{"id":396,"date":"2005-06-17T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2005-06-17T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T22:09:00","slug":"it-has-come-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"It has come to this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Hot Topic &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>While I have appreciated your efforts to provide videogame-related clothing to the consumer, you appear to have just slightly missed my particular niche.  I am in the market for a style which can best be described as &#8220;subversive.&#8221;  I want clothes which advertise the fact that I intensely geeky to those in the know, but appear fairly normal to the rest of society.<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to give an example.  I saw in your establishment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hottopic.com\/store\/product.asp?LS=0&#038;ITEM=223870\">a T-shirt which read &#8220;Halo 2<\/a>&#8220;, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hottopic.com\/store\/product.asp?LS=0&amp;ITEM=200727\">another<\/a> which had the shield\/swords\/alien skull symbol for the Legendary difficulty setting from Halo and read &#8220;Legendary&#8221; in small type underneath.  The latter of these is getting closer to what I&#8217;m talking about.  Blatantly stating &#8220;I play and enjoy <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Halo 2<\/span>&#8221; is not as cool.  Are you with me?<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I would like to see from you: a series of unassuming polo shirts with corporate logos embroidered on the right breast, but the logos are from the evil corporations from various videogames.  For starters, whip a few for Shinra Incorporated, Datadyne, and the Umbrella Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>You see, the market is now flooded with people for whom videogames have been a part of their entire lives, people like myself who are getting a bit old to be dressing like teenagers.  <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/fun.games\/06\/15\/pac.man.25.ap\/index.html\">Pac-man himself turns 25<\/a> this month, a sobering fact.  Please keep us in mind in the future.  After all, we don&#8217;t have to ask our parents for money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Hot Topic &#8211; While I have appreciated your efforts to provide videogame-related clothing to the consumer, you appear to have just slightly missed my particular niche. I am in the market for a style which can best be described as &#8220;subversive.&#8221; I want clothes which advertise the fact that I intensely geeky to those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}