When did PC gaming become cringe?

>>105567246 (OP)
Probably tiktok, the answer is always tiktok.

*astronaut meme*

>>105567246 (OP)
when normies infiltrated it, like with anything really.

It was always cringe. If anything, I feel like it's more socially accepted on social media now, but not by women.

>>105567246 (OP)
when they put anime in it

>>105567246 (OP)
When retards started using it to make content for social media.

>>105567246 (OP)
Always has been. Imagine playing with s computer when you can have sex, workout, read books, learn a skill.

>>105567281
The blue represents the sky
The pink represents the sakura tree

>>105567246 (OP)
I feel like it was always cringy.
The older I get, the more I like the aesthetic of Macbooks and premium business laptops like the Dell Precision and HP ZBooks

Even 15 years ago companies were doing stupid gimmicks this to make you feel good about something that's power inefficient & destined be replaced in 5 years

>>105567246 (OP)
Definitely rural americans and brazilians.

>>105567310
what represent gaming performance

>>105567337
>>105567338

>>105567338
the 3 fans and the sharp design

>>105567258
reddit

>>105567246 (OP)
tfw no rich as fuck Chinese christmas cake gf to buy me expensive ass PC parts.
>>105567281
That's just Chinese graphics cards, that'd be too offensive in the West.

the late 60s

>Thor HyperForce GPU
>MegaSkill RIPJAW Sniper RAM
>T-Rex Canyon CPU

This is what it's always sounded like to adults. Welcome to the party, anon. Took you long enough

>>105567374
can't be using images like this to accuse others of being reddit cringe mon ami

>>105567246 (OP)
When they added RGB lights to everything.

>>105567246 (OP)
Why is his mom dressed like that?

>>105568163
Because it's hot.

>>105568193
cringe fetish

>>105568233
Ok, faggot.

>>105567246 (OP)
Post feet.

>>105567334
>He doesn't have a gun on his mobo

It's the opposite, you used to get bullied for having a pc and not an xbox, youtubers and streamers made pc reach the normies

>>105567259
spbp

>>105567729
>that'd be too offensive in the West.
We've already gone through this phase.

>>105567334
>The older I get, the more I like the aesthetic of Macbooks and premium business laptops like the Dell Precision and HP ZBooks
As a Macfag, I built my gaming PC inside this thing.

Even my completely oblivious to computers mom didn't initially register it as a PC and thought it looked good.

>>105567246 (OP)
like 15 years ago? when razer became fashionable among gamer kids

>>105569174
I got this case but black, I hate that it's mesh on the side so leds from the gpu is shining through

>>105567246 (OP)
I'll be as cringe as you want me to be if you give me a 5090. No butt stuff.

>>105569561
I've considered slapping some electrical tape on the side of my GPU.

>>105567246 (OP)
>buyeded amd stutterfest

>>105567246 (OP)
when they stopped putting hot girls on gpu boxes

>>105567246 (OP)
this will never stop being wholesome, but the disparity between it and reality emphasizes the dissonance.
This is the kind of gift that would have my knees shaking because the cost means that the woman would have to be a much higher provider than me yet still chose me, and the only way I could ever see myself accepting it is if this woman also had some kind of strong foundational relationship with me that let her understand who I was and how to show she wasn't just love bombing me. It's the move only a gigachad could make. such a woman doesn't really exist so it's become a reaction image and funny meme perpetuated along side stuff like this.

>>105569567
>be as cringe as you want me to be
>no butt stuff

When they started making mostly black PCBs

whenever women stop thinking something is cringe and start participating en masse that's when it becomes cringe

>>105569892
sounds like you'd fit right in with the based homosexual bugchasers

>>105569693
bring back orange pcbs

>>105567246 (OP)
wtf my shorekeeper isn't doing this for me!

>>105567246 (OP)
who is she cosplaying as?

>>105567281
No women allowed here.

>>105570004
nvmd i found it, some dumb gacha shit
figures

>>105567246 (OP)
when that one particular subgenre of woman started getting into it and attracting that other particular subgenre of man

>>105567246 (OP)
I'd kick all that cringe shit to the side and go straight for her feet

>>105569661
She just used your credit card anon

>>105569693
>btx form factor
They took this from us...

>>105570004
Probably genshin. It's always gacha slop

>>105569174
Did the same thing I wanted a case that didn't make me look like a 12 year old

>>105571327
This.

