Clifford Bleszenski was dismayed to discover that despite his repeated attempts to be stylish, he still isn't considered 'cool' by those outside of the game industry.

"I just dont get it", Bleszenski stated, "I gave myself a cool nickname, 'Cliffy B'. I told the girl at Supercuts to give me the same haircut as Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys. I even got the latest hip t-shirt from The Gap. I have to be cool by now."

But after showing his picture to 30 random female college students, they  most often catergorized Clifford as 'Geeky', with 'Kinda Gay' a close second. Comments included "It looks like he got that hair from Supercuts" and "My Uncle got that same shirt for free when the local Gap went out of business". When the ladies were told the picture was actually of a popular video game programmer known as 'Cliffy B', 100% if the respondents giggled.

Undaunted, Clifford vowed to continue his pursuit of becoming cool. In addition to increasing his use of words like 'extreme' and 'dude' in day to day conversation, he will also get a tribal tattoo on his arm, although it will be in henna due to his fear of needles.

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