The C-3PO Backpack Doesn’t Make Up for Anything
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?Nice try, Thinkgeek. E for effort, really. Yes, a backpack that looks like the dismembered C-3PO from The Empire Strikes Back is nice, and yeah, it can hold iPads and is $60 and whatever. But it doesn’t even come close to making up for the lack of giant AT-AT-inspired jungle gym/forts in 2010. It’s like comparing apples to… to… well, giant fucking AT-AT-inspired jungle gym/forts, goddamn it. Fuck your apples and your backpack. (Via Gizmodo)
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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.