What people are saying about "Party Time"
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Kylenatory
over 12 years ago
Game on my mac all the time, u just need to know how to make it work. wine/Parallels/Virtual boxes/Partitions, just finished playing thu farcry 1 and 2, moving thu skyrim right now. play LOL and dota alot on it 2
The Everything,man
over 12 years ago
I barley see my old friends and some I just lose touch with them ... That's why I come to you Nerf!

But I wonder what your like in real life when I see you Pictures ... I always Think your beautiful as a girl and hope to be your friend some day!

Take care even til the day we meet.
Haha
over 12 years ago
Playing TF2 on my mac, can't find a fuck to give. Hater's gonna hate I guess.
Harpo
over 12 years ago
I thought this was common knowledge. Glorious PC gaming Master Race, dirty console gaming peasants and Mac, the village idiot.
Talyn
over 12 years ago
FOREIGNERS!
YOU CANT GAME WITH MACS
over 12 years ago
YOU CANT PLAY SHOOTAN GAMES ON THAT YOU CANT PLAY SHOOTAN GAMES ON THAT YOU CANT PLAY SHOOTAN GAMES ON THAT YOU CANT PLAY SHOOTAN GAMES ON THAT YOU CANT PLAY SHOOTAN GAMES ON THAT YOU CANT PLAY SHOOTAN GAMES ON THAT YOU CANT PLAY SHOOTAN GAMES ON THAT YOU CANT PLAY SHOOTAN GAMES ON THAT YOU CANT PLA
over 12 years ago
They're babby's first computer
Quinch
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_143050]@kriss1989[/url]: I prefer to think of them as games that can use more than twenty buttons to work. Back on topic, pfff. Gaming is too mainstream.
Pwoshi
over 12 years ago
The witch.
441
over 12 years ago
I don't know, Maybe the mysterious foreigner with a religion that both peasants and master race find blasphemous?
asasfasrfasf
over 12 years ago
dat =_= face xD
An Onymous
over 12 years ago
Don't insult us peasants, the rich higher ups would be nothing without us.
P.S. What's with orange Engie's eyes?
DeizRouge
over 12 years ago
Pc gaming = master rage Im pro your noob player

kriss1989
over 12 years ago
Oh and FYI, console player here. Your fight is to us both entertaining AND pointless since a lot of the games you guys get exclusively require about 20 different buttons to work. We get action RPGs and even full blown MMOs that work with our controllers and don't require us to do a yearly upgrade.
kdebones
over 12 years ago
Macs = Master Peasants
PCfag
over 12 years ago
@master race
I think that's a bit harsh on the console gamers.
I hold no love for consoles either, but that's still a bit too much.
master race
over 12 years ago
Mac gamers are lumped in with console gamers.
Watchit
over 12 years ago
Mac's are untouchables
kriss1989
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142947]@Space4Jump[/url] And both the PC and Mac gamers extending the example would consider themselves the master race and the other fundamentally flawed...wow that analogy fits a bit too well.
Weasy
over 12 years ago
<-------mind blown
Lawton
over 12 years ago
PC gamers are the thrifty merchant class, Mac gamers are the aristocratic elite, and console gamers are the dirty proles.
Test Subject 036
over 12 years ago
The red-headed stepchild.
A guy
over 12 years ago
Mac users are other gamers. They just use bootcamp. :U

NOBODY REMEMBERS BOOTCAMP!
Space4Jump
over 12 years ago
Wouldn't they be traders from the orient? Kinda elitist in their own world with some goods and analogies that can be passed between the two worlds, but not really comprehending each other?
Indeed
over 12 years ago
The horribly mutilated windows 95 parts smashed together with spit.
Kazul
over 12 years ago
HERETICS THAT MUST BE PURGED BY FIRE
kiba
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142939]@Hyperstar96[/url]: nope can't afford it
Vulpis
over 12 years ago
Not seeing the issue, myself. If nothing else, they can easily play Team Fotress, Portal 2 Co-op, and quite a lot of other Steam games.
Hyperstar96
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142934]@kiba[/url]: Looks like someone just bought a Vita XD
Octopiss
over 12 years ago
Macs are PCs. Even IBM-compatible PCs nowadays. They're just dual-booting, like the Linux folks. Nobody's calling themselves a Windows gamer though.
kiba
over 12 years ago
@Niko [email protected]: "-kiba- This thread. SO true. You win a cookie."

is it a peanutbutter cookie?
Echo
over 12 years ago
Mac gamers are (or were back in my day) folks who could buy everything that came out for the platform since only really good things ever got ported (Blizzard games Unreal Tournament, Quake, Fallout).

