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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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Oh god… did this actually happen?
Nah, sometimes I just make stuff up.
…the kind of stuff that used to haunt my nightmares.
…Run you fool
Oh my – right up there with “Hey, Mom, did you know you can almost flush a tablecloth down the toilet?”
It was Barnes
Does that ‘I’m asking for a friend’ thing ever end well?
$250 mics? Where does one find these cheap mics?
Dude, on Amazon you can get two Shure PG58s (with transmitters) and a BLX88 reciever for $550 all together (link). That’s roughly $250 a mic. Hell, if you want to go cheaper and get a Pyle wireless system, you can pay only about $130 for a four mic wireless setup.
Hell, if you want high quality WIRED it only costs $100 to get a Shure SM58. Or, y’know, $10 for the Pyle knock off.
Well, he’s dead.