you’d call that an “out of court settlement”…
Man I knew that the restraining order was going to come up, I wanted to post about it when you showed his face the first time to ask if it actually had happened.
I am kind of glad I didn’t, because that would have ruined the twist but man I feel smart thinking of that.
I also wanted to note that I thought it was unrealistic no one recognized Terrance… so there is that….
I’m just glad the November story isn’t going to be the trial of Lynn, I was prepping for that depression.
My thought is that no one was looking at his face.
And there is Trae standing there behind Ruth, dumbfounded as to what the hell just happened. That Homestuck cosplayer better have sealed her paint btw. That older man with the goatee also looks dumbfounded. And Jasper of course witnessed nothing or maybe he decided to wash his hands clean because he doesn’t want to testify in court and risk getting banned from any con that Lynn is staffing.
Well played sir, well played. I did not see that coming… to be fair, neither did Terrance.
Garner’s being pretty quiet throughout this conversation. Is he impressed by her at all that she managed to punch him in the face? Or is he just happy to get the guy out of here, I wonder.
Either way, good on Lynn taking her opportunity to punch this guy in the face when she saw she had it.
That or realizing just how goddamn scary she can really be.
TBF these were pretty extenuating circumstances that let her get away with socking someone in the face.
I just noticed something, Jasper has always had his back facing, he’s never show us his frontside.