Fake fans and your opinion on them

[Cherry Cola]

All the twats who support Manchester United that I know. Because we all live in London, you only like them because they are good, you have never been to a game, and you probably never will.

A.K.A. my brother.

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

Funny how I get too many guys telling me how they like the game, blah blah blah....and then don't tell me the plot, just go for the kicker..

"I beat the game in two days, man, tops"

For like an RPG. I'll ask them what they thought was their favorite part of the plot, and they continue to ramble on with how fast they beat the game.

But then again most guys try to 'beat' my score every time. Hell, usually this happens when I first get the game, no matter how new it is, somebody comes up to me and says they beat it. I don't care! I really don't! I go for the storyline anyway >.>

 

[willard3]

Little kids who claim they're all-around gamers and love all types of games.

"ever played a final fantasy?"
"yeah, 12, and they lied, it's not a 3rd person shooter"
"...ever played anything that's been out for 10+ years?"
"my first game was halo"
"..."

 

[Eldarion]

Okay, so the other day me and a few mates were at my house for a party, and one of the other guys there was talking to us about a game that all of us loved and kenw practically everything about, so we were talking and telling him what we knew and asking for his opinion, but all the while he had a look on his face that just told you he was overwhelmed, i should say, and frankly he was
so then, afterwards, after a solid twenty minutes of talking, we decided to play the game and see how good he was at it, how he played, etc.
only after we started up the game and handed him the controller, he was lost horribly, and it became obvious that he didnt know shite about the game
so yeah, that pretty well soiled our good time, for all of three minutes...

so the point of all this is, have you ever met anyone like this? that pretends to know about some game/music/movie/etc. when they really dont? and if you have then what do you think of them?
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So let me get this strait. He isn't a real fan because he isn't as good at it as you?

A fan is anyone who enjoys a game. An elitist douchbag is someone who judges people solely on how uber leet they are. Which one do you thing you end up being?

 

[Rancid0ffspring]

Greenday fans... the screamy little girls you know, the ones that started listening about the time American Idiot came out!!!
Dookie, Nimrod, Kerplunk, Insominiac... That was what got me into punk & I'm almost ashamed to see how far Greenday have fallen... pft sellouts :/

 

[mikecoulter]

They're just desperate for social interaction.

 

[SantoUno]

You can tell a "fake" fan, because they seem to know everything about a bands history, except for the lyrics to any of their songs.

Who says you need to know the lyrics to be a real fan? I never read the lyrics to the music I listen to unless it's a song I always listen to.

I know a guy who thinks he's a hardcore 'metal head'(mostly because he owns Brutal Legend, idiot), and says that Ozzy Osborne is his favorite singer of all time. One day we were talking about music and I asked him to name 5 Ozzy songs. He replied "Well, you know, I don't really pay attention to the names."

I also hate Fallout fans who only like Fallout 3. Fucking imbeciles.

Definitely this, if there is anything that I hate more than music posers is music posers who got their music from GH/RB or Brutal Legend as if those games know what real metal is.

 

[Asehujiko]

I also hate Fallout fans who only like Fallout 3. Fucking imbeciles.

I thought FO1 was a buggy mess when it came out and thus i ignored FO2, is it really that awesome to warrant the bashing of everybody who didn't play it? If so, why is it only considered a classic by those who though FO1 was the epitome of turn based rpgs and not by anybody else? And why didn't any of it's vocal defenders care for them BEFORE it was announced that the third game would be a different genre? Isn't this just a case of rose colored nostalgia vision kicking up?

Back on topic: "Warcraft" fans who don't know who Grom Hellscream is.

 

[Axolotl]

Grinding? Ehh...
I'll try, but I doubt I'll get too far.

Find an online guide. Go to an endgame area. Get endgame gear. Return to the start and be in a position to win mst fights. Although in Fallout 2 if you're willing to run from most random encounters there reallly isn't much combat in the early game except for the temple of trials.

 

[Sethzard]

why waste your time on hate, if you are a fan, then just tie them down and force them to play/listen to/watch until they are.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

I've met alot of Fake Movie Fans, like i'd be talking to them about a movie and I'll mention a really specific and signifigant event and they'll have no Idea what im talking about.

