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Press Junketeer Posts: 356 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 | |
Press Junketeer Posts: 453 Joined: 18 Oct 2008 | Sympathy. They won't give anything else a chance and therefore do not recieve the benefits from trying it. Unlucky for them. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2138 Joined: 12 Nov 2008 | I utterly detest them. They are largely responsible for destroying gaming. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 356 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 | Here is another question I guess you could answer, Why are there Fanboys? Where did it come from, what game, or system created these people.. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4204 Joined: 20 Dec 2007 | I love fanboys! Without Fanboys the world would be a worse place. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 489 Joined: 11 Nov 2008 |
One word. Fusajiro Yamauchi |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1117 Joined: 18 Jun 2008 | Rabid, insane, 13-year old sweaty boys that drinks too much cola... I don't like them, they can do whatever they want as long as they don't come bitching to me.
Do you really want me to point on that? :p |
Press Junketeer Posts: 356 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 |
I think he is right, I kinda blame him as well. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 630 Joined: 26 Jun 2008 | I have very strong feelings of hate towards the expression "fanboy". It's tossed around a lot, really. It lacks any real sort of meaning, it's basically a way of saying "you like this, and because I don't you are a narrow minded idiot". |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1584 Joined: 5 May 2008 | Well...fanboy to me implies someone who is so devoted to a particular thing (usually a movie, video game, book or TV show) that it borders on obsession. That doesn't bother me by itself. What bothers me are the fanboys who feel that they need to insult anyone who doesn't agree that this thing they worship is so great. They refuse to see anyone else's point of view and look upon anyone who prefers an opposing or different game/book/movie/TV show as lesser beings. There are quite a few of those types of people on The Escapist, PC and PS3 fanboys being most prevalent on here. I won't name names, don't want to start arguments. |
SUSPENDED Posts: 3470 Joined: 9 Sep 2008 | I despise Nintendo fanboys. but I'm the type of gamer who feels most satisfaction when leveling up his character or writing someone "pwned" with his keyboard. User was suspended for: Zero Punctuation: inFamous. (90 days) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2146 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 | Anyone who is not wealthy enough to afford all four next-gen systems = fanboy Awesome. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 945 Joined: 18 Nov 2008 |
What's not to like. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 356 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 |
/agree |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1054 Joined: 14 Dec 2007 |
I'll third it. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 962 Joined: 20 Mar 2008 | Fanboys are idiots.
Choice created fanboys. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2138 Joined: 12 Nov 2008 |
Well said, that man! |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2737 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 |
They exist because certain folks spending hundreds of dollars on a console never want to admit that their purchase is in any way unwise. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 489 Joined: 11 Nov 2008 | I'm guilty for being a PC fanboy mostly because the Mac didn't let me play some of my fav game (Crysis) so i went and bought a PC to play but I mean if your going to bash someone for liking somthing you don't or not liking what you like your a hypocrite and diserve to BURN! |
BANNED Posts: 3535 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 | I like them, they can be very entertaining. User was banned for: FUN FORUM GAME THX FO PLAYIN :3. (Permanent) |
Press Junketeer Posts: 455 Joined: 19 Aug 2008 |
Well put, good sir! |
Press Junketeer Posts: 356 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 | I have to say I have been known to be a PC fanboy... :( |
Press Junketeer Posts: 428 Joined: 10 Oct 2008 | Aren't fanboys really people who are so devoted to their obsession that they are incapable of accepting any level of flaw with said obsession? Even going as far as trying to justify it or counter claim it? No they don't bother me. In the old days I would go toe to toe with these guys and posts would come thick and fast with no one giving an inch. The funny thing is after about post 7 you're just saying the same thing and they are just rephrasing stuff they said in the posts before. Now when I find that I or they are repeating something they said before I call it a day because I know it's going no where. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 356 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 |
Really just it the nail on the head with that post. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2146 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 |
The irony of course is that the mythical fanboys in question are constantly singled out as "lesser beings" by the all-seeing and all-knowing elite objectivist crew. Fanboyism as a concept has been turned on its head (at least around here) and is now almost always associated with enjoying - rather than disliking - something. It seems to me that if someone prefers a particular game, system, developer or controller they are by default a "fanboy". Enjoy Mario? Casual Miyamoto fucker. Enjoy Halo? M$ rent boy. Enjoy Metal Gear Solid 4? Kojima bondage slave. The ratio of anti-fanboy rants to (alleged) occurrences of fanboy short-sightedness on The Escapist is approximately 1000000:1. Are we all afraid of enjoying things to such an extent? Having spent several hundred pounds on the only system I can afford I reserve the right to extol its virtues to the rest of the world. Now forgive me while I ice some Chimera in my TOTALLY AWESOME 60 PLAYER ONLINE. We are all fanboys for one thing or another. Admit it. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3714 Joined: 10 Aug 2008 | I mostly detest them... But i guess I'm a fanboy of certain things and it makes me kinda hypocritical. But I try to be cynical and calculating about things i like. But yeah, some fanboys are incredibly annoying and a scourge upon the world. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3812 Joined: 28 Feb 2008 | Inner fangirl: *is hit with lead pipe* I hate the fangirl within me, I want it to die, and its one of the few things in the world that should cease to exist altogether throughout the world. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 356 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 |
How can you kill something, that which has no life? |
Copy Clerk Posts: 74 Joined: 21 Jul 2004 |
Very well said... |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4604 Joined: 13 Aug 2008 | I think if you're a fan about something, that's perfectly fine. But, if you're a fanboy that instantly hates anything different than what you like, and loves anything by (insert fandom here) regardless of its merits, then there is something wrong. Things should have to earn your adoration based on their on their own merits, not how good the thing that came before it was. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3812 Joined: 28 Feb 2008 |
Inner Fangirl:*bears fangs* Hmm... I know! I'll be a respectable and successful person, so that this darkness within is overshadowed by my greatness! And through this thought, I came to be the person I am today. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 356 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 |
I can also agree to that, It seems to be that The Escapist is very Anti-Fanboy. Maybe there is a Fanboy backslash happening!! Viva La Fanboydom! |
Muckraker Posts: 340 Joined: 7 May 2008 |
I think you killed the conversation with your Jesus-like perfection. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 356 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 |
Hmm It seems your Superego is unable to control your Id. Maybe it is the medium that you are communicating on that makes your Superego unable to control your id. Knowing that you are unknown on the internet can unleash the Id without regrade. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1584 Joined: 5 May 2008 |
Yes we are. I am a Final Fantasy fanboy. The difference between myself and the types of fanboys I was talking about, is that if someone tells me they don't like Final Fantasy, I accept it as their opinion and move on with my life. I don't start an argument with them or insult them because they don't like it. |
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Well what?
I hate them for the most part, but I also see that I can be a Fanboy about games, systems, etc, etc.
So do you hate Fanboys, Do you love to hate them, or are you one......>.<