PCMR: A community of great PC enthusiasts sarcastically named from a decade long debate ‘PC vs Console’

Official logo of PCMR community from  PCMR subreddit.

What is PCMR?

‘PC Master Race’ is the full form of PCMR which is also being referred to as the ‘Glorious PC Gaming Master Race’, a community of PC enthusiasts who are passionate about PC hardware, specifications, new technologies and also a great fan of gaming on PC. Also, The term PCMR was established sarcastically as a declaration of greatness in the controversial 'PC vs Console' dispute. 




PC is for playing games?!


Computers, particularly personal computers, have been used for a variety of purposes other than performing large calculations since their beginnings. PC gaming served a big purpose for personal computers from the 1960s.


PDP-1 exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California (source: Wikipedia)


Spacewar, created by MIT student Steve Russell in 1962, is widely regarded as the first computer game. If the alternative gaming system was the size of a car, like the PDP-1 computer that Spacewar ran on, the size of a PS5 console would never be questioned. Although the game never made its way into living rooms, Spacewar was common on large research-oriented computers throughout the 1960s.

The first IBM PC

The IBM Personal Computer debuted in 1981, bringing unrivalled power and speed in a relatively small package. Most modern computers share many similarities with the basic concept of this computer, which was introduced over 40 years ago. Microsoft Flight Simulator was one of the most notable early releases for the IBM PC, pushing the limits of the computer's processor, memory, and graphics, as more recent versions continue to do today.


Since then, Personal computers have came a long way in terms gaming, which is why nowadays high configured PC's are often referred to Gaming PC for playing high standard video games.


Beginning of PCMR

On an online gaming magazine The Escapist, Zero Punctuation video review series, game reviewer and comedic writer Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw used the ironic expression "The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race" to criticise an elitist attitude he perceived among some of The Witcher's PC player base at the time of the game's release, who complained about the PC release of the game possibly being negatively affected by the console port of the game.


The term quickly became popular, but with a different meaning than Ben Croshaw had intended. It is now used as a source of pride among PC gamers, who consider their PC platform to be superior to traditional video game consoles due to its expandable and upgradeable hardware, graphical potential, affordability, game library, mod support, freedom of input and peripheral options and other popular reasons. This shift in meaning and widespread popularity can be traced back to Reddit user pedro19 or Pedro PCMR's creation and popularization of the /r/PCMasterRace subreddit in 2011, which had one million members by July 2017. Currently it's a family of 7 million.

In April 2011 I grabbed it [the expression] and changed its original meaning, creating a subreddit dedicated to the glory that is to play (and not only) on PC. ... we're a serious group dedicated to the serious and clear advantages of PC over other work and gaming devices, whose only and arguable advantage are artificial restrictions put in place so as to squeeze gamers out of their money.—Reddit user pedro19, creator of the /r/PCMasterRace subreddit 

Pedro's intention when creating this subreddit in early 2011 was to make it a home for PC Enthusiasts, a place where all of us could come in and share experiences, a place that didn't yet exist. The name's choice was not completely innocent as it was meant to grab a term that was used as an insult and make it our own (although still getting rid of "gaming" in the title since the community's purpose is not just gaming but everything PC), changing its meaning and re-appropriating it, in order to express the independent supremacy of the PC.

Do not confuse this with the fact that we have several elements of satire and tongue-in-cheek humor. Life isn't always serious or funny. Many times in life, you will share both serious and humorous moments with those you love or spend more time with. The PC Master Race is like life in that it is both serious and funny.


Never ending dispute among PC gamers and Console Players

Once there were head to head disputes among console gamers and PC gamers, but now there is not a lot of fight as both unites in the same motto, 

Source: Pedro PCMR's twitter account

For which both platforms of gaming are equally popular among the gamers. 

Still there are sarcastic and humorous internet memes, inside jokes on poking each other's platform of gaming but it is all a part of great friendship and sarcasm they provide to this beautiful community. 


Memes on mocking PC gamer and Console players (Source: internet)


As you can see, there's both pros and cons of both platform, yet PC is just an unsung winner . Yet it totally depends on the individual which platform he's comfortable at cause at the end, it's the players who make this arguments much more interesting. (joking)

All about PCMR

PCMR is a family, community, and a group of interesting guys who value all PC-related content, including build help, tech support, and any questions about PC ownership. A PC is not required to be a member of the PCMR. You simply must adore PCs. It's not so much about the hardware in your computer as it is about the software in your heart!

So, let's appreciate all the gamers, users, interested individuals out there whom are into any platform they love to explore and rejoice the beauty of gaming.


For more resources:


2. The PCMasterRace subreddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/

3.The PCMasterRace website, https://pcmasterrace.org/

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