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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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What kind of hat is that? The ears can bend when you have some anxiety.
It’s a normal hat that happens to exist in a comic. Like Max’s hair, it doesn’t need to make sense.
It could also be a modified version of those ears that move based on your brainwaves. I’ve forgotten the product name, but you can buy them.
Yet it isn’t! 😛
Now I want to kit-bash a hat that actually does that.
Maybe once Necomimi comes down sufficiently in price…
Necomimi [sic]
We havn’t -lost- anyone doing this… but there was the one time a guy got placed into a carefully labeled and properly recorded crate. We knew right where he was the whole time.
That happened to Duct Tape boy once…
Got caught in one of those earlier this year – seems the decision was made to extend the con to the end of Sunday, figuring we could stash everything in the temporary storage room. Alas, it turned out that we didn’t HAVE that particular room for more than a few hours after we closed down before the hotel had to make it up for something else coming up Monday morning. Good old missed communications. This will not happen next year. 🙂
I love how Sarah’s hat ears droop when she gets upset, it looks adorable.
In my experience, tear-down goes a *lot* faster then setup, at least if it’s well organised. I don’t know whether this would work at anime cons: but at the Free Software conference I mentioned before, at the closing ceremonies they always ask people to stay around a bit if they can, to help out with the tear-down — and there are always some who do. (Including myself: I really like helping out with carrying stuff — it’s an easy way to make myself feel useful…) This way everything tends to be over within like 1 1/2 hours or so.