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Philippa Cowderoy

@gkrnours @lori I eventually disposed of both of mine (they don't exactly fit me any more), but I kinda liked the one from '07 at the time. Can't say I feel the same way about the company these days either, but shrug - they must've hit 20K on those by now.

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lori

@flippac @gkrnours I like shirts like that more as ephemera after the fact than when they're actually new. I should start wearing my Lineage The Blood Pledge preorder shirt again in my 30s. It says BRITISH IS BACK really big on the back because Lord British was involved in bringing the game to the US lmao

Philippa Cowderoy

@lori @gkrnours Yeah, but Richard Garriott isn't exactly Google/Alphabet!

lori

@flippac @gkrnours very true, I guess my point is that like...I'd love to wear an Ask Jeeves shirt now, but not a Google one until Google is dead and it becomes campy

Philippa Cowderoy

@lori @gkrnours So the thing about the Summer of Code ones is that while neither students nor mentors "worked for Google" directly, by participating we still helped them buy goodwill (and in my case, the Haskell community its first "we need to use two major versions in parallel" package management problem).

Sooner or later, some of that stuff shouldn't be campy. That's not actually what's going on with the leather community either, for example: the generation that had that kink imposed in a WW2 context are all dead, as are the original nazis, and the subculture doesn't go in for actual nazi memorabilia.

@lori @gkrnours So the thing about the Summer of Code ones is that while neither students nor mentors "worked for Google" directly, by participating we still helped them buy goodwill (and in my case, the Haskell community its first "we need to use two major versions in parallel" package management problem).

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