Though some great games were never ported, Damn you Sierra for canceling the Halflife port!!!
solokov
over 12 years ago
They are the heathens and must be crushed! A crusade if you will.
Blu Soldier
over 12 years ago
Spoiler alert: they play tf2
Legolizard
over 12 years ago
They are being from beyond the void.

Alien but still familiar. Perfect yet flawed. Your normal weapons can not harm them but they are sent back to the void when it starts to rain and their skin burns at the touch of rain water (just rain water).

Trololo
over 12 years ago
PC gamers are the master race.
Console Gamers are the unwashed masses.
Mac Gamers are urban legends.
Dook
over 12 years ago
Mac gamers are the leper colony.
Drrrr
over 12 years ago
Mac users are the console gamers posturing as PC gamers.
Hmm
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142920]@StealthToast[/url] Scout in drag, look at the jaw line and sideburns.
Huhhuh
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142920]@StealthToast[/url]: Because YOUR MOTHER
University Whore
over 12 years ago
So, im wondering. Who else is not buying anymore blizzard games from now on and why? Personally, I don't think they have the quality I expect and they do not give me the enjoyment I seek.
StealthToast
over 12 years ago
Blu Engie-tan's expression in the last panel is hilarious. xD

Btw, since when does Red Engie-tan have a flat chest?
Urghh..
over 12 years ago
You all know a mac is a type of PC, right?

Also give it another 5 years and no one will care so long as the browser does everything you need... oh wait..flash!
over 12 years ago
In my experience any platform has it's fair share of snobs. The PC is far from the exception. However nintendo fans don't seem to shove their shit down my throat. Likely because nintendo are the "uncool" Guys right now because they focus on timeless SP gameplay values, And not MP War games.
over 12 years ago
"PC gamers, Console gamers, MAC gamers. no matter what the fuck you play your games on if you look down on other gamers for what they play then your nothing more then an arrogant cunt nugget of a bastard" - kiba -This thread. So true. You win a cookie.
over 12 years ago
In my experience any platform has it's fair share of snobs. The PC is far from the exception. However nintendo fans don't seem to shove their shit down my throat. Likely because nintendo are the "uncool" Guys right now because they focus on timeless SP gameplay values, And not MP War games.
Phil
over 12 years ago
Been saying it for years, Macs are Fisher-Price computers. I half expect to see them sold with Little Peoples toys or at least next to them at Toys R Us.
vash_ts
over 12 years ago
if pc is the master for gaming, that would make MAC a hipster?
Forest_GS
over 12 years ago
You can install Windows to dual-boot on a mac. I think the program was called bootcamp.

I mean, I can see someone installing Windows for gaming on that new "Retina" mac.
Troll dude
over 12 years ago
Playstation haz no games!...Wait wrong thread
Tacofiesta
over 12 years ago
Interesting that I always hear about Mac users being snobs, until it comes to gaming, then we're just lowlife ignorant scum who know nothing. I use a Mac, and I am fully aware that PC is better for gaming. And honestly, I don't think there are any Mac users that think Mac is the way to go for gaming
DinsdalePirahna
over 12 years ago
this joke would be a lot funnier if both were using apple products... and without losing a grain of truth.
Thar
over 12 years ago
Mac owners are the same as PC owners. Both enjoy games, and that is what makes you a gamer.

Out of curiosity, where did the idea of Mac owners being snobs come from?
Mac
over 12 years ago
Mac gamers are the snooty Foreigners who think they're better than us even though we're one in the same.
Someone Else
over 12 years ago
To continue the metaphor presented by the text:
that would make Mac gamers weird nobles off in some tower somewhere.
James
over 12 years ago
'If PC gamers are the "master race" and console games are "dirty peasants" what Mac gamers are?'

The bastard child of the two?
Benny Tops
over 12 years ago
Hmmmmmm.... Starcraft anyone?

And survey says "Mac Gamers Are..."

