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A Little Bit On The Custom Console Side: Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jayrod2 collaborated on this spectacular Legend of Zelda NES casemod complete with hand-cut light-up Link pixel art on the top. Check out a vid of this sexy beast in action here.

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I’m learning Objective-C right now. And I know exactly what this person means. I feel like I did when I first learned C when I was 18 during the summer before my first year of college. 

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I don’t really have any opinions on #AntiSec or LulzSec that are informed enough to share, but I’ve been really pleased with the direction that YTCracker’s been moving with his sound in the last year that gets a great manifestation in the above “#antisec.” 

While N.E.S. is a classic, the album’s sound (not its lyrics) are steeped in the original gimmicky-ness that comes with beats inspired by video game music. I’m not saying it was a gimmick on Bryce’s part by any means, but it’s the type of sound that draws a lot of people in while immediately turning some people away, who won’t take the music seriously because of that association. 

In contrast, songs like “#antisec” and “I Can” off of last year’s Space Mission have an intensity in their beats that commands respect (or at least attention) and immediately conveys the power nerdcore can bring. 

Looking back a few years ago, a chunk of the documentary Nerdcore Rising was spent debating or at least arguing that nerdcore was a legitimate scene and not people goofing off or just trying to be fake rappers. Essentially, arguing against the gimmick mentioned above. With sounds like this coming out of the scene, I think it’s pretty hard to argue that there’s any gimmick involved. 

And it’s just another reason why YTCracker has the standing in the scene he fucking deserves. 

When I was a young teenager and just getting into skateboarding, Alien Workshop was the coolest fucking thing.

A skateboard company on its own was cool, but the tacit brand support of alien life struck a cord with my fertile young mind, all too eager to believe that powerful adults were hiding something from me. It was geeky rebellion perfectly embodied in a product. 

Nowadays, they’re just some brand (just like in the past despite my nostalgia). But something else has changed: nerds of my youth believed in aliens and other paranormal. I don’t know if it’s just me, but this general association seems to have fallen by the wayside. 

I guess in the past, the paranormal/UFOs/Crypto-zoology were fringe ideas, difficult to find information on, iconoclastic, and at the time (mid-90s for me) were trying to gain legitimacy through documentation, theoretically cutting-edge, rather than spiritualist intuition. Perfect for the nerds.

Maybe it was the X-Files, maybe it was the numerous crazies who turned out to be hoaxers (remember Alien Autopsy?), or just the people who have over-capitalized on the ideas of the paranormal (I’m looking at you Ghost Hunters), but the two groups appear to have separated. 

I’ll make a guess here: in the past, my belief in the paranormal/aliens was never founded on “belief,” it was based on the possibility and exploration of mysterious things. That was exciting, but it wasn’t that I wanted to prove my belief correct to be right.

In modern times, with the aid of so much technology, we vainly believe that if such mysterious things existed we could have identified them by now. So thinking about the paranormal/aliens has come down to “belief” (a la Mulders - “I want to believe”), because, if it were real, we would of course have evidence, right? Similarly, anything we see documented can be faked, so it’s impossible to know something’s real without personal experience. 

Us nerdy folk with so much association with technology are definitely steeped in its power, but I think the push of technology towards making the paranormal/extraterrestrial belief-based as well as the personal experience as the foundation for knowledge has made it all a faith-based enterprise, not iconoclastic, but desperate, not capable of being documented and exploitable. 

But perhaps I just run with the wrong crowds.

Check out http://www.retroskatestickers.com/ for some old style skate gear.

Why I click on buttons.

I imagine the snowboarding/skateboarding/SCUBA diving/Kung Fu version of me from 8 years ago would be pretty disappointed with how physically inactive I am at this point in my life.

It’s not that I’m completely sedentary, it’s just that I’ve become a little more aware of the dangers inherent in a lot of what I used to do. 

But like any normal male, I crave those dangers, but I can get a little bit of that fix from the wonders of the first-person camera.

Possibly the slowest adventure video ever, but terrifying. As a klutz, I would easily be killed doing this hike.

Superior, Speed Fly from Marshall Miller on Vimeo.

I really miss snowboarding. And I know miss snow-para-glide-skiing, even though I never did it.

VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo.

This video is like playing a video game where every possible distraction comes at your character: people, uneven terrain and even a fucking dog jump out in front of this amazing cyclist.

This video is so fucking cool, however, I only have one thing to say - “Why the hell are you getting so close to the rocks!”

I wouldn’t consider K. Flay nerdcore, but she definitely runs with that crew to some degree with multiple songs with MC Lars and a joint with YTCracker.

Because of her incredible talent and, shit, she can rap, I really hope to see her continuing  to work with nerdcore artists in the future. 

1. Inara Serra

The partial crewmember and full-time Companion (basically a courtesan), Inara had the captain of Serenity, Malcolm Reynolds, so wound up, I seriously wanted to give him the money to finally bag her. This poor guy had to endure watching her bang guy after guy (and a woman in one case), while basically housing and transporting her across the universe (I am aware she paid her way).

Inara was actually a pretty amazing woman. See Malcolm wanted Inara to himself, but in a completely legitimate and genuine way. He liked her - she was cunning, smart, and a little deviant just like Mal.

Her profession/way-of-life made this a very obvious impossibility and Malcolm had to see constant reminders of it pretty much every episode. It wasn’t just sexual jealousy, for Malcolm it was like seeing the one that got away, get away over and over again.

2. Aeon Flux

Unlike Malcom Reynolds, I could give a shit about Trevor Goodchild, the dictator of the state of Brenga, and foil to the Monican agent, Aeon Flux. Aside from dressing like a Dominatrix in a bikini, Aeon basically spent the entire series teasing Trevor, whilst they both tried to kill each other.

In a lot of situations, it was like Aeon not killing the guy made him suffer that much more. Aeon perfectly represents a specter of Trevor’s greed. She is in many ways the female version of him,but femininity, this man could never actually possess unlike everything he else wanted. It was very Jungian.

Nonetheless, Aeon’s body always kind of creeped me out. A little too defined.

3. Counselor Troi

(I couldn’t embed this but it’s my reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoBoMvY0U10)

Counselor Troi was so up on looking hot for what I can only assume was an entirely male crew (aside from Dr. Crusher) that she disobeyed Star Fleet regulations in order to where her custom sexy-ass outfits.

The thing about Counselor Troi was that she was all business and you couldn’t play games with her. She could read your emotions for crying out loud! 

She was this smart, tender and fun woman, but you could never live up to her standards and just fucking calling on the haling system she could tell all your weaknesses.

And no one ever seemed good enough for her. If you wanted to bag this senior Star Fleet officer, you had to have some serious charisma. Riker-style.

4. Any cosplay chick

Look, I understand that dressing up sexy can be fun, especially in a context where women aren’t judged as harshly, and I also know that because most game designers and comic artists are men, they tend to draw their heroines pretty sexy. But ladies - come on.

I’m actually really impressed with some of you. Lots of outfits from sci-fi / fantasy are not physically possible as far as I can tell, so whatever manner of tape and whatnot that you incorporate kudos to your abilities to make those outfits happen.

Despite complaining about your hotness, it’s a huge tease because you’re basically looking fucking amazing whilst signaling to us nerdy guys that you enjoy the same things as we do, and those things are not exactly the most mainstream or well-appreciated. I’m not complaining. I’m just saying it’s hard.

Hehe.