Every time I receive a videogame shirt as some sort of prize or pre-order bonus without fail it's at least 2 sizes too big for me. I don't really understand why the stereotype still persists that all gamers are overweight and unhealthy but it's a real pain to pay for something and not even have the option of wearing it.
Granted I'd probably look like a dick wearing my Uncharted 2 t-shirt anyway but it sure doesn't help that the thing hangs off me like a dress.
oh right......i guess that's like 77 kilos so that's not too bad. fuck your crazy metric system, I'll take my pounds_mass over your stupid logically incremented units anyday
" Every time I receive a videogame shirt as some sort of prize or pre-order bonus without fail it's at least 2 sizes too big for me. I don't really understand why the stereotype still persists that all gamers are overweight and unhealthy but it's a real pain to pay for something and not even have the option of wearing it. Granted I'd probably look like a dick wearing my Uncharted 2 t-shirt anyway but it sure doesn't help that the thing hangs off me like a dress. "
Agreeed! I got a L4D2 t-shirt at Eurogamer last year and it was like XXL or something crazy like that. Looked more like a gown on me that a shirt =/
@emkeighcameron: Why do you yanks still cling to the imperial system? It seems like it's just a fuck you to the rest of the world just because you can haha.
I weigh 227 pounds. Not that fat though just big. I'm 6'6. Although I've been trying to lose weight, and I've lost 4 pounds in the last 4 days somehow. I don't really know how that translates to kg's though.
" @emkeighcameron: Why do you yanks still cling to the imperial system? It seems like it's just a fuck you to the rest of the world just because you can haha. "
because our engineering infrastructure is designed to continue it
for five years in engineering school I used nothing but Metric units. the SECOND I got to a plant here in the U.S., EVERYBODY was using English units. I knew English units, I just didn't use them regularly, so I had to play catch-up for a little while. In like 2 months I was entirely proficient with them and was using them all over the place
turns out for some engineering stuff English actually IS better than metric, by the way (a lot of thermal things, like incineration)
so yeah, we perpetuate the process in our industry, I think. It's pretty weird.
@emkeighcameron: I just love being able to divide anything by a factor of 10 to convert things, and knowing that 1L of water = 1kg is pretty handy as well. I can't think of any now but I know there's been several big cock ups over the years because of faulty conversions when overseas companies have been dealing with the US. Also you'd think if they were teaching metric in school/college that would eventually carry through to the industry as well but sounds like that's not going to happen...
Back on topic I think the results so far prove they should stop producing so many XL and XXL gaming t-shirts.
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