Wit and Wisdom from the 2009 Pok?mon World Champion
Go easy on this kid. Frankly, I’m a little jealous of his father’s support of his Pok?mon TCG-playing ways; the closest my dad ever got to supporting my nerd habits was to yell at me to get a damn haircut, which isn’t very close at all, really. That said, the wind-surfing Pichu Pikachu behind these two makes the entire damn video for me. (Via Afrojacks)
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.