PSA: the plural of "gear" is "gear"
 

Clothing:
https://i.imgur.com/0aKPmcY.jpg

Clothing (never clothings):
https://i.imgur.com/7Up0XOz.jpg

Gear:
https://i.imgur.com/qPaCila.png

Gears:
https://i.imgur.com/TpeOfzV.jpg

Help me save the server from this grave grammatical gaffe. You never "get some gears" unless you're shopping from Bom Knotwood in Steamfont Mountains. When talking about a single item, it is correct to say "a piece of gear" or simply "an item." Not a gear. Talking about two items? "Two pieces of gear." An unspecified number of items? "Gear." "I hope you get some gear." "You've got great gear, man."
Example of a person asking about this, and the answer.

So unless you're working on your Tinkering, I don't want to hear the word "gears" come out of your pixelated mouth!!!1!

Weird flex but ok

I think when people say "get some gears" they are using it as slang. They don't actually think the plural of gear is gears. I suspect this problem is more likely a failure on your part to understand the affectations of common speech than it is theirs in understanding proper english.

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I found some pretty great gears yesterday

Not everyone's first language on the server is English.

What about loots....

I always loots my gears.

No, no, it's "phat lewtz." Learn your terminology!

It's nothing to grind your gears over.

But yes, it's probably mostly a slang usage...I hope. The problem is that not everybody realizes it, especially non-english-first-language types, and so it can cross over from slang usage to being confusing. English is pretty crazy anyways, and that increases the need to be accurate when speaking or writing.
Bad English is spreading, I see terrible stuff often on supposedly journalistic outlets, like 'loose' instead of 'lose' and things that aren't even sentences. Problems with the weak verb construct are very noticeable - people say things like 'I have went' instead of 'I have gone', for instance.
Oh well, the other argument is that language changes anyway and so don't worry about it, but even a flexible language like English needs some kind of coherent core structure or otherwise you're just making crap up and it becomes impossible for people to learn. Core grammatical rules are there for a reason.

gearii