Let's just get this out of the way-- The case:
You can see here the "North" by Fractal in charcoal-black with a Walnut front grille and black mesh side-panel.

I decided on this case primarily because of the wood! Let's face it, there just aren't a lot of cases with wood accents to pick from, I guess the world just isn't ready for them...

Though I fear that I lack the descriptive powers to do so convincingly, I will attempt to make my case against the style of "Gamer Aesthetic / RGB":

Through the postmodern lense, the fabric of reality has been warped such that the concept of beauty itself is under assault. The mind of the modern man is a machine capable of perverting all foundational principles through sheer the tyranny of his astronomical intellect. Though he is a carbon-copy of his brothers, he sees his worldview as wholly unique, picturing himself as a roguish scholar, a free thinker surrounded by mindless cultists. In reality he is an iconoclast, hellbent on the misenterpretation and defacement of beauty and truth.

Look at the gif above. How does it make you feel? Really look closely. Think about the hands that assembled this machine, the mind that concieved of it. What does this device do? And most importantly: what does it represent?

Certainly though the world itself is *literally* abject, that is, -it consists of empirical matter- we, as humans, do not percieve things empirically. We create icons of all things for ourselves, charicatures that we reference day-to-day in lieu of seeing everything anew and empirically each time we are confronted with it.
For instance- you are walking to work and you pass a cow behind a fence. You do not see the cow for what it is, you can only see the cow for what it represents to YOU. You don't see that the cow has grey eyes, or that the cow is a few inches taller than the other cows. All you see is a charicature of the cow, you see "Big docile animal that makes milk and lives behind fences". This cow is the same as all cows, for your purposes. You do this with everything with which you're familiar, you can't help it. Even these very words are simply icons representing concepts, you can't "see" the letters themselves, let alone the words.

Well, what do cows have to do with computers? I again ask you: What does that computer represent?
When it's sitting on a shelf at a store, or on the desk of your favorite Twitch streamer it represents something truly glorious, this empyrean set-piece on the stageplay that is your life!! Something to strive for, something to yearn for, to dream for. A little simulacrum of aurora borealis just for you!

Ahhh but then what does it represent once it's in your home? What do cows have to do with computers? Before we discussed your "charicature" of a cow. How would that charicature change if you were a dairy farmer? Now that the cow is on your land, it's your living and your responsibility?
The way the casual observer percieves the cow and the way the dairy farmer percieves a cow are as big a difference as if we were comparing cats and dogs. And so it is with these computers.

This is where the spectre of postmodernism comes back to haunt us again- the postmodernist can perpetuate a world in which a grotesque stain is seen as a gilded lotus, a dazzling crystal rose. A world where we are expected to let electriconic demons flense our brains while we pat ourselves on the back for giving into unbridled tastelessness. A world where you're lauded for throwing gobs of money into the maw of ad executives. A world where a chinese AI 3D prints your most prized posessions.

"Gamer Aesthetic" is a scathing mockery of beauty, as contrived and perverse as the Church of Satan. It is saccharine, it is Febreeze, it is thick pancake makeup on an insecure woman. Gamer Aesthetic is getting an instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Tinder notification every single second of every day. Gamer Aesthetic is letting the collective hivemind of a million Chinese sweatshop factories plug into your spinal cord and make your hapiness inversely proportional to how poor your aesthetic taste is.

You have built an altar of moulded plastic and light emitting diodes, where the connection between form and function have been severed, and the majesty of the natural world is pissed on by a neon god.

Anyway- I also like how the North Fractal case has a lot of extra space without being big enough to house an E-ATX motherboard. You can really load it up on fans, too, as reflected in my PCPartPicker list.

Stay tuned in for my next update on the building process!