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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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Why do I get the feeling we’re going to see some other familiar faces soon?
Bit of a spelling error in the middle panel. “We won’t BR able to to run the event.
Longshot, but I hope Garner jumps ship. I miss Garner.
He started off as a real twat-waffle, but joining forces with Lynn against Nazis and backing her up in the aftermath rather endeared me to him. Goes to show that even seemingly jerk-off people can have good qualities.
Maybe it’s cold?
Hey now, the metabolically challenged can be great workers and can follow orders very well… admittedly the zombies can get a bit bitey, but just think of it as aggressive recruiting for next year…
….my point being don’t exclude someone just because they lack a pulse.
Who knew Reg Shoe weighed in on internet comics?
For a couple years we had panel meetings of ‘PETU’… People for the Ethical Treatment of Undead. So conventions and zombie rights are tied together in my brain.
Ethical treatment of the Undead. That’s like … stitches and bandages, not Cure Light Wounds? 😛
Setting the bar high, there.
typo: we wont BR able to run the event