Meet the Team

The team behind PC Master Race is a quite unique, diverse, and skilled group. Each has their own specialties and skills that contribute to the subreddit itself, as well as its many surrounding communities. The team is (for the most part) indigenous to the PCMasterRace subreddit and doesn't have moderator duties or management level participation in other subreddits or communities outside PCMR. This level of focus may very well be one of the ingredients to the success and growth of the community.

Pedro19

E-mail: [email protected] / Steam / Twitter / LinkedIn / Facebook / Uplay/Origin/GOG: PedroPCMR / Battle.net: PedroPCMR#2730 / Epic: Pedro19 / Discord: PedroPCMR

I have founded PCMR and head its communities. I am a Lawyer/trial and appellate attorney by trade, technology enthusiast and gamer at heart.

I am a PC and tech enthusiast trying to get others to become PC and tech enthusiasts, firm in my belief that access to technology is both a human right and a vital element for making the world a better place.

I work hard in administrating the biggest community of PC enthusiasts in the world, managing it so as to continuously spread factual truths and information about PC and technology in general has been an important part of my life for the last 12 years. It's been a long and winding road, but we've created something beautiful together. Let's keep going!

My first experience with computers was using my father's Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the early 90's. I remember playing Winter Challenge, Centurion: Defender of Rome and Wolfenstein 3D on 386 and 486 powered computers before I finally got my first own PC, a Celeron 266 with 32MB of Ram, that came with Quake II preinstalled.

Some retro interviews I gave (you can easily find the modern ones online):

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I think my relationship with computers started with an Apple IIe and got serious a few years later with the family Packard Bell (IIRC: 75MHz Pentium, 8MB RAM, 500MB HDD, Windows 3.11) with a lot of time spent playing Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. Over the years this interest has grown to encompass my entertainment, my education, and even my professional life. I’ve been mostly self-taught, but have worked in IT here and there, though I try to avoid it if I can.

I’m not entirely sure why I was offered the mod position, but I think it has something to do with my attempts to combat the misuse/abuse of the “peasant” moniker and my efforts against low-quality posts.

Lately, it seems like I always have some project or another in the works, which means no time for gaming.

eegras

Twitter / Steam / Instagram

Started gaming on a Powermac 8500, moved to a Powermac G4 and was always saddened at the games I couldn't play because of my platform. One of my friends then built his PC and showed me the wonder of PC gaming. We went to Fry's immediately and bought parts. I've been PCMR from then on (much to the dismay of my mom who worked for Apple at the time).

I have built many a machine, both for me and for friends and family ( as well as for a small profit at times ) and I've found something relaxing about the process so have jumped at the chance to any machine I could get my hands on.

I found my way to this sub after it being mentioned in one of TotalBiscuit's videos and it seemed like a good fit and have stuck here ever since.

There's so much disinformation circling around the internet about PC gaming and I truly feel this sub is doing amazing work at dispelling it while staying grounded at the same time.

Stevezilla33

Steam / Twitch

I got my start PC gaming way back in the early '90s when my parents bought a Packard Bell 486SX-33. I spent a good amount of time in my childhood fiddling with Atari and Nintendo consoles but I was always drawn back to that beige box in the office. A few years later I would go on to build my first machine; a Pentium 90 custom machine that I saved and bought all the parts for. By that time, I was hooked for life.

In my professional life, I have been lucky enough to have worked for some of the biggest PC game companies around. After the help of a friend to get my foot in the door at Maxis way back in 1999, I went on to spend most of my 20's testing hardware compatibility and general QA for companies like Konami, EA, Microprose, Hasbro Interactive, and Take Two. My career has shifted towards the mobile space in recent years but my PC gaming enthusiasm has never subsided.

I guess I consider myself a bit of an elder statesman of the PCMR and I'm happy to be a part of the team. You can find me wrangling the cats on the discord server most days.

PhantomsGhost

Steam / Discord: phantomsghost / Origin: xPhantomsGhostx

I got into technology and computing at a young age, mainly with an old Sega Genesis, radios, and as many, the family computer. Often this was a result of curiosity of how things worked and were related with each other and projects would often result. I didnt build my first PC until 2016 with an AMD FX 8350 and an RX480.