 

[Axolotl]

I thought FO1 was a buggy mess when it came out and thus i ignored FO2,

You're loss but Fallout 1 wasn't that buggy and even if it was it's not reason to not play it now.

is it really that awesome to warrant the bashing of everybody who didn't play it?

It is, well it is if the person in question is claiming to be a hardcore RPG fan or if they claim to be a Fallout fan.

If so, why is it only considered a classic by those who though FO1 was the epitome of turn based rpgs and not by anybody else?

Because people who don't play western turn-based RPGs generally haven't played Fallout 1 or 2.

And why didn't any of it's vocal defenders care for them BEFORE it was announced that the third game would be a different genre?

They did care it's just that people didn't bring them up as better games than Fallout 3 when there was no Falloiut 3 because they didn't know anytring about Fallout 3.

Isn't this just a case of rose colored nostalgia vision kicking up?

Not really, most people who talk about Fallout 1 and 2 being great still play them. Hell I only played 2 after 3 and I found it vastly superior.

 

[martin's a madman]

Well, as long as someone expresses a genuine interest in something then they can't be less of a fan than someone else. I mean, I have encountered people who do pretend to know things about music and films, etc, but then again that's just a natural response for people with a certain type of "Must make people think I know a lot" Sort of personality.

 

[Quantana]

well i do that sometimes but only when I'm talking to a really hot girl and I'm drunk.

 

[super_mumbles]

I seem to remember talking to someone about Final Fantasy after they said it was an "epic franshise".

I asked them which games they'd played and got the response:
"Ten and twelve. I haven't played the one's before them because they're old and look like shit, so they're probably not worth playing"

Ohhh! I hope you punished him. It's a bit depressing how much people rely on graphics for fun.

He back-tracked a bit and said he'd played Dirge of Cerberus so he knew a bit about Final Fantasy 7.

We quickly moved on to talking about something else

 

[KhakiHat]

I once walked up to an American who was wearing a David Beckham LA Galaxy strip. He happened to be discussing his love of David Beckham and his stats. So I asked him to explain the offside rule. From the dumb look he gave me, I thought his brain had exploded.

For some strange reason, this makes me think of the final scene of "Bend it Like Beckham". I really don't know why...

This also reminds me of a time when I talked to a 'fake' gun nut about his weapons collection. I cant say I know much about guns, but what I do know is that havening a silencer is illegal in CA, where we both lived. I some how convinced him that a police officer was with him and shown him how to use said silencer on a M-16, of which had its ban lifted a few scant weeks before. So he went off on how this kind police officer, looking out for the future safety of his nation, shown the kid how to fight off terrorists with a silenced M-16.

Nobody talked to him or his family after that outing. Turns out his mother was a habitual liar and tried to convince an Army Apache mechanic that she her self was a combat mechanic in the very same unit as he, only that she had to serve in Germany while his entire unit was in Vietnam.

God I miss the Civil Air Patrol.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

All the time, usually with some of the more mainstream titles though. Couple of my mates considered themselves pretty hardcore Metal Gear fans, but when I asked them if they'd ever played Metal Gear on NES or MSX they actually had to go google it cause they thought I was taking the piss. But I do pride myself on an encyclopedic knowledge of MG!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Live and let live I say. They're just trying to fit in.

 

[ribonuge]

To be honest it isn't exactly a test as to whether or not you're an encyclopedia on a band you enjoy. If you like what you hear, that should be enough. If you have never EVER heard the band - then there's an issue.

 

[hotacidbath]

I remember a guy I went to high school with who kept switching between baseball teams. If the Cubs did good one week then he was a Cubs fan and talked about having been one his whole life. If the Cardinals did good the next week then he was a die hard Cardinals fan and always would be. Liking more than one team is fine, but obviously switching back and forth between two rival teams like that was just stupid and he got called out on it very quickly. The worst part was that no one would ever say anything about baseball, he would just bring it up to whoever was in earshot of him. I also remember when the White Sox won the World Series and suddenly everyone was a Sox fan just because we were in Illinois. News flash, if you didn't give a shit about the team before then you're not required to care just because they had a good year. Fair weather fans piss me off.