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For any avid gamer, a gaming setup is somewhat of a sacred place. It doesn’t matter if it’s super lavish or low-key and simple, it’s where you spend your time tuning into another world, embarking on adventures, meeting friends, and streaming. That’s your ultimate comfort zone.

But it turns out that gaming setups, just like everything else in this world, are not immune to having a threatening aura. According to Urban Dictionary, the term “threatening aura” refers to that of “a place, person or object that makes you feel like you're in danger just by looking at it, sometimes characterized by unsanitary condition.” Another online dictionary offers this definition: “The juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect.”

Now put it in the context of gaming: think of the battle station where all the action takes place, and imagine it having a threatening aura. If that’s too big of a job for you, let me present you this entertaining Facebook group “Gaming Setups With Threatening Auras” which will do the job for us.

Home to 145.5K members, the group is dedicated to sharing pictures of the most hilariously threatening gaming setups that will make you look twice and thrice, and then stare some more.

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D. Pitbull
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is not cursed or threatening!!! THIS IS FREAKIN' ADORABLE! Do you SEE the little Haku at the bottom???

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Materyst
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this is supposed to be a gaming setup, it's cursed. If it's supposed to be a terrarium for plastic creatures, it's great.

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Well-Dressed Wolf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope it’s well-cooled :( it’s cute, but it could overhear the computer…

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A very bored panda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

AHHHHH THIS IS SO CUTE! Must be a pain for the fans tho. I bet leaves are always getting stuck in them.

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Terry Waters
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This looks like it would increase the risk of overheating and being a fire hazard to me.

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David
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so conflicted right now. It is Ghibli so YAY! But it is also cringe. "My Gforce card keeps overheating and I can't understand why."

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Epona
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love Totoro! I don't like the Kodama, they are creepy. I like the soot sprites!

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Cassie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of the IT post where somebody brought in their computer because they had set a candle on top of it. It wasn't lit, just there for decoration, but computers get hot and the candle melted into the case and all over the components. This setup, if it is an operational computer and not just parts repurposed for decoration, may prevent the graphics card from cooling properly, shortening its life, and will likely end in a lot of melted plastic. It is really cute, though. This person should build little terrariums instead of computers. ^_^

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ThatOneChick
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The cutest way to brick your computer! 10/10 adorbs, 10/10 would not recommend

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Jordi Sharpe
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🤣 Did you hear that snapping noise? That was a million mens' a******s snapping shut.

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Froggi Juice
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate to break this to you girly pop queen boss, but bathing is important

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Kay Beeler Report

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Ivo H
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“In dangerous environments, some computers develops mimicry to protect themselves from predators”

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Well-Dressed Wolf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

College vibes XD my boyfriend and his roomies had their TV and consoles on a plywood board stretched over cinderblocks in college.

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Jose Antonio
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well those are line 6 spider series amps...so its only fitting that the wiring looks like a damn red house spider's web!

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StrangeOne
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is unfortunately a lot more common than you'd think. I have a friend who lives with her hoarding, lazy parents. She's been trying to clean up the house for her sake but is overwhelmed. She's been making some improvements but is struggling to get it all done and is the only one in the household trying to clean. I'm not sure how she stays sane and motivated to do anything.

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HurlWurk
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to wash out pcs used on a factory floor that would fill up with oil. It's safe as long as you properly dry them. I would usually remove all fans and regrease thier sleeves since the oil in the factory would brake it down.

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Mike Fitzpatrick
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her: honey, I'll only be inside Target a few minutes. Him: I'm good, take your time.

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1 year ago

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Stephen Heath Report

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Well-Dressed Wolf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow. I miss Limewire. I have songs on my phone that I originally downloaded from Limewire and Napster and have kept porting them around for decades XD no iTunes in those wild days!

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D. Pitbull
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My eyesight is shite. I would LOOOOOVE this.... except I'd want a third screen (Seriously... once you have 3 monitors to spread out all your c**p... you can't go back..)

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Well-Dressed Wolf
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean… it’ll keep your gfx card cool, I guess, but it’s at risk of being stolen by an unscrupulous human… or a curious raccoon who likes the chromatics XD

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Oktogal
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

His influence is spreading to inanimate objects, we are doomed.

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AJay
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it excessive? Yes. Will he lose $10,000,000,000 in trading like the guy above? Ehh maybe.

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Well-Dressed Wolf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, those touchpads are NICE. And when you get used to a keyboard, you get used to a keyboard and you don’t wanna change XD I’ve been using my original Alienware keyboard for two decades. I don’t like the new mechanical keyboards.

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D. Pitbull
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh good gawd. For a hot second I thought that there was a connecting wire stuck in the microwave lasagna (??).

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AJay
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And slowly the Logitech begins its transition to being a living, breathing mouse...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would've been cheaper to buy a new chassis for the AIO rather than a riser.

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OmBoyGanesh
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I typically game on a stool. Sit/stand desk & stool. If I’m having a long run, 3+ hours, trying to finish a quest or boss, I wear myself out and let it go until later. If I used my chair, I’d get too sucked in until I killed the boss or finished the quest. The stool and sitting/standing helps me self-regulate my gaming time.

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VonBlade
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If that's what you've got, that's what you've got. Let's not shame.

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Mat Hall
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

http://modthis.com/2008/09/24/retro-console-mods-nintendo-64-cartridge-copier-the-z64/

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D. Pitbull
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How... does he... get in and out... of the room - nvm. Stupid question, he doesn't.

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