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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…Wouldn’t it be simpler to make your own cons run the way you want? Terrence can start with Unagi con, which would have to be friendly to the Cause, right?
Everybody’s happy then or at least working on their own stuff and not trying to tear each other down.
Which given human nature is probably too much to expect…
I just find all this amusingly current given how Midwest FurFest just told Milo Yiannopoulos “Don’t come, we don’t want you here.”
is THAT why the proud boy tw@ts are planning to attend?
Would not be surprised. The story as I know it is that Milo publicly announced that he had bought a ticket and invited others to come as well, talking about hosting a right wing panel, etc. People caught wind, complained to FurFest. FurFest decided to rescind Milo’s registration. Milo has made some noise about taking action, and that’s all I know.
What strikes me as sort of sad (beyond the stupidity of the agenda in the first place that is) is that with just about any most groups, that last panel would be insanely overblown parody rhetoric, to the point that Dr. Evil would be hassling Trae about writing scenery chewing characters. In this case, it sounds about right.
hello restraining order extension