>>7244896>"yeah, that's not real"This is the most confusing thing of all. What isn't real, the patch? The patch is a real physical thing. It represents my appreciation, or interest, in a specific thing- be it media franchise or philosophy. Because it's not stamped or approved by a corporate lawyer for resale makes it fake? It has no value?
I can understand wanting officially licensed merchandise if you were a collector who was interested in authenticity or resale value, but if you just like Thing X, what does it matter where it comes from?
Let's take for example the Black Mesa logo on the hat in
>>7244896. If instead of having a patch, and writing on the hat in white sharpie the same thing, would it still make it not ok or not cool in your book? It's just a fan showing he's a fan with something he made or bought from another fan?
I appreciate you calmly stating your points, but as a fan of literally anything, I don't know how you could survive with such a philosophy.
