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[postal83]

I'm willing to bet this guy has never played a roguelike before....


Here's the link to the source : http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/slideshow/371675/10_reasons_hate_pc_gamers/?image=1

Reasons to hate PC gamers #10: They're elitist twats
If you're a video game fan with a soft spot for consoles, never, ever get into a conversation with a PC gamer. They will tell you at length, and with the utmost smugness, why their 'gaming rig' is vastly superior to your piddling little toy. FPS fans are especially open to ridicule, with the mouse-vs-controller argument forever on the tip of a PC gamer's silver-spooned tongue. To avoid these unsightly conflicts, we recommend bludgeoning them on sight with your Xbox/PS3.



Reasons to hate PC gamers #9: 'E-sports'
I'm sorry, but playing computer games is not a sport. I don't care how honed your Counter-Strike reflexes are. The whole 'e-sports' phenomenon is surely one of the most try-hard, laughably unimpressive professions in the world: and yet we're supposed to take these 'athletes' seriously. (Since when has sitting in a chair clicking a mouse been in any way athletic?)

"My guys train five hours a night, five days a week, which is more than some professional footballers!" Team Immunity's manager once boasted. "...Maybe they don’t hit the gym as much." You don't say.



Reasons to hate PC gamers #8: They're filthy pirates
PC gamers seem to think they have a God-given right to illegally download computer games for free. This is stealing; plain and simple -- and it's affecting the industry in a big way.

When queried about its draconian DRM policies, Ubisoft threw the issue back at PC gamers' faces, and rightfully so: "Are we frustrated by the PC market? I think everyone is. In the end it all comes back to one single truth: piracy is a big, huge, hairy problem. It's a market that suffered a lot because of piracy, and we're all just trying to figure out what we think is the best way to deal with it." In other words, pay for your games, you scroungers.

Reasons to hate PC gamers #7: They make the rest of us look like nerds
Once upon a time, playing video games was about as socially acceptable as owning a 12-sided dice. It was something nerds did in-between zit-popping and Star Trek marathons (or at least, that was the popular playground perception at the time). To talk incessantly about video games was to invite wedgie annihilation from all directions. Needless to say, it was a dangerous time to be a gamer.

Thankfully, things have come along in leaps and bounds since then -- unless you're a PC gamer, that is. For some reason, PC gamers have refused to leave the tissue-strewn basement of our inglorious past. Most of 'em still play flight sims, war games and orc-filled RPGs: apparently by choice. They also have serious BO issues, as any LAN tournament will attest. Then there are PC gamer poster boys like Leeroy Jenkins, Red Shirt Guy and that dude who tried to stick a remote control up his butt.


Reasons to hate PC gamers #6: They're shameless graphics whores
PC gamers don't really care about gameplay. They’re more interested in teasing a few extra frames per second out of their ridiculously overpriced ‘gaming rig.’ When you spend more time fiddling around in BIOS than actually playing, it's time to face facts: you're no longer a gamer.


Reasons to hate PC gamers #5: The have more money than sense
So, you want to get into PC gaming huh? The first thing to do is grab an Origin Genesis gaming PC: with an RRP of $10,893, it's an absolute steal! Or maybe you just want to upgrade your PC's graphic card to something a bit meatier? The Asus R.O.G MARS is going cheap at just $1999! Perhaps portable gaming is more your bag? If so, the ASUS Lamborghini VX5 can be yours for just $3499! Bargains, all three of 'em!

Alternatively, you could buy a Nintendo Wii, a PlayStation 3, an Xbox 360 and a Nintendo DSi XL for a fraction of the price. But who'd want to go and do something stupid like that?


Reasons to hate PC gamers #4: MMORPGS
When your parents told you to get out of the house more, I don't think this is what they had in mind.


Reasons to hate PC gamers #3: They're always complaining
The average PC gamer is a moaning, winging waste of space who never runs out of things to complain about.

Whenever a feature is cut from a game, or it doesn't live up to expectations, the PC gaming fraternity goes on a hysterical nerd-fueled rampage, with scores of online petitions, irate death threats and organised boycotts clogging the Internet. They make John McEnroe’s famed dummy-spits look like articulate debates.