The moment gaming became popular and the whole gaymer "culture" started.
As always, exposing anything to a wider audience will eventually lead to its downfall caused by a massive influx of retards.

when adults started doing it

>pc gaming is LE CRINGE XD because I choose to watch tiktok and other cancer social media where people are deliberately performative and stupid

>>105567305
I can use computer whenever I want
I can't have sex whenever I want - they increased police presence on walking and biking trails now :(

>105573742

>>105567246 (OP)
26inches screen, pleb shit.

>>105573813
>hurr durr projecting also I'm too much of a pussy to actually reply
You are deliberately seeking out garbage social media content and acting like it's prominent and the norm for an entire hardware genre and all of its users.

>>105567246 (OP)
A new comp(with a 5090) and then sex with Shorekeeper is cringe?

>>105567246 (OP)
>when you're married to a Twitch streamer

>>105567305
But in this picture he's getting both the computer and has a girl cosplaying a degenerate character who is a computer herself and only exists to serve and protect her master.

>>105567246 (OP)
zoomers

>>105567246 (OP)
>this strong specs for fucking WuWa
This sgit runs on highest settings on my laptop. He'd better use this to train models and gen AI slop on /trash/

>>105567246 (OP)
>1600W PSU
>ROG Astral 5090
The coil-whine will pierce his soul.

>>105569983
>>105569693
you can still get green oem boards. even blue if you are willing to pay [spoiler]500 for a barely adequate board[/spoiler]

>>105567281
Anime is a timeless constant retard

>>105576329
You expect some zoomer/alphag culture warrior to know that?

>>105567246 (OP)
Shorewife my beloved

>>105567246 (OP)
rgb shit, I refuse to believe anyone over the age of 13 actually enjoy that cringe

>>105570004
>she

>>105570039
to be fair she's the only decent thing about the entire game

>>105567246 (OP)
>holding that box behind her back with both hands
There's no way she can bring that box in front of her without putting it down or someone else helping her.

is this advertising for nvidia or the franchise that the guy is cosplaying as?

i love indiachan saars

>>105577550
You can literally just hold it with one hand what are you talking about.

>>105577737
Her hands are too small to hold the box with just one

>>105567816
>REPUBLIC OF GAMERS
their entire brand is tainted from this name alone

>>105577865
Then she just turns around and bends over, i'm sure she is used to it from her tiktoks.

>>105577933
Is there a video of this? I just can't visualize it.

>>105577964
Yes

>>105567246 (OP)
2010. Or whenever LAN parties died.

>>105567246 (OP)
wtf cosplayer gf need

>>105569174
>As a Macfag

>>105568272
oh cool it's the Sopranos gun

>>105567246 (OP)
I wouldn't trust my gf to build me a PC. It would be all be incompatible parts.

>>105569561
You should have picrel. I got the metal version. No leds shining through.

>>105569983
>soltek
>orange
lol these motherfuckers purposely made theirs gold so it stands out from the orange asus, abit, msi, etc...

>>105577907
>ACER PREDATOR

>>105567246 (OP)
I hate being poor so goddamn much. My 12 year old PC is slowly dying and I can't do anything about it. Fuck this homo earth

always was, is, and always will be
>>105572703 pretty much sums it up

>>105569167
And why exactly was it phased out?

>muh heckin cwinge
Geg

>>105567246 (OP)
When retards like picrel started getting into it with their consoooomer mindset and need to feel involved in the community. These guys are the reason why we'll never have anything good again, the prices will go up, games will get shittier but it won't matter as these fags will buy it anyway.

>>105567246 (OP)
For a long time. I considered games like everquest and wow cringe as they were just glorified chat rooms with ddr tier gameplay.
RTSes and and custom games modes were cringe too.
But if you mean when it became full on cringe then somewhere between garry's mod and spore.

>>105569596
did you know you can turn the leds on your graphics card off with one little trick? which brand of nvidia did you get?

>>105578188
>open grille for maximum air intake
maximum dust intake. how does dust build up affect the components do you reckon? could i let dust build up on the rad fins for a bit and it should be ok?

When GPUs started to cost more than 300 bucks

>>105578694
weebs
>>105569567
>if you give me a 5090
youll be paying an extra £10 a week on your electricity with a 5090 and a phat cpu blasting 700watts of power through it for 16 hours a day like me but i have a 5070ti so the bill has only gone up £2 a week.