The curiosity and strive for learning new things has kept up over the many years, both in my personal and professional life where my primary role is in information systems education and management, running a variety of self-hosted projects at home and additive home-automation. One of my favorite things, both professionally and here in PCMR, both the subreddit and discord, is helping and watching folks learn new things and explore their passions.

I've been a long lurker of PCMR and became engaged primarily in the Discord server's tech-support channel, but mostly engage on and off as time permits.

TheAppleFreak

Steam / Twitter / GitHub / Discord: TheAppleFreak

I found PCMR back in its very early days, probably around the time when the sub only had 300 or so subscribers. It was at the time just a small community with the common element of rightfully believing that the PC is the greatest platform holding us together. To imagine at the time the sub growing as large as it is now was inconceivable, and it was just a pipe dream at the time that I'd be here moderating with everyone else here... yet here we are. Granted, I didn't quite get onto the team like everybody else; I figure that Pedro fat-fingered "GabeNewellBellevue" and accidentally typed "TheAppleFreak" into the mod invitation panel instead, and then did it a second time after I came back from a hiatus in January 2023. No other explanation makes sense to me.

While you might see my name pop up around the subreddit every so often in typical moderation capacities, my contributions tend to err a bit more on the invisible side. Together with Eegras, I help operate and craft much of the automation that we rely on as a team, be it working with Reddit's AutoMod or writing custom tools that perform more specialized tasks. In contrast to Eegras's PCMRBot (which handles much of the public-facing functionality), I develop and run PCMRBot.js, which handles more behind-the-scenes tasks instead. The fact that some of my code powers some of the most important functionality of this subreddit is in equal part wonderful and deeply terrifying to me.

As for being a PC gamer, I've been gaming on the platform in some shape or form since childhood, though I didn't fully embrace it until 2010 with my first rig. While the games I play tend to shift around a bit, as of this writing I'd say my main games are currently Minecraft and PlanetSide 2.

Also, trans rights <3.

The-Big-Noob

Steam / Instagram / Twitter / Twitch / Origin: Th3B1gN00b / Battle.net: TheBigNoob#11958

I like a lot of things, computing is certainly one of those things. I started gaming young with a Super Nintendo and Gameboy and got into gaming on my PC when my father got us a family computer at around age 8. I've been PC gaming for over 20 years now, and I do not intend on stopping anytime soon.

Computers have always come naturally to me, building the first family computer at age 12. I was standing up Apache web servers and building websites for them by 13. I currently hold a bachelors in Management information systems, and work as a DevOps engineer by day.

I've been a long time lurker in PCMR, and have spent the large portion of my PCMR tenure as a moderator on the Discord server. I really love this community and enjoy helping those joining the ranks of all things computing.

BryAlrighty

Steam / Everything Else: BryAlrighty (Probably)

Gaming was always a part of my life, but when it comes to PC gaming, I was the one who became obsessed with the family computer when I was a kid. I don't recall the exact model but my dad purchased an eMachine back in 1998 and I basically spent anytime I wasn't in school on it. Likely problematic and worrying for my parents seeing one of their children playing Runescape all day, but I loved it at the time. Once I got out of high school, I decided to purchase a very crappy GeForce 8400 GS for a Compaq Presario Office PC I obtained from my older brother. It was my first true PC gaming purchase, along with The Orange Box as my first proper foray into single-player PC gaming.

I kept purchasing prebuilt PCs and making minor upgrades for years before I finally decided to fully build my first proper PC back in 2015. Although it did contain remnants of a previous build, I took it all apart and kept the useful parts and made it all my own. It was an AMD FX 8320 with a GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB DDR3 of RAM in a White NZXT S340 case, with an RGB strip for good measure. Nowadays, PC Building just feels natural to me, even though NO ONE will ever convince me to swap to an AIO instead of my beautiful air cooling. No one.

Professionally, I do graphic design primarily, so that just furthers my need for my PC Building/Troubleshooting skills. It's nice not having to contact IT for every little thing, and I'm sure they greatly appreciate that as well.

I actually joined PCMR via discord around 2016, not too long after my first proper PC build to find like-minded people and to seek advice for any questions I had. Correction: Have* - I might not have very many build questions nowadays but I still ask general tech questions to this day because you're never done learning and someone here is usually happy to help answer. "Just Ask" is such a good policy to have and it's likely one of the reasons I stuck around.

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