“Huttball”? Are You @#$%ing Kidding Me?
My first thought when I heared about a game mode being included in Bioware’s Star Wars MMO The Old Republic called “Huttball,” my first reaction was “Really?” My second reaction was “They’re adding fucking Blitzball to Old Republic?” My third reaction, upon actually seeing the game mode being played in this video, was “Actually, that looks pretty fun.” My fourth reaction was “But ‘Huttball’ is still a really stupid name for it. It would be less grating if it were called something else. This is like if Scottish people invented something called ‘Scotball’ but only hired other nationalities to play it.” My fifth reaction was, “A lightsaber — a weapon for a more civilized age. Also, it’s a fine piece of sporting equipment.”
FYI, between my computer slowing down to a crawl and the earthquake that hit DC (and all over the place, apparently), things are a bit slow at TR HQ this afternoon. It was my and Topless Kitty’s first earthquake, so we’re both a bit freaked out. Let’s just say we both peed in terror, but only one of us made it to the litter box.
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.