Is it any wonder that games publishers are abandoning the PC market in droves? It’s simply not worth the effort of releasing a PC game these days – even if it’s perfect, you guys will find something to nitpick. Presumably, you won’t be happy until the entire games industry has washed its hands of you. That day can't come soon enough


Reasons to hate PC gamers #2:



Reasons to hate PC gamers #1: L33TSPEAK
Just when gaming was starting to make inroads into the mainstream, a splinter group of stuck-up PC nerds started to pretend they had broken keyboards. Apparently too cool for the alphabet, they substituted letters for vague number-based substitutes in a two-fingered salute to grammar.

While it originated with computer hackers, Leetspeak quickly spread into the PC gaming community; making us all look like complete jackasses in the process. If you regularly pepper your online chat with ‘pwned’, ‘Noob’, ‘w00t’ and ‘Sux0r’ you’re part of the (gene pool) problem. Now rack off and die in a chemical fire. You shan't be missed.

[Zangi]

I like #10 and #1.

Though, I suppose I use some of what the author consider 1337speak.  Oh well.

[Soulwynd]

And you want to listen to a grammatically challenged person who doesn't have money, thinks pirating is stealing, and doesn't have a sense of competition?

Goooo ahead.


As for #10, you can't use the elitist argument when you're being a jackass like that. He's basically saying "Console gamers are better than PC gamers for this this and that." That's elitism.

As for #1... Have you ever listened to the 'tards on the mic in console games? I rest my case.

[maxicaxi]

Reasons to hate PC gamers #6: They're shameless graphics whores

what.

[iceball3]

HAHAHAHAHAHA.
10) Wow. Look who's the elitist one.
9) Yeah, it's a sport of skill.
8) Pirates? What fraction of PC gamers is he including?
7) So their how their personal life is lived is a problem? This is the equivalent of complaining how someone faps even though your looking in on them through their window.
6) Ha. HahahahahAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHA
5) So he cares about money that isn't his? Communism slightly perhaps, or I'm talking out my ass.
4)I don't understand.
3) Meh, it's not good to generalize but this may be a bit of a problem
2)Same counter-argument as #7.
1) So unbelievably biased. Though you still have to look for something without l33tsp33k.

[Cheese]

Wow.. I didn't know consoletards had literate people.
Edit: Oh wait, it says the article is a joke if you hover over the box on the first image.

[KaguroDraven]

Pirateing is stealing, but other than that It sounds like it was written by someone who has little to no idea what they are talking about.

[fenrif]

Some troll made a list to be a dick and piss people off. Engaging with it at any level beyond complete dismissal is far more than it deserves.

[postal83]

As for #1... Have you ever listened to the 'tards on the mic in console games? I rest my case.

This is why I really dislike console gaming.  They come with headphones.. and unfortunately , people use them.  For the PC , you go out and buy a headset with a purpose.  Console gamers armed with a headset are some of the most obnoxious people to deal with online.

Someone should write '10 Reasons to Hate Consoles Gamers'.  I'm sure there's plenty floating around on the net.

[Cheese]

It says the article is a joke just FYI

[Soulwynd]

Pirates? What fraction of PC gamers is he including?

Not to mention the fact xbox360 games now are 50/50% in terms of illegal downloads compared with PC games. So if we take that in account alone, you can say they're as much into warez as any pc gamer.

Pirateing is stealing, but other than that It sounds like it was written by someone who has little to no idea what they are talking about.

The fuck it is. <- That's a bold period.

It says the article is a joke just FYI

That's a good logical explanation, since I haven't read the article.

[iceball3]

Oh wow i got trolled bad then.

[dogstile]

10 9 and 1 are something I can really emphasize with. I'm in programming and computer repair class and seriously, I get that stuff all the time. Though normally in jest, some people are like that.

Also, I know a guy who won't play a game if it doesn't have "crysis graphics" in his words. So yeah, some of his points aren't far off

[postal83]

Yeah.... even if it's a joke, it's still a fairly close stereotype of one of 'those' gamers.

[Phmcw]

Wow, good troll.
Fair point mixed with nonsense is he bassis of a good Troll.
But seriously, the worst gamers of all are those who are hopeless enough o have a strong opinion on another category of gamers.

What a no-life.