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What a fool! I’ve only just realised glowing PC parts are secretly meant to be Christmas lightsIs November too early for Christmas lights? Your tree is already up!
Is November too early for Christmas lights? Your tree is already up!
With Halloween behind us, it’s time to ask: is the 1st of November too early to put up Christmas lights? Is it a grim sign of ravenous consumerism, or a welcome respite from the watching the year die slowly and painfully in its final months? As I untangled my strings of LED lights this morning, I realised that PC gaming is the most Christmassy of gamings. The colourful LEDs people cram into their PC’s every orifice and pore aren’t just any decoration, they’re Christmas lights. That’s their purpose. It always has been. Christmas is year-round for PC gamers. So here it is: merry Christmas.
The Corsair K100 RGB, clearly dressed in marketing shots to evoke dreams of staring hungrily at gingerbread men through the frost on a bakery window.
I’ve long thought that LED-laden hardware was a curse, an industry-wide conspiracy to make my inobtrusive black boxes and slabs into lifestyle accessories, ghastly centrepieces of my home. I thought it was tacky trash. Only now do I realise that these are created expressly to be Christmas decorations. They’ve always been Christmas decorations.
Of course it’s distracting; it’s Christmas!
Are you hanging up your stockings on the case?
And I will confess I’ve been judgmental. I’ve thought it a waste of money at best, kewl d00d posturing at worst. But now every time I see someone with a glowing mouse or RAM cycling through the colours of the rainbow, I’ll know they’re a sweetheart who loves Christmas more than anything in the world. A very merry Christmas to you, you little darling.
You’re out here buying extra RGB RAM so you can fill more browser tabs with Christmas music videos.
I’m putting my Christmas lights up tonight while listening to Christmas music and drinking cocoa, and I urge you to as well. Or, just put your PC somewhere central. Erect your radiant tower, plug in your pulsating mouse and keyboard, wear your glowing headphones, crank your lumiscent microphone, perch atop your illuminated chair, and fill your RGB-backlit monitor with the most colourful game you can.
It’s Christmastime. It always is. And you, reader dear, forever sit atop your own RGB tree as the prettiest Christmas angel.
