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Limited time offer: Support Techdirt and get a Nerd Harder t-shirt!

Did you miss your chance to get one of Techdirt's Nerd Harder t-shirts? Well, you're in luck — since the campaign on Teespring ended, rebooted, and ended again, enough people have reserved a shirt to cause it to reboot once more! So now you've got another chance to get your hands on one:

This latest batch is only available until the end of the weekend, so hurry up and claim one unless you want to wait for another reboot!

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  1. icon
    Whatever (profile), 9 Jul 2016 @ 10:54am

    Limited time only! Absolutely no doubt this is a scare item that is worth it because it's scare, it will never come around again...

    until next weekend, or perhaps the weekend after - or whenever they need some extra cash for the friday lunch fund.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. icon
    DocGerbil100 (profile), 9 Jul 2016 @ 6:00pm

    Honestly, I love the idea of this t-shirt, but not the implementation.

    I mean, it's pretty basic, there's no graphic design, as such - and what in the nine hells is that font supposed to be? It looks like the old Robocop logo with severe anorexia.

    If it was one of the Eurostile variants, or something else with a bit of media presence or geek chic, I might be a bit more inclined to reach for my credit card... :P

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    CharlieBrown, 9 Jul 2016 @ 8:22pm

    ReLaunch

    Finally! It relaunched at a time when I actually have money!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. icon
    Leigh Beadon (profile), 10 Jul 2016 @ 10:38am

    Re:

    Funny, Eurostile was one of the fonts I toyed with when building it - but I decided against it since, to my mind, it's passed from "chic" into "vastly overused". I'm sorry you don't like the font ("Furore", if you're curious), but I *think* you're in the minority.

    The goal was always a simple design, and it's been extremely popular so far - but if there's more interest in a fancier version, we may create a 2.0 at some point.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  5. icon
    DocGerbil100 (profile), 10 Jul 2016 @ 4:36pm

    Re: Re:

    Oh, I'd say Eurostile is well beyond "vastly overused": at this point, it's practically ubiquitous, the Arial of almost anything and everything vaguely technical or sci-fi-ish.

    It's becoming annoying how popular it is, but it is the current default because it works well. I look forward to something replacing it, or at least competing well, but I don't think Furore has the right stuff, not on the current showing.

    It's not that I don't like Furore, as such, it just seems to me like it tries too hard and misses - on it's own, I think it's much too anaemic for big-dick logos (or slogans, as here), but much too funky and angular for anything much smaller than that.

    It might sit a lot better as part of a larger design, rather than carrying all the visual weight on it's own shoulders, so to speak.

    Just my own opinion, obviously - I can't pretend to have the slightest idea how anyone else feels about it.

    Thanks for your reply, Leigh Beadon. If there's ever a better, sexier Nerd Harder 2.0, I'm definitely up for throwing some money at it. :)

    link to this | view in thread ]

  6. identicon
    s7, 10 Jul 2016 @ 10:21pm

    Artificial Scarcity

    Hmm.. Something that's always talked about here. Something that can be reproduced ad infinitum, yet limited to suggest scarcity.

    "only available until the end of the weekend"

    You guys are worse than Disney and their vault.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  7. icon
    Mike Masnick (profile), 10 Jul 2016 @ 11:02pm

    Re: Artificial Scarcity

    Hmm.. Something that's always talked about here. Something that can be reproduced ad infinitum, yet limited to suggest scarcity.

    Physical goods are *naturally* scarce. It's digital goods that are made artificially scarce.

    Doing a print run of a t-shirt IS absolutely a scarcity situation. So we use teespring which will only do a print run if there's enough demand for it.

    You guys are worse than Disney and their vault.


    Really?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  8. identicon
    s7, 11 Jul 2016 @ 5:12pm

    Re: Re: Artificial Scarcity

    I was half kidding.

    Artificial scarcity can be claimed about the "vault" and the DVDs are a physical good. Scarcity because they only make so many copies of a movie each time they "open" the vault, they could make more, but they won't. This isn't natural scarcity, it's self created scarcity.

    Apples / Oranges as far as scale, intent etc. I was just pokin' fun.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  9. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 11 Jul 2016 @ 5:39pm

    Re:

    So go ahead and make your own. You threatened to do so, and nobody's going to stop you.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  10. icon
    Grey (profile), 13 Jul 2016 @ 9:11pm

    "I'll wait till payday..... "

    (eldest) "Daddy I NEED one too!"

    (payday comes)

    "Shirt last available 3 days ago"

    "NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

    link to this | view in thread ]

  11. icon
    Grey (profile), 13 Jul 2016 @ 9:13pm

    Re:

    (grumbles and places an advanced reservation on the next batch)

    Please?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  12. icon
    Grey (profile), 13 Jul 2016 @ 9:13pm

    Re:

    (grumbles and places an advanced reservation on the next batch)

    Please?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  13. icon
    Grey (profile), 18 Jul 2016 @ 12:14pm

    Woo, Order has processed anyhow, and our shirts will be printed!

    I don't know Whether this was some behind the scenes machination by Techdirt, or the manufacturer saw one more order and rolled it into the main group, either way...

    Thank you!

    link to this | view in thread ]


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