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Even if I wanted a scorpion robot chair, I couldn't fit one at my workstation. Also your embed is broken.

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It looks like something disgustingly rich people would buy for their kids

Larssen wrote:

uziq wrote:

pc gamer aesthetics are cancer. it doesn't stop with stupid tower chassis, either. peripherals, monitors, gamer chairs ... the whole thing is just full of extruded plastic and garish LEDs. truly some of the most tasteless tat in any consumer market.

I liked it when I was a kid

From a techie perspective I understand some of the origins for the awe over fancy cases and garish LEDs. Cases used to be rather plain (and office-blocky, none of that sleek elegance you see nowadays), and then suddenly companies started offering ones that stood out. Blue LEDs used to be super expensive and really cool if you could get a hold of them, and are now everywhere. I used to have a green cold cathode in my Lian Li, while there was no side window, looked neat when shining through the many faceplate perforations. Turned it off most of the time.

I imagine stuff that people wanted as a kid, they can now get without permission from their parents since they're an adult with a job. Some of the same mentality probably helps boost console sales.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Larssen wrote:

uziq wrote:

pc gamer aesthetics are cancer. it doesn't stop with stupid tower chassis, either. peripherals, monitors, gamer chairs ... the whole thing is just full of extruded plastic and garish LEDs. truly some of the most tasteless tat in any consumer market.

I liked it when I was a kid

From a techie perspective I understand some of the origins for the awe over fancy cases and garish LEDs. Cases used to be rather plain (and office-blocky, none of that sleek elegance you see nowadays), and then suddenly companies started offering ones that stood out. Blue LEDs used to be super expensive and really cool if you could get a hold of them, and are now everywhere. I used to have a green cold cathode in my Lian Li, while there was no side window, looked neat when shining through the many faceplate perforations. Turned it off most of the time.

I imagine stuff that people wanted as a kid, they can now get without permission from their parents since they're an adult with a job. Some of the same mentality probably helps boost console sales.

I actually miss the beige towers of the 90's and early 2000's. Unfortunately no one makes them and they have poor air flow.

I am going to have to agree with your statement about adults driving hobby sales. I started getting into MTG after wanting to replace the stuff I threw away as a kid.

imho it's kinda sad in a way and I feel somewhat sympathetic. The image of a grown man chomping down on cheetos in his blue and green LED lit mancave behind a computer that looks like a transformer signals multiple severe issues. Lonely, probably single, invariably bad health and stuck in a cycle of childlike escapism from the world outside.

Larssen wrote:

imho it's kinda sad in a way and I feel somewhat sympathetic. The image of a grown man chomping down on cheetos in his blue and green LED lit mancave behind a computer that looks like a transformer signals multiple severe issues. Lonely, probably single, invariably bad health and stuck in a cycle of childlike escapism from the world outside.

an incredibly harsh generalization but indeed, if the subreddits dedicated to desktop set-ups are anything to go by, grimly borne out by too much reality.

Larssen wrote:

imho it's kinda sad in a way and I feel somewhat sympathetic. The image of a grown man chomping down on cheetos in his blue and green LED lit mancave behind a computer that looks like a transformer signals multiple severe issues. Lonely, probably single, invariably bad health and stuck in a cycle of childlike escapism from the world outside.

I feel personally attacked.

I feel about neck beards the same way I feel about sex workers. Regarding sex workers : In a world full of people whose job is to victimize others and make the world worse off, it's bizarre to focus so much derision towards people whose job is to give men a good time. And in a world full of people who go out to spread COVID, date rape at parties, commit gang violence, and generally victimize people in social setting, making fun of people whose worst crime is mouthing off to other homebodies on the internet is misguided.

You can probably resolve some of the front panel connectivity with one of those 5.25 hubs (I've seen them in older style colors). The biggest issue I think would be in cable management and airflow modding. Also you'll probably need a new power switch.

Why would anyone want to put so many lights in their computer that it looks like a warp engine? I dunno, I've seen old box done before. I guess it's because it's a pet project, they can, it's ironic, and it looks different from all the transformers and black monoliths we have today.

I've thought about doing it on a lark but nah.

The real world has covid-19 and people getting their organs rotted out in icu. Let's stay inside and make toasters into nintendos instead.

Anyway it's not something I'd likely do myself, but if I could think of one practical application to a new PC in a brown box it's that someone might be less tempted to steal a computer that looks like it was from the Reagan era.