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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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Set-up at Geek.Kon went so smoothly this year that we were constantly yelling at each other to stop saying how well things were going. Somehow it was still as incident-free as cons get.
That’s almost as bad as Security/Medical saying “I’m Bored”…
“May you live in interesting times.”
This happened with our Anime Club a couple years ago. We were trying to promote with a table at a college event, only to have a breakdancing club next to us. :/
Then it ripped off your dad’s face.
He was screaming something awful.
We had to change the floors
If it seems nothing went wrong, despite all assurances something horrible should have happened, just remember, that’s when the mental scars truly began.
That, or The Doctor saved you. 50/50
I’ve never done this.
the bushes of love?
Everyday I worry all day.
Never, no never say, “It will be a piece of cake.”
The only worse words: “We have all the space we could ever possibly need.”
We haven’t seen Naruto Guy in a while… or DBZ guy… seems like that would be a good callback.