I started out balancing my time between PC point-and-click adventures and N64 action games, with the occasional Game Boy Color game. I eventually moved pretty much completely over to console and handheld gaming with the GameCube and GBA, hardly touching the PC anymore. Then I got a DS and played that religiously for a while, becoming an almost exclusively handheld gamer for a long time.
However, I picked up a copy of Morrowind for $10 at Wal-Mart and it brought me back to PC gaming. I got a few other titles, including The Sims 2, which had been a favorite on consoles and was infinitely better on the PC. I was ignoring my GCN due to lack of good new games to play, and I was hooked on PC and DS games.
However, I wasn't a complete addict to PC games yet, as I lacked the two primary components necessary for PC game goodness: a decent PC and broadband. Sure, I liked Oblivion better than Morrowind, but I couldn't play it due to a lack of RAM (I only had 512MB, a terrible amount for Oblivion); I had also developed an FPS habit, but I had to kill a lot of the settings in order to play my absolute favorite, The Orange Box. Mods were great, but if you had to wait three hours for them to download for the sake of some subtle tweaks, what was the point?
I got broadband, which opened the way for all sorts of great mods for games like Morrowind and The Sims 2. Then I finally got a decent PC. I've been hooked on it ever since and have completely ignored my Wii. Every game I own works tremendously better. I've recently gotten hooked on Left 4 Dead and a host of Source multiplayer mods - Age of Chivalry, Hidden: Source, SourceForts, and some others.
I also dropped my Nintendo fanboyism. I haven't touched my DS in months, so I took a chance and got a PSP. I love it. I'm back to being a primarily handheld/PC gamer. I'm even thinking of picking Morrowind back up.

I am not a convert but returning back to PC gaming. About 10 years ago I used to game on PC most of the time and played stuff on the PS1. Since the PS2 I had been doing more console gaming as more and better games were available. Up until a few months ago, I hadn't gamed on a PC for almost 2 years.
Cost is the big reason. For as much as people complain about the cost of a PS3, it is less than a high end video card ( or a cheap desktop PC with a passable card ). On a console you never have to worry about compatibility or driver problems. The games just work. I currently have a PS3 and game on it about once a week.
The thing that got me back to PC gaming was a combination of Left 4 Dead, Steam, and GOG. Being able to get decent games, cheaply priced, that run well on a sane PC, without having to leave the house ( or worry about what time of day it is ). Digital distribution rocks!!
I am really enjoying Freespace 2 and Fallout 2 ( both from GOG ), I played the first in each series, but never got around to the sequels ( actually I have fallout 3 on PS3 ).

$80 is worth more than a $400 ps3?
seriously, a ~$500 gaming pc can PWN crisis which is supposedly "the highest end out there."
http://game-central.org/2009/editorials/how-to-build-a-sub-500-gaming-pc/
I personally spent $80 on a video card that gets me the ability to play crisis just fine in my monitors native resolution (1600x900)

Ooh, scarry! So you have complete rights to arrest people who download illegaly 20 year old and not for sale games? I really really hope not.

Typically we will shut a users service off for DMCA complaint, eventually we will cut off service all together and tell them to find a new ISP.
EDIT:
we deal in a lot of markets where there is no other choice, too.

Wow, an ISP who sent his customers to hell. Nice business strategy ;)

These companies send the DMCA complaint to the ISP, and there are threats against the ISP in fact, warnings are given, the person agrees to the TOS, if they break our rules, we refuse to service them. Plain and simple. Also, if they signed up for a contract plan, they obviously are ejected from their contract, not certain what could happen at that point, because I don't work that end, but typically breaking a contract is not a good thing.

Are these DMCA notices sent in response to people who you are providing actual hosting for, or against people who you are only providing connectivity for? The actions you're required to take differ significantly depending on which it is. If you're providing hosting then you're required to forward the DMCA complaint, as well as pull the infringing content (at least until the actual recipient of the complaint files a counter-notice). If you're simply providing connectivity then all you have to do is forward the DMCA complaint (you don't even have to provide information about the person unless presented with a subpoena). Going above and beyond these requirements actually exposes you to some liability, as once you start taking actions on your own to police content the DMCA safe harbor provisions no longer apply (although it's unlikely the likes of the RIAA or MPAA would go after you as long as you're still doing their bidding).
With regards to breach of contract, you guys would actually be the ones in breach of contract if you cut off someone solely because of a third-party accusation (which is all a DMCA notice is). Your company could quickly find itself in small-claims court over such an issue if the person who you cut off decided to pursue the matter.
It frankly sounds like the ISP you work for is run by a bunch of wankers, but then it could quite possibly be that you're simply embellishing the actual responses a bit.

I've played Doom and such back in the day, but I guess I only played on consoles up until about early to mid 2007 because my system was awful and could just barely play Half Life 1 at 640x480. I figured playing the Xbox and PS2 ports of PC games was good enough, but then as I got into college and the current gen of consoles were released it became much more obvious that buying a good PC bits and pieces at a time just made more sense.
Besides, 99% of games that are any good on the 360 are also on PC because of the directX crossover, the wii has nothing for me besides Mario Galaxy, and the PS3's exclusives aren't too hot either. Meanwhile, I could fill up my PC with the huge back catelogue of games I had missed from 1997-2007.
I guess the games that really turned me into a PC sort of guy were STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl and Fallout, both of which I played through for the first time last year. Immediately Fallout jumped to the #1 spot and STALKER on my #2 spot of best games ever made ever.
I had still been planning on picking up the consoles sooner or later when they became cheap, but now I don't even know if I'll do that if the excessive dumbing down of PC franchises for mainstream console audiences (Like Fallout 3 and the stalker-inspired FarCry 2, both of which I think represent some of the worst ideals of the entertainment industry) is any indication of how things are going.

I started off as a PC gamer; my Dad introduced me to Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom - I stayed as a PC gamer for a few years, enjoying all sorts of titles (ranging from Duke Nukem 3D to the classic Sierra and LucasArts adventure games), then got into the Sega MegaDrive. I used to play the SNES a bit as my brother had one, but the MegaDrive, and Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, 3 and Knuckles quickly became my favourite games.
After that, I stopped upgrading my PC and quickly fell behind (I played HL1 on my new PC, but it wasn't designated for games and just happened to be able to play it). After the MegaDrive, I jumped to N64, then after that generation I got a PS2, GameCube and Xbox. It wasn't until Half-Life 2 that I bothered to get a gaming PC again - though that passion quickly died due to the console releases and my lack of money to afford upgrades.
Now I have money. Lots of money. So I'm no longer a console gamer, but a PC and console gamer - just got myself a nice new beast of a PC and I'm enjoying Crysis in Ultra graphics mode at a reasonable framerate.

heh, a little from category a, a little from category b, either way, my ideas on breach of contract were just me guessing, I don't know for sure what happens, it's not my department.
but yeah, in our terms of service we say explicitly say that sharing copyrighted files is against the rules, I'm not a lawyer either, so I don't know how binding it is. I've never read one of the contracts either.

No, they don't service where I live.

Damn thats odd. How long is your commute?

HQ isn't in service area. :D
ten minutes or less.