The worst fanbases

[pakopako]

LOUD NOISES!

Eh, any crowd really. The bigger the pool, the more crap you find in it.

[hashiriya1]

Chevrolet (GM in general) fanboys. They think the Corvette is the most badass machine ever built by man. They also just lie in wait to pounce on any opportunity to tear down another car. They feel they get extra points for insulting foreign makes. Sometimes it gets to the point of being borderline racist. I've got nothing against GM's halo car, but there are some other great cars out there that cannot be ignored.

Whenever a foreign brand or even a Ford or Chrysler is recalled, GM fanboys are the first ones to point and laugh. If a GM product is recalled or defective they have a whole cache of excuses they recycle over and over again. From blaming Obama to the fact that a lot of GM parts are foreign-made. Autoblog's comment section is infected with these imbeciles.

[flamepanther]

If a GM product is recalled or defective...

...which is frequently

[Xeogred]

Star Wars - Most nit-picky, most biting of "the hand that feeds you," and for missing the entire point of the movies in the first place.

Please elaborate on this.

I still consider the OT my all time favorite movies, I'm definitely not challenging you here though or gonna bite your head off, haha. Kind of curious where you're getting at here though, fans over-analyzing the movies or something? Oh hey that makes me think of something! ...

Evangelion - HORRIBLE fanbase. It's not the "beginning and end of all anime" to me or anything insane like that, but it's a decent show I think. But, wowzers. Over analyzing much sometimes people? Whoooooo, lol.

FF7 is a good one too. Again, I love the game, but wow. And I definitely don't think it's needed any of the sequels, spinoffs, movies, essentially becoming its own franchise within itself, but the original game... is good stuff in my book. Not the best, not the worst. That's that.

The casual Halo/CoD players. Nuff' said.

[CFFJR]

I can't handle the Call of Duty diehards. What an obnoxious bunch.

One guy once asked me how I can call myself a gamer if I don't play Call of Duty. I told him he didn't know shit.

His entire "collection" (his word, not mine) consisted of 4 or 5 years worth of COD, and a couple of EA sports games. With that, he was proudly declaring himself a hardcore gamer. Ok then.

[J T]

Retro gamers. Terrible bunch.

[CFFJR]

Retro gamers. Terrible bunch.

Oh yeah, totally agree. What a bunch of fuckin' snobs.

[Runefaust]

Square Enix fanboys... the ones that stand by any game or product, regardless how bad it is, just because the Sqex logo is slapped on it.

[flamepanther]

Star Wars - Most nit-picky, most biting of "the hand that feeds you," and for missing the entire point of the movies in the first place.

Please elaborate on this.

I still consider the OT my all time favorite movies, I'm definitely not challenging you here though or gonna bite your head off, haha. Kind of curious where you're getting at here though, fans over-analyzing the movies or something? Oh hey that makes me think of something! ...

Aww crap. This one's going to be a TLDR, everyone. Sorry in advance.


Let me preface this by stating that I love all six Star Wars movies, especially the original trilogy. That said, none of them were meant to be more than fun pulp adventure (which is why "hard" sci-fi fans often hate seeing it lumped in the "science fiction genre), with all the cheese that naturally comes along with that genre. Lucas himself has said that it was a nostalgic love letter to the pulp adventure movies he grew up with, especially space operas like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. It's meant to be good popcorn fun, that's what all six movies are, and that's the keystone to everything I'm about to say.

Most nitpicky: Get some Star Wars fans together on the Internet anywhere besides a dedicated Star Wars forum, bring up Star Wars--especially the prequels, and suddenly all they want to do is bitch. Oh, the prequels weren't cast right. The pod race is too long. It contradicts the books. Somewhere between the lines in conversation XYZ there might possibly be a hint of a suggestion of an implied continuity error. Anakin shouldn't build C-3PO. They didn't use enough puppets. They complain about cheesy dialogue, and pretend the lines in the originals weren't just as bad--they most certainly were, laser brain. Goddammit guys, if that's the mentality you're going to bring to watch a campy space adventure, of course you're going to hate the prequels! Just shut up and enjoy it for what it is already. I've seen hardcore SW fanboys even joke amongst themselves that anyone else would think they hate Star Wars. It's a wonder that they don't.

