Asus is not normally a name one thinks of when you hear the term "videocard", but the great thing about video cards is just about every computer hardware manufacturer out there has produced at least one or two graphics cards in their day, which means we won't have to limit ourselves to ATI and nVidia! hoorj~!
The artwork on this one is pretty badass. I mean it's basically a D&D artists reworking of Skeletor... with perky cross-laden golden angel wings. Perhaps he's decided to join the crusades in the holy land?
Enough about Skeletor. Let's turn our attention now to two very fascinating points on this box. I'm talking of course of the words Heart and Touching. They're arranged right next to one another rather prominently right under the massive Asus logo, which implies that they're intended to be read together like a statement. "Heart Touching" -- y'know, like children's books about bunnies who sneak into Farmer MacGregor's carrot patch, or stories of how a child will donate their kidney to save a dying sibling.
OK, WHAT THE FLAHGGHAWEGAH!??!?!
Sorry Asus, there's nothing less heart touching than a piece of computer hardware. Depictions of weapon wielding skeletal warriors don't back up your claims. Heart Touching FAIL.
Let's rate this guy:
+2 Armor (the horse is wearing some too, afterall)
+1 Weapon
+1 Lightning
+1 Fictitious Monster
+1 Clouds (I guess that green glowing stuff is a cloud? maybe it's the Aurora Borealis?)
+1 letter X
The horse is giving me a bit of a dilemma. It's not a predatory animal, despite it's badass horn helmet and it's being used as a vehicle, essentially, which makes me wanna give it at least +1 for the "vehicle implying power" category... but I'm not in a giving mood after that whole "Heart Touching" fiasco.
Final Score: 7Not bad, Asus, but seriously, get a new tag-line.
Can't we give +1 for the horse being a predatory vehicle?
ReplyDeleteThey meant literal "heart touching" like a skeletal hand grasping your aorta
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