Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally )

• Acidbath@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I remember correctly (from my mom who grew up in Taiwan) asus, acer, and msi(?) used to be one giant company that was split into three. so it doesnt really surprise me that their design teams share some cringe similarities ( okay i mean like ik this split was a long time ago but like they all do the same thing).

  i always thought rog (republic of gamers) was just a play on roc (republic of china aka taiwan). Im just waiting for gigabyte to come out with peoples republic of gamers

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• Taalen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At least ROG is just three letters that don’t mean anything to people who don’t already know what it means.

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• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve got an old-ish Acer Predator and thankfully it doesn’t have quite that level of dogshit branding but I did have to go into the bios to disable the boot screen and obnoxiously loud boot up noise. I like the metal and the RGB isn’t that bad, but if I buy another gaming laptop it’s probably not going to be from the Predator line since that seems to be all NVIDIA and I use Linux now, lol. Also who the hell thought Predator was an appropriate name for any commercial product, it’s pretty yikes.

  (Also my laptop has always been an RGB space heater but that seems to be a problem with gaming laptops in general).

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also who the hell thought Predator was an appropriate name for any commercial product, it’s pretty yikes.

    As in not prey. A line of gaming stuff so superior that it exploits the market and eats the competition, competition like the Alienware line. Alien vs Predator, and all that?

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    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I got the “not prey” bit and the Predator movie franchise when I bought it (if the first thing I thought of was the other definition, I probably would have bought a different laptop), but I’d completely forgotten about Alienware, the Alien vs Predator angle is kinda funny.

      Still, at some point you think they’d go for a rebrand, because you don’t want people to think about your line of gaming laptops and go “wait… yuck”.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Probably from the Predator movies

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• Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I put a “Rebublic of Gamers” sticker on my membran microsoft keyboard which made it a lot funnier but its on the down side so i dont see it very often

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