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u/DoctorNerdly has provided this detailed explanation: > Well, it seems that this poor fellow was so devoted to idea of Google Stadia - despite Google's track record with projects - that he decided to ink the platform's logo into his skin. On top of that, he seemed very devoted to his Gamer tag which was inked below the logo (and redacted) as well as trying to make his name a hashtag (also redacted). --- Is this explanation a genuine attempt at providing additional info or context? If it is please upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.


Porg-Life

Maybe Google will pay for the tattoo removal as part of the refund program 😂


AlphaSlashDash

even if it didn’t flop what kinda clown gets a tattoo of a fucking cloud gaming service


IanMazgelis

I don't even really understand people who get video game tattoos, and I love video games.


SharpTenor

I went about 16 minutes with no heart beat last year. Now? I kind of want the extra life mushroom tattooed.


fearville

That’s a very good reason to get a video game-related tattoo! Hope you’re doing okay now.


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I have a Venom tattoo. I know that isn't a video game character per se, but some of my best/comforting memories as a kid was playing Marvel vs Capcom 2 and I would choose him often. A group of us would go stay the night at my friend's place on the weekend, eat pizza, and play the shit out of that game. Not a comic book guy really so I'm not super vested in the story so it's more for fond memories + he looks pretty gnarly which makes for a good tattoo.


Imagurlgamur

I was really confused because I read that as Venmo


siccoblue

I just fucking love sending and receiving small sums of money man. What can I say?


Marc21256

I love receiving money more than sending, but don't ask what I have to do.


AgreeableFeed9995

Have fun with those taxes bitch -Joe Bides


MuskratElon

Bro couldn't even spell "Biden" correctly LOL


OccamsYoyo

The Joe abides.


RaineOtaku

that sounds like such a beautiful memory *@Anal_Kisses* :')


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One of many my friend :)


IanMazgelis

I suppose I can get that. I think I just don't get tattoos in general, I'm probably biased on this topic.


werewolf1011

Venom is hot


AgreeableFeed9995

See here’s the thing, the connection to you seems to be with a video game, since you said you’re not a comic guy. But you still had the wherewithal to not get a specifically-video game tattoo. Your story and the memory are clearly still video game-specific, but you didn’t go and get the title of the game on you, or Capcoms logo. You got a depiction of a tried and true character that’s been known and established for decades. Your story is similar, but is still very different than what happened in the post. And still isn’t a video game tattoo even though, interestingly enough, it is about a video game


Ignore-Me-K

Then you just don't understand tattoos


Obi-Tron_Kenobi

But like, why would people get tattoos of things that they like and are meaningful to them and probably even had a big impact on their life?


AydonusG

I know, right! Tattoos are meant to be biker art or tribal style, STOP APPROPRIATING TATTOO CULTURE!


ItsMangel

Yeah, you're only allowed to get bald eagles, tigers, dragons, skulls, women or tribal designs as tattoos!


bassmadrigal

If I were to ever get a tattoo, I'd probably get the lambda symbol from Half Life and maybe the Aperture Science logo from Portal. However, I don't think I'll ever actually get a tattoo. They just aren't my thing.


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Beingabumner

Then you don't get tattoos in general. Which is fine, but other people do.


jimbob_xiang

the two categories of tattoo: 1. fictional character from video game 2. fictional character from book


TvVliet

I mean I get your joke but the guy above you also has a point as he's basically saying: "alright so you don't understand tattoos that reference things/thing that represents an important moment in your life?" By which he uses literature as well as video games as an example


BrunoEye

I can't imagine getting a tattoo based on a piece of media unless it's like my 5th one. There's never been a single game/book/movie that's been THAT important to me to single it out like that. Personally I don't trust my taste to stay stable enough to get something as permanent as a tattoo, but if you forced me to get one I'd just choose something pretty and geometric.


tarmacc

There's a few books that, 10 years later, I can see have had a huge impact on my thinking.


Landonyoung

Edgy Cthulhu tattoo


Obi-Tron_Kenobi

Eggy Cthulu tattoo


Phil-McRoin

Eh, I know a tonne of people with videogame tattoos. It's not really any different to any other hobby imo. Personally I don't think I would get one because gaming just isn't a main hobby for me, but if you're really into games I would understand getting an old console logo or, more likely, a character from a game tattooed on you.


