Who is that man, what is the unspeakable power he wields in his hands, and how did he ever manage to escape from Cyber City Oedo 808? Turns out, he's just another A-boy carefully following the instructions in the 11/11 issue of Weekly ASCII magazine on how to “jack into the mainframe” using a canny combination of HMD, USB receiver, battery pack, wireless keyboard, fit-PC slim, flannel shirt, and bad jeans. Follow these instructions, and you too can trash talk Koreans @ 2chan while on the go, peruse the latest issue of Dengeki Moe-oh while actual women waltz by, and just generally help the Neo-Human Army to finally triumph over everyone you hated in high school.
The article also suggests using the set-up in what looks alarmingly like the crapper at the Akihabara UDX center or maybe on an idol stakeout or grassy knoll in conjunction with Google Maps. Either way, FUTURE WAR FOUR HAS ALREADY BEGUN!
In Akiba, untucked plaid shirt + heads-up display makes a man a "god-damned sexual tyrannosaurus."
Posted by: Matt | November 03, 2008 at 07:30 PM
Damn... I knew I was missing something while in Akiba... It's the shirt! The G**D** shirt! I was so frustrated when no army of cute Japanese schoolgirls ran to meet me.
Next time, next time...
Posted by: RosenRed | November 03, 2008 at 11:46 PM
Proof again that Gargoyles will never be as cool in real life as they are in Snow Crash.
Posted by: LUNA | November 20, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Hmmm.
Don't they run headlong into poles, pillars, support beams and just about anything else?
Posted by: memomachine | December 13, 2008 at 11:01 PM