>>105567246 (OP)

also, lets have it right, he is definitely peeking.

>>105579520
Half of this thread are perverts peeking at her feet too.

>>105579603
you cant see her feet. and lets have it right, it’s probably his brother dressed up to fool /greddit/

Reddit master race memes were the turning point for me.

>>105579743

but it does look gorgeous on her

>>105567246 (OP)
whenever peripherals and pcs switched from just blue or green LEDs at most to full blown rainbow color changing rgb shit

>>105579780
>more choice is worse than less choice
i dont like green or blue, i like red. sometimes orange cause nothing rhymes with it. occasionally i feel fruity and have it set to deep purple.

I'm sorry, but how is it "cringe"? Is this just a /v/ thread or something?

>>105567816
lmao.

>>105579743
>Reddit master race memes were the turning point for me.

Yeah this is where it started to be npc cringe.

>>105567246 (OP)
>tfw no Shorekeeper wife

>>105567246 (OP)
When pc gaymers fixated on Half-Life being their masterpiece

>>105572703
>Little faggot kid mogs me in the /pcbg/ dept.
I'm tired bros

>>105578281
Sounds like somebody that stalks kids.

>if I play on the locked-down DRM box, miss out on mods, and pay extra to use my internet connection, maybe I'll get laid!

>>105580635
He's right doe, pc is for kissless nerds

>>105567246 (OP)
Every platform can be cringe, but consoles don't even have the possibility of being based because they are all just temporary subscription services.

>>105580635
I'd be willing to wager a good amount of money that yes, having a playstation ($500) in your TV unit is in fact less of a pussy repellent that having a gaming pc+peripherals ($1500+).

It says something about your priorities in life

Around 3dfx's Voodoo2

>>105580731
that has literally always been the case
i mean, i would have assumed these days it'd be less unusual, since back in the early '00s when i first did it was not nearly as straightforward to do so. it's not like now where you just get a regular hdmi cable to go from an hdmi port on your pc to an hdmi port on your tv. no. you needed an active adapter or a specific kind of gpu to get a signal a tv could understand. not like now where tv's are just monitors with a tv tuner included

>>105567246 (OP)
It's always been pretty cringe computer culture in general is pretty mocked upon as beta shit unless your an absolute legend like god's chosen schizo programmer but if you ask me PC gaming became really gay when the LGBTQ lights become normalized

>>105581292
>when the LGBTQ lights become normalized
never? or do you believe the youtube adverising crew are "normal"?

>>105579504
Inno3D

>>105567246 (OP)
the only cringe is social media

>>105567246 (OP)
It always has been. The problem is that online you only see all the people who show off their gaming room or gaming PC with a ton of RGB or other shit.
All the people who actually just simply play games or have basic looking rooms or PCs don't bother posting it online.
It's all just attention whoring.

>>105576329
>>105576501
wrong, ever since 2020 anime became normalfag shit and now any chink brand just slaps anime slop so people will buy it, it's not 2009 anymore

>>105580684
>shart niglet speak

>>105567246 (OP)
Is that shorekeeper? dam I wish I had a rich ai gf.

>>105567246 (OP)
It's physically impossible for this woman to move the box from behind her back and hand it to the guy. Her hands are too small.

>>105580731
>Yes, goy, you MUST prioritize roasties and norm-nigger cattle

>>105583105
what's shorekeeper? i trying searching but only found some chinese junk

>>105567246 (OP)
>niggas spend thousands on this gear just to play poorly optimized video games
give me the 5090 so I can do actual work with it and not play video games made for children

>>105583754
If you're using it for work, why can't you just buy your own?

>>105567258
FPBP

>>105569174
Case name please, looks kino

>>105584256
Fractal North

>>105583731
She's a character from some Chinese junk game.

>Don't know who these people are
>Don't know who they're cosplaying
>Don't know if the hardware is brand new or 2 years old
>Don't care
Man it feels good to be disconnected from the propaganda mouse wheel that is modern life. It's too bad you faggots feel the need to spam it everywhere.

Why should I care that some whore and some manlet setup a photoshoot for social media? Why should I care that these companies shipping them free samples of these products to shill them? Why do you watch this garbage?

>>105567246 (OP)
when women started doing it

>>105584507
go back to your fagbarrel diogenes

>>105584577
WTF does this even mean? Are you trying to insult me or is this the same tired
>Wow you dislike my favorite eceleb that means you're this other eceleb I don't like!

