Does the "gamer" aesthetic repulse you too?

[Ezekiel]

So much that it prevents you from making otherwise good hardware purchases?

 

[Chimpzy]

The aesthetic is merely tasteless. It's the people into it that make it so obnoxious.

 

[Satinavian]

No, it doesn't distract that much. If i can get an item with "gamer" flavour cheaper than the same thing without, i will buy the gamer thing. Particularly with costly purhcases, that are more sport those designs.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

I think there’s still plenty of good hardware without the gamer aesthetic.

 

[Ezekiel]

I think there’s still plenty of good hardware without the gamer aesthetic.

With monitors it's hard to find some of the fancier features or combinations in non-"gamer" models. I have one expected to arrive today. I had to pay a premium for one that doesn't have that look, and will "only" have 120 Hz.

Spoiler

I use quotation marks because "gamer" is not a word.

 

[Worgen]

Spoiler

Spoiler, gamer is a word, we have many newer words and gamer is one of them.

 

[McElroy]

Nowadays not at all. I used to have a MSI GT72 Dominator Pro (gaming laptop) that shows off the aesthetic boldly, but the trend has relaxed much.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Been a while since I bought new hardware. I do remember being kind of frustrated when I bought my keyboard that I had trouble finding a mechanical one without those tacky LED lights.

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

Consciousness repulses me

 

[Ezekiel]

Spoiler, gamer is a word, we have many newer words and gamer is one of them.

We already have "player." "Gamer" is cringey. Made up by players.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

We already have "player." "Gamer" is cringey. Made up by players.

I get where you're coming from but when video games are so prevalent as a medium that almost everyone plays them to some extent it's useful to have a distinction between people who occasionally play games the way they occasionally listen to music or occasionally watch movies and those who are actually invested in it and the culture around it as a hobby.

Gamer isn't a great term but it's the established one and trying to come up with another one would be a waste of effort, I reckon.