Saying that steampunk is played out is almost getting played out itself, but they just keep making things. This week we have a another winner: a computer! Covered in brass! With horns! Die.
The screen, as is painfully obvious, is the centerpiece of this mod, which is the first problem. A good Steampunk device usually mixes anachronistic decoration with newer technology, but does so in a visually—if not conceptually— convincing way. That’s not what this is.
Most of the effort appears to have gone into the rear of the device, which houses a whole PC. There is no doubt in my mind that things like this take a great deal of skill, but the point is that this skill is being devoted to an irritating movement that probably peaked with a Will Smith remake movie. They’re making music now, people. Please stop (this goes for the enablers, too), and start covering stuff with wood. Or leather. Anything. Else. [Slashgear via Engadget]
Maduncle
Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 5:37 PM…but i ENJOYED making this.
Perhaps the jaded smug self satisfied ‘easy for you to say’ net police might like to try making something themselves for the sake of it rather than just crapping on other peoples work.
Phil
Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 1:28 AMI think that it is a unique and interesting design. Jest because your jaded mind cannot see beyond a beige box does not mean that creative people should stop creating things that please them. Giz, you really lost my respect with your comments on this one.
oldfool
Monday, December 29, 2008 at 5:19 AMI like it and I expect I will continue to like it for sometime yet. I probably create things you don’t like as well.
Prof. A.Von Taggërt
Monday, December 29, 2008 at 11:42 PMI love this PC build, it’s what modding is all about, it breaks the norm. Maduncle is a great guy, with a lot of skill and while some people cannot seem to think “outside” the box, Maduncle has but completely eliminating the box.
Good on you mate!
Mitzy
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 5:10 PMJealous, much?
MadUncle is creative, imaginative and an all around great guy. At least he HAS an imagination and seems to be able to put it to good use. Just because you don’t understand something, doesn’t mean you should slag it.
Jim
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 7:41 PMI used to think it was a great mod , having followed it through from early days and checking it almost daily to see if there was an update. Now that I have read your smarmy self righteous codswallop I can only believe that I hold it in higher regard.
The more we create that you and your uber-pious type dont like the better I will feel.
Get stuffed John Herrman.
Jim
NY
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 6:13 PMFunny – since when did they start spelling self-righteous knob-end J O H N H E R M A N
Grow up. So you don’t like it. Fair ’nuff. But to not like it simply because it has brass… are you kidding? As they say, so much easier to be a critic than to actually try and make something… They say “those that can do, those that can’t teach”. I’m wondering if it should be “those that can do, those that can’t criticise”??
Arno B.
Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 12:08 AMI really like this,it’s well thought out and made and will last longer than the piece written about it by a certain Mr Herrman who seems to have the attention span of a child.
Rowan
Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 11:10 PMI find this amazing mod breaks all expectations for PC design, and to judge it the way you have seems very ignorant and stubborn.
Fantastic work Maduncle, I hope you continue to inspire us all for a long time to come.
Goramit Orrery
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 7:06 AMYou can call it steampunk and declare it dead but the fact remains that it is a nice design, freestanding from the current need to tag everything.
OriginalSin
Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 8:35 AMIts true what they say, to be a fully fledged moron in this day and age you have to have you own website.
The moment you build something that beautifull you get to start insulting, until then shut up.