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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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I gotta wonder when was the last time this guy made it into Artist Alley by actually getting a table (vs. just making camp like he did previously)… Cause those display things have been the norm for artists for a few years now… At least they are at the conventions where I’m from.
Although…it’s also possible he’s set up at a table he didn’t reserve yet again.
Yep and I think he chose the table right next to the table of the business whose table he claimed back at the other convention, this should be good.
Holy crap, you’re right! I completely missed that! This just got a whole lot more interesting…
That’s the last thing people like Crazy Paul will ever do….stop talking.
Okay Crazy Paul, I understand you’re crazy, but let’s for a moment assume you’re not. For the sake of argument, let’s say they really did put of an improper display that blocks other tables. You asked nicely, they refused. STOP TALKING. Talking more will not help to any degree. Get a staffer. It’s their job to deal with it. And in this specific case, ‘deal with it’ means ‘deal with you.’
Asking once politely would be within reason, usually. More than that, yeah – you’d be out on your arse for starting crap most places I’ve seen. Hell, been to two where you quite specifically, by contract, were to bring any and all disputes to staff, and not say a single word to the person yourself. Policy derived from dealing with 2 attempted fistfights one year, and a table sabotage 2 years later. They were quite serious about that too – saw one artist get the boot for figuring that rule did not apply to them.
Pushing it beyond an initial “Ok” or “Nope” response yourself isn’t liable to end well in any venue I’ve seen.
Not saying a word seems a bit much, but I can see where it might be for the best. Any place with such a rule would need to make certain there are staffers around, but beyond that, I can see it working.
It was extreme, yeah. Fully admitted etc. when they made the policy, but they were getting rumblings from the venue of “If this kind of crap happens again we’re not gonna be available as a venue next year.” That being the case, they went with “Ok, we’re gonna make REAL DAMN SURE this won’t happen again.” They were not spoiled for choices as to where, bit out in the boondocks so… yeah.
Also, to be fair the 2 near fights involved a lot of loud horrible behavior that was pretty ugly – and the sabotaging actually ended up busting up part of the wall near the table when a monitor smashed into it. Pretty much everyone admitted that it was not unreasonable for the venue – and the con staff in turn – to get draconian.
I totally need to get that “Kikaider” print!