I went to Prime Day Gaming and all I got were these stupid shirt deals TechRadar Skip to main content TechRadar is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's why you can trust us. I went to Prime Day Gaming and all I got were these stupid shirt deals By Philip Palmer published 14 July 2022 Thanks, grandmazon (Image credit: Future) Why do these exist? Who is buying them? Is this like how when I was six years old I once whispered to myself alone in the wilderness that I liked turtles and then for the next fifteen years I would receive at least ten turtle-themed gifts every holiday? There are too many questions for one person to answer. The worst of Prime Day is here to reinforce gamers as antisocial maladjusted children and hawk shirts. Video games are a wonderful hobby: a medium of art that can empower the powerless, give voice to the voiceless, and create emergent narratives impossible in any other space. But sometimes it's easy to forget briefly that video games are not just a business, they're big business in a capitalist world that thrives on stereotypes and easily digested soundbites. Being a fan of video games isn't what it was once perceived as. Video games are deeply embedded into culture in most of the world. Generation X grew up with everything from Space Invader to Mario and that generation is breaking their 50's now. But yes, advertisers, gamers are an endangered species. All us gamers are giant babies who dwell in cave-like parents basements being drip-fed energy drinks and Doritos. Gamers don't know how to talk to others, since they never do that in video games. (opens in new tab)Oh look, it's a stupid gamer shirt: $16.96 at Amazon (opens in new tab) Save: your dignity and don't buy it - Yeah us gamers don't do anything but game, all the time! And then our moms come and get us and make us go be part of this 'society' thing we don't understand at all because adults don't play video games, silly! Anyways this is the link to this stupid shirt, please buy literally anything else.View Deal (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab)Yeah, it's another stupid gaming shirt: $19.99 at Amazon (opens in new tab) Save: me from this attitude - The one that says all gamers have to be screaming angry tantrum-wielding manchilds. We don't spend our time breaking keyboards and controllers or suffering from the throes of extreme Dunning-Kruger syndrome.View Deal (opens in new tab) When I think of gamers, I think of how a perfectly lovely woman in her 80's found success streaming her gameplay of Skyrim and will now get to be immortalized in the next Elder Scrolls. A perfect example of how your average gamer is any age, any type, any orientation, any ethnicity. Nothing like a tired stereotype. And then, I remember how people like Steven Spohn (opens in new tab) work tirelessly with charities like AbleGamers (opens in new tab) to expand the accessibility of this medium we all love. Reaching out to other people in this massive art form and hobby and connecting them with others to share knowledge and combat everyday challenges. Or my mind turns to thoughts of the people working together in Minecraft to provide a safe Minecraft server for gamers with autism (opens in new tab). A game server providing people on the autism spectrum a space to learn, play, socialize, and work together that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. But I also come to think of the speedrunning community – in their strange and magnetic combination of competitive and collaborative – who started a little livestreamed event called GamesDoneQuick (opens in new tab) back in 2010. An event that now fires off twice a year to raise money for Doctors Without Borders and the Prevent Cancer Foundation to the tune of over $3 million a pop. But hey, buy some stupid shirts. What do I know?Today's best Video Games and T-Shirts dealsReduced Price (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab)$59.99 (opens in new tab)$19.80 (opens in new tab)View Deal (opens in new tab)Reduced Price (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab)$62.08 (opens in new tab)$28.69 (opens in new tab)View Deal (opens in new tab)Reduced Price (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab)$69.99 (opens in new tab)$49.99 (opens in new tab)View Deal (opens in new tab)Show More DealsWe check over 250 million products every day for the best prices Philip PalmerSenior WriterPhil is a Senior Writer of TechRadar Gaming (TRG). With three previous years of experience writing freelance for PC Gamer, he's covered every genre imaginable. For 15 years he's done technical writing and IT documentation, and more recently traditional gaming content. He has a passion for the appeal of diversity, and the way different genres can be sandboxes for creativity and emergent storytelling. With thousands of hours in League of Legends, Overwatch, Minecraft, and countless survival, strategy, and RPG entries, he still finds time for offline hobbies in tabletop RPGs, wargaming, miniatures painting, and hockey. See more Gaming news TechRadar Newsletter Sign up to get breaking news, reviews, opinion, analysis and more, plus the hottest tech deals! Thank you for signing up to TechRadar. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. MOST POPULARMOST SHARED1The iPhone 14 Pro is made of the wrong stuff; the Pixel 7 proves that to me2Stop saying Mario doesn't have an accent in The Super Mario Bros. 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