I Got My Fashion Sense from Video Games (And You Can

Nowadays I hear a lot of comments about how nice my skin is. People liken it to all manner of substances or fabrics—I have been fishing for someone to, afterwards laying the back of their hand on my cheek, to say it "feels like alien leather", even though I've but had no luck. Actually, my skin is magnificent. How did this happen? I have no proof—only a list of hypotheses.

Someone tells Billy Pilgrim, in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, to go by the name "Billy", because there just aren't enough adult Billys. Remaining "Billy" then into adulthood is one of Billy Pilgrim's secrets of success in business.

The track suits we bought were idiotic

The track suits we bought were idiotic and cartoonish. We wore them to E3 2010 to maximize our visibility. It worked: I was working in an office, doing game design on a project nine months later. The director was having a phone conversation with some marketing mastermind. The mastermind was on his way down from Seattle to the San Francisco Bay Area. He told the director he had an idea for promotion of our game, and it involved getting this one guy who wore a green Adidas Firebird track suit to E3 and made a YouTube movie about the experience. The director didn't know how to break the news to the marketing mastermind, so what we did was: I went home, put on my track suit, and came back to the office as time goes by for the guy to show up. We all lolled pretty hard, I tripped on my way to the bathroom, and turned around to see what I had tripped on, and—lo!—it was a million god darn dollars.

(Here I should mention that this ugly game-T-shirt business took place in 1998, previously Meat Bun existed. I sure would wear this T-shirt!) [Editor's note: Kotaku's Mike McWhertor is the co-founder of Meatbun.]