GoNintendo was dubious at first that Rhodes deliberately put the Triforce on his boots. But the grappler makes it pretty damn clear in the latest issue of WWE Magazine:

"It's the Tri-Force from The Legend of Zelda," Rhodes confirmed. "You know how some people have a book they re-read every year? Well I re-play The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for Super Nintendo every year. In the game, the Tri-Force symbolized power, wisdom and courage. I thought I could apply those qualities to my life."

In 1992 I actually refereed a pro rasslin' match in North Carolina. It's a long-ass story how I ended up doing that. But on the card was this clown who went by Mean Mark. Mean had Scripture printed on the ass of his trunks, which, if I was the Lord, I'd kind of grimace and nod at the sentiment but not really feel complimented, you know? Now 16 years later a value set inspired by a video game gets better treatment on a nationwide stage.

As for me, I replay Red Dead Revolver about halfway every year. It teaches me that revenge is a great and awesome goal but gets real boring after about the fourth time.

WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes Pays Tribute to Zelda via his Ring Attire [GoNintendo]

Triforce End-Grain Cutting Board [Etsy via HawtyMcBloggy]

The Triforce Tree [GnatOnline via MAKE]

Hey guys, I was really high when I went to get my haircut this afternoon and told them to put the triforce in my hair... Excuse the hair on the ears, I haven't had a shower yet, I came home as quick as I could so I could take a photo haha. Anyway, I got the triforce in and thought it turned out okay, so I told them to do a pacman on the other side! Wish I thought of a ghost first! :(

A Joystiq writer and his immediate family recently got Tri-Force tattoos on various body parts as a sign of solidarity after the passing of the writer's mother.

The father's tattoo has all three of the triangles of the tri-force filled in while the three brothers' tattoo's each have a different triangle filled.

Last week, I was finally tricked into going (the tattoo parlor's sign was replaced by one proclaiming "Free Hamburgers!") and just seven hours later it was finished. We all got different parts of the Triforce filled in (Dad got the whole enchilada) and all on different spots. I got mine on my calf, because I thought it would be easy to cover up. One brother, Griffin, got the forearm, because he wants to have the sort of job where that's acceptable, and my dad, Clint, got his right arm, largely because he already had a tattoo on his left. My remaining brother got one on his chest, which is apparently extra painful. I know this, not just because the tattoo dude Eric told us so, but because Travis spent the entire session periodically mumbling "Oh, this is very unpleasant." Also, he now has a square of hair shaved off of his chest.

It's nice to see a family of gamers come together in such a personal way. Brian Crecente

Zelda Tattoos or an Ink to the Past [Joystiq]

Earlier, we posted a debt collection agency with a Triforce logo on it as kind of a ha-ha look at that. It was totally superficial and had no deeper cultural connotations whatsoever. But Japan-based reader Ryan sent us the following:

I was in Kamakura on a vacation last weekend, and I spotted this local Kamon around a shrine near a really nice little marketplace. But I remembered Kotaku's posting about Superior Tax Collectors, where they used a symbol similar to the triforce.

Fascinating, truly fascinating. Brian Ashcraft

Quick: What do you see? Reader Adam writes:

I got back to Mass last night from a snowboarding trip to Utah. As I was driving down the main street in Logan, UT something caught my eye. A quick google search found the website of this debt collection agency with a very familiar logo.

You know, I'd actually be more inclined to pay up to a debt collection agency with a Triforce logo, especially a "Superior" one. Brian Ashcraft

In celebration of the Wii, some clever MIT "hackers" have mounted a Tri-Force of Power on the top of the Great Dome on campus. However, these are probably not the kind of hacks you are thinking of. As the MIT admissions web page puts it:

MIT has a long tradition of "hacks," or clever and elegant pranks showcasing the playful and inventive spirit of MIT. Hacks are performed by hackers, MIT students who safely and stealthily execute the pranks according to an informal code of ethics. These ethics, loosely stated, assert that hacks must do no damage to property or any person, must be safe, and must provide joy or amusement to those who experience the hack.

Leave it to MIT to make even pranks sound boring. Flynn De Marco

By posting this, we acknowledge one thing: Our inbox will be bombarded with countless game pumpkins. That's okay, but make 'em good, gosh dernit. Frodo from the Weekly Geek Show carved his a Katamari pumpkin, a Triforce pumpkin and what looks like Ken Kutaragi. Nice work, Frodo! Brian Ashcraft

Admit, It Kinda Looks Like Kutaragi [WGS]

This classic portrait is from the BMEzine blog, ModBlog, which is home to all manner of grotesque and exciting specimens and womens.

Says Shannon Larratt, ModBlog's primary contributor:

Since people have mentioned I need to post more guys, let me give you Neek, with his triforce tattoo by Roma Pavel Angel at Angel Tattoo Studio in Moscow, Russia.

Neek is a geek, doy, and therefore I won't judge him too harshly for that adolescent undergrowth clouding his otherwise chiseled jaw. He's a fine figure of manhood however you cut it, but I wish he would.

I will gently proffer the opinion, nay, the advice, that men under the age of 40 with fat-free throats unafflicted by severe underbite are doing themselves a vast disservice by allowing those oh-so-ironic curlies to sully their adonic visages. Eliza "Gauger Eye for the Gamer Guy" Gauger

Geek Love [ModBlog]

Kotaku reader Pengie was stuck in a parking lot when she noticed a familiar symbol. She explains:

I was out in Norman, Oklahoma (about ten miles south of OKC) doing some temp work at an apartment compex today and while leaving spotted this truck. My first reaction was "what the hell, is that the Triforce?" My second reaction was, of course, to pull out my cell phone.

Her third reaction was to have a nerdy conversation with the truck's owner about differences between the Wii and GameCube versions of Twilight Princess. Brian Ashcraft

This Zelda time ticker comes courtesy of Kotakuite JHG and his buddy. Our bourgeois posterboy Florian pooh-poohed it, but that probably has something with the words "Franck Muller" missing from the timepiece—me, I dig it. JHG writes:

Originally, we were going to wrap it in gold foil, but we thought this would be more passable as art instead of a monument to our dorkdom. Anyway, it's got "POWER WISDOM and COURAGE" burned into the wood using the font from windwaker. It was going to be more elaborate, but we got lazy.

Dorkdom confirmed. Brian Ashcraft

After checking out the picture of the Earthbound tattoo we ran earlier this week, Morgan decided to send us a pic of his twin game-related tats. The first is an image of the triforce and the second, an 816-bit Link. Nice. Brian Crecente