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Water-Cooled Half-Life 2 Case Mod
Takara writes "In an enormous from scratch project, piloux has recreated the HL feel in his LAN PC. This UV reactive watercooled case features 7 fans along side the meticulously texture painted contents. Take a look at the finished product images."
Cool, but that keyboard looks like it'd mutilate your wrists...
I'm not usually impressed by wacko case mods but I have to admit that this is one mean looking machine. Too often you see a case mod where the maker just bought a bunch of mod kits and threw them on a new box without regard for the overall result or theme. This, which shows originality, creative talent and attention to details is really refreshing. Good job!
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
I know there are a lot of people on here who think that most of these case mods are overdone, and don't think highly of any modifying.
But you know what, I don't care what you think, this thing took a lot of effort and I think surpasses the point where its more art than just being cool or hip. If you think otherwise....I don't know what to say.
Blake
Oh wait, it would just be an eight year old machine that everybody uses anyway even though there are better machines readily available.
Don't knock counter-strike just because it's old. There's a reason that it's still popular, and I wish EA and some of the other "big" fps makers would pay more attention as to why it's been so succesful. Particularly it's smooth gameplay, quick movement/turning/weapon swapping, realistic theme, good open-map modders community, etc.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
Seriously, most 'impressive case mods' are just a bunch of kit, random applications, and of course cathode ray tubes to light it up in neon.
This guy made something impressive, and beautiful, and he paid such attention to detail (like painting the whole CD rom drive, and continuing the 'rusted' theme internally as well as getting the water to glow green without getting the whole case to be bathed in green light, as such- I think it needs to be viewed as art, and no 'just another case mod'
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That would be because the commonly known fact that windows and IIS suck, is actually not a fact at all...don't tell everyone else that though.
This is nothing new, phenomenal, out of the ordinary or exciting, it's just something that certain people can not bring themselves to accept.
Those of us that do run IIS do so quietly and happily.
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