"PC Gaming Puts Other Platforms to Shame in GAMES, RESPECT, and DEALS"

[vlad321]

Torillian said:

vlad321 said:

Torillian said:

vlad321 said:

Well the fact that there are people who can't drive either doesn't free them of their reposnability of driving. If you get in a wreck you caused it's because you had a lapse in judgement or didn't know how to drive. It's the exact same principle with the PC and viruses. It just means you do not know how to use a PC well and that's that. You can't blame the PC for something you have done.I have been playing WoW since 2004 all the time and I have still yet to see a virus. Which proves my point exactly, it's your fault that you got your viruses not your PC's. Otherwise I would have seen all these viruses you seem to have been getting.

As for your car running strangely without any given reason, there probably is a reason and it is probably your fault too, you just didn't know it is. If you force it too much, drive it over holes without being careful, yeah it may have strange things which you think you didn't cause, but it's still your fault. Unless it was a manufacturing problem it is highly likely that you shouldn't be blaming your car, but yourself.

So the fact that I haven't studied up enough on PC's or cars to not run into these issues makes me an idiot?  Well I'll just go back to my simple console that luckily I can understand, hopefully someone will help me tie my shoes tomorrow morning so I don't trip over the shoe laces all day again.

No it just means you don't know enough about cars and PCs to prevent such problems which is fine. Blaming them for your ignorance though, that's idiotic.

But the point that the PC is more complicated because these issues exist still stands.  The fact that you have to know how not to get virusses is an annoyance that some of us don't want to deal with, and therefore consoles are more plug and play friendly.  If you have to read a "PCs for Dummies" book to not run into these issues then it's already more work than a console.

I also want to make another point. It does take a little while to learn how to use a PC well, but it is not that long. It's not weeks and weeks, you can learn how to do it in a day or three depending on how fast you absorb info. As I said also, from nothing to ordering, building, and setting up, I spent about a total of 6-7 hours and my current PC is the software/hardware equivalent of a swiss watch. I have 0 problems running games, even the old ones like Deus Ez and XCOM and that is not the only benefit. I have no problems browsing, programming, designing, watching movies, listening to muic, streaming media, etc. etc. With just that day or so of knowledge my life is infinitely better because everything I do just works without a problem.

Sure consoles don't require that day or so of learning, but they also can't do an eighth of what my PC can do, and half of what the consoles can do they do it worse than the PC. Because I mean really, if you want to play a paltformer type of games that the PCs suck at playing, just plug in a gamepad and you are good to go in that respect as well.