Master Race hermits, I think I understand you now!

I was reading a smartphone article and suddenly found myself scrolling through the comment section where iOS and Android fanboys duked it out with their stupid sticks. As I was slowly losing faith in humanity I noticed something familiar reaching out at me from those dumb posts though. On one side your typical insulting jackass with hit and run posts, on the other the sad familiar smell of frustration being covered up by fake pride.

Now, fanboys are fanboys. Its all shit in the shithouse. But you know what's sadder than your regular flag waving dunce? Extra dedicated fanboys who feel they are not being given their dues :´(

Folk who truly believe they are the better served bunch, yet the world at large not only gives no shits about their preference, it will keep pointing at the competing fanboy faction's device of choice as the poster child of the market, much to their soul-crushing dismay. The iPhone, in this case.And of course the console in this obvious comparison

Is this sounding rather familiar to anyone else?

Start reading the more fervent pro-PC, chest-bumping Master Race posts through this perspective and maybe like with me, annoyance will turn to pity:

No matter how many advantages the PC space offers. No matter how much PC gaming is directly or indirectly pushed by individual personalities in the gaming media. No matter how "obvious" the superiority of the platform is to its userbase or how solid the arguments in its favor are. No matter how loud they yell, curse or flail their keyboards and $100 gaming mouses, like the poor android users previously mentioned this frustrated sub-species of the PC space feels denied of their trophies and congratulatory rounds of applause as consoles pose under the pop culture spotlight.

So fellow gamers, here's to these special guys seething in that dark corner over there:

You're just a different kind of winner!

Someone's jealous.

Jeez, there needs to be a way to get time back after reading crap like that.

system wars, not fanboy wars

The console really is becoming a watered down PC, though. At least back in the 90's, it made sense to tell a PC gamer to **** off while they had to download a patch or edit a registry file to get a game to run with their graphics card and shit like that. Nowadays, though, you can't just really plug your console in and expect it to work. You're even having to pay a fee to make it work in games fully.

I don't think the comparison is the same. Quite literally, everyone is going to end up PC gaming one day. The kind of gamer that wouldn't died with the Wii, frankly.

I'm making an arguable observation about a sub-group of gamers that also posts here. No different than asking cows if they are happy about the PS4.

Not gonna happen. PCs are not appealing and friendly to the masses as household gaming devices.

The millions of dollars invested in the Steambox project is the living proof that PC as it is right now will never be adopted by mainstream entertainment consumers.

And shit like the installs, day one patches and everything in the way of the gamer and the game (console or PC) is seen as an obstacle to overcome, not the way to go. So your argument of consoles becoming more like PCs in this sense, doesn't exactly work as proof that the PC template is the future.

Its a non-consumer friendly annoyance that exists because it has to, for now.

Nuh uh.

Wut.

Blog it. Not fanboy wars. Don't spam up the place with garbage. Take your pick, they are all applicable here.