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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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YES! YES!
Sometimes you just gotta be blunt.
Also, Lynn is wearing pants again. I’m still wierded out by this.
She’s not wearing pants — it’s her standard skirt/boots. It gets kind of lost with the angle, but you can see her stick-knees if you look closely.
It’s one of the magical side effects of Boots of Whoosh!
This is an interesting way to end this event even though there is one more day left.
I don’t know why, but for the last two days of the strip I’ve been hearing Lynn’s voice as Raven from Teen Titans Go. It’s got that whole “you humans are crazy” vibe….
That’s not too far off from how she’s always sounded in my head.
Maybe a little lower.
Like somewhere between there and Aubrey Plaza
Hovertext that isn’t the strip title! Hooray!
too hard for disney to keep the triad they spent a season of girls meets world setting up going bast 4 episodes in the following season
Grin – go Lynn! Been there done that sorta, no t-shirt though.