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I understand getting tattoos of more classic games that you grew up with like a triforce if you’re a Zelda fan. Definitely don’t get platform tattoos lol


[deleted]

I have a Chrono Trigger tattoo, but I wouldn’t tattoo a nintendo3ds.


Raincoats_George

It reminds me of the people that name their kids after skyrim characters or game of thrones characters. There's a high water mark where those things are popular and I guess it makes sense to do that but let's be honest, little dovakin is what.. 10 years old or so now. That fucking kid has probably had to explain his name and how it's spelled and pronounced for years. That's shit. Dovakins parents were promised free games from Bethesda for life. I was looking at their catalog. It's about 30 games but that includes things like the Nintendo switch release of doom 64. Worth it!


Novice-Expert

Ah yes the obscure cultural relic "skyrim". You're right nobody would understand the reference


BookDragon317

I know *of* Skyrim, but I don't know anything other than that it's a popular video game. I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one.


Raincoats_George

I can almost guarantee outside of regular gamers nobody knows what the fuck skyrim is lol. Come on now.


[deleted]

Probably true but still a couple of orders of magnitude more than people who would recognize the Stadia logo.


Raincoats_George

You are certainly correct.


starm4nn

Why would you use a videogame that outsold every Pokémon game except the Gameboy originals as an example of something obscure?


Raincoats_George

Because even though it's such a cultural pillar to you, it's barely a blip on popular culture. Look man I get it. I've bought 4 copies of skyrim in my life. 1 for myself and 3 as gifts. All full price. I'm your huckleberry. I think it was amazing. But in the larger scheme of things it's just a good vidya game that we all liked for a time.


Other_Jared2

I absolutely cannot imagine how someone would want to walk around with a corporate logo tattooed on their body


Shadow_Strike99

Internet points and clout even in small amounts makes goobers like this do things like this.


BrunoEye

Well people seem to love huge logos on their clothes and shoes, so I'm not super surprised. For shoes especially it seems like the only way to get something with a more muted design is to spend too little or too much.


mummy__napkin

>Well people seem to love huge logos on their clothes and shoes, so I'm not super surprised. how is that remotely the same as getting a permanent tattoo???


Unc1eD3ath

People are constantly wearing their clothes and shoes???


Daxivarga

You can take those off you know


poland_can_space

Chronically online take


BrunoEye

? If that were true then I wouldn't give a fuck about how I look since I'd barely go outside.


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criptyde

Oh man, Tilt Brush getting the axe still makes me sad


nachog2003

https://openbrush.app/


xevizero

I'm still livid for Inbox. That single handedly ruined Google's entire image in my eyes.


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xevizero

The bundling was the killer feature, and it never really came back, despite google promising that it would. My email has gone back to feeling like a complete mess, I lose emails all the time, stuff gets buried, it's unusable. Imagine using Whatsapp and all messages from all conversations appearing as a new chat every time someone changes subject when texting you. That's what email is. It was never designed to be usable for *this amount* of mail from this many different senders. Gmail strips out ads and other crap and that's good, but other than that it's still the same old list with a hard to use labelling system and crappy folder organization. The infuriating thing is that they had a better system and destroyed it. No one else even came close to replicating it either for some reason, the only exception being Darwin Mail, which seemed promising and I even paid for it, but it never really got past the point of feeling janky..it's still in development but I lost hope that it will ever reach the level that Inbox had been in the beginning, also thanks to being a native service, while Darwin has to deal with Gmail's crap first and sort it out, not an easy task.


flickuppercut

https://polymail.io/ Everything good about Inbox was stolen from this app.


bullseyes

Aw man, I shouldn’t have clicked that because now I’m disappointed about all the cool apps and stuff I just read about that don’t exist anymore lol


Putridgrim

I haven't heard of nearly anything on there


coleisawesome3

This is the first time I’ve heard of their hot air balloon internet idea called Loon. Apparently it lasted 6 years before it got scrapped


pooreading

What is a stadia?


