Today in Great/Worthless Nerd Achievements
Ryan Sullivan has just broken the world record for most videogame consoles played in one minute. The previous record was nine, held by Jimmy Fallon. If you’ve not heard of this prestigious record, that’s because it’s dumb. Really, I resp[ect Sullivan for actually trying to do something with each game, like attack an enemy or enter a location, but I don’t really know why that counts as “playing.” Hell, in Crazy Taxi, he just goes forward for a bit; if he had just tapped a button, he would still have technically performed an act in the game, iand probably worked several more consoles in there. It all just seems a big waste of time to me. Although I just spent the last several hours critiquing an erotic My Little Pony fan fic, so maybe I should shut the fuck up. (Via Kotaku)
Update: I have no idea why the embed code keeps putting up the wrong video, but it’s actually not my mistake this time. You can watch the actual video here. Meanwhile, feel free to enjoy the gof ball/mallet/tennis ball/paddle ridiculous aove.
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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.