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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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*Insert loss joke here*
Is anyone making a comic about life in a craft and fabric store? I have some friends that would read that.
Not a comic (or about fabric), but my friend Lee wrote a pretty entertaining book about working in a craft store during the Glue Slime craze. https://www.amazon.com/Glue-Famine-Lee-Bradford/dp/1983969567
Not exactly a craft store, but “Missing Threads” reminded me of something I used to read. A bit of a search pulled up “Worsted for Wear” (http://www.worstedforwear.com/). It was a knitting comic, not fabric, but close enough to click in my brain.
No one has found an/or pulled the Drama tag! It is not short packed!
*looks at I Hate November* Yeah… there’s never been drama in this comic, sure…
I meant missing threads.
Wapsi Square wandered off its slice-of-life start, so evolution is possible.
… “wandered off?” Do you also refer to nuclear explosions are somewhat warmish? They’ve not wandered off, they’ve yelled “Fark all this noise!” and ran outside and took the next train to WTF. It’s actually one of the poster children on TVTropes for ‘Plot Kuzdu” and “The Chris Carter Effect” – both of which are pretty spot on from here at least.
To be fair, tickets to WTF were on a pretty good sale… hmm.
(Yep, still do read it intermittently, but mannnnnnnnn have they gone to a dimension where no one’s ever even heard of rails, much less being on them.)
I recently did a re-read, and am trying to figure at exactly what point it left the rails. Yeah, odd things showed up fairly early, but they were also kinda small and didn’t affect much. And it just kept going, and going and going, and all of a sudden it’s really really weird.
Well, I believe they are measured in “Sunshine Units.”
OH YEA! I forgot about that comic i dropped off right after the thing w the time loop was fixed
”Slice of life’? That sounds boring.’
‘Well, have you tried reading the first couple comics? It would only take a minute.’
‘Nah, it sounds boring.’
‘Hundreds of fans love it and check for updates every day.’
‘Nah, sounds boring.’
‘You’re not even going to give it a chance, are you?’
‘Nope, sounds boring.’
The real person this is based on was genuinely confused at the concept that a comedy comic was a THING.
I remember being confused that DRAMATIC comics were a thing. I never understood Mary Worth or Prince Valiant!
To be fair the poster she has up implies it’s darker then it apparently is