Patrick Boivan is back at it again, this time bringing us an Optimus Prime vs. Optimus Prime stop-motion action figure battle, where you not only get to choose the winner but one of two “fatalities.” All the clips are very short, so you can burn through all possibilities pretty quickly, and if you refuse to acknowledge that Bayformers Prime could ever possibly defeat G1 Optimus, then it goes even quicker still. (Via Seibertron)
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.