You faggots are brain damaged. Only someone with a nigger IQ would watch streamers and actually enjoy it. Inb4
>it's just background noise

>>105584507
idk who or what OP image is, I just wanted to poke a little fun at you for rejecting modernity and materialism ;)

>>105567246 (OP)
Nice photo. It flashes her upper thighs.

>>105567246 (OP)
Although the build is overpriced junk
>Extreme instead of ProArt
>1600W Thor lol
>5090 when you can just get a 5080 or 9070XT instead of that double housefire
>Tryx AIO LMAO
>Samsung ssd instead of WD
just extremely overpriced slop typical of chink consoomers. I'd be amazed to see one balanced build by these freaks that isn't asrock budget tier or overkill like this. Just a little balance

>>105567246 (OP)
probably around the time the "pc gayming mustard race" meme, nothing but a chant to normies

>>105567281
CUTE

>>105567246 (OP)
sauce

>>105567246 (OP)
Sometime in the early 2000s when everyone started ricing out their computers with side windows and led lights. The late 90s was the last time pc gaming was still exclusively a hobby for high iq nerds.

>>105586648
I have that joystick. It's garbage. You're giving me flashbacks of being shot down in Chuck Yeager's Air Combat because the stick was retarded.

>>105568272
tfw got a mag but no gun

GTX 10xx series and later covid GPU shortage when GPUs became some sort of personality replacement

>>105586692
It was way before then. It just came even more prevalent by that point. I'd say this got really bad around the mid-2010s. That's when the rise of the "influencers" LARPing on youtube started who all had to have gayming PC to fit-in and show off. Children are really impressed by them for whatever reason.

My roommate's nephews came over one day to swim in our pool. They were like 11-12 years old at that time I think. After they finished using the pool they came inside to eat with us. My PC was in our living room so they saw it when they walked in. They see the tower, the multiple monitors, my arcade joystick, the microphone I got gifted (not sure what kind it is but it's popular with streamer or was) and my headphones. The kids get all wide eyed and one of them asks
>ArE YoU a StReAmEr?!?!?!?!

and I'm like uh no...I just have a job and like Street Fighter.

I made the mistake of grabbing another joystick and letting them play a fighting game. I'll never do that again. They wailed all over my new Sanwa buttons and the joysticks. Probably took years off the life of them in 2 rounds of Street Fighter. I should have known better.

>>105567246 (OP)
When did gun shooting become so cringe?

>>105579866
i mean they are all gay and you prove the point. no LEDS is the best choice for peripherals and PC. i was just saying when it went from only seeing only one color of LED on certain ricer style cases, to having color changing rainbow rgb on everything is when generally pc gaming became cringe.

>>105576329
>weeb cope
Anime is an addiction. It's like saying alcoholism is timeless.

>>105586336
>passfag since 2024
You have to go back.
>>>/plebbit/

>>105586648
Falcon NW is from my area. They still make extremely expensive high-end computer. Never understood how they manage to stay in business.

>>105584166
You mean like "why can't everyone who works buy a private jet and mansion"?

>>105585127
I thought Samsung's had the best reputation for their ssd's. Is western digital really better?

>>105567246 (OP)
when you became too poor to afford it lmao

>>105585127
>he didn't pick the exact parts I would have picked so it's junk
post your HWINFO

>>105588538
The 5090 isn't that expensive.

>>105572703
>GTX 1080 in SLI
damn minecraft shaders run heavy

seventh gen. though god of war was an early adapter

>>105586648
Fuck off boomer. You can buy hardware that smokes it 100 times over and you can buy rgb free parts easily. Fucking lol

>>105588554
I got BSODs endlessly on my samshit 970 evo plus and the error code ended in something like 0x10 which everyone online said it was ssd failure. I got a sn850x and it's perfect.

>>105589078
Alder Lake and 9070XT

>>105567246 (OP)
When companies started to sell RGB peripherals. That's it for me. Not just fans, but RGB motherboards and RGB RAM.

>>105589087
It's a overpriced POS and you should avoid it on principle alone (shit tier power draw + still has to pump fake frames to run garbage new games and remasters so might as well get something less housefire-y).

