The country has been going through some serious inner strife the last couple of years as people are trying to loudly proclaim their values and how everyone who doesn’t agree is the enemy.

Jalopnik has always asked a single question about the Toyota Camry.

I know. It’s a damned shame. Virtually all “gaming” or even normal high-performance computer equipment looks like it was designed by a 13-year-old boy armed with a case of red bull, a set of black and red Sharpies, and the inside cover of a biology textbook.

12 year olds probably make up the majority of swatting, death-threatening, woman-hating, doxxing edgelords online. Or at least, 12 year olds and honorary 12 year olds of any age.

Agreed! As a computer techician keeping up with all these weirdly named parts is a handful, especially so when it comes to discussing parts with my clients. Weird naming conventions (And companies not even sticking to their own naming rules) needlessly make it extra confusing for people to choose parts beyond mere…

You can’t even play a single multiplayer game without the vast majority playerbase being basically 12 year olds or grown ass men who are mentally and socially indistinguishable from sociopathic 12 year old.

Lemme just leave this and a biiiiig bottle of Aspirin here. . . .

http://www.chevrolet.com/truck-life/silverado/special-editions

My 10yo daughter occasionally asks me to explain marketing BS. She’s very lawyerly in how she parses words for meaning and exactness, and she often comes away dumbfounded as to whether there’s any meaning actually communicated in a marketing name or copy.

However gamer handles and gamer marketing is just...…

I have been building my own PC’s since the AMD Athlon 64 days and continue to enjoy building them today.

Yeah, and I guess I know that. But at the same time, I have a set of RAM aim my computer called Ripjaws not because the brand stuck out or appealed to me, but because it was the cheapest. Computers used to all be boring gray boxes until Apple started calling them “Orange” and “Blueberry”. I would rather buy parts for…

It’s basically what happens when companies try to sell performance oriented products to a male demographic. They all start trying to appeal to everyone’s inner 8-year old looking for playground bragging rights. Look at performance cars - every car comes with all sorts of extra badging, your Cosworth XR5, GTi, GTX,…

• SkyTech ArchAngel GTX 1050 Ti

That Samsung part number means it’s an Ultra-HD 75" monitor from the first four characters. Already more descriptive than any of those other nebulous computer names that could mean pretty much anything.

Well the Wii U was a dumb name, and actually hurt sales because the average person didn’t know it was a separate console from the original Wii.

You keep track of models, not brands. You go after a GTX 1070, not “Extreme Gazillion Gaming Blaster GPU”.

Names like this are part of the reason I cut out the middle man when I build my own machines.
Most recently I’ve had TheSlipperySlope, TheBadIdea, and ThePoorChoice.

It’s even funnier on the opposite end of the spectrum. “How do we market a computer for people who know nothing about computers?” Said the marketing manager in a board room meeting. “HP Thinkbook. It helps you think gooder.” His colleague replied. “Perfect. Print it. Sell it.”

ikr? shits ridiculous these days. how is a casual builder supposed to react when approached by someone spouting weird names like this? how do you mentally keep track of it all?

Semi related: One of my friends once described to me the best description of the Razer logo.

I thought it was called the xXProBoneXx.