I started this post at 9:45 am. As you can see, it actually posted at 10:13 am. The reason for this is that there is almost nothing I care about less than an Underworld prequel, even if it does star Rhona Mitra and a slumming Bill Nighy. I guess I can appreciate that people are making movies directly off White Wolf’s old RPG sourcebooks, but man, I’d much rather organize all the toys on my desk and watch or learn about it, especially the ones the cat just knocked over. Which is what I did for most of that near-30 minutes instead of typing this. So…yeah. medieval vampires and werewolves. Doing shit. Enjoy.
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.