Editing PC Master Race (section)

== Re-appropriation and Popularization ==
The term quickly caught on, but not with the meaning Croshaw originally implied. It's currently being used to express pride among PC gamers.

In recent years, Many games such as ''Arkham Knight'' and ''Just Cause 3'' made many multiplatforms have terrible ports, which ends up making their console versions as the superior versions and at how Valve not making games also made many lose faith in them, which got worse when a trading card game based on ''DOTA 2'' called ''Artifact'' was announced, which made people really hate Valve, since it proved that they only care about milking ''DOTA 2 eventhrough unlike Nintendo, they don't take down fan projects like Entropy Zero 2''. And then they made ''Half Life: Alyx'', which was exclusive to VR. VR itself is a platform that even some of the biggest PC gamers take issue with, due to its high initial costs, health risks and a very small library eventhrough consoles also have this such as the PS4 VR for PS4.

Easily abusable systems such as Steam Greenlight making it too easy for anyone to sell PC games has increased the amount toxic game developers such as Digital Homicide or Silicon Echo Studios and lead to a huge flood of horrible PC games and scam attempts. All these, in turn, has drastically worsened the reputation of PC gaming, as all of these are almost non-existent on consoles, and the situation has only become worse since Steam Greenlight was replaced with Steam Direct.

The rise of PC hardware costs, due to the trend of cryptocurrency mining and shortages in recent years also added salts to the wounds.

YouTuber Renegade Operative (who is a PC gamer himself, yet acknowledges the PC's shortcomings) has made a video debunking most of the dumb arguments made by PC elitists. You can see the video right here.

Speaking of Yathzee, he has now come to regret making the joke as it lead to PC gamers using it as a means to mock console gamers and adore PC games despite some games that got ported to the PC running poorly, as shown by this quote he made at the end of his kingdom come deliverance review "FUCK YOU, toffee-nosed PC Master Race shitheads! I wish I'd named you something else now, like the PC Gaming Dick Slurp All-Stars!".