It's all true, sorry to hear you lost some friends there power! you should havemade them follow the monitor cable or something!
What i can say is that i AM a PC gamer (and CS-rival coder) but only since the days of wolfenstein, so i suppose i crossed over when the gauntlet did :-) And it is true that in real life i try to pronounce things like LOL, w00t and the most diffucult to say: rotfl .... oh dear.
at any rate i'm happy now that i can play DOOM on my miggy, it's all that matters to me!
interesting a firend of mine who owns EVERY gaming console recently got a PC (this means he loves goldeneye but thinks Half life sucks and, of course, thinks HAlo rocks)(which it does) ... i introduced him to Quake ... and it blew him away! the speed of the gameplay especially.