Don't get me wrong though, leds can be beastly in proper case mods. I still remember this Alien themed Xenomorph mod
Mind-blowing stuff!
They did a good job indeed, in that they executed really well in the specific aesthetic they were aiming at. That aesthetic though, is the very definition of tacky.
Its bright and flasy, because that aludes to futuristic and technological. It does? To whom? To an actual scientist, or to a fat zitty virgin who'se entire imagetic references and aspirations come from star trek, the matrix, aliens whatever other cliche and over-romenticized unrealistic hollywood/comic-book bullshit that can fit that group. It's all made to create this disenyland like fake fantasy that this fat neardy kid us using some sort of state of the art computer technology from the future ( or another planet gigledy gleee) when they are just using a regular ibm pc assembled with the most expensive avaliable parts of consumer level hardware. Elitist? Yes. State of the art? Mehh. And all that for what? To play silly pew pew pew shoot the aliens games. Not to diss gaming, since we all do it herw, but to recognize it is indeed a silly hobby.
The theoretical concept of good design followed by most designers, architecs, and generally people without a greesy ponytail and a metal-band t-shirt, is that which has a good reason to be the way it is, which has all it needs to operate the best it can, and nothing more.
This is the exact oposit of tacking multiple gimicky lights and thingamabobs around your rig with no purpose other than superfitially making it look like the super computers of cheesy movies and mass-media products. Really low-brow stuff.
That rig sure can impress his owner male rpg playing, roaccutane takin friends. Will still probably not help him much with the virginity thing.
