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I have a tangential bone to pick with people who worship brands like Nike and get their magnifying glass out if they suspect something is a "knockoff" or whatever.
If you have to inspect it that closely, count the stitches or whatever the fuck. It just is literally the same shoe my guy.
I don't care who made it it's a gucci nike whatever.
If you argue with me about this you're admitting that there's literally nothing special about (brand) products. It's so blatantly classist that at no point it occurs to them that if it takes that level of investigation to figure it out, they're the same shoe in any meaningful way.
Me with MTG proxies. At this point the way to spot a fake foil card is because it is higher quality lol
I had not heard of that, that's really funny! Yeah QC is shit now fuck Hasbro and WOTC. They're also just releasing so much slop. I don't want a LOTR or Fortnite MTG or Star Wars or whateverthefuck block. I didn't really give a shit about their avengers assemble block either. I miss when it was just "yo here's this dope setting, here's some characters, here's some game mechanics". Everything has to be a weird gimmick now, and it all gets evergreened.
I do like Nikes because they have some cool looking shoes. Don’t care much for AJ1s or their Jordan lineup in general, but they have more experimental techwear stuff which is cool. But outdoor wear companies like North Face and Arcteryx are also making them now. Expensive as hell, but as long as they look cool