Being Tagged as a "Fanboy".

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

Jesus Christ shut the hell up.
You have seriously got to be the most annoying thing in the world. You have no points behind ANYTHING you say. You act as if everything you say is automatically true and you, being the dumbass you are, would have us beleive that you're an AI yet you argue moot points with anyone and everyone. Grow up Senior Assclown.

That's it. Where's Haliwali. It's time to bring this mother down.

Did it honestly come across as me attempting to communicate any serious message? I must apologise, then, for the confusion. I in no way attempt to back up my claims because I feel in no way compelled to assert them as being either my opinion or truth.

EDIT:

For my own amusement, I must comment.

My dear, there is nothing artificial about my intelligence. A situation quite unlike your own, it would seem.

 

[shadow skill]

Meh fanboy is like troll, it does not really have a meaning persay but is used usually to simply ignore someone. It's also alot like playing the victim or claiming someone is bullying you just because you are unable to deal with something they say. It's just one of many tactics for idiots to use, nothing more nothing less. If one is going to point out that someone is being fanatical about a game or anything else he or she will be better served by using terminology that has a genuine meaning.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

What i am trying to say is this.
Gaming is becoming like music especially rock. If you like something popular you aren't a true gamer same with music, you like a mainstream band and not some unknown underground crappy band you aint a true rocker.

great post cept for that analogy. the only reason being that with the music industry they HAVE gone downhill, not saying the gaming industry hasn't had a few bad spots. the amount of crap that is spewed forth by the music industry is ridiculous or the fact that bands often get forced by producers to make hits instead of actual good music, granted game companies do this as well but more often than not they do give an "up your's to creating the samething"

ok to pull some real world and mainstream examples

1 tool - they still have the same sound as they did when they started but they don't make the same songs
2 nickleback - they could have been different and listened to a producer and now have several songs that are the same just minor differences in the chords being played, such as pitch being changed
3 rage against the machine - first album was REALLY good to the point of revolutionary, everything after that except renegades sounds the same, i could take a few songs and use lyrics from another song and they are a perfect fit. they band itself broke up because the band wanted to do something different, zack wanted to keep the same sound

but unfortunately here on the internet calling someone a fanboy is an easy and quick out to insult someone because as the saying going "you got nothing". when getting in a discussion/argument with someone if they start calling you names, it's simple you've won it.

most fanboys don't know what they're doing or talking about. as was said before it's much like a religion where they don't know their own holy book as well as they think such as most bible thumpers.

i sat down with one halo fanboy who was telling me how awesome and revolutionary, so i asked him what was so revolutionary and great about it. the discussion went something like this

me: what's so unique and revolutionary about halo?
fanboy: well it's got all these vehicles in it
me: oh you mean like tribes did 5 years before that?
fanboy: well you can play and chat online with friends
me: oh like quake world with teamspeak 6 years before that?
fanboy: legendary mode, totally kicks ass
me: oh you mean like nightmare mode in doom 10 years before that?
fanboy: wel it's got a kick ass story where you really get behind the character
me: you mean like final fantasy or a whole host of other games with great stories?
fanboy: well there's xbox live
me: oh you mean like gamespy?

but it is true if you start to defend something, you run the risk of being called a fanboy. once someone does tho, you've basically won the arugement. so either laugh and walk away or just start having fun with them and watch how mad they get and laugh at them for getting their panties in a bunch.

 

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

You people are getting far to close to my user name and it angers me!

"Ha-ha, I was just pretending to be a crap_hat all along!"

There! There is your anger, peon! Squirm in angry anger! Futile angry anger!

 

[Easykill]

There is a line between comedy and assery, and you have crossed it. Go away. The only thing you have to contribute is your picture, which I fully intend to steal eventually. I didn't actually mind the other thread, because you weren't ruining something already in place to satisfy your.... whatever it is you're trying to satisfy by doing this.

 

[Parallel Streaks]

Hmm, for some reason I am reminded of Darth Sidius saying "Good, let the hate flow through you". How about we all take a chill-pill, have a Cola, and have a nice little chat. A Pow-Wow, if you will. Looks like Parallel Streaks has decided to stop feeling superior for no reason and actually comment on something other than his own cods-wallop thread. I am not going to confront you General, because for the most part I don't take the comments of a person I don't know to heart. I am however going to weigh in my opinion on Fanboyism.

I find that there are several degrees of Fanboys, there are the pleasant ones who stick with a series till the end, and the Zealot ones that seem to think that the game is a Golden Tablet from the vaults of Xerxes (Thank you, Yahtzee). I think that your report is quite informative and eye opening, but is just sort of reminding us of Fanboyism, sort of like the large pile of unwashed dishes congealing in my sink. In my opinion we're always going to have Fanboys as long as they have something to worship and Anti-Fanboys as long as the Games are there for the Fanboys to worship. There's one common denominator, games, and I doubt any of us would like to dispose of them, so we'll just have to put up with it until Zealotry Fanboys are rounded up and hung by the neck from some lamp-posts.

 

[Parallel Streaks]

Hmm, for some reason I am reminded of Darth Sidius saying "Good, let the hate flow through you". How about we all take a chill-pill, have a Cola, and have a nice little chat. A Pow-Wow, if you will. Looks like Parallel Streaks has decided to stop feeling superior for no reason and actually comment on something other than his own cods-wallop thread. I am not going to confront you General, because for the most part I don't take the comments of a person I don't know to heart. I am however going to weigh in my opinion on Fanboyism.

