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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I’m asking myself what Jim’s game would be if he is attempting to bait Lynn into posting the full e-mail. I wish Admiral Ackbar were here. Traps are his specialty.
The best I can think of is getting Bork Con itself to promote “Bork Con Sucks”, funneling everyone with a grudge to Jim’s group. They would be resources for a propaganda war against Lynn and Bork con. That feels like the Plan B play but not the Plan A.
What sprigs to my mind, if they post the original email… is there any proof that’s the original? Or does it become a ‘he said, she said’ argument?
I suspect the previous posters have pretty much called it. The whole point of the email was to cut ties between Bork Con and Unagi Con By addressing or even acnowleding Jim’s post they’re defeating that. I assume Jim next step if the full email were posted would be a deflection with a complaint about how Bork Con was trying to censor his personal social media.. or something. Likely the best tactic for Lynn is to focus on Bork Con and promote the positive. The sort of crowd drawn in by flame wars probably don’t make for good goers. .
They might not even need to make a defense response. If Lynn sent that e-mail to the whole Unagi Con staff (which I think she did), then everyone on staff has seen it and will know that the version Jim posted is leaving out crucial information.
Maybe a lot of them don’t care or share Jim’s grudge, but I don’t think it’s likely that the entire staff would be fine with it. If that’s the case, there might be a staff member or two who will jump ship and release the original e-mail themselves because it’s gone too far and now the whole con is paying for Jim’s actions since they lost access to Bork-con’s equipment.
Even Garner may be able to post an independent response as a former staff member and highlight why he left, though that could be taken either way since he left to join Bork-con.
I forgot to mention that I can see them looking the other way for a direct attack at Lynn given he railroaded her, but some might have an issue with letting that animosity bleed into harassing a whole con and their staff. Everyone draws their own line.