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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Fake geek should keep his mouth shut
Veronica did mismanage Terrence. She either shouldn’t have let him on staff to begin with or shouldn’t have let Sarah go after him so relentlessly.
To be clear Veronica didn’t cause the Bork Con’s money problems, but Jim showed with the way he runs Unagi Con that a problem personality can be handled and their strengths still utilized. But you need tools more subtle than a sledgehammer.
http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2017/06/crazy-person/
http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2017/06/basic-group-dynamics/
….wow…. just when I think he’s hit rock bottom, he breaks out the jackhammer and keeps going.
Open mouth, insert foot, chew vigorously…
In addition to being a major Douche, he also seems to be missing several clues about how concoms work.
Most of ’em I think. Though to be honest since he’s only there to help his ego by taking credit for success and blaming other people for failure, actually getting involved in making it RUN would be counterproductive. Besides being a major Douche.
Had something like this happen when I was running a con. An ‘artist’ managed to get himself kicked out of our event for being a total arse. The next day they decided to clog our forums with a tirade about how we were ‘unfair’ to him. They decided to go onto just about every other convention forum they could find and post their same message. I spent the better part of 2 weeks tracking them down and posting our side.
Those like T-Douche above have a special place in heck awaiting for them.