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No More Heroes’ Suda 51 Writes About Action Figures. I Can't Stop Reading.

I like to think that I’ve gotten less judgmental as I’ve gotten older, less willing to look down on others because they enjoy things I don’t. I’m still happy to look down on people for the way they act, the things they say, and the things they do, but my days of calling people assholes for listening to bad pop music are gone.

Last weekend, while spending time with my extended family, my nineteen year-old cousin Mark spent a goodly while berating my thirteen year-old cousin Kara for her obsession with Twilight. “Those books suck. That movie sucks. It should all be destroyed! It’s terrible and stupid and I hate it!” First of all, there isn’t much honor in telling a thirteen year-old that what they like is stupid. It’s your job at thirteen to like stupid things. For example, I used to carry around a suitcase filled with all my Phish bootlegs. But more than that what’s the point in judging a person based solely on what they like? When I asked Mark why he hated Twilight so much, he answered, “Twilight ruined Hot Topic.”

Yeah.

Is a Game Based on Twilight Even Possible?

I've read all of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books—no, really, all of them—and my soul's been attempting to rebuild since then. Being dead inside has its advantages, though. I only felt a small twinge where my heart used to be when I heard the news about the possibility of an upcoming Twilight anime.

As Topless Robot points out, Twilight and weepy shojo anime might actually be a match made in the fluffier, frillier circle of Hell reserved for pretty, pretty vampires:

”Unlike so many anime adaptations of American material, anime's oft-tortuously slow storytelling style and focus on relationships and repetition matches Twilight perfectly; there are already half a dozen vampire series out there which could practically be re-dubbed to be Twilight sequels anyways. What I'm saying is that it would be seriously hard to make a shitty Twilight anime, at least according to the franchise's screaming fans, and thus it would be incredibly successful.”

So, we know that anime and Twilight will be very happy together if this comes to pass. The question on my mind is, would Edward Cullen and Bella Swan the idiot child be compatible with a video game?

Any kind of video game?

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John Constantine, our superhero, was raised by birds and then attended Penn State University. He is currently working on a novel about a fictional city that exists only in his mind. John has an astonishingly extensive knowledge of Scientology. Ultimately he would like to learn how to effectively use his brain. He continues to keep Wu-Tang's secret to himself.

Derrick Sanskrit is a self-professed geek in a variety of fields including typography, graphic design, comic books, music and cartoons. As a professional hipster graphic designer, his recent clients have included Hooksexup, Pitchfork and MoCCA, among others.

Amber Ahlborn - artist, writer, gamer and DigiPen survivor, she maintains a day job as a graphic artist. By night Amber moonlights as a professional Metroid Fanatic and keeps a metal suit in the closet just in case. Has lived in the state of Washington and insists that it really doesn't rain as much as everyone says it does.

Nadia Oxford is a housekeeping robot who was refurbished into a warrior when the world's need for justice was great. Now that the galaxy is at peace (give or take a conflict here or there), she works as a freelance writer for various sites and magazines. Based in Toronto, Nadia prizes the certificate from the Ministry of Health declaring her tick and rabies-free.

Bob Mackey is a grad student, writer, and cyborg, who uses the powerful girl-repelling nanomachines mad science grafted onto his body to allocate time towards interests of the nerd persuasion. He believes that complaining about things on the Internet is akin to the fine art of wine tasting, but with more spitting into buckets.

Joe Keiser has a programming degree from Johns Hopkins University, a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, and a fake toy guitar built in the hollowed-out shell of a real guitar. He writes about games and technology for a variety of outlets. One day he will stop doing this. The day after that, police will find his body under a collapsed pile of (formerly neatly alphabetized) collector's edition tchotchkes.

Cole Stryker is an American freelance writer living in York, England, where he resides with his archeologist wife. He writes for a travel company by day and argues about pop culture on the internet by night. Find him writing regularly here and here.

Peter Smith is like the lead character of Irwin Shaw's The 80-Yard Run, except less athletic. He considers himself very lucky to have this job. But it's a little premature to take "jack-off of all trades" off his resume. Besides writing, travelling, and painting houses, Pete plays guitar in a rock trio called The Aye-Ayes. He calls them a 'power pop' band, but they generally sound more like Motorhead on a drinking binge.

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