Daddy Played Bass (Virtually)
The bassist. Always the second fiddle, if you will, in any rock band after the vocalist and lead guitars. And yet, there’s a certain breed of woman?usually troubled, inevitably with father issues?that would rather have sex with a bass player than any other band member. To them, the bands matter far less than the basses.
I don’t really know what this has to do with Mad Catz’s new Fender Bass controller for Rock Band, but it’s all I got. Besides looking like a Fender, it’s got a split strum bar, to allow two-fingered strumming, and is apparently shipping now. Mad Catz has made some pretty ridiculous controllers in the past?generally with Street Fighter or Dragonball Z faces plastered all over ’em?but this bass is 110% pure awesome. And this might be unnecessary, but if you meet some wild-eyed woman who wants to sleep with you for your virtual bass-playing skills, I can absolutely promise you she’ll be more trouble than it’s worth. (Via Kotaku)
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.