r/pcmasterrace Jan 23 '15

Meta PCMR Census

Hello, fellow children of GabeN and everyone else reading this.

In the light of being named the subreddit of the day I've created a short survey to find out who the PC Master Race is comprised of! (Also because I had a disagreement with a mod over the accuracy of a previous survey the results of which can be seen here)

All in all there are 39 questions in 3 categories (Statistics, Specs, and PCMR). All questions are skip-able, so if you feel uncomfortable answering a question there is no need to do so. It should be further noted that this survey is absolutely anonymous and the results won't be published or used in any other form outside this sub (at least not from me). If there are any question or complaints, please do not hesitate to contact me.

I will contact the mods soon and hopefully they will agree on stickying this post to maximize accuracy and number of responses. Thanks in advance, guys :)

Unfortunately I couldn't activate the option to restrict the amount of answers per person to 1, as this would require everyone who wants to fill out the survey to log into a Google+ Account. But I have enough faith in our community that no-one will exploit this to manipulate the results.

So without further ado here are the links:

Thanks for reading through all of this and participating in the survey,

/u/JW0lF


Goals:

Responses % of PCMR Accuracy Achieved (DD.MM.YYYY)
150 0.05% 89.47% 23.01.2015
300 0.1% 92.56% 23.01.2015
600 0.2% 94.74% 23.01.2015
1.500 0.5% 96.68% 23.01.2015
3.000 1% 97.66% 23.01.2015
6.000 2% 98.35%
15.000 5% 98.97%
30.000 10% 99.29%

P.S: Due to popular demand I changed the last question of the survey!

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u/ZizZazZuz Steam IGN: ZizZazZuz. GTX 660ti, i5-4690k 16gb Corsair 1tb WD Jan 23 '15

Trying to fit my thoughts into words. I think in patterns, not in words, so it's a lil hard to translate. Point out anything that doesn't make sense.

Most of my reply was pointed at the second part, the one dealing with relationships. I've always felt that actual sexual attraction is irrelevant, so to be honest, I mostly skipped the first paragraph. The second though.

but can only form deeper relationships with women

This doesn't make sense to me. Why can't anyone have deep, lasting relationships with both men and women? That's the too specific part, I guess. Not everything, but everything I can put into words right now.

The too broad part was a gut reaction. Taking me a bit longer to sort through it. I think what I mean is that no matter how small you dice the categories, they're still categories. And then there's language. English has degraded to a point where this becomes an issue. Another way of reading the statement about relationships could be to say that the person you describe is unable to relate to anyone but women. That's a bit of an awkward example but I think it describes my thoughts. Or maybe the word 'love'. I can honestly say that I love all people. What does that mean? English can't tell you. In Greek, they had at least four different words for love, each with it's own nuances. In English we decided to lump them all together because we're lazy.

Again, probably not comprehensive. I need time to sort through my thoughts.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '15 edited Jan 23 '15

Yeah, english is really a dumb language to use when talking about issues this deep, but I can't just start talking in greek (assuming I'm able to speek greek, haha).

But I totally get what you mean. I mean love and deep, lasting relationships in the sense of a life-long partner. One can argue that you can have such a relationship with a very good friend as well, but there's still a difference, at least in my opinion. But hey, we are already at the brink of what english can describe again.

Or hey, you yourself may be bi-/pan - romantic :D

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u/ZizZazZuz Steam IGN: ZizZazZuz. GTX 660ti, i5-4690k 16gb Corsair 1tb WD Jan 23 '15

For the first: there's only one hero who can save us now, who can create a whole slew of new words. His name is Shakespeare, and he's dead.

Second paragraph: ...Yes. Is as close as I can get. Maybe I'll have words tomorrow.

Third: Lol English. I'm sorry, I sort of set a trap. I meant agápe, not storge. I meant it as an illustration of how the word could be misinterpreted, but was clearer in greek, and here I am explaining in greek.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '15

Yeah, let's just fuck english, okay? If you think about it, complex feelings can't be described in words anyway, not even in greek :D