Fanboys should just roll over and die

[vejita]

They see me trollin', they hatin'...

[RyaNtheSlayA]

They see me trollin', they hatin'...

Anyway, I'm a huge fanboy, not as much as i used to be, but I still am one.

[fast]

I have used that line Luke, and I own boardgames older than all of us - Unless we have someone born before the 1850s here. But it usually doesnt affect them. I tune them out most of the time but when they say something really stupid, or if it is directed toward me I cant just sit by idly.

I will admit that I am a Nintendo fan. In the past I was a fanboy and I still favor them heavily, but I am by no means a fanboy anymore. If anything I am a retro fanboy. I do however still purchase new Nintendo consoles over other companies since I am a Zelda fan. I have put equal time into the PS3 and the 360 and both consoles have merits. I will also admit that I have picked fights with these fanboys when they dismiss my opinion completely when I am buying something. My best example is when I was buying the SNK Arcade Collection on the Wii last year, and the kids playing Guitar Hero stated that I was a casual gamer because I was buying a minigame collection. After that one I was asked to leave the store. More recently I was told I am not a real gamer because I do not own a PS3 and that I prefer Tatsunoko vs Capcom over Street Fighter 4. I am not sure how that works, but whatever.

After seeing many outburst, like the one we had a couple weeks ago by an irate Microsoft fan, well my patience has grown very thin for these kinds of fans. I will ask them a few probing questions and if they give the same cliché answers the conversation is over. Last week I actually had a guy turn to his friends and say that he owned me right there and so I asked him if he knew what Joust was. He didn’t. It is on his precious 360 and he didn’t know what it was. “Sounds gay” was the response. When I showed it to him he didn’t understand the appeal. “Halo 1 even looks better than this.” I just walked away after that. If he was going to compare the graphics of a 30 year old game to an 8 year old one I knew we were done.


And ryan, your a different fanboy every other month. We have all seen it. Its not necessarily a bad thing, mind you, you atleast know when to shutup about things.

[MrPopo]

but I never use the M$. I only used it on this topic, be cause really Microsoft is freaking pushing it. either make the service free (like everyone else) and put ads in it to support it, or subscription and no ads.

Doesn't matter. The $ instead of an S was slightly clever 20 years ago when someone first did it. The connotation is that Microsoft wants to make money, which apparently is counter to how most businesses operate.

[J T]

In the field of psychology, there is a term called cognitive dissonance. The basic idea is that if we invest a lot into something it creates a feeling of 'dissonance' in our mind when anything threatens the idea that investing all of that time/money/energy wasn't really a good idea. Anytime we are presented with two contradictory ideas like that and experience this cognitive dissonance, we shuffle around our beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors to try to maintain some kind of self consistency and alleviate the feeling of dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance is the basis upon which the fanboy is born.

When a regular boy invests a lot of money into a new videogame system, like an Xbox 360, and then also spends a lot of time on the games of that system, that boy is suddenly in grave danger of ceasing to be a regular boy and becoming a fanboy. As a once intelligent person, he spent some time researching which gaming console to buy-- closely examing the system processing capabilities and weighing the value of that against the available console's game library and cost of purchase. After finally deciding to purchase his X-box 360, the idea that he should have bought a PS3 instead eats away at him and torments his fragile, unstable mind. He must force himself to believe that the PS3 is bad and that the 360 is even better than it actually is. This puts his mind at rest until others challenge him. He begins to take offense to people that tell him the PS3 is better and he will argue that XBox 360 is the superior system by pointing out the limitations of the PS3. In so doing, he is investing even more time and energy into his 360 beliefs and they become more deeply entrenched. His brain twists and sputters to make sense of his world. Certain ideas have to be shut out. Information has to be ignored. The fanboyism virus has sunk its teeth deeply in and it is munching up his neural fields like grazing cattle. Vast swaths of intellect are destroyed and replaced with an unidentifiable source of frustration and misdirected anger. "Either you are with X-box 360 or you are against it" he thinks to himself. At this point, the fanboy victim has lost so many brain cells, that even evoking George Bush Jr. seems like a good idea. As further mental degradation takes place, the fanboy not only gets upset at people that dislike the X-Box 360, but he believes anyone that even remotely likes Metal Gear Solid 4 is a raging cunt. Soon he will defend any and all actions by Microsoft no matter how ridiculous, he may even buy a Zune, and much to his surprise, he may even be subject to some inexplicable dreams about Bill Gates that end with nocturnal emissions. Unfortunately, it only gets worse for our poor fanboy. The efforts required to alleviate his cognitive dissonance are so drastic that his brain will have to shut down his frontal cortex entirely until he suddenly finds himself in front of his computer typing out with one finger phrases such as "FUCK PS3! PS3 STANDS 4 PEACE OF SHIT 3@! UR A FAG IF U LIK IT! XBOXS360 IS TEH BEST GAMES OF THE HOLE WORLD IN ALL TIME!" Such is the sad fate of the fanboy.

Please, if you suspect you or someone you know may have contracted the fanboyism virus, please contact a professional for help.

[ZeroAX]

I actually started this topic, more to talk about the ads in a subscription based service, and the fact that some people are actually defending it (you don't have to stop using the service ofc, but jeez just accept that it is kind of a rip-off for them to make more money in you expense, and not at least dropping the price of the subscription), but I guess we'll talk about fanboys now




also GIZMONDO RULZ YOU ALL NOOBZ

[Luke]

JT, I see where you are coming from, but there is a difference between cognitive dissonance and just being a plain idiot. This kind of picks up where I left off saying that most people have a different definition of a fanboy.
People who wait in line for hours to spend 10 seconds with an celebrity, and cherish and proudly display the autograph/picture they got is a fanboy to me.

(I'll never understand this. I admit I have a few autographed hockey sticks and jerseys, but I would never put them in my office. My boss has an autograph picture with Eric Cole of the Hurricanes, and I always think, "Do you think Cole would ever put your picture on his desk and think people would be impressed?")

Most of the people you guys are talking about just sound like douche nozzles. When I think about a fanboy, I can't help but think of die hard Marvel comic fans. I love me some 90's marvel. Peter David's writing, Romita Jr. taking leaps and bounds in talent, and who doesn't love Infinity Gauntlet. But some people just won't admit it, marvel made, and still makes shitty comics. Plus, they make, shitty movies (wait to you see KICK ASS, it is God awful).

[Octopod]

but I never use the M$. I only used it on this topic, be cause really Microsoft is freaking pushing it. either make the service free (like everyone else) and put ads in it to support it, or subscription and no ads.

Doesn't matter. The $ instead of an S was slightly clever 20 years ago when someone first did it. The connotation is that Microsoft wants to make money, which apparently is counter to how most businesses operate.

It was already stupid when it was compu$erve.

[Ack]

So, I bought a new $ony Play$tation the other day. Yeah, uh huh. It was absolutely amazing, what with it's sweet graphics and all. Blows everything away. Way better than that Micro$oft machine. Oh man, and yesterday, some dude was totally selling a $ega Dreamca$t along with a $aturn. I also thought about picking up a $NE$, but didn't have the cash on hand. It could have sat next to my Atari VC$.

At this point, the fanboy victim has lost so many brain cells, that even evoking George Bush Jr. seems like a good idea.

A wise Latina would buy a Wii.

[Jrecee]

On the topic of M$, I have more respect for Bill Gates and what he's done and what he has set out to do using his money and influence, then I do for 99% of the leaders of giant corporations.

Then again, so many companies start out with a man with a vision, and after that man is gone, they become greed obsessed monopolies (see Disney)