The Ballad of the Fall of Cybertron (Director’s Commentary)
Remember that cinematic trailer for the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron game from a couple of days ago? Here it is again, but this time with the guys at High Moon studios — who are making the game — talking over it, mainly about how awesome it is. It’s not very enlightening, and it’s actually a little obnoxious. Look, you made the trailer. Obviously you think it’s pretty good. If it were crap you wouldn’t have released it, or at least not released this little “behind-the-scenes” thing. Have a little modesty. I mean, I don’t constantly pat myself on the back for how awesome Topless Robot is.
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…okay, I do that constantly, but I don’t deny it’s totally obnoxious. There’s a difference.
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.