"What? They have games?" 34
"Untouchables" 28
"Better than tentacle porn at least." 24
"More wealthy, but not much else." 13
"Ha ha, not to scale" 1
Kazmohdim
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142896]@Horatio[/url]: TF2 LAN doesnt go well unless you have 32 people. Its hard to manage 32 people, I've tried.
Horatio
over 12 years ago
TF2 it is.
Kazmohdim
over 12 years ago
A couple years ago, me and my friends had LAN Fridays. We'd gather at someone's house with our rigs and play Counterstrike, Garry's Mod, Dawn of War, Command and Conquer and other things. Though, cant say any of us were Mac users :P
herp
over 12 years ago
They are dirty peasants.
DH
over 12 years ago
Wow, so few photo notes. In the way back when, this comic would have been a "mine"field.
kiba
over 12 years ago
PC gamers, Console gamers, MAC gamers. no matter what the fuck you play your games on if you look down on other gamers for what they play then your nothing more then an arrogant cunt nugget of a bastard
Raves
over 12 years ago
Inbreeders in the royal line.
The Truth
over 12 years ago
Heretics, that's what.
We should stone them to death for being different to us.
The Drunk Turtle
over 12 years ago
What are Mac gamers? Non-existent. There are no games on the Mac.
soul
over 12 years ago
what if the mac gamer runs windows in his mac? I do that.
V
over 12 years ago
Potato
lordlundar
over 12 years ago
What are Mac Gamers?

A Myth.
El_Mariachete
over 12 years ago
Old Gods owning of all plataforms > Master Race
Cookie Monster
over 12 years ago
What are Mac gamers? Misguided :3
trololo
over 12 years ago
The PC's are the Kings, the Console's are the Dirty Peasants and the Mac's are the useless greedy corrupt Priests stealing from the two others.
Daniel
over 12 years ago
Can't they play the AirMech beta on Chrome?
Anonthamanon
over 12 years ago
Mac gamers are the special kids.
Devlan
over 12 years ago
The Village Idiot.
9mm
over 12 years ago
Mac gamers are well meaning, clueless fools.
Dreamstate
over 12 years ago
But... both engies could play tf2 together... right?...
severedties
over 12 years ago
It looks like the red engi's rule-63 medication is wearing off: her face is reverting back to its manly shape and her boobs are retreating. If they get rid of the lesbian fanservice I'm outta here buster
damnedgamer
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142863]@Donald[/url]: except it is a 2000$ gamer laptop that has half of the specs of a custom build tower pc :D
Ohai
over 12 years ago
I like the "the French" comment a lot of people been saying. Seems appropriate. :)

Also clearly they're going to have to find another "game" to "play". *cough*
Dome
over 12 years ago
Mac gamers don't exist as you can't call yourself a gamer if you use a Apple product. A gamer either uses a console or pc or a handheld like the vita/3ds. I guess to be nice apple product users and people who use portable phones for gaming could be called casual gamers.
GumbyX
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142862]@Tiger[/url]: O_O REALLY?!?!?!?
Donald
over 12 years ago
Uses laptop for gaming... Yeaaaah. I doubt you will be playing anything else than tf2 and blizzard games.
Tiger
over 12 years ago
Use Windows - Get Viruses.

Use OS X - Get Cancer.
Agile52
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142858]@GumbyX[/url]: you know you could build a linux machine for way way cheaper than Apple products?
asd
over 12 years ago
@grumby i had my last pc for 5 years tooo and i had no problems.
Most of the people who complain about windows simply dont know how to work with it. Your investment paid off? really? If you want to play games then it didnt if you dont care about other programs then it did.
qq
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142858]@GumbyX[/url]: Because others don't want to bother with Macs wehn PC market is enough for them. Without people experienced in converting software for mac already on team, there is simply no profit in it.
GumbyX
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142855]@tell[/url]: between the support of a corporate-backed OS (like Windows) and the freedom of Open-Source. I could give a shit less if people think I'm "trendy" for having a Mac. Yes I spent more a lot of money on it, but my Mac is 5+ years old and still works great, so my investment has paid off.
GumbyX
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142855]@tell[/url]: ....Go fuck yourself. I'm not usually like this but all the comments are pissing me off. I use a mac because 1) I like the design of the hardware and OS, 2)I prefer having a *nix core as I used to be a heavy linux user (anyone gona take shots at me for that?), 3) its the best compromise ...
GumbyX
over 12 years ago
@The Penguin: I love you man/woman. Sadly, I can see these guys saying *nix users are people who still live in their mother [url=#user_comment_142757] @Tekbot[/url]: That is a lazy ass excuse. If no one makes games for macs, how the hell is supposed to get more gamers. Valve and Blizzard seem figured it out so why not others?
tell
over 12 years ago
Mac users are either stuck in late 80's or try to be "trendy". Some defend their choice with statements like "Everything looks better on Mac!". Got my current laptop with 1GB Nvidia GT540 GPU for 399€, while everyone else swarmed around the ~1000€ Macs and tablets
Eboreg
over 12 years ago
The burghers?
mrttao
over 12 years ago
PC gamers = Master Race
Console gamers = Dirty Peasants
Mac gamers = Cryptids
Azure
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142833]@Tim[/url]: Grab VM Player, Grab an ISO of 95 or 98. Install and try to do anything more than minesweeper. It will crash. Hard and Fast. Windows has come vastly further than you can imagine. Nostalgia is great until you try and relive it.
Someone
over 12 years ago
I don't understand. What is this "Mac gamer" you are talking about? o.O Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Reversal
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142833]@Tim[/url]: Peaked at 98, actually, unless you really loved blue screens or enjoyed restarting your computer everytime you installed a driver or changed a system setting. The latter might have been in 98 too, in which case it peaked at XP. To add to that, Vista (etc) is horrible, but 7 is nice.
Reversal
over 12 years ago
@Snarky Snarf: But if the Jews secretely rule the world, wouldn't that make them the Master Race?
fgwudskfguwei
over 12 years ago
Anything Blizzard or Valve has done will work between PC and Mac.
Lordician
over 12 years ago
They could play TF2 still. :)
And some other games, for sure.
Igor
over 12 years ago
Self-appointed outcasts of the gaming fandom?
...They could always play Team Fortress 2.
Vikingboy
over 12 years ago
"If PC gamers are the "master race" and console games are "dirty peasants" what Mac gamers are?"

