umnut Posts

Personally, I couldn't give a rat's ass (pardon my French). My main reason for not caring, though, is that I don't take the term seriously. I don't have any actual evidence (nor have you provided any) as to whether or not it's taken seriously 95% of the time, so I'll just be arguing conjecture here and say that I don't think most people take it seriously, and will more often-than-not use it in jest or use it ironically. The rest who use it, depending on the medium of discussion, will probably get called out on their over-generalizations and will point out the probable flaws with whatever it is that they spout as being the holy grail. Of course, if there's legitimate reasons to take, for example, the PC as being superior to all consoles, then those reasons should be given instead of an insulting phrase like "PC master race", but that's assuming the people involved are intelligent and give a shit. Personally, I'm a PC guy. I never really owned many consoles, so I always used a PC. I think PCs are better, because they can do so much more than what I've seen consoles ham-handedly attempt to do, but I do understand if people are intimidated by them if they do want to just plug the damn thing in and play some games without getting into the really complicated stuff of PC operation and maintenance.

So anyway. I don't feel upset or offended when people use it as a joke or literally. If they mean it, then I either give them a simple correction or just move on with my day and let someone else deal with the idiots. I hope this reply satisfies you.