Hank Green actually posted a video relevant to this yesterday. He was reading a Fox News article about a machine that can turn C02 into fuel that an internal combustion engine can use.
He then scrolled to the comments and saw all the posts talking about climate change being a hoax. He says it would be very easy to assume the average Fox News reader is a climate change denier. If you were to ask him how many people in the US deny climate change is real, he’d guess around 50%. However, surveys have consistently shown it is less than 10%. It is a minority of people. His point was that people leaving stupid comments are not the average person, they’re just really vocal, and try not to assume stupid comments are reflective of the average person’s beliefs.
The average vocal PC gamer also tends to have the top of the line components, so I just tend to think it’s not the gaming part that makes them entitled little assholes; it’s being rich.
Very true. I vaguely recall someone on another thread saying a game is “unplayable” if it’s not running 4k resolution and that PC gamers with 4k monitors are the majority
I regularly hear similar things about refresh rates, like “once you try a 144hz monitor you can’t go back” — meanwhile, I power-limit my GPU to get ~50fps when the summer gets too hot
I some discussion about Nvidia somebody what complaining how they were used to 200 fps at 4K but some graphics cards couldn’t do it with raytracing on without using DLSS.
As somebody else in that thread said, it’s masturbatory fps numbers.
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I have no idea but if I had to guess, I’d say the audience of PC Gamer is PC gamers, and the average PC gamer fucking sucks
Hank Green actually posted a video relevant to this yesterday. He was reading a Fox News article about a machine that can turn C02 into fuel that an internal combustion engine can use.
He then scrolled to the comments and saw all the posts talking about climate change being a hoax. He says it would be very easy to assume the average Fox News reader is a climate change denier. If you were to ask him how many people in the US deny climate change is real, he’d guess around 50%. However, surveys have consistently shown it is less than 10%. It is a minority of people. His point was that people leaving stupid comments are not the average person, they’re just really vocal, and try not to assume stupid comments are reflective of the average person’s beliefs.
You can’t even assume those people are people. There’s a lot of bot powered disinformation out there.
The average vocal PC gamer also tends to have the top of the line components, so I just tend to think it’s not the gaming part that makes them entitled little assholes; it’s being rich.
Very true. I vaguely recall someone on another thread saying a game is “unplayable” if it’s not running 4k resolution and that PC gamers with 4k monitors are the majority
I regularly hear similar things about refresh rates, like “once you try a 144hz monitor you can’t go back” — meanwhile, I power-limit my GPU to get ~50fps when the summer gets too hot
I some discussion about Nvidia somebody what complaining how they were used to 200 fps at 4K but some graphics cards couldn’t do it with raytracing on without using DLSS.
As somebody else in that thread said, it’s masturbatory fps numbers.
I doubt that the average PC gamer is commenting on those articles.