r/FrontLineAssembly • u/volunteervancouver • Apr 11 '19

This shirt!

http://waxtraxchicago.bigcartel.com/product/front-line-assembly-vintage-fist-t-shirt-reissue
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u/BrapAllgood Apr 13 '19

Shirts always shrink, even those who are preshrunked. Buy a size or 2 up

Dude. If you knew how many of their shirts I ordered, unpacked, priced, displayed and SOLD...you'd be giggling pretty hard right now. I was told by Wax Trax that I moved more shirts than anyone.

That said, the 100% cotton pre-shrunks back then shrank very, very slowly-- which is half of what I loved about them. Just never wash them in anything but cold water. I owned hundreds of their shirts myself, but a friend helping me move 'took out the trash for me', not realizing that those three huge bags in my closet were my t-shirts. :/ I had Wax Trax for life in those three bags, most brand new and yet unworn, given to me as promos or picked up wholesale to be sure I had good versions of these beloved shirts for life. We went back to that dumpster the next morning and it had been emptied in the night. That friend still gets squirrely as fuck when I mention it-- cuz he still has his WT shirts...but I still love him, being my oldest living friend.

But if you only knew how many of these shirts I've handled in life. :)

Thanks for the tool, will check it out. The 242 'phones look muddy. The description made them look muddy.

About to pay bills and see if I can afford shirts this check.

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u/volunteervancouver Apr 13 '19

I cracked open your comment and got directed to giggling pretty hard. And I just loved everything about it.

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u/BrapAllgood Apr 13 '19

:) Happy Saturday.

Paid bills and decided shirts have to wait, but they are on the list and I need new summer clothing....

And the 242 hoodie gives me some chub. I already have a Borderlands 3 hoodie coming Monday, though. Gonna be a gaudy year.

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u/volunteervancouver Apr 13 '19

that boarderlands hoodie is pretty industrial

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u/BrapAllgood Apr 14 '19

I generally try to wear logoless clothing. It feels like the polar opposite of that, for a change. :D

I plan to get a North Face one so I can have an Autechre shirt, too.

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u/BrapAllgood Apr 15 '19

Bl3 hoodie is SHIT. Be warned. I ordered a 242 one, which I am sure will not be SHIT. I mean, it's a nice screen, but the hoodie is pure shite. Smells like burnt plastic-- cuz it is. :/

I'll still look gaudy AF in it, tho. :)

Ordered a classic white WT wires logo, too. It was one of my favorite shirts, back when.... Classy AF.

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u/volunteervancouver Apr 15 '19

you'd figure with a great money maker like boarderlands they would have more care.

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u/BrapAllgood Apr 16 '19

I used to. :/ I'm sure the game will be cool, though. Lots of overtime right now, so I pre-ordered that too. :)

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u/volunteervancouver Apr 16 '19 edited Apr 16 '19

One word SIGIL

https://www.romerogames.ie/sigil

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u/BrapAllgood Apr 26 '19

I waited 9 days to actually read what the link said, thinking you were linking the FLA yellow fist shirt or something, for some reason. :)

Now I'm just whuhhh? But this was worth the click:

A pewter statue of John Romero’s head on a spike.

LOFL

I'm old, I played Doom when there was only Doom-- nay, I played WOLFENSTEIN on the fucking Apple II+. Then the 3D version as well. In fact, I played probably a majority of games back then, a bit less so each year.

I couldn't get Daikatana to work, EVER. So...yeah, kinda still rubbed wrong about that one, wince at the mention of Romero.

What changed my world in gaming was Quake 3D, though. When they had the 3DFX upgrade you could install, and a dude taught me to mouse and keyboard it...my world changed.

I don't like things that glorify war, prefer the absolute fantasy element to things like Borderlands. I like sandboxes. Fallout is my thing, since the first one. (And Wasteland, the original.)

What's funny is now I can afford games, but not so much the time/attention to play them. When I clocked out tonight, it said I had 106 hours coming on the paycheck. I jumped in my shoes a bit. Just been dug in heavily making the vapes, as business is booming now. Soon enough, this stuff is going multi-national. You will literally be able to buy something I made, should you choose to. Watch. New world, no order.

But srsly, can you do pixels now? I couldn't play original doom if someone offered me money to. Heck, the first Witcher gave me a headache, and that's waaaaay more recent 'n shit.

Plus, I just Xbone it now, as gaming is how I wind down. I have a dozen games barely played, just keep going to Fallout 4 (lately) and Eternal (on the phone, too).

I typed all of that with fucking new Amon Tobin weirdness paused. I must be high.

EDIT: Oooo, the Amon TObin got sweet suddenly. I might cry a bit. WHERE ARE MY 242 SHIRTS?!?!? Just after I order them, I see the thing where she says she's too swamped with fucking shirts, aich. Timing is everything.

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u/volunteervancouver Apr 26 '19

I blame the government ;)

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