Proof that you're the same as console gamers muhahahaha
wkz
over 12 years ago
Oh, by the way...
http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/322

http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/323
ThatOneGuy
over 12 years ago
whores
Tim
over 12 years ago
Dungeon Defenders! :D

The Steam for Mac library may be a bit malnourished, but Wine/virtualization/Bootcamp runs Windows just fine.

I grew up on Windows 3.11. It peaked at 95, coasted at XP, and then promptly collapsed under its own user interface detritus.
Hedrah
over 12 years ago
"If PC gamers are the "master race" and console games are "dirty peasants" what Mac gamers are?"

Filthy heathens whom should be purged by purifying fire.
user@gentoo
over 12 years ago
Just have them all use Wine to run whatever windoze app that runs under Wine.
Querzis
over 12 years ago
«What are Mac Gamers?» people with lots of money to spend and zero computer knowledge.
LSR
over 12 years ago
Mac Users are subhuman scum.
Draken
over 12 years ago
Macs are computers for students, idiots, and older people who don't want to have to deal with Windows and all that entails. Not Gamers. "Mac Gamers" are wannabes who spent entirely too much money on a system that can be built by someone who knows what they're doing for at least 1/4th the price.
Radial
over 12 years ago
I'd like to bring up the irony that in the mac update, it was the blue team that had the macs.
Ishihito
over 12 years ago
What is this species of which you are talking - Mac gamers?
Manwhat
over 12 years ago
I always thought it was us PC gamers who where the dirty peasants.
RoflCat
over 12 years ago
They're pagans, obviously.

Now Engie(redhead) just need to convert her to PChristianity by the means of hot lesbian sex.

Because unlike Christianity, PChristianity totally welcome that notion.
AsteriskCGY
over 12 years ago
Bootcamp.
MAB
over 12 years ago
" If PC gamers are the "master race" and console games are "dirty peasants" what are Mac gamers? ]"

clearly, they are the french.
trololo
over 12 years ago
"If PC gamers are the "master race" and console games are "dirty peasants" what Mac gamers are?"

A legend ? ^^
Bel
over 12 years ago
I thought it was obvious. They are the Beast Men. Half Man, Half Beast, All inhuman.
Blu soldier
over 12 years ago
Jo's tentacle isn't his arm
Bartimaeus
over 12 years ago
What are macs? The GODS, man. :D
Eddy
over 12 years ago
Starcraft ? Warcarft ? Minecraft ? Diablo ? TF2 ? LoL ?
Dusk
over 12 years ago
Macs can still play Civ V
Th155
over 12 years ago
Nonexistent.
Aanok
over 12 years ago
Fabulous.
Hyperstar96
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142792]@mike[/url]: What do you mean by that?
Serathis
over 12 years ago
Mac Gamers are hipster.
Enlong
over 12 years ago
I've used both. I've had a Macbook for some time now, though, and I just like the way it feels in general. Used to have a lot of problems with playing games, but that was due to my own inability to figure out WINE. Now that I have BootCamp, that problem is solved.

My ONLY problem was games
Because That Totally Made Sense
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142801]@Puffmax[/url] Wrong, it's actually Linux. But she probably thinks its an app.
Lansan1ty
over 12 years ago
http://youtu.be/xiAgrrwL_mk

This.
Puffmax
over 12 years ago
Who knows she could be runnin Windows on there, you know hipster of hipsters.
Pfft
over 12 years ago
Sadly this situation happened with me and friends. Aren't Macs usually more expensive by default as well? The whole "it doesn't get viruses like PCs do" is total bullshit, when will they learn?
AceD
over 12 years ago
Lepers!
Dame Helen
over 12 years ago
...approaching parity rapidly and experiencing a bigger surge in games since the advent of the Mac App Store than...any of the consoles?

