ELA Learns Why You Should Never Trust a Cube
I have no idea what this is, what’s it’s for, why it was made, but I can’t stop watching. Let me try to summarize: So there’s a girl named ELA, who uses the She-Ra transforming animation to get a weird outfit which is 20% pink CG and 80% just her in her underwear. She flies to the moon (or a moon, I’m not sure) where she kills many, many Space Invaders with little eyebrows, and you get a really good look at her butt. And then she calls a giant yellow eagle, and rides it for at least a full minute until she meets…the Cube, and things really get fucked-up. It might be a parody of old-school cartoons and Tron and those batshit fantasy/sci-fi movies of the ’70s,, but if so, then, why spend so damn long riding the eagle? The weirdness plays out just like some drug-addled movie, which I guess makes it more of a homage, although I will admit the Wendy Carlos-esque music is a nice touch. Look, I can’t explain it any better than that. Just watch it.
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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.