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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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Smooth move exlax!
This sounds like it’s a fun Bork Con lol.
So, funny story regarding Nan Desu Kan here in Denver… We had some jacks spray painting styrofoam in their hotel room. Bad news: it tripped the chem sensor on the fire alarm. Good news: We can apparently evacuate the convention floor in about 5 minutes.
Thankfully, we got the clear to go back in and got everyone back inside about 10 minutes before the tornado sirens started going off. So, once again, I can, as a convention staffer, read your comic and say, “Yep, that’s happened to me.”
I have Bad Weather Stories. I have Convention Stories. I do not have any Bad Weather Convention stories, though have heard quite a few.
Keep doing cons long enough, and the odds say you’ll end up with your own eventually 😛
I hope you see this, Trae. I finally made it to your website(s). You gave me your cards at the geek.kon in Madison and I said I’d leave you a note so you knew I actually visited your site.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
Most likely, though as a country boy form Nebraska I confess I’m less worried by bad weather than I might be. So long as the tornado doesn’t hit the house, it’s not worth worrying about.
Not a story about a convention i was involved in, just one i attend every year.
3 days before the convention is due to start there is heavy rain, which follows several months of rain. That night a local river backs up, and all the drainage in the area of the convention hotel goes wrong.
The basement and ground floor of hotel get covered in Sewage. Hotel is closed. Suddenly convention which has been running smoothly, despite having added a massive once off event that would bring in an extra 200 people (normally 500 person con), is now in all sorts of trouble.
They managed to get space in another venue, which had issues but was at least open. They managed to have con booklets with maps for the right venue, and they communicated issues well.
But i can only imagine how bad it was for those poor convention runners.
Yeah! Tornado Con! 😀
Two years (three?) ago I recall the crazy snowfall we had at NBC. It wasn’t “inclement weather” proportions, but my poor friends did run out into said snowstorm to get me medicine. Con plague hit me hard on day one.