That Descartes quote fits the pc mastuh race well, and that subreddit is just sad man. People hugging and caressing their fucking computers? Dunno whether to pity them or be scared there actually are people taking this hobby so seriously. I game on pc nowadays until the avalanche of games arrive on ps4 starting from september.
If anyone is interested in the psychological side of things, these people might have a problem in their heads according to Adler:
"If a person is a show-off it is only because she or he feels inferior, because she or he does not feel strong enough to compete with others on the useful side of life. That is why she or he stays on the useless side. She or he is not in harmony with society. It seems to be a trait of human nature that when individuals - both children and adults - feel weak, they want to solve the problems of life in such a way as to obtain personal superiority without any admixture of social interest. A superiority complex is a second phase. It is a compensation for the inferiority [feeling] complex."[3]
"The superiority complex is one of the ways that a person with an inferiority complex may use as a method of escape from her or his difficulties. She or he assumes that she or he is superior when she or he is not, and this false success compensates her or him for the state of inferiority which she or he cannot bear. The normal person does not have a superiority complex, she or he does not even have a sense of superiority. She or he has the striving to be superior in the sense that we all have ambition to be successful; but so long as this striving is expressed in work it does not lead to false valuations, which are at the root of mental disease."
These people are mostly frustrated because of bad ports, no Japanese games and no exclusive games like The Last of Us or what Nintendo makes. No game show is dedicated to them. You see them making petitions and begging every developer to make pc games for them. Missing out on so many games, they try to hide their inferiority feelings by participating in this silly nonsense that they are better than people who game on consoles.