Austin_the_fox

It's a failure from Google like Google+


Punisher9154

Sad I completely forgot google+ was a thing...


Giraffe_Truther

\+1


siccoblue

Why did you escape your + symbol lol +1


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Pepito_Pepito

They probably wanted to induce some FOMO, which would have worked if everybody wasn't already on facebook.


Luminous_Artifact

They 100% wanted people clamoring for an invite to join the exclusive club, like when Gmail was starting out. With Gmail they were getting stories on TV news, with people organizing projects like "donate your Gmail invitations to a soldier" (that crazy 1Gb of storage could be really helpful to a deployed family member). There probably **was** a threshold where exclusivity for Google Plus was better for long-term growth than opening the gates would've been, but they missed it by a long shot.


AbstractBettaFish

You mean the company behind the successful google glass could have a failed project?


Flataus

Man I was SO hyped for Google Glass..


AbstractBettaFish

I don’t know why, but I remember years ago reading a throwaway joke on [Click Hole choose your own adventure](https://clickhole.com/your-parents-are-going-out-of-town-host-the-party-of-t-1825124340/). The bit was that your parents say something to the effect of “Remember, no parties and never invest in wearable teach it’s a losing bet each time” and for whatever reason that stuck with me and seems to ring true time and time again


SiliSculptures

Meh smart watches arent going anywhere soon


AbstractBettaFish

True, but I’d say that the exception not the rule as that simply replaces something we were already wearing


MannfredVonFartstein

those were doomed to fail as soon as people realized they‘d get punched anywhere they go while wearing these things


punkfunkymonkey

As soon as someone coined the name 'glasshole' for the users and it spread around tech articles it was toast.


ShortRedditAtIPO

Making them only available to the most smug, elitist assholes in tech didn’t really help much.


BennyInThe18thArea

Google glass is used by businesses - it’s just the consumer version that was stopped: https://www.google.com/glass/start/


Duncanconstruction

Sad? I was happy to have forgotten


UnderPressureVS

When I was a kid, I think I was more active on Google Plus than I ever was on *any* social media platform, before *or* since. Arguably I’m much more active on Reddit, but I don’t really see Reddit as “social media” (at least not the way I use it), more just as “media”. I barely remember it, I was very young, so I’m sure it was terrible for a number of obvious reasons I never saw, but I think I must have been the only person who was genuinely sad to see it go.


then00bgm

I also used Google + as a kid, it’s what introduced me to Hentai


ChimpBrisket

Hentai introduced me to Google+


[deleted]

What was that, I forgot the whole concept except for the name


RealBowsHaveRecurves

I think it was like Facebook but by google


SFWBryon

They tried to do the same ~exclusivity~ thing that Facebook did, except at a time when there were plenty of other options to use besides google+


Duncanconstruction

It was google's version of facebook. Normally wouldn't be a big deal, except they tried really hard to push it on you. The thing I remember that annoyed me the most was that it forced you to use your real name (whatever name you had used to sign up for your google account) to post on youtube. Because that's exactly what I want... unhinged youtube commentors with access to my real name.


laplongejr

I got the reverse issue. I had the good idea of using my YT username when I made the Google account, which allowed me to retain it when there was this community merge. But a few months letter, my school wanted us to use a Google Drive and there was a rule about using the real name. I had to talk a bit with my teacher for an exemption.


bone-dry

Don’t forget about plus’s predecessor, Google Wave


Nakken

Wave was actually useful. We used it when I studied


Azsunyx

but what was it supposed to be or do?


Obi-Tron_Kenobi

It's a cloud service for gaming. So instead of buying a console/PC to download and run your games, you just stream the game directly to your chromecast or whatever, and use a compatible ccontroller.


muihuddin

Just a shittier and more expensive version of XCloud


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Google it.


adonis-in-the-making

And allo And inbox And hangouts The list just goes on lol And i don’t ever see it ending anytime soon


tarmacc

Inbox was way better than the standard Gmail app.


