"Show Me Your Box, Baby!" [Contest]

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Gonna do something a little different this time around, but it should prove kinda fun. :)

The winner, who will be chosen by me, will have his/her/it/other's choice of one game from the following list:

Duke Nukem Forever (standard edition)
Borderlands Game of the Year Edition
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Warlock: Master of the Arcane
"That THQ Game That Shall Not Be Named Until SG Clears it Again" (Hey, I happen to think it's awesome)
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (I had to...)

Here's how to play:

Since everyone and their brother nowadays (and some pets) have cameras stashed in their pockets and/or orifices of preference, this should be fairly easy to do. Just snap a pic of your gaming rig, one that we can easily see, and share it here (just use a freebie pic host service and link to it). Include a quickly scrawled, but legible, note mentioning SteamGifts in it so we know the pic is really from you and not just something you snagged off of Google. It can say anything you like, such as "I ♥ SteamGifts" or "CthulhuSaves is a douche for making me do this!" You get the idea.

Now, here's the catch. I'm looking for a certain type of eccentricity, but I'm not gonna tell you which. Could be anything from see-through cases with lots of lights to boxes made of real wood, or maybe a certain motif (pirates, zombies, unicorns, etc). Ya never know. ;) At the very least you waste a minute or two of your life and get to show off your rig to everyone. I've also created a hierarchy so that, should no one post a pic that falls into the right styling, I'll default down the list until we've got a winner.

The contest will remain open as long as there is continued interest in it. Could be just a few hours, maybe a few days. Whenever people stop posting, that'll signal the end and I'll announce a victi--, er, winner.

(Lurkers are encouraged to give copies of Fortix to their favorite runner ups. lol)

Contest is now closed.

Some very nice systems were shown! However, nobody upped pics of anything really weird or eccentric, much less the specific type I'd chosen as the winning category (see below), so I just used random.org to pick a winner from the entries posted.

The winner is... drumroll...

HenryLi!!!

I'll contact you on Steam to finish up. :)

Ok, so some of you are probably wondering what the "mystery" category was, and the answer would be: Caseless systems. Caseless PCs were originally born out of necessity and/or poverty, but have, rather surprisingly, since become a new fad, alongside Retro, SteamPunk, and all the other eccentric styles. What's really hilarious is that, in true commercial fashion, they're now producing special cases for caseless systems! I kid you not. They typically look like milk crates or desktop sized open-lid boxes, but personally I think that's cheating and takes the fun out of using nails on the wall and coathangers draped from hooks on the ceiling (now that's a caseless system!). lol

Here are a few pics in case you're curious:

Clicky1 Clicky2

So there ya go. Hope this was fun for you guys. If so, please say so, and hopefully we can do something similar again later. :)

11 years ago*

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MDuh

wow, no one submitted? Guess I'll show you my boxes

tablet camera, don't bash me with the quality

11 years ago

"Show Me Your Box, Baby!" [Contest]

* Here's my baby, just built her in december

* Sorry my camera sucks

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