This brings to mind an old (and somewhat) related rant of mine that I've been carrying on since high school.
I've always made it a point never to buy anything with a logo (e.g. Nike swooshtika cap, GAP clothes with "GAP" splashed loudly all over them, etc.), because there has always been a double standard involved that has bothered me. Why pay (besides the obvious reason of being accepted into the "cool crowd") to advertise someone else's product? Don't those companies pay OUT big bucks to have their logos/propoganda splashed all over TV/billboard/media to get people to buy their products?
Now, granted, the Nike cap is a Nike product, but that's not where they're making their money! The $15 cap (made for 4 cents at a profit of $14.96 thanks to underprivilidged nations) PALES in comparison to the $120 pair of shoes (made at 25 cents at a profit of $119.75 thanks to underprivilidged nations), which someone might just be more likely to buy after seeing me looking all fly in my sporty Nike ballcap.
So before you purchase something with someone else's name splashed loudly all over it, think for a moment about who should be paying who? You'd be smarter to think up your own design (CS clan logo, phone number, etc) and have it embroidered on a product and advertise yourself. Heck! You could even mass produce them and maybe get some poor saps to pay to advertise your clan!
Bugma
-= Irony (n.) - Oddworld (def.- game about "consumerism gone bad") being ported *exclusively* to the Xbox
I always liked the Lucaswarez game "Night Shift" where you had to operate the machine to create tons of robot dummies from the (c) Star Wars movies. I understand there is a sequel in the works which will include Jar Jar Binks in which the objective is to let NO Jar Jar Binks drones through the machine. Obviously, failure would lead to immediate termination (and another crappy movie)...
Bugma
-= Everyone likes the smell of maple syrup, but noone uses it as a cologne!
I never even bothered with Star Control III (as it was truly one of the saddest compilations ever put to code). If you're interested in playing some serious Star Control (at 1280X1024, 32b color), go to the Star Control - Time Warp site. The melee engine is UNBELIEVEABLE, and they're fast at work to put together the nav engine and starmap. SCHWEET!
Bugma
-= I only mind the voices in my head when they don't speak English
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This brings to mind an old (and somewhat) related rant of mine that I've been carrying on since high school.
I've always made it a point never to buy anything with a logo (e.g. Nike swooshtika cap, GAP clothes with "GAP" splashed loudly all over them, etc.), because there has always been a double standard involved that has bothered me. Why pay (besides the obvious reason of being accepted into the "cool crowd") to advertise someone else's product? Don't those companies pay OUT big bucks to have their logos/propoganda splashed all over TV/billboard/media to get people to buy their products?
Now, granted, the Nike cap is a Nike product, but that's not where they're making their money! The $15 cap (made for 4 cents at a profit of $14.96 thanks to underprivilidged nations) PALES in comparison to the $120 pair of shoes (made at 25 cents at a profit of $119.75 thanks to underprivilidged nations), which someone might just be more likely to buy after seeing me looking all fly in my sporty Nike ballcap.
So before you purchase something with someone else's name splashed loudly all over it, think for a moment about who should be paying who? You'd be smarter to think up your own design (CS clan logo, phone number, etc) and have it embroidered on a product and advertise yourself. Heck! You could even mass produce them and maybe get some poor saps to pay to advertise your clan!
Bugma
-= Irony (n.) - Oddworld (def.- game about "consumerism gone bad") being ported *exclusively* to the Xbox
Bugma
-= Everyone likes the smell of maple syrup, but noone uses it as a cologne!
Bugma
-= I only mind the voices in my head when they don't speak English