I find that there are several degrees of Fanboys, there are the pleasant ones who stick with a series till the end, and the Zealot ones that seem to think that the game is a Golden Tablet from the vaults of Xerxes (Thank you, Yahtzee). I think that your report is quite informative and eye opening, but is just sort of reminding us of Fanboyism, sort of like the large pile of unwashed dishes congealing in my sink. In my opinion we're always going to have Fanboys as long as they have something to worship and Anti-Fanboys as long as the Games are there for the Fanboys to worship. There's one common denominator, games, and I doubt any of us would like to dispose of them, so we'll just have to put up with it until Zealotry Fanboys are rounded up and hung by the neck from some lamp-posts.

 

[Melty Blood]

Hmm, for some reason I am reminded of Darth Sidius saying "Good, let the hate flow through you". How about we all take a chill-pill, have a Cola, and have a nice little chat. A Pow-Wow, if you will. Looks like Parallel Streaks has decided to stop feeling superior for no reason and actually comment on something other than his own cods-wallop thread. I am not going to confront you General, because for the most part I don't take the comments of a person I don't know to heart. I am however going to weigh in my opinion on Fanboyism.

I find that there are several degrees of Fanboys, there are the pleasant ones who stick with a series till the end, and the Zealot ones that seem to think that the game is a Golden Tablet from the vaults of Xerxes (Thank you, Yahtzee). I think that your report is quite informative and eye opening, but is just sort of reminding us of Fanboyism, sort of like the large pile of unwashed dishes congealing in my sink. In my opinion we're always going to have Fanboys as long as they have something to worship and Anti-Fanboys as long as the Games are there for the Fanboys to worship. There's one common denominator, games, and I doubt any of us would like to dispose of them, so we'll just have to put up with it until Zealotry Fanboys are rounded up and hung by the neck from some lamp-posts.

PARRALLEL STREAKS uses CALM POST OF REASON! It's super effective!

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

It's strange to read this thread because I come from the culture of fanGIRL, which appears to be different in that "fangirl" is a label cheerfully self-applied by the fangirls in question. I think all a female media consumer needs in order to qualify as a fangirl is the willingness to unironically SQUEE! over one's fandom object. There are derogatory modifiers, of course. Being a fangirl is fine, being a batshit fangirl will inevitably lead to being mockity mockity mocked. Maybe this has a bit to do with the fact that female-created fandoms tend to be more cooperative than competitive, though fandom factions can compete quite viciously at times with each other.

Is that the difference, maybe? That fanboys are essentially isolated types in individual competition with each other for status, while fangirls are inherently social, seeking out one another not for combat but to establish a properly resonant SQUEE! feedback loop?

By the way, I have no idea what's up with General Electric, but that's where my Too Old For This Bullshit feat comes in - it adds +10 to my defense against trolls and negates the Compulsive Quarreling effect.

 

[clouddyl]

so, im confused, whats the defenition of a fanboy?

 

[Spakkenkhrist]

so, im confused, whats the defenition of a fanboy?

Somebody who has qualified for a postnatal abortion on the grounds of being an insipid little s**t.

 

[Spakkenkhrist]

OK maybe I was a little harsh.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

It's strange to read this thread because I come from the culture of fanGIRL, which appears to be different in that "fangirl" is a label cheerfully self-applied by the fangirls in question. I think all a female media consumer needs in order to qualify as a fangirl is the willingness to unironically SQUEE! over one's fandom object. There are derogatory modifiers, of course. Being a fangirl is fine, being a batshit fangirl will inevitably lead to being mockity mockity mocked. Maybe this has a bit to do with the fact that female-created fandoms tend to be more cooperative than competitive, though fandom factions can compete quite viciously at times with each other.

Is that the difference, maybe? That fanboys are essentially isolated types in individual competition with each other for status, while fangirls are inherently social, seeking out one another not for combat but to establish a properly resonant SQUEE! feedback loop?

you know i could write a nice long diatribe on what is wrong with that whole post but i won't, cause i really don't want to flame and i couldn't figure out a nice way to say it without being overly harsh

so i'll just say this

the only difference between fanGRIL and fangirl is their ascii values. a fangirl and a fanboy are the samething, the only difference is one has an innie the other an outtie

you can't really call a girl a fanboy, much like a female police officer is a policewoman not a policeman or a female news anchor is an anchorwoman and not an achorman

 

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

you can't really call a girl a fanboy, much like a female police officer is a policewoman not a policeman or a female news anchor is an anchorwoman and not an achorman

I could say how absurd that is; and how it's clearly a sign that women intend to take over the world and subjugate the male race. It seems from this thread, however, that you'd actually take me seriously if I did.

 

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

You could say say how absurd it is, and all that jive, but it won't change the fact that you're a cu- Nevermind.

A cunning fox?

Why, yes I am.

Thanks for the compliment.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I could say how absurd that is; and how it's clearly a sign that women intend to take over the world and subjugate the male race. It seems from this thread, however, that you'd actually take me seriously if I did.

yes but the thing is there are a ton of young girls, that think like she does. like if i had a dime for every girl i came across that said "i'm a good person i think happy thoughts and good things all the time", i could actually do something useful with that money to actually do some good in the world unlike their good thoughts.

it's a case of because you think one thing doesn't make it true or as baby bear says it's a whole pile of truthiness and frankly the world has too much of that right now and too many ppl think truthiness

like if the klu klux klax changed their name to the "super happy fun joy joy club" it wouldn't change the fact they are still a bunch of racist biggots.

 

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

like if the klu klux klax changed their name to the "super happy fun joy joy club" it wouldn't change the fact they are still a bunch of racist biggots.

Correction, they were racist bigots.

Currently they're myopic and uninspired. Why stop with race? Why not cleanse all of humanity? See, eugenics fails if you don't implement it on a vast enough scale.