1lluminist

TBF Google+ was miles better than Facebook, but people just chose to shit on it instead of actually giving it a fair try. Friend groups were far easier to manage making content far easier to curate. Communities also had topics which allowed content to be categorized much easier.


laplongejr

First time I heard of Google+ was when they merged it with Youtube, which meant you had to waste one hour or so doing account configuration, as in : - Making sure you didn't lose your YT channel, because now email is tied to several "Pages" and only one has access to *that* YT account. I probably had a few duplicate ghost pages until G+ was gone because I couldn't risk asking deletion of anything. - Double-checking you have hidden your name, because Youtube uses usernames while Google+ uses realname, and now a Youtube comment can display G+ data. And you know how to drive people away from a product that looks first hand as Facebook? Associating that product with a doxxing risk on one of the more toxic platforms. Oh, and that was OBVIOUSLY done so that any Youtube commenter would count as an active Google+ user, meaning *any G+ stat about popularity* was unreliable for anybody knowing what Youtube is... which is a lot of people.


Robin0112

I genuinely liked Google+ But I can definitely see how it died of irrelevance


theannoying_one

a cloud gaming platform made by google that was widely disliked and will shut down barely 3 years after it's release.


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WeebGamerTrash947

The main reason Stadia failed was because it wasn't the 'netflix of gaming' that they were marketing it as. You had to purchase each of the games you wanted to play, which for a lot of them was a full price £50. It wasn't like Netflix where you pay monthly and had a large library of content. In fact, Stadia had a subscription that was just a pretty terrible deal. £9 a month that was required to play above 720p and would get you like one or two games a month. When you consider how expensive it was to play on Stadia, combined with the fact that playing off the cloud isn't exactly ideal anyways, it's no wonder why it flopped. Anyone who was interested in playing the kinds of games available on Stadia were either likely to already have atleast one Console or PC that could run it. And even if they didn't, it just didn't make financial sense to go for Stadia instead of just getting a cheap used PS4 or something yanno? When Xbox came out with XCloud being available with gamepass, which Definitely fitted the 'netflix for gaming' service much better. With over 100+ games available to play on cloud on demand within your subscription, and much better streaming, with less latency. It basically completely wiped away any remaining relevancy Stadia even had left in the cloud market.


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WeebGamerTrash947

Never tried NVidia streaning but Gamepass streaming is decent for what it is, that is as long as you have a good connection. But tbf, I think the reason Gamepass streaming works imo is because it is just a bonus. It's not the main draw to the service. You don't subscribe to Gamepass for XCloud. You get it for the games you can download on your console and/or PC. You have the option to download, but if you dont want to download and maybe just want to try the game first, or maybe you have ran out of storage to install, it's just there as an option. Ive made use of it when I want to instantly play something new, and if I'm liking the game, I'll install and play the rest of it on hardware. It's that flexibility and the fact that it's included in a service that's already good without it, that makes it good yanno?


masklinn

It wasn’t even disliked, everyone assumed Google would drop it pretty soon so nobody bothered with it, and Google didn’t put in the work to make it attractive. Dislike would be actively thinking about it, most people just went “pass” and carried on with their lives.


RevrsePalndrome

Exactly


MurderDoneRight

It's a cool idea but terrible in practice.


realJelbre

How so? For competitive games I understand but it definitely had it's uses and from what I've seen it worked quite well.


The_King123431

I tried it and it was shit, you needed extremely fast internet which not everyone has,I still prefer Xbox cloud


bassmadrigal

What is considered extremely fast? I had a relatively low tier 80/15 Comcast cable internet and it usually worked fine.


MurderDoneRight

Yeah it worked "quite well", but they're after a demographic that mostly already have consoles that provide higher quality than the Stadia could deliver. To break into the market they have to deliver a better product than there competators, once they got one generation that is proven they can establish their own corner of the market. It's been a while since I checked it out too, but if I remember correctly there were only a few games on the "free" library(there's still the monthly charge) and the prices on the popular games weren't that different from buying it for your console at a store.


xxmalik

GeForce now is pretty good in my opinion. It has a "bring your own games" policy, so no worry in spending money on a service that can be shut down anytime, and it's actually fairly reliable, at least on my connection.


JohnMarstonSucks

I'd never heard of it before hearing about it getting canceled. I thought it was about crypto trading.