Biting the hand: Star Wars fans hate George Lucas. I can't think of any other group that I've seen relentlessly bash and insult the mastermind behind the object of their fandom like that. "He's a hack! He's lost his talent! He made the originals good by accident!" They wouldn't have Star Wars without Lucas. Lucas knows better than anyone what Star Wars should be like, because it's his! If it didn't turn out to be what you thought you wanted, go be a fan of something else. But no, we're all going to stick around and look the gift horse in the mouth. It's well known that Lucas has never considered any of the films to be finished, and that he has re-edited every single one of the films every single time it has been released. Fans know this, but they act as though Lucas suddenly became a "revisionist" sometime in the 1990s, and they claim he has no right to do it. It is one thing to complain about the films, but personal attacks against their creator defines a sort of low that should shame all fandoms everywhere to see it.

These first two issues, I think, are directly related to two separate factors. One is simply the worst ever case of rose-colored-glasses. All six films are written in more or less the same campy pulp space opera style, including absurdly cheesy dialogue and entirely improbable plot twists. The originals might have pulled them off slightly better, but only because Lucas lucked into some amazing undiscovered actors--and Mark Hamil hadn't even become an amazing actor yet. "Oh, but Luke was never a whining, stiffly-acted, obnoxious emo bitch like Anakin!" Dude, I thought you actually watched "A New Hope" at some point. Listen to Luke whine and snivel about those power converters! Training aboard the Millennium Falcon? "Whine whine blast sheild, moan whine!" Yeah. And Anakin's tearful, screaming, lunatic "I HATE YOU" rant in episode III as Obi-Wan chops his limbs off? A perfect counterpart to Luke's "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!" and "I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU!!!!!!!" You don't see it? "Nope, I've got my nostalgia blinkers on. The originals were perfect. --but only before the Special Editions. --and except for the Ewoks." Yeah.

The other contributing factor, I think, is the enormous Expanded Universe. Some of the stuff is quite good, some of it not so much, but by and large it is as Lucas once said, a different Star Wars. While the films are all a fun pulp adventure, the Expanded Universe material often tries to put a more serious spin on things, writing histories so detailed and vast that Tolkien's head would spin, and just generally putting way too much thought into things. However, this take was the only new content Star Wars fans had for many years. The industrial strength rose glasses combined with prolonged exposure to the much more dry, much more serious Expanded Universe to cause my third, final, and largest complaint against the general Star Wars fandom, and the one that brings the other two into focus...

Missing the damn point: Too many Star Wars fans have brainwashed themselves into believing that the original trilogy was supposed to be "serious." It wasn't. Watch any of the six films without rose glasses and without the books and RPGs in your head, and you'll plainly see that. But these guys don't get it. They want Star Wars to be some other thing that isn't really Star Wars, and wonder why Lucas can't get it right. They go in to the prequels expecting War and Peace, or Dune, or at least The Wrath of Khan, when what they went to see was fucking Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe--and then they wonder how things went so horribly wrong! Most epic fandom fail ever, folks. That's all I've got. Good night.

Evangelion - HORRIBLE fanbase. It's not the "beginning and end of all anime" to me or anything insane like that, but it's a decent show I think. But, wowzers. Over analyzing much sometimes people? Whoooooo, lol.

Well, when the director makes a show that is a confusing story about depression, psychology, and mental illness, wraps it in a bizarre theme of Christian occult mixed with Kabbalah and Babylonian mythology, then disguises the whole thing as a robot/mecha show when there are no actual robots... I guess these little misunderstandings are bound to happen.

[Ack]

As a Star Wars fan, I must admit he's right. That's why I like to keep that campy ridiculousness going by playing things like the Star Wars tabletop RPG, in which I once had a Wookie and Gamorrean projectile vomiting out the back of a floating taxi.

Ah, memories.

How do you feel about Trekkies?