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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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Is she reacting to something ahead of her, or are attendees not supposed to be handing out flyers?
Insert Doctor Who cliffhanger sting!
Check the tags.
Cancel cliffhanger sting, insert dramatic chord (shrubbery).
Poor Lynn…and not a blunt object in sight.
She could grab his ponytail and go all Trunchbull on his ass…
@Lincilla, The human body is rather blunt, wouldn’t you say?
Where is the popcorn?
And this guy is surely going to be barred from Bork Con for sure.
Oh dear lord, if I had a buck for every time…
Well, I could pay for my hotel room for a con, but seriously…
I’d worry that he’s still not wearing a badge but it appears that nobody at Bork Con is wearing a badge.
Amusingly, if you had seen the original artwork for this strip before things got covered up, you’d see that two of the people in the background are clearly drawn with badges on.
Mostly I just forget to draw them a lot though. 😛