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SplitReason Newsletter :: February 2008

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February may be a time of love, but around here it's been nothing but busy. Part of that busy is our usual slew of appealing new products which you can check out below, but another big part is that today we're launching a new feature called the IDEA WHITEBOARD:

SO WHAT'S THIS IDEA WHITEBOARD ABOUT?
Think of it as a fancy forum where you'll be able to view, submit and reply to a whole slew of new t-shirt and product ideas for the Geek and Gamer market! Since many of our visitors have excellent ideas but may not have the design skills to implement those ideas, the Idea Whiteboard now provides you a place to let us know what kind of wacky ideas you have bouncing around in your head. If we, or regular artist contributors to SplitReason.com think you have a good idea it might get turned into a design submission and eventually a SplitReason.com product! It's our way of making the design process at SplitReason.com a more collaborative process to ensure that you're getting the products you want!

IDEA WHITEBOARD - YOU PARTICIPATE, WE REWARD YOU!
The best part of participating in the whiteboard / brain-storming idea process it that we'll reward you. If you're an active contributor of ideas, help improve the ideas of others with your suggestions and feedback we'll reward you with SPLITREASON.COM Gold Pieces, which you can then convert into store credit for purchases with us! We offer 200 GP for a new idea and 40 GP for a response to another persons idea.

We moderate all incoming content so don't think you can slap a few words together and call it creating thinking! We only approve ideas and replies that we find relevant, appropriate and worthy of Gold Pieces!

Are you ready to participate? SUBMIT YOUR IDEA or VIEW IDEAS

RSS FEEDS - WE COMMAND YOU ADD THEM!

NEW PRODUCTS FEED - Know the moment we add a new product!
NEW DESIGN SUBMISSIONS FEED - Get the latest artist designs
SPLITREASON.COM BLOG FEED - The greatest blog known to man, maybe.

SPLITREASON.COM SURVEY
Don't forget that we've got a quick 30-second NINJA survey going on right now! It's best described as a plea for getting to know our customers a little better! Don't worry n00b, we'll reward you for filling it out also. $2.00 in instant store credit! FILL OUT THE SURVEY (you must be logged in).

	ARCADE BEANIE All your favorite childhood arcade symbols on one stylish beanie! $15.95
	GAMER HOODY Wear your video game roots proudly with this comfy, high-quality hooded sweatshirt that is sure to get a few approving nods from peer and foe alike! $42.95
	GEEK POWER GOLF SHIRT Electronics standard IEC 5009, is actually not meant to be a power symbol, but rather a symbol to indicate that the device is in "Standby" mode. Well, IEC standards be damned! Geekdom has readily accepted this symbol as our logo of power! Wear it proud! $24.95
	CONTROLLER GOLF SHIRT The ultimate understatement of professional gaming apparel comes in the form of a neatly embroidered game controller. The best part of-course is that you can wear this one to work and show your friends and colleagues that despite the collared shirt rule, your inner gamer will never be silenced! YES WE CAN! $24.95
	+20 NATURE RESISTANCE BEANIE A perfect companion to our wildly popular Frost Resistance beanie, this +20 Nature Resistance beanie is designed to be worn during your travels in the more wooded and thorn filled lands of your favorite MMORPG. Oh and you can probably wear it outside too! $15.95
	CA$HWHORE T-SHIRT Called "Best shirt of GDC" by Wired. The official Destructoid.com Ca$hwhore t-shirt! $14.95

Design Submissions - If you're an aspiring t-shirt artist looking to showcase your l33t skills, we want to hear from you! You can upload designs to SplitReason.com for our readers to view and if they like your work, we might turn it into a t-shirt and send you 250 bucks! If you think you have what it takes, go ahead and upload your designs here.

If you don't have an artistic bone in your body, we're still interested in your opinion and any constructive feedback you have. Take a look at the designs other artists have sent to us, and let us know what you think! You can leave comments and vote on your favorite designs, just click here or on the designs below. Learn more about SplitReason.com design submissions, click here for complete details.