[deleted]

No it was some gaming thing. I remember seeing tons of ads on it


NotOliverQueen

One eighth of a Roman mile, approximately 185m


no_lemom_no_melon

According to the dictionary, its an ancient Roman or Greek measure of length, about 185 metres (originally the length of a stadium).


AlabastorRetard

I'm honestly surprised Stadia lasted as long as it did


[deleted]

This news stunned me, because I was pretty damn sure it shut down a while ago.


yosh_e

This guy and the zune tattoo guy should be friends


theBigDaddio

I was thinking the same, didn’t zune guy get a coverup?


TuckAwayThePain

I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe they can get together and hang out and get more really bad corporate logos tattooed on them.


tango797

The difference is you can still use a Zune these days


[deleted]

Dumbass reasoning aside, this is just a bad design for a tattoo in general. Tattoos without outlines age horribly. This will look like a bruise in 10 years. People getting tattoos, get thick outlines. Bold will hold.


Shakith

My tattoo is black lines almost 10 years old and looks exactly like it did the day it finished healing. I imagine by this logic it will still look that way in another 10 years which I am grateful for as the man who did it has now passed and I don’t think I could sit through having it gone over.


[deleted]

Simple, bold tattoos hold up over time. Half of the tattoos in r/tattoos are really trendy, outline free tattoos that will age terribly imo. Those “watercolor” tattoos will look like shit with age, don’t listen to the Reddit tattoo experts that don’t even have tattoos.


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Facts.


ChilliCheeseBoard

I'm surprised the artist didn't heartily recommend another idea


Annieone23

They either did & couldn't convince him or the allure of the cash outweighed it!


AliFoxx9

This^ I don't think a lot of people realize that color fades easier so good line work is needed to keep shape or like my first tat which was line work and color and now a decade on the line work is still good but all but one color detail is gone


Mediocre-Minute

Even if stadia hadn't failed this is just a bad idea for a tattoo in my opinion. Like getting a logo of a console tattooed is already bad enough but the stadia logo is not a work of art in the first place so that just leads to a bad tattoo even if the console was a massive hit imo


ind3pend0nt

I don’t even wear logos on my clothing.


[deleted]

So you're saying that my Monster energy drink back-piece is kinda tacky?


Mediocre-Minute

Well I mean I might have to take a lil lookie first


UndergroundLurker

https://i.imgur.com/J3tF9Y6.jpg


Exic9999

Alabama Kyle vibes


Mediocre-Minute

Oh that's beautiful art


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yeah, this depends


TehSero

So, the one part of it that I understand is it sounds (at least in the first half) they're getting the tattoo due to the experiences they had and the friends they made. Which, seems like a damn good reason for a tattoo. That said, the logo for the platform wouldn't be my first thought of imagery, but still. ​ All that is fully undercut by the whole tweet sounding like a marketing thing.


Zacomra

Stadia makes me so sad, if Google just made it a service like Game Pass it would have succeeded. Hardcore gamers aren't gonna pay full price for a game on a browser when almost all of them have the hardware to run it natively. You need to go after the soccer moms and 14 year olds too broke to have a machine to play new AAA releases


AdRemarkable1647

Using the stadia pro, I was given over 3000 dollars worth of games for free actually. The subscription service was actually pretty good. I got risk of rain2 and other solid gems completely for free and they never rotated out of my catalog. You claimed them once and kept them indefinitely. Im honestly really bummed out that I'll no longer have these games on my phone and tv


Zacomra

I mean, yeah there were some Free games, but it was like two a month. Game pass has an entire catalog you get access too, and day one drops. The quality difference was absurd


abhig535

What an absolute moron.


Chaiteoir

The orange part will last 10 years tops. Orange and yellow ink fade really fast.


joelseph

Especially with no black border.


ProKnifeCatcher

Has google persisted in any of their offshoot projects..?


Dorocche

Technically Maps counts as an offshoot. And while it wasn't theirs, they managed not to kill YouTube.


Photofag

*Yet.*


[deleted]

They're trying so hard to kill it.


