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What is PC Master Race / PCMR?

In summary, it's a community where we discuss and share our enthusiasm for the ultimate gaming and computing medium: the Personal Computer. PC MASTER RACE expresses, first and foremost, an idea of community. We're a community of PC enthusiasts who acknowledge the objective advantages of the PC for a multitude of activities, gaming included.

Our main objectives are:

1) To create a large, friendly, varied community where PC enthusiasts can discuss and share content about anything PC related.

2) To strongly contribute to the spread of correct information as well as to fight against misinformation in technology and in gaming.

3) To discuss with anyone about the advantages of PC, and to help anyone who wishes to join the PC Master Race.

4) To make the PC users' voices heard throughout the industries of technology and gaming, ensuring they are not forgotten or ill-treated.

Anyone can join the PC Master Race. We are an inclusive community where one's PC specs, age, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, religion (or lack of), political affiliation and economic status are completely irrelevant. EVERYONE IS WELCOME.

This is not a satirical or circlejerk community nor did it start as one.Do not confuse it, however, with the fact that we do have several tongue-in-cheek and satirical humor elements. Life isn't either 100% serious or 100% joke. In life, you will many times share both serious and funny moments with those you love or spend more time with. The PC Master Race is like life, both serious and funny.

Is PC really the Master Race?

Yes. Here's a guide that explains exactly why from every angle possible. It's packed with helpful information; everyone should read it regardless of what they already use. As with everything tech related, it can be outdated fast, so always use our communities to discuss and share everything about just how incredibly better PC is.

How was the expression born?

It depends on what you’re asking. The term "The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race" was first used as an ironic expression to describe PC Gamers by game reviewer and comedic writer "Yahtzee" Crossshaw on a review for The Witcher.

"Quite some time ago I coined a phrase in Zero Punctuation ... The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race. It was intended to be ironic, to illustrate what I perceived at the time to be an elitist attitude among a certain kind of PC gamer. ... I meant it as a dig."

/u/Pedro19, also known as PedroPCMR’sintent when creating the /r/pcmasterrace subreddit, back 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 exist yet. The banter or negativity (depending on how you look at it, we feel it’s banter) in the expression “PC gaming master race” turned on its head as a proud tag that expresses the love and passion for the PC, also without restricting it simply to just gaming, because PC is so much more! Behold the PCMR!

How do I join the Master Race?

Anyone can be part of our community! You just need to share our enthusiasm for PCs and understand that they are the superior work and gaming instrument! If you want to be a member and respect the other members, then you are welcome!

Remember that you don't need to already own a top-of-the-line gaming PC to join our community! There are members of the PCMR who are only saving up for a PC as they have none or play on desktops or laptops of average or even low specs.