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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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I thought there would be more intensity. But I argue with the guy in the black fedora, when you have girls, why would you want to leave.
Grin – back when my kid was in middleschool, the D&D club didn’t want her to join for some reason. She mentioned this to the gamers at the next con she attended. The universal reaction of the male gamers present “Are they NUTS?”
You guys wanna join Bork Con staff?
We’ve got HATS.
you only really need to run screaming from con staff when the con is only just around the corner. mine cruise parties and uni halls like old-timey royal navy officers trying to impress unsuspecting (and us suspecting) hapless souls.
Interested in the third guy… because he seems to have a clue, and moreso as looks kinda familiar…
I literally tried to make those three look like the most stereotypical three geek dudes I could think of.
I definitely see elements of myself in all three.
*shudder*
My jeans are black and I currently have a mustache. Elsewise, is like you worked off a picture. Guess I fit the ‘generic geek’ look. XD