The Revival – Remeet
Because of the storyline’s late start, there will also be an extra comic Monday Wednesday.
Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
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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I’m waiting for the one person that always pipes up with, “Don’t kink shame!”
*points* you just did
Ruth didn’t say it wasn’t an option for *someone*, just that that is the ONLY way it would be an option. ?
Death by snu/snu!
“If they get their hands on us, they’ll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and wear our skins for blankets. If we’re lucky, they’ll do it in that order…”
With the money they save on the super-cheap Expo option they could buy a fuckton of rat poison and paint to be used in advance.
What, legit possibility that Neil may show up for our con?! OF COURSE it is gonna be there!
I was under the impression that this webcomic is roughly contemporary; it’s been a while since Gaiman has lived in Menomonie — and there was enough noise about his split that I’d expect this crew to know that.
Um, last I checked he still lives there. He splits time there and at his wife Amanda Palmer’s place out east, so he’s not there as often as he used to be, but he still calls it home.
(I literally live within twenty minutes of Menomonie)