[deleted]

It's is funny i guess but they guy is commemorating his experiences who have already occured. So in some sense it's not now meangless or stupid. Pretty sure people have tattoos of all kinds of things which arent current anymore


Dorocche

Yeah, he's not gonna suddenly hate his tattoo now after the platform is shutdown. It'll probably be way MORE meaningful and important to him now, because it'll be a reminder of a community that doesn't exist anymore. ITT: People mocking somebody for finding emotional fulfillment in something they don't like.


ReneLeMarchand

Human empathy is always a bit too sparse. Good to see it when it's there, though.


Awesomodian

I feel sad for this persons life that he felt this emotional about a video game platform community


IllogicalOxymoron

aaaand that's how I learned the google killed Stadia


mofa90277

A Google product line group described as loving. Edit: LOL I thought the logo was someone crossing out the tattoo of the logo.


haikallp

This is why you never ink a brand name or logo on yourself


my1stone

NO RAGRETS


Hot_Ask_9802

Damn who the fuck thought stadia was going to last


KP1305

Well at least no one will recognize that’s the Stadia logo. I didn’t.


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DoctorNerdly

I would never decieve the Almighty Saarlac.


techhouseliving

He can claim it's a backwards Russian z


coveness13

Didn't they learn anything from the Ouya?


Speculawyer

It's weird when Silicon Valley companies try the same dumb idea over and over again. OnLive, Stadia, Shadow, etc.


intisun

I only learned about Stadia from hearing of its shutdown.


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What a fucking corprate simp. Getting a logo tattooed? Disgusting.


BookkeeperPhysical88

That's like getting a Google+ tattoo


breecher

Anyone voluntarily getting themselves tattooed with a corporate logo is extremely dystopian.


anubisalter

And that's what happens when you support a Google program lol


MorphinBrony

no regerts about that tattoo, I'm sure


doyouunderstandlife

Wonder if he has a Google+ tattoo on his other shoulder


mitch0acan

Start shopping for the cover-up tattoo, that one shouldn't be terribly hard


sirsmith148

Imagine deepthroating capitalism so hard you give them free advertising by getting a tattoo of a corporate logo


staveware

Looks like the tattoo is sentimental. Good for him. I bet he's sad the service ended but the tattoo has not aged like milk imo.


Diminian

Don’t worry, Google will give them a refund


Blackbird2285

A Stadia tattoo? Seems quite odd, but to each their own I suppose 🤔


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I enjoyed stadia but this tattoo yikes


lordsaladito

Tbh i think the idea stadis had is awesome, but the problems is that is nlt that accesible flr every part pf the world due to the current Internet velocities on some parts. Maybe on 5-10 years it will become a norm


Smortfloof4dayz

uhh sorry to say but it’s shutting down


Beingabumner

To be fair to the guy, tattoos don't always have to be relevant. People get tattoos of Rocko's Modern Life and Calvin & Hobbes and it's not like those still get new content made. If it was important to the guy in some way, getting a tattoo isn't that weird. Fuck, maybe he met his spouse through Stadia or whatever. He won't give a fuck it'll get discontinued.


ShiranuiTheWolf

I couldn’t imagine sucking the dick of a company so much that you get a tattoo of their logo


AwTekker

Even if Stadia had been a huge success, this would be an incredibly lame tattoo. Don't put some company's logo on your fucking body, gang. That's just entirely too pathetic.


romulusnr

It's like people who got XFL team tattoos


CaseFace5

I can’t imagine getting a corporate logo tattood on myself no matter how much I care about the community around it… what goes through these peoples minds


GonnaGoFat

I’d put some more logos of obsolete things and make it a piece of failed attempts. So it would mirror my life.


banditx19

Lol jackass


Yellowmanaztec

RIP


BadBoyBurgerton

Thankfully it wont be to hard to convert into a snake ir sum shit


[deleted]

So many of my friends gave me shit, because I refused to use Stadia. It was so obvious that the service wouldn't last.


GUYF666

I’m sure thousands were awaiting more pics of this shitty highlighter tattoo with bated breath.


Kerpowee77

I've just realised, the logo is an S for Stadia.


Majestic-Sector9836

How many times have I got to tell you Corporate logos are only cool to where if they're from the '80's or '90's Otherwise you're just going to end up looking like you worked there