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Mod Response & Survey Meta Discussion (Mod Approved)
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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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PC Master Race
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I'm bad at coming up with names, but anything that evokes "is best" that isn't "master race" would work.
Here are some probably bad examples:
But the joke is "we're part of the Glorious PC Master Race", not "PC is best". That's some 5 year old bibble-babble bullshit.
The reality is that this community will either exist as c/pcmasterrace, or it simply won't exist.
My point though is that the implications of both phrases is the same.
"We are part of the glorious PC Master Race" = "We are part of a group of humans who understand PCs are better than any alternative"
One's more extreme with a stained past (regardless of how subjectively cringey it may sound), the other is not.
And calling ourselves a “master race”, no matter how much in jest isn’t funny. It screams edgelord gamer and has a ton of racist dog whistles.
Personally I’d rather the community not exist at all. It’s downright cringe and hasn’t been funny ever.
Right! I stood over my PC and recited those phrases. I got an extra 20 FPS!! Incredible!
Console players hate this simple trick.
PCElitism, because that's pretty much what it is. Alternatively, PCRules