... WEEKLY T-SHIRT GIVEAWAY :)
Every week we're giving away a free t-shirt to the person we deem as giving us the most creative reason to get free stuff! It's that simple. All you have to do is follow this link and make up some crap, and click submit.

PAST WINNERS! Read their stories, learn how to make-up quality bullshit.
Date: February 26, 2008
Name: Timmy
Reason: Well it's simple. "what's simple?" you may ask yourself... I'm sortta good... and love jig-saw puzzles, and must not be a total loser because I spell boy without the oi and fat without ph and hot with one t :D... I recycle :D yum yum yum recycling is god... crap! I'm good. Ooo more reasons: today after my basketball tournament I dug through the garbage and filled two fat (without the extra t that'd make me look cool) bags with water bottles and pop cans to bring home and recycle, but then momma Sue said she could give 'em to the group of mentally challenged kids at the high school and I’m like "ok mom :D" (with that exact smile. The mentally challenged kids can use them to get money and help with their math by the way. I'm also deserving because I'm gonna skip eighth grade! Mmm grade skipping! I kinda want a free t-shirt also, things are always better when they're free! such as sex or a t-shirt, oh! How bizarre! that's what I'm asking for, the sex! Another reason I should get that t-shirt is because for SR I'd just be a walking advertisement. Everybody would be like "omg! I love your shirt! where'd you get it?" I'd say (with pride, "I got this hot smokin' t-shirt from SplitReason.com!" so yes I'd be a better advertisement than all your other advertisements put together :D. Yeah I have cats too so that should make me qualify for a free t-shirt and if you don't agree you're committing a crime! Yes t-shirt, yum. the final reason is because including the spaces above are 1,485 characters forming reasoning to give I, Timmy a free t-shirt... wait now there are 1,574, wait nope there are 1,601, yeah hopefully you get what I'm trying to say :D There are >1,859 characters in this passage. And if I don't get that t-shirt I won't have a SR t-shirt to wear... The one, the only (as long as I don't have an identical twin) Sui Generis.
SR: Two options on this one. 1) Read it all and end up in Arkham Asylum, or 2) Cut my losses and send out a free t-shirt. Free t-shirt incoming!

Date: February 18, 2008
Name: Mark
Reason: My reason is two-fold. First, I'm a nice guy, and nice guys should finish first at least once, don't you think? Second, my favorite t-shirt disappeared one day last year. My wife claims it was stolen off the clothesline, but it just so happens this was the same day that UFO was seen flying over O'Hare International Airport. Don't wanna point fingers here, I'm just sayin'...
SR: The aliens did it, I just got off the Intergalactic Telephony Device... they're basically telling me they thought it was food; a simple misunderstanding. That's bullshit, because we all know they only eat sheep and cattle. I don't buy their story one bit. I woke up with "UR A NOOB" crop circled in my back yard a few months back. They blamed that one on George Lucas, I'm still trying to make the connection. Either way, I'm fed up with their shenanigans, so have a free shirt... we'll get them back when the time is right.

Date: February 12, 2008
Name: Andy
Reason: I'm not creative, so all I have is my true sob story. My Xbox Live account was stolen because I was one of the lucky ones who did has Recons. I haven't been able to play my 360 for three weeks now, and every week Xbox customer support says that they'll call me within a week, but they never do and I always have to call them. They say that they might not be able to restore my account. They would give me a new account and Microsoft points to repurchase all of the digital items I owned, but I would lose all of my achievements and many of my save files would no longer work. It looks like it will have been more than a month before I can play my 360 again and in the mean time, I've spent over four hours on the phone with Microsoft.
SR: I agree that's not cool, you struck a nerve with me due to this fiasco: So here you go man, enjoy something while you wait :)

Date: February 5, 2008
Name: Carrie
Reason: Hot gaming mom deserves a free tshirt.
SR: Hot gaming mom needs to send in a picture wearing her free t-shirt.

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