Since the 1990s, ASUS’s highly iconic slogan “ASUS Quality, Rock Solid” has been deeply ingrained in many consumers’ minds. Then on November 2, a North American Call of Duty player posted on the well-known forum Reddit a post that sparked heated discussion, claiming that a TUF gaming monitor he bought for $280 five years ago had blocked a bullet for him.
According to the player antisocialnae, he was playing Call of Duty all night at home when suddenly a loud bang came from outside the window, even more terrifying and real than the gunshots he heard in the game. After realizing the situation was somewhat dangerous, he immediately dropped to the ground and reported it to the police.
While talking to the operator, antisocialnae discovered a bullet hole in the wall behind the computer, but luckily, after passing through the wall, the bullet hit his monitor and was stopped there without continuing through. Not only was antisocialnae himself unharmed, even his gaming PC tower escaped damage.
Antisocialnae revealed that the monitor that stopped a bullet for him was an Asus TUF VG258QM 280Hz display, which he bought five years ago for $280; needless to say, he was very surprised by the result.
“After calming down, I realized I had almost been shot dead, and I burst into tears on the spot,” he wrote, but said he actually still had two spare monitors.
Soon, word of this also reached ASUS, and a company representative posted a response below the Reddit post. They said that although they had always been proud of the durability of their monitors, this monitor’s contribution had still gone far beyond anything they could have imagined, and promised that they would next try to contact Antisocialnae to discuss how they should “commemorate this monitor’s sacrifice.”
In subsequent comments, other players also half-jokingly asked whether the monitor’s warranty coverage included “9mm stray bullets.” In response, the representative said that such damage would usually be classified as “customer-caused damage” or an “act of God,” but that such an unusual case would of course be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Interestingly, this is not the only case of a gaming product stopping a bullet for its user. For example, in 2022, an Apex Legends YouTuber experienced a similar incident, and the most recent case was in June this year, when a female player claimed that her gaming PC tower deflected a stray bullet that flew in from her neighbor’s home.
Source: KOCPC Chinese