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Where's our color (PC gamers)?

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#1  Edited By xruntime

All the console aligned users have their names in color, and we're stuck with our names in white.

It was gold before, if I recall correctly, and now it's plain white. Come on!

PC gaming  for the win!

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#2  Edited By Shawn

Black would be suitable for PC, even though it'll be hard to see the usernames. But yeah, I think the wii should be white, I don't even know why it's red (mario?)

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#3  Edited By ahriman22

No, no PC FTW. You have to spend a bunch of money on upgrades and shit. I stick to consoles since I don't have to spend another 2k on building a new machine.

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#4  Edited By xruntime
ahriman22 said:
"No, no PC FTW. You have to spend a bunch of money on upgrades and shit. I stick to consoles since I don't have to spend another 2k on building a new machine."
Look I didn't really mean this to be a debate thread, all I was asking for is color. So you can go back to Gamespot and System Wars.
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#5  Edited By crunchUK

OH that's what the colours are!! actually i have bad news: PC come in every coloour and when you mix every single colour together on a palette you get a colour that is usually associated with faeces

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#6  Edited By ahriman22
xruntime said:
"ahriman22 said:
"No, no PC FTW. You have to spend a bunch of money on upgrades and shit. I stick to consoles since I don't have to spend another 2k on building a new machine."
Look I didn't really mean this to be a debate thread, all I was asking for is color. So you can go back to Gamespot and System Wars.
"
System wars is worse than 4chan. I think the PC color should be Silver, since laptops like that color. Sony should be black, since the PS2/PS3 are black. Microsoft should be white, since their console is and Nintendo should be blue, since that seems to be the color theme of the Wii.
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#7  Edited By pyromaniac

Dude..it should be Pink..totally

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#8  Edited By Green_Incarnate

White is a color. Anyways, I say just put whatever color you want for your name. Who cares if people think you're a console fanboy.

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#9  Edited By ahriman22
markop2003 said:
"ahriman22 said:
"No, no PC FTW. You have to spend a bunch of money on upgrades and shit. I stick to consoles since I don't have to spend another 2k on building a new machine."
this isn't a debate thread but why spend 2k on a pc? i spent 800 last year and i'm still happy with it (may upgrade to a new sli mobo if i get a bigger screen though) , spend 400 every 2 years and you can stay at the cutting edge easily and that's including your screen and speakers which arn't taken account of with consoles, really it works out quite close to consoles if you factor in that new HDTV you'll need to get the most out of your console and a better sound system if you're really hardcore

Anyway, yellow seems to be free so we should get that"
I updated everything to play Crysis on max. And i'm very hardcore, i like pretty colors and sounds.
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#10  Edited By Scorched
Shawn said:
"Black would be suitable for PC, even though it'll be hard to see the usernames. But yeah, I think the wii should be white, I don't even know why it's red (mario?)"
great point
why is wii red?
that makes no since
Sony and Microsoft have colors associated with their brand
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#11  Edited By xruntime

I think PC should be hot pink.

Thats, like such a sexy color, totally.

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#12  Edited By crunchUK
xruntime said:
"I think PC should be hot pink.

Thats, like such a sexy color, totally."
nope the most logcal colour is brown
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#13  Edited By KuribosShoe

the nintendo logo is most often red

personally I don't really like the colors anyway

but then I am not a specific fan of one particular gaming platform

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#14  Edited By xruntime
crunchUK said:
"xruntime said:
"I think PC should be hot pink.

Thats, like such a sexy color, totally."
nope the most logcal colour is brown"
Why? Brown is so...dirty...
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#15  Edited By Blu_Magic

You guys can have violet if you want.

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#16  Edited By xruntime

I thought I'd just bump this thread cause I am serious about wanting some color...

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#17  Edited By mike

White is a color...black is the lack of color.

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#18  Edited By Demilich
MB said:
"White is a color...black is the lack of color."
Other way around.

Black is the highest degree of the primary colors combined.
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#19  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator
Demilich said:
"MB said:
"White is a color...black is the lack of color."
Other way around.

Black is the highest degree of the primary colors combined."
Maybe to an artist, but not to a scientist. Black is the absence of colour. White is all colours combined. That's why white light is white, because it is every colour in the visible light spectrum (the rainbow) combined.
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#20  Edited By mike

^ That's the way I was thinking about it. 

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#21  Edited By xruntime

I think Violet would be nice. A pinkish-violet. How about it, MB?

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#22  Edited By mike

That's a little above my pay grade, although I do know something as far as colors in general is being worked on.

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#23  Edited By Demilich
MattyFTM said:
"Demilich said:
"MB said:
"White is a color...black is the lack of color."
Other way around.

Black is the highest degree of the primary colors combined."
Maybe to an artist, but not to a scientist. Black is the absence of colour. White is all colours combined. That's why white light is white, because it is every colour in the visible light spectrum (the rainbow) combined."
I never thought of Black and White in terms of the light spectrum. But you can't deny the artists idea either.

I'd say they're both right.
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#24  Edited By duxup

I thought that the PC should be blue as IBM's logo was blue and when I think of what represents PC gaming historically was the good old "IBM Compatible" description.