Topless Robot Self-Pleasure Trifecta
Regular TR readers know that I’m not above tooting the site’s horn whenever I get a chance to do so. Plus, this knocks that horrible Star Wars fan fiction from the top of the page, so it’s win-win.
? The National Post, which sounds like it should be one of those big important papers like the Washington Post or National Review but is in fact Canadian, tells its reader to click on TR. We/me/it “delivers some playful but worthwhile observations, particularly about toys, comics and gadgets.” “Playful but worthwhile” is also how my last girlfriend described me, until the incident.
? The Blog Judge has judged Topless Robot “not guilty“! Despite having no discernible focus (I’m trying for nerdy shit, incidentally) and finding our design looking, the site says we have great content. Yay! See, mom? People don’t mind when I use cusswords!
? And last but not least, last Friday’s “A 20-Point Letter of Protest Regarding D&D 4th Edition” was Farked, and I’m not really trying to get you to be impressed about that. I do, however, desperately want you to read the comments on the article over at Fark, which are mysterious and awesome. Mostly it’s a huge nerd fight over the best edition of D&D, with a large portion of people desperate to see the hlaf-naked succubus writer Teague Bohlen mentions in the article, along with a few people chastising Teague for hating on 4th Edition with his letter…as if he believed himself to be both a half-orc and gnome and wrote the damn thing seriously. I love them all, and hope they become regulars. They are my people.
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.