Performing an Impressive Act of Nerdery Seems Deceptively Easy
I’m pretty sure it’s not, though. I suppose if you have mad animating/photoshopping/editing skills like Patrick Bolvin, you can pull off something like “AT-AT Afternoon” without breaking too much of a sweat, as evidenced by this keen making-of video. If you don’t, however, you’re probably screwed.
This is going to sound weird, but does seeing that baby playing with the AT-AT make anyone else’s biological clock go off? I feel like I a 45-year-old woman I want to have nerd babies so bad right now. I mean, I’ve got the AT-AT. If that doesn’t qualify me to procreate and raise a human child I don’t know what does. Thanks to everyone who sent this tip in.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.