Video Game Clothing: This Shit Needs to Stop
Now, being a gentleman of the nerdly persuasion, I can understand the difficulties that fashion creates. I mean, god, it is a constant daily struggle just to insure that I don’t end up looking like the neighbourhood bag-man due to an unkempt appearance. And, to be honest, there are a number of days where I still manage to fail miserably.
I mean, I get it, fashion’s hard. Especially being a gamer, and having this indescribable urge to want to show your gamer pride. I mean music fans get to wear the shirts of their favourite bands right? And it always makes them look so cool, doesn’t it? So of course, wearing a cool gaming shirt works exactly the same way, right?
WRONG. Emphatically, enthusiastically, wrong. Or, at least 99% of the time wrong. Now granted this may just be some sort of sub-conscious embarrassment I’ve created for myself after my childhood years of being made fun of for being a gamer nerd, but there are too many times when I see someone wearing a punny video game shirt and visibly cringe. Case in point:
People shouldn’t be endorsing Zerg Rushes. That shit ain’t funny…
To be sure, I absolutely love Starcraft 2, but if I saw someone wearing this I’d want to throw something at them. And this is far from the worst thing to find. Oddly enough, the worst of the worst that I’ve seen almost always happen to involve classic games, like the 8-bit Zeldas and Marios of the world.
NOT OKAY
NEITHER OKAY
Okay, WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!?
To be sure, not every t-shirt out there that contains something gaming-related is inherently a sin against the greater viewing public, but from experience I feel like the good articles of clothing are few and far between, while the terrible are copious.
And the worst part about this is the inherent hypocrisy of this entire article; I mean I have a bunch of gaming shirts in my closet, some of which are likely groan-inducing. It’s a terrible, indestructible cycle of nerd-consumerism that I feel compelled to point out, despite full-well knowing that it’s not ever going to change, and that I’m a part of the problem.
But, just, please, if you ever have the chance to wear THIS:
Please don’t. Please.
