Custom Gaming Rig Heralds Robot Apocalypse
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It's not a he, you fool. We all know the insectoid robot overlord is female.OrenjiJusu said:
*faceplam*
This is pretty much exactly what I thought when I saw this.Wolfram01 said:
It looks like the creator is trying to emulate an insect. That's nice, but he picked hardware that makes it a lowly insect among gaming computers as well. I'd give him maybe $500 for this rig, and that's with concessions to his nifty case design.
Normally this wouldn't have warranted a post, barely even a full read-through. Two things are different here, and that's why this system is getting so much hate:
A) A weak rig is being touted as a "Robot Apocalypse". Ahem. This is primarily a gaming website. We have some other things on here, so we're not just gamers, We aren't all even PC gamers. But the PC gamers here know what is and isn't the "Hot Stuff" in the world of PC hardware. It's one thing to have large, out-of-touch game developers feeding us a bunch of hype. We can put up with Peter Molyneux making things up about his games. It's entirely something else when an Escapist contributor tells us that an AMD dual-core processor with a presumably onboard graphics card could run Crysis 2. Not even that, we're told that it will make Crysis 2 look good. That's not even close. That's borderline lying. I mean, we're the people who BUILD futuristic space-computers. Specs this low aren't going to get past the layman, MUCH less us. Why were the specs even included? It feels like a slap to the face. Perhaps it wasn't intended, but if that's the case it's just poor class.
Which leads me to:
B) If this... thing is the robot apocalypse, I just built SkyNet a few days ago. Correction, It's the Monolith, running on a quad-SkyNet processor with a Radeon R2-D2 graphics card. It runs on the HAL 9000 operating system and is supercooled by the same cooling system used on the magnets in the Large Hadron Collider. In fact, the cooling system is made up of parts stolen from the Large Hadron Collider.
And it has neon lighting in the case. NEON!
I just built a new gaming rig the other day that would run circles around this thing. It will probably end up costing less than whatever this guy charges, too. I'll have fewer problems with it, and it won't scare the shit out of me in the middle of the night.
Does the Scarab look cool? Not really. It just doesn't look good enough that I'd overlook it's pretty obvious inferiority. I mean, it just looks kind of messy and awkward, it probably won't be much better with the shell around the computer parts, and if I saw this as a robotic enemy in a game, I'd probably ***** and moan about poor character design.
Just saw this. Now it's not just a terrible computer. It's a terrible computer that doesn't even have a custom case mod. Wonderful. Stay Classy, Escapist.DeeWiz said: