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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I applaud you Garner. Even assholes can do the right thing sometimes. Most people are rarely ever wholly bad or wholly good.
I dunno about Terrance though… He just keeps getting worse.
Ya gotta remember, even jackasses have others that they rightfully regard as jackasses. Hardly anyone is a complete prong about everything. Well, ‘cept Terrance thusfar…
That’s pretty much what I meant, really.
Why did this conversation wait for Garner to have? Con staffers should have made this point to Terrence long before now.
I got the impression that Lynn and Ruth were the first con staffers to notice the uniform and Lynn was specifically told not to do anything. Garner was the third to notice and here we are now.
Sometimes I feel like people need a lecture on civics class 101: Freedom of Speech does not mean freedom to say whatever you want where ever you want. It means the government can’t limit it.
Lol cons can do whatever the fuck they want if you say or do shit like this.
Even from the government, you are free to say whatever, but you are not free from the results of doing so. And yeah, Cons get to make their own rules. To a point, of course.
AHH poppers paradox if your culture is too tolerant the intolerant will exploit it