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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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Seems like you have an extra “D” after “Sarah” in Ruth’s third bubble in the middle panel. Sounds like it should be “Sarah gets lonely” instead of “Sarah’d gets lonely?”
Might have combined two similar thoughts? I do this all time lol! Although much of the time it’s when I’m speaking out loud…
Never noticed before but is every set of glasses worn in this series unique either by shape or color?
It’s not necessarily all that unique for everyone, but I’m consistent with characters. Ruth’s purple glasses have always been a part of her design, so they’re consistently the same color and shape?
Well, it IS rather weird by heteronormative standards.
But by those same standards everyone involved is pretty weird too, so it’s no surprise the relationship is weird…
So long as everyone involved is giving willing informed consent and are happy with it, I see no problem.
I’m sure there will be problems, every relationship has problems, but fewer problems than if they weren’t maintaining informed consent.
Si. You pretty much have your choice between, “This feels kinda weird but at least we’re on the same page.” and “Since we never interact, you are now demonized and are the cause of all the problems in my relationship, now DIE.”