Hello PCMR community!
On July 13th, we asked the community for your opinion if you would like to change the name of this community.
Results of the Survey :
- Yes - 28.1%
- No - 71.9% (winner)
Of the 1,201 responses received, we as a community have democratically decided that we should not change the name from PC Master Race. I am grateful to our community for your input, as this was a difficult topic to navigate together.
If you would like to review the history of this, please check out this post here: https://lemmy.world/post/1430610
We'll pin this post for some time and then consider adding a bullet into the sidebar for this Community to help stave off further discussions around this topic as the community has already decided collectively.
Kind regards,
The Moderator Team
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EDIT 30-Aug-2023:
Due to some of the recent targeted attacks against Lemmy.world, I noticed that the image I shared with this post was purged from their servers.
Here's a new screenshot of the results for posterity: https://i.postimg.cc/jqNg5gWx/pcmrsurvey.png
When making an allusion there are two possible outcomes: a straight 1 for 1 comparison with the names changed, or a mocking approach that uses the term ironically to show the shortcomings of the idea. PCMR has always meant, since it's inception, the latter.
It is literally making fun of the idea of a master race because it is showing (not telling, so it isn't obvious) how ridiculous the notion of a superior method of gaming is when we all play the same buggy releases on launch and use more processing power than NASA had for moonlandings but we use it on pixel games.
Master Race has never been anything but mocking the ideas of superiority when used by the community and if anyone uses it with seriousness then its probably more true that they are a Nazi than a communal joke name.
Right but it's not funny i guess, like haha lots of people thought they were the superior race and killed millions and millions of people.
Idk, it's like mocking a school shooter, like those kids, their victims, are dead, it's not funny. It's actually about the most serious thing anyone could imagine.
I get it, i frequent pcmr a lot, and i never took it seriously, but once the question is posed, i do feel like I don't want to continue coming here with the name as is.
Like you are mad that we are making fun of Nazis and you don't get it so you want us to stop making fun of Nazis? Why are you defending the Nazis?
Not mad and not defending anybody
The problem with this approach is that new people or people out of the loop don't really understand this idea. I am not saying you're wrong about the inception of the name, but as the term gets older, that context will get more and more lost. You already see people legitimately using PCMR as a term to indicate superiority.
The origin of a term is one thing, but its meaning often changes over the years, and I think the same thing is happening with PCMR.