I've always found it puzzling how a group of people (geeks/nerds) who have traditionally been given such a hard time as a kid growing up (picked on at school, picked last for the kickball team, etc) seem to be almost universally intolerant to women within the geek domain. It seems almost counter intuitive. If you have felt the pain of ostracization and lack of acceptance why turn around and inflict it on others? Is it a simple lack of social skills? Regressing to playground "pull the hair of the girl you like" behaviour? I don't get it.

Amount of my time lost to viruses and malware on any of my windows machines since about XP SP2: Zero.

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"shill"? Get the fuck out of here. I like Steam. I will continue to use Steam. I could care less what you think of that or anything else for that matter. Valve gets my money, I get games, and you get nothing.

That's not astroturfing that's fanboyism. You can find countless examples of it on this site as well as any pro mac site or pro microsoft site.

Steam *is* amazing. I can't even remember the last time I walked into a B&M game store. Anything new that looks interesting I will look on Steam first and then failing that, look to see what other online options are available.

Wow I must work for Valve. I'm clearly a Valve astroturfer.

I believe he considers himself a game critic not a game reviewer so I don't think he is expecting to be viewed as a source of game buying advice.

speaking of "SMARTER", you need to take your sarcasm detector in for a tuneup.

The guy cares about his parents and goes the extra mile for them. If he was installing Ubuntu for them I seriously doubt it would be a vanilla install either.

When you are throwing your parents in an old folks home this guy will be building an addition onto his house to take them in then installing various custom electronic systems to ease their daily lives.