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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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Well then. Jim’s level of unprofessionalism just keeps getting worse, doesn’t it? Also, I’m kinda trying to wrap my head around an alliance between Terrence and Jim… I mean, wow.
I’m disappointed in Jim. Not entirely surprised because people used to power can get awfully petty when they are challenged and lose, but disappointed nonetheless. I liked his low-key style and this isn’t low-key. Sure he’s a calculating social manipulator. Running an organization like Unagi Con, where they hold elections for con posts, that’s practically a job requirement.
Running a FB group and putting numerous posts into it, is time he isn’t spending on Unagi con.
Plus, how hard is it to set up a fake FB account to post from? That’s just lazy.
I’ve seen in happen in real life.
Only asking because I’ve seen this come up IRL for a con… is this anti-Bork Con FB group using the Bork Con logo? Because I’m assuming that Bork Con has their logo trademarked, which means this FB group can’t legally use it without authorization…
Does Jim realize that Terrance is the guy who showed up at UnagiCon in a Nazi uniform? Because even if he’s really, really pissed at Lynn, someone with enough social smarts to stay Unagicon Chair for a decade ought to have given some thought to the potential blowback that could come from palling around with a guy that likes to dress up as a Nazi. Because that’s bound to come out at some point.
I think it’s been established that Jim doesn’t have a problem with that.
Honest to God, I thought it was going to be Gardner and Terrance ganging up on Bork Con. Who knew?