You know case modding has gone totally mainstream when...

Retro2001

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When a highschool kid, presumbably below the driving age, and his mom come up to you in a major office-technology-chain store and the mom asks "Do you have any cathode (pronounced cath-oid: long first "a" and then "oid") lights. Wow.

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Vortex22

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You know its gone mainstream when you see them selling a clear cutout blue neon light computer on the Home shopping Network.

Yes I really did see them selling one like a week ago.
 

zCypher

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Originally posted by: Vortex22
You know its gone mainstream when you see them selling a clear cutout blue neon light computer on the Home shopping Network.

Yes I really did see them selling one like a week ago.
I see em in the local comp shops...
 

MacBaine

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You know you are into case modding when you have a little over 1000 cold cathodes arriving at your house in a couple days :D
 

Jmmsbnd007

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Great. Now 1337 casemodding will turn into some pansy ricer thing where you buy everything premodded. Nothing premodded for me.
 

HappyFace

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Originally posted by: MacBaine
You know you are into case modding when you have a little over 1000 cold cathodes arriving at your house in a couple days :D

:Q thats going to be one hell of a bright computer!
 

MacBaine

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Originally posted by: HappyFace
Originally posted by: MacBaine
You know you are into case modding when you have a little over 1000 cold cathodes arriving at your house in a couple days :D

:Q thats going to be one hell of a bright computer!

I'm going for the first "Casino-Mod"
 

Ornery

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Hah! It's not some pansy ricer thing when you mod it yourself, eh?
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AlienCraft

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Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: HappyFace
Originally posted by: MacBaine
You know you are into case modding when you have a little over 1000 cold cathodes arriving at your house in a couple days :D

:Q thats going to be one hell of a bright computer!

I'm going for the first "Casino-Mod"


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Free drinks, too???:D ;)
 

MacBaine

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Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: HappyFace
Originally posted by: MacBaine
You know you are into case modding when you have a little over 1000 cold cathodes arriving at your house in a couple days :D

:Q thats going to be one hell of a bright computer!

I'm going for the first "Casino-Mod"


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Free drinks, too???:D ;)

No, but I am going to install one of those "Dancing Girls" things on my desktop. Oh, and no window kits. ;)
 

iamwiz82

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i do stuff like that in the winter when its too cold to do anything to my truck
 

Ornery

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Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
Originally posted by: Ornery
Hah! It's not some pansy ricer thing when you mod it yourself, eh?
rolleye.gif
Exactly. It takes skill, not money. Finess, not money.
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What's the point, Sparky? Sounds pretty damn ghey and "ricer-like" no matter who does it!

 

her209

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Yeah, everything deez daze is goin' rice stylez. eVEn dIs seNteNce dAt i'M tyPiNg.
 

Jmmsbnd007

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Originally posted by: Ornery
Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
Originally posted by: Ornery
Hah! It's not some pansy ricer thing when you mod it yourself, eh?
rolleye.gif
Exactly. It takes skill, not money. Finess, not money.
rolleye.gif
What's the point, Sparky? Sounds pretty damn ghey and "ricer-like" no matter who does it!
You don't like it? Cry about it somemore.