>>105590724
Shittiest take ever. Just turn it off. Or use a closed panel case with no windows which you'd obviously do if you were such a hardcore PC nerd huh? Fucking lol at whining about this nonsense. Console development is a far bigger issue, a CRIME against PC gaming for holding it back.

>>105590689
>and you can buy rgb free parts easily.
god I wish

>>105567246 (OP)
>cringe
societal pressure is a meme. kys

>>105590733
>Just turn it off
then what? cope with it still looking like actual garbage?

>>105590716
why did you buy a crock of shite?

>>105590726
People who buy 5090s don't much care about the price or power draw. Only poors think of such things.

>>105590689
For what purpose? The games that ran on those 100x slower computers were infinitely more fun, enjoyable, and replayable.

>>105590726
>still has to pump fake frames to run garbage new games and remasters
The topic was using it for work.

>>105583754
>Nigger spending thousands so it can wage slave more efficiently

I love how just the mention of a 5090 makes people go hysterical.
>but owning a 5090 is like having a private jet
ha ha ha ha

>>105582028
I'm sorry to hear that, and you're right.

>>105590733
I do. It still drives up prices of everything, apparently it also introduced a 0-ring backdoor in Windows, it's built to become dimmer and wear out by default. 10% of attention whores get to post photos of their "rigs" and "waifus", and the rest are left with what I've described.

When we started telling people to switch from console, gatekeeping is important to keep your hobby from going to total shit.

>>105581292
I will NOT concede the rainbow, one of nature's most beautiful natural formations, to fucking fags. Fuck you.

>>105567246 (OP)
>When did PC gaming become cringe?
First of all, it was a children's hobby hijacked by manchildren who refuse to grow up, and because they have so much disposable income, they price kids out of yet another hobby (seriously, do you think a family can afford a gaming PC for a child? It's cheaper to buy a used car...).
It's cringe because you are a 20~30 yo wasting the best year of your life in front of a computer, and you are not even happy doing it. The apogee of "PC game culture" is not even playing anymore; it's buying stuff and posting on Reddit for internet points. Most people with LGBT keyboards don't even play video gaymes...

>>105595212
>le manchildren
Go back.

>>105569174
This is the only nice-looking PC case ever produced. I love it and I'm using mine until it's no longer compatible with the ATX standard.

>>105567246 (OP)
when people started thinking that cable management and noise are important issues, literally the most mundane retardation

>>105567246 (OP)
covid, when every hobby including anime etc. suddenly when from being considered nerdy or weird to cool.

>>105596236
You actually believe that?

I had to work through covid. I was so envious of everyone who got to stay home all day

>>105596096
shut up zoomer

>>105598742
Same but it was easy to call in "sick" during those times no questions ask.

>>105586676
The CH Fighter Stick and throttle? I always read that people are satisfied with it. Perhaps you had the Combat Stick version, which probably had worse components and less buttons, but looked the same.

>>105567246 (OP)
Who's the slut?

>>105567281
put anime everywhere!

>>105567246 (OP)
>ventus
rip

>>105567246 (OP)
sex

>>105567246 (OP)
I'd kill to have someone who shares my autism for computers.
Sadly, we can't have it all.

Wow China sexy and numba wan! Fucking Chinaaa

>>105596224
Tasteless cuck. Stop fetishizing your beige box. Noiseless PC is something you'll never get

>>105601207
Ventus? It's all ROG you fucking clown.

>>105590726
>It's a overpriced POS
I got mine for less than what a 3090 cost at launch, just before the price shot up again too lmao

>>105576329
A timeless what, and stop calling me that!

>>105583731
You might be surprised at how good the Chinese have become at emulating and creating anime-styled characters and worlds.
They're making billions and crushing Japan in that particular gaming sector. Japan is quite slow to adapt even though they should in theory have a huge advantage.
It's degen stuff, for degens, made by degens.

>>105601823
The funny thing about the pic is that the character she's cosplaying is a literal computer created to serve her master.
I doubt that is a coincidence with the context.

>>105567246 (OP)

when troons and söy boys got into it

>>105601823
Just be gay.

>>105569661
That videos and photos are staged.
Asian women are deformed monsters because the botox and most asian men are gays.

>>105567305
>read books
that's even cringier, imagine wasting your time on that

>>105570039
Just imagine, a 5090 could render like 100 phone emulator windows of Live2D tweening and stretching animation.

>>105610424
Books are cool but you need to be drunk or in near complete silence to enjoy fiction