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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Is Garner using “everyone” in a manner both analogous and opposite to “how are we doing?”
He thinks something, and because he’s clearly right, everyone else must agree with him and just not be willing to say it. Because if they don’t then he might be wrong, and that’s just inconceivable.
(also, WOW, dude is sure blaming Lynn for his own damn problems, isn’t he?)
Lynn should just walk away and tell that staff to go find a new webmaster
To paraphrase an earlier comic: “Yeah, I don’t know why you’d think that was an option.” considering who is involved here.
One tactic is to say, “Hey guys, Garner tells me that I’m annoying everybody and acting superior. I’m really sorry about that. So I’m going to resign right now so you can find a webmaster that can work with you better.”
I was going to say that Lynn’s anger management therapist earned her money only if Lynn never came looking for a fight to begin with.
But instead, I’ll recognize the obvious progress she must have made to not throttle this guy.
Hahahahahahhaha!
Oh, god, I have been in a very similar situation. A con in my area had an entire dept quit, and came to my con to recruit people as a stop gap so they could rebuild their staff. We showed up and were treated like we carried the plague. it was like, well, why did you ask us here if you didn’t actually want the help?
It’s official – Garner is a complete bag of garbage. If you have an issue with someone, you don’t forcibly drag it into public view behind their back and take steps to “get back” at them. You don’t put a business other people have worked hard for at risk. You don’t spend hours wasting other people’s time. You go and talk to the other person.
Yeah, this may be something of a hot topic for me. I find these kind of people to be some of the lowest forms of scum.
….I still kinda hoping for a Garner sized hole in the wall…
Why cause property damage when you can just replace the website with a page that say “i quit its his fault dont call me” wouldnt even need to remove the site just change all the folder names
Fight? Fight? Fight? Fight? Fight?
Eight! Eight! Eight! Eight! Eight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brAHpMxXt00&list=PL2EA30775CC195E3A