Geek Apparel of the Week: Lawful Good
I suppose I’ve had D&D on the mind recently, but when I saw this shirt over at Jinx.com, I knew I had this week’s winner. “Lawful Good is lawful great”? Jesus. Any role-palying game shirt is terrifyingly nerdy anyways, but to go so far as to make an RPG alignment reference, and then choose the squarest possible alignment choice, and extol it in the lamest possible way? It’s…well, it’s not one of those things that’s so nerdy it becomes cool, because nothing would ever make this shirt not nerdy. But if you wear this shirt, you clearly have balls. Huge, nerdy balls that slap people in the face and say, “See the guy we’re connect to? He’s the biggest fucking nerd you’ll ever meet, and he doesn’t fucking care.” Or they would if they weren’t a connected to a Lawful Goody two-shoes.
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.