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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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Honestly I think a lot of cons want to do this…..But, but how will they take pre-reg, how will they take sign ups of any kind?
If they only do at-door, then they’ll make more money!
A friend of mine who also works in trucking told me this!
Google questionnaire.
Eventbrite and the like. It’s still a terrible idea.
You know, if they want to cut Lynn out of the equation then let them, Lynn don’t need to be part of their staff and she can watch them implode from the inside
I agree.
I mean, given how this con has been run so far this isn’t unusual, but shouldn’t cutting an entire department be discussed over more than one meeting? Especially if the head of the department isn’t even around to be consulted about it? Doing something this big this fast seems like an invitation to disaster.
That sounds like a great meeting to miss. One annoying drain on life energy cut loose in one swell foop.
I loved the rollover text!
ABORT ABORT ABORT ABORT