Seriously, it is NOT hard to find a cross-platform game these days. It's only the idiot hold-out companies that don't have Mac compat. games.
George
over 12 years ago
Console gamers? At least that's what I am.
Mikael
over 12 years ago
A myth.
mike
over 12 years ago
It's the same group as the nintendo wii.

Somepony
over 12 years ago
People with more money then computer knowledge.
all users
over 12 years ago
you can play shit on pc with mac, example: diablo3
TLV
over 12 years ago
That weird, "unique" second cousin that you don't like to admit being related to.
Salem5
over 12 years ago
@Sylvester Ink: More like try hards :P
Mac user...
over 12 years ago
Middle class?
Sylvester Ink
over 12 years ago
And the Linux gamers? The Revolution!
CHT
over 12 years ago
Steam crossplay is nice. Some of the fun games are crossplay.
Snarky Snarf
over 12 years ago
If PC's are the "Master Race," Then they are the Nazis.
That makes Mac users the jews.
wkz
over 12 years ago
Nice callback to an old episode thou... where's the iTurret anyways?
SevenGamingSins
over 12 years ago
God damnit spaceking, i was grinning from ear to ear planning to write that exact bloodied comment >.<
SpaceKing
over 12 years ago
PC Gamers: The Lords
Console Gamers: The Peasants
Mac Gamers: The French
BlazeFaia
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142739]@Varsis[/url]: And how did they get to become starving hipster artists? They spent all their money on an overpriced Apple product. B| Sorry guys, the despite the name, Apple is not an edible product. It is not a two in one.
Geary
over 12 years ago
Mac Gamers = People Adept In Running Windows On Their Mac
zeruf
over 12 years ago
i dunno, i live in a relatively poor country, i never even seen a mac here.
Mana
over 12 years ago
Mudbloods.
Wait
over 12 years ago
why is the domino's ad in spanish?
Thatguy
over 12 years ago
Mac Gamers are unfortunate bastards with no choice but said Mac (because one of their parents, i.e. the one who didn't leave for the Yukon with all the gaming equipment, who took a Mac because why not, or they are scum-loving filth-mongers who want to suffer. Eternally.
Terak
over 12 years ago
I have a Mac and i love to work on it, but gaming on Mac? This is stupid!
HasSpoken
over 12 years ago
iSheeps
Someguy
over 12 years ago
Minorities, duh. Now round them up and gas them or something.
Matt
over 12 years ago
Anything by Valve or Blizzard? I hear there's a new Devil game or something. Or maybe that one shooty game from which both of those caracters hail.
That Guy
over 12 years ago
Mac "gamers" are very likely Steam users. (Or Bootcamp users. Or both.)
Kalatash
over 12 years ago
The french.
Tekbot
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_142748]@Sage[/url]: I'm not sure exactly what to make of that comment. Macs are still macs. Software is completely incompatible between macs and PCs. Most gamers are on PC, so that's where game developers direct their efforts.
Quirk
over 12 years ago
Oxymorons.
Haze
over 12 years ago
Heretics!!!!!!
LOLMacUsers
over 12 years ago
dirty(er) peasants
Lorgy
over 12 years ago
Hipster's. Or they simply don't like money.
The Penguin
over 12 years ago
LINUX!!!!!!!!!!
DH
over 12 years ago
Is that Aerith's dress that Engie(0) is wearing?
Gyro
over 12 years ago
B-but I use a mac and I'm ha-happy with the g-games I h-have...

*sob*

but seriously I can't run psychonauts properly, TF2 is great and bastion's wee bit hard but mac really needs to step up with games
Sage
over 12 years ago
TF2 still exists, and Humble Indie Bundle shows there's market share for it (keep in mind that Macs are basically intel architecture now, and thus very similar to PCs).

For multiplayer, though, it's a huge pain.
Maxaxle
over 12 years ago
See: Anything Valve ported.
Yoyogre
over 12 years ago
My answer : Scarce
luke
over 12 years ago
b-b-but....but mac has no games...
Lockgar
over 12 years ago
Mac users are clones, or Pod people.
CJ
over 12 years ago
There's no such thing as Mac "gamers" 8)
Varsis
over 12 years ago
Isn't it obvious? Starving hipster artists.
Lockgar
over 12 years ago
clones
Talcon
over 12 years ago
a