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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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MAGfest 2013 memories.
There was an Animazement (2007 I think?) where this happened TWICE.
I remember this….i was so mad cause i had just fell asleep like 2hours before it went off and i just happen to get a room at the main hotel…..everyone was getting dressed and i was like fuck it got my comp bag and headed out in PJs xDD they made us get in lines and i felt like i was in school for fire drills and drug raids/searches again. So mad T^T
Multiple Otakon flashbacks…
Hey look it’s Perry. *Epic Phineas and Ferb reference*
so with out clothes on apparently max is stick thin…
We’ve actually seen it before. Without clothes ALL of the characters look like stick figures.
I believe Trae you also stated that they are just stick figure reps of real people so they aren’t really stick figures but just stick representations of real people.
We have ti to use our own imagination to to interpret them as people.
Well yes. I was talking about how they look in the art. Max and Veronica would look more like this in reality http://www.trhonline.com/uncon-reimagined/veronicaandmax.png
Mysticon a coupe of years ago.
I was at that Mysticon! XD
As an attendee and staff member of MFF staff for 9 years I feel your pain. 4 of the last 9 years I think? Though for the last 2 at least I hadn’t gone to bed…..yet
Leastwise nobody’s playing S&M games on the sprinkler vis the Great Flood at Disclave… (One of this year’s Kazoo Award categories was convention mis-accomodations. I had absolutely no trouble whatsoever finding six songs, each about a different convention for the ballot. I could have likely found three times that number if I’d needed to. 🙂 )
I was in a hotel (not at a con) where this happened. Someone had been holding some sort of candle lit ritual in his room and it got out of hand. Fire doors shut and everything. We didn’t have to evacuate though, so we had that.
Furfright, MFF, etc, etc. It’s a tradition! …a shitty, shitty tradition.