Define a fanboy

[vasudean]

fanboy-one who's so devoted to their system/game/music/whatever, they get blind-sighted when someone so much as says, "I don't like it". They get up in arms over a harmless comment and end up saying or doing something immoral. Also, they wear their fanboyism proudly and people just want to stay away from them.

Me personally, my favorite company is Nintendo, I grew up with them, but I don't really care if someone doesn't like it, it's your opinion.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

This fanboy thing has come around in the last few years and was started by the fucktards of the recent console generation in the magical ?console war?, all people use it for is to purely discredit somebody in a debate. Too much of it happens on this forum.

i thought it was a derogative term from the comic scene that hit the mainstream lexicon when Kevin Smith used it in either Clerks or Chasing Amy??

Doesn't really explain how it came to be used in the gaming sense.

wasn't really an explanation, just a question. and those movies had mass appeal so videogame players wouldn't be excluded from exposure

 

[the jellyman]

anyone who actually buys those Halo 3 and MGS4 model figures is a fanboy of those respective games, not to mention anyone who can't see that nintendo's releases from now until 2099 will be metroid pokemon zelda mario zelda again sonic mario metroid pokemon etc etc...

 

[Graustein]

A fanboy is someone who has a preference and sticks to that preference for subjective reasons.

Example: I grew up with Nintendo. I'm a Nintendo fan to the extent that even though every single game in any given Nintendo franchise has the exact same premise as every other game in that franchise (Pokemon is "Catch 'em All", Zelda is "Rescue the Princess", Metroid is "wander around shooting anything that moves until you've won"), I'll still buy the next Zelda, Metroid or whatever, and I'm damn well going to like it, which I do. Even if it's pretty much the same old thing, I still find myself enjoying it.

I'm a mild fanboy. I stick with Nintendo more out of familiarity with them than anything else. The other kind of fanboy is the one who takes it to extremes. Such as this guy I know (before I broke off all contact, disgusted) who hates Half-Life because, and I quote: "It's not Nintendo"

He also tried to tell me that the Wii had the best graphics out of the three 7th-gen consoles.

 

[Copter400]

This.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uTnqYHZ-I&feature=related

Frackin' 'ell, that man must be kidding. No-one can be like that in real life, right? Right?

 

[PurpleRain]

This.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uTnqYHZ-I&feature=related

Frackin' 'ell, that man must be kidding. No-one can be like that in real life, right? Right?

That man does a great parody of a fanboy. It's not? Oh dear lord.

 

[Erana]

anyone who actually buys those Halo 3 and MGS4 model figures is a fanboy of those respective games, not to mention anyone who can't see that nintendo's releases from now until 2099 will be metroid pokemon zelda mario zelda again sonic mario metroid pokemon etc etc...

In Japan, there are little plastic figurines that cost aobut one USD, in capsules, so no, models don't make a fanboy.

 

[Pehmu]

I love those fanboys who defend their favourite game by saying "you just didn't understand it" when you tell them how much you disliked their favourite game. It's useless to tell them that you actually understood it very well, but just didn't like it, because they'll just tell you that "because you didn't like it, that's a 100% proof you didn't get it at all".

 

[Erana]

I love those fanboys who defend their favourite game by saying "you just didn't understand it" when you tell them how much you disliked their favourite game. It's useless to tell them that you actually understood it very well, but just didn't like it, because they'll just tell you that "because you didn't like it, that's a 100% proof you didn't get it at all".

Well said.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Reading all of this puts me that much closer to my local religious fanatic. Bless him, he tries so hard.

 

[Hyatari]

Anyone who not only spouts Yahtzee quotes in both online and offline conversation, but also bases their opinions and tastes solely on the result of his review, as though the words of a foul mouthed and foreign intellectual with a nifty hat should have relevance to absolutely anything of world shattering importance.
I adore Yahtzee's reviews, but I still love quite a few of the games he's given an absolute verbal thrashing regardless of what he has to say about them.

 

[Fire Daemon]

This.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uTnqYHZ-I&feature=related

Frackin' 'ell, that man must be kidding. No-one can be like that in real life, right? Right?

That man does a great parody of a fanboy. It's not? Oh dear lord.

Oh my god... I think that guy is for real. *Throws up*

Anyway, that guy is a fanboy but most fanboys are less... insane?

 

[Sylocat]

Very simple. A fanboy is anyone who likes anything I don't happen to like.

 

[T360]

ok i think i can give a good example of what a fanboy is...
I love star wars so dose my best freind and my wife so when the last star wars movie came out we all went to the midnight showing of the movie the night it came out. which is something a fan would do but a fan boy would show up in star trek outfits and heckle the starwars fans which happened.

as far as games go people who just cant see flaws in games or systems.even in my favorite games i can see the flaws. also people who arent willing to change companys in each generation of gameing.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Oddly enough, those seem to be the ten rules of religious extremism as well.

ToMAYto ToMAHto.

 

[klarax]

Fanboyism is a stupid thing. People get all angry just because someone else don't like what they do. How childish.