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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From the level of simmer on him, I’d suspect people would want to run the other way if he was a purple plesiosaur plushie. Accidental alliteration, argh! Btw Trae – 10 points on managing to draw someone that looks that pissed with that wide of a “shot” to draw. I’m kinda impressed with how well the death stare comes through.
I kinda want a purple plesiosaur plushie now…
Oh yeah. Were I at this con, I’d 100% avoid any table with a person behind it giving that kind of death glare. I wouldn’t be surprised if that look had a negative impact on pre-registers and people willing to approach his table, candy or not.
Also, I too would like a plesiosaurs plushie. 😛
I had to look after reading the replies – not going to link it here, but there actually is an Etsy vendor that sells fleece plush plesiosaurs in your choice of color. The internet is a truly amazing thing sometimes. You really can find everything.
Ooh! Maybe once I recover from paying for a Con hotel room … and a Soul of Chogokin Grendizer…