Meet the Team

The team behind PC Master Race is a quite unique, diverse, and skilled group. Each has their own specialties and skills that contribute to the subreddit itself, as well as its many surrounding communities. The team is (for the most part) indigenous to the PCMasterRace subreddit and doesn't have moderator duties or management level participation in other subreddits or communities outside PCMR. This level of focus may very well be one of the ingredients to the success and growth of the community.

-----Senior Team-----

Pedro19

E-mail: [email protected] / Steam / Twitter / LinkedIn / Facebook / Uplay/Origin/GOG: PedroPCMR / Battle.net: PedroPCMR#2730 / Epic: Pedro19 / Discord: PedroPCMR

I have founded PCMR and head its communities. I am a Lawyer/trial and appellate attorney by trade, technology enthusiast and gamer at heart.

I am a PC and tech enthusiast trying to get others to become PC and tech enthusiasts, firm in my belief that access to technology is both a human right and a vital element for making the world a better place.

I work hard in administrating the biggest community of PC enthusiasts in the world, managing it so as to continuously spread factual truths and information about PC and technology in general has been an important part of my life for the last 12 years. It's been a long and winding road, but we've created something beautiful together. Let's keep going!

My first experience with computers was using my father's Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the early 90's. I remember playing Winter Challenge, Centurion: Defender of Rome and Wolfenstein 3D on 386 and 486 powered computers before I finally got my first own PC, a Celeron 266 with 32MB of Ram, that came with Quake II preinstalled.

Some retro interviews I gave (you can easily find the modern ones online):

zeug666

I think my relationship with computers started with an Apple IIe and got serious a few years later with the family Packard Bell (IIRC: 75MHz Pentium, 8MB RAM, 500MB HDD, Windows 3.11) with a lot of time spent playing Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. Over the years this interest has grown to encompass my entertainment, my education, and even my professional life. I’ve been mostly self-taught, but have worked in IT here and there, though I try to avoid it if I can.

I’m not entirely sure why I was offered the mod position, but I think it has something to do with my attempts to combat the misuse/abuse of the “peasant” moniker and my efforts against low-quality posts.

Lately, it seems like I always have some project or another in the works, which means no time for gaming.

eegras

Twitter / Steam / Instagram

Started gaming on a Powermac 8500, moved to a Powermac G4 and was always saddened at the games I couldn't play because of my platform. One of my friends then built his PC and showed me the wonder of PC gaming. We went to Fry's immediately and bought parts. I've been PCMR from then on (much to the dismay of my mom who worked for Apple at the time).

I have built many a machine, both for me and for friends and family ( as well as for a small profit at times ) and I've found something relaxing about the process so have jumped at the chance to any machine I could get my hands on.

I found my way to this sub after it being mentioned in one of TotalBiscuit's videos and it seemed like a good fit and have stuck here ever since.

There's so much disinformation circling around the internet about PC gaming and I truly feel this sub is doing amazing work at dispelling it while staying grounded at the same time.

TheAppleFreak

Steam / Twitter / GitHub / Discord: TheAppleFreak

I found PCMR back in its very early days, probably around the time when the sub only had 300 or so subscribers. It was at the time just a small community with the common element of rightfully believing that the PC is the greatest platform holding us together. To imagine at the time the sub growing as large as it is now was inconceivable, and it was just a pipe dream at the time that I'd be here moderating with everyone else here... yet here we are. Granted, I didn't quite get onto the team like everybody else; I figure that Pedro fat-fingered "GabeNewellBellevue" and accidentally typed "TheAppleFreak" into the mod invitation panel instead, and then did it a second time after I came back from a hiatus in January 2023. No other explanation makes sense to me.

While you might see my name pop up around the subreddit every so often in typical moderation capacities, my contributions tend to err a bit more on the invisible side. Together with Eegras, I help operate and craft much of the automation that we rely on as a team, be it working with Reddit's AutoMod or writing custom tools that perform more specialized tasks. In contrast to Eegras's PCMRBot (which handles much of the public-facing functionality), I develop and run PCMRBot.js, which handles more behind-the-scenes tasks instead. The fact that some of my code powers some of the most important functionality of this subreddit is in equal part wonderful and deeply terrifying to me.

As for being a PC gamer, I've been gaming on the platform in some shape or form since childhood, though I didn't fully embrace it until 2010 with my first rig. While the games I play tend to shift around a bit, as of this writing I'd say my main games are currently Minecraft and PlanetSide 2.

Also, trans rights <3.

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The-Big-Noob

Steam / Instagram / Twitter / Twitch / Origin: Th3B1gN00b / Battle.net: TheBigNoob#11958

I like a lot of things, computing is certainly one of those things. I started gaming young with a Super Nintendo and Gameboy and got into gaming on my PC when my father got us a family computer at around age 8. I've been PC gaming for over 20 years now, and I do not intend on stopping anytime soon.

Computers have always come naturally to me, building the first family computer at age 12. I was standing up Apache web servers and building websites for them by 13. I currently hold a bachelors in Management information systems, and work as a DevOps engineer by day.

I've been a long time lurker in PCMR, and have spent the large portion of my PCMR tenure as a moderator on the Discord server. I really love this community and enjoy helping those joining the ranks of all things computing.

PhantomsGhost

Steam / Discord: phantomsghost / Origin: xPhantomsGhostx

I got into technology and computing at a young age, mainly with an old Sega Genesis, radios, and as many, the family computer. Often this was a result of curiosity of how things worked and were related with each other and projects would often result. I didnt build my first PC until 2016 with an AMD FX 8350 and an RX480.

The curiosity and strive for learning new things has kept up over the many years, both in my personal and professional life where my primary role is in information systems education and management, running a variety of self-hosted projects at home and additive home-automation. One of my favorite things, both professionally and here in PCMR, both the subreddit and discord, is helping and watching folks learn new things and explore their passions.

I've been a long lurker of PCMR and became engaged primarily in the Discord server's tech-support channel, but mostly engage on and off as time permits.

E-Man1864

Steam / Twitch

I enjoy working with computers, particularly computer hardware. My love of the hobby started back in 2006 when I received my first computer, a Gateway with a Pentium 3. I didn't build my first PC until 2014, which had an i7-4790K, 16GB RAM, and a GTX 980. I'm also into gaming, got my start with the original Game Boy and then later got my first home console, a GameCube.

I hope to leverage the skills I gained from this community and my involvement with it along with what I've learned for my eventual career in electrical engineering.

I started out on this subreddit in 2015, using the knowledge I've gained from researching parts for my own build to assist others with building their own computers. Eventually, I made my way on the builds team here on PCMR and later became a moderator on this subreddit. I'm glad to be heavily involved with one of the largest PC enthusiast communities in the world.

Stevezilla33

Steam / Twitch

I got my start PC gaming way back in the early '90s when my parents bought a Packard Bell 486SX-33. I spent a good amount of time in my childhood fiddling with Atari and Nintendo consoles but I was always drawn back to that beige box in the office. A few years later I would go on to build my first machine; a Pentium 90 custom machine that I saved and bought all the parts for. By that time, I was hooked for life.

In my professional life, I have been lucky enough to have worked for some of the biggest PC game companies around. After the help of a friend to get my foot in the door at Maxis way back in 1999, I went on to spend most of my 20's testing hardware compatibility and general QA for companies like Konami, EA, Microprose, Hasbro Interactive, and Take Two. My career has shifted towards the mobile space in recent years but my PC gaming enthusiasm has never subsided.

I guess I consider myself a bit of an elder statesman of the PCMR and I'm happy to be a part of the team. You can find me wrangling the cats on the discord server most days.

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