New Threadless T-shirt is pitiful, yet flippant
by Justin McElroy 
{ Jul 17th 2007 at 9:27PM }
Check out the picture, maybe it's ironic. "Video games have brought me so much joy and treasure over the years," she seems to be thinking, "I'm so very clever to be wearing a negative T-shirt about them." We know it's a stretch, but we can't explain it any other way. Now, if you'll excuse us, we have tired, and must return to our throne made of Wiis and review copies of Halo 3.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Psykoboy2 @ Jul 17th 2007 9:33PM
Hey Justin,
Call it shilling, but just wanted you to know we thanked you on-air for putting us in the rodeo at the beginning of last night's show:
http://www.mouselook.com/podcast/index.php?id=26
Thanks again.
zwarrior @ Jul 17th 2007 9:43PM
The shirt is feeding off the stereotype that gamers are hermits with no social life. Its for us to flaunt at those who think so.
Ryan @ Jul 17th 2007 9:43PM
A T-shirt that says games are bad, yet is actually saying they are good. I think I blew a nerve.
laserboyjc @ Jul 17th 2007 9:59PM
though I pointed this shirt out as a tip, not sure I like it too much, that's why I should probably stop typing comments and design the tshirt idea I have in mind...but first I have to stop playing my 360/wii/ds, aargh must resist!
Charron @ Jul 17th 2007 10:01PM
I'm sure there's a dirty joke about sitting on your Wiis, but I don't think I want to say it....
zwarrior @ Jul 17th 2007 10:06PM
lol
Klay @ Jul 17th 2007 10:16PM
"Video games ruined my life. Good thing I have two extra ones," sounds a WHOLE lot better and a whole lot less redundant.
faceless coward @ Jul 17th 2007 11:01PM
That's exactly what I thought when I did my weekly Threadless check on Monday. Saying 'lives' twice ruins the shirt for me.
faceless coward @ Jul 17th 2007 11:02PM
Actually, I take that back. I would have printed "Video games ruined my life. Good thing I have two extras."
waves @ Jul 17th 2007 11:05PM
Shorter and sweeter:
"Video games ruined my life. Good thing I have two extra "
FermitTheKrog @ Jul 18th 2007 7:57AM
How about "Video Games"
(01) @ Jul 17th 2007 10:19PM
Damn it clay, I was about to say the same thing.... :-) Something lost in translation perhaps?
colin @ Jul 17th 2007 10:58PM
"Now, if you'll excuse us, we have tired, and must return to our throne made of Wiis and review copies of Halo 3."
i call shenanigans.
Daran @ Jul 18th 2007 12:27AM
With confidence in my gamer masculinity, I can safely say I would never wear this shirt.
Alistair loveless @ Jul 18th 2007 1:17AM
I give it 1 week... thats 7 whole days before hawt tawpic picks this up. Aw.. Snawt Rawkit.. thak you for ruing both the qulity and fit of lip service clothing. And serious. and dog pile. and everyone else you threw money at to make a product for such low price points.
It was better with Orv Madden
reneg @ Jul 18th 2007 2:07AM
Maybe it should say "video games ruined my heart, good thing I have two extra ones". Since as far as I can tell they haven't actually lost any lives yet.
Author X @ Jul 18th 2007 3:19AM
It's obviously supposed to be sarcastic. It's essentially saying "Video games have warped my mind so much that I have to use video games terms to explain how they have warped my mind!"
Honestly, do you see someone walking down the street wearing one of those "The voices in my head don't like" shirts and think they're wearing that because they actually hear voices?
JodyAnthony @ Jul 18th 2007 7:08AM
a better shirt
http://www.jodyanthony.com/images/meingaia.jpg
baby sea tuna @ Jul 18th 2007 9:00AM
Ironic or not, wearing any blatantly video game related t-shirts at all is usually a one-way ticket to a sad and lonely life.
baby sea tuna @ Jul 18th 2007 9:03AM
Also, I'm appalled that Threadless users, usually being very design savvy, even allowed this hideous mess to even make it through the voting process. I mean, Life Meter? 8-Bit font? C'mon guys, I thought we had some standards!
Krimzenkov @ Jul 18th 2007 10:21AM
I'm amazed at how sensative the gaming community can be over something as harmless as this. Lighten up, by my calculations this shirt implies that we have 3x the life of a normal person.... woohoo!
doomcloud @ Jul 18th 2007 2:31PM
threadless always prints their in house designers stuff, there is so much gold from designer submissions.
Ian Murray @ Jul 19th 2007 2:33PM
I actually used to be a part of the Threadless community, and had submitted several shirts into their contests. To be honest, I'm not surprised this kind of drivel came out of them, all of the designs printed if it falls into one of the following categories:
• Food with faces
• Robots
• Hearts
• Things using only cyan, magenta and yellow
• Griffins and Minotaurs
• Giant monsters fighting their giant monster (usually robot) counterparts
• Giant gobs of useless images thrown together like some Jackson Pollock collage from hell.
Oh well. that's why I don't hit up Threadless anymore.
Snobbish t-shirt designers + overly/poorly executed ideas FTL.