Most hated type of fan
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the obsessive kind where just cos they think they think the game was good they should be the comic, action figure and posters
Inclined to agree with you here, OP. It really gets to me when people refuse to credit the effort that goes into a game unless it has some massive, unique hooks. The quality of these hooks is irrelevant, thus explaining the mystifying popularity of Mirror's Edge and the like. The Innovator can usually be grouped with The Hypocrite, who will call out certain games for lacking innovation to try and appear 'cool' and 'edgy', ie the people who bitched about Nintendo falling back on established franchises at this year's E3 while praising impossibly unoriginal stuff like Fallout New Vegas and Killzone.EBHughsThe1st said:
Honestly, if a game's solidly constructed and the basics are there, I don't care that it doesn't have a billion innovations. Innovation is vastly overrated and only rarely succeeds, and I'd much rather play Gears of War, which is refined and solid, than Mirror's Edge, say, which is innovative but, as a game, complete shite.
The ones that tend to think anyone playing to win or playing competitively can't have fun or just generalising to think that all people in this specific gaming style is some raging idiot. Also, anyone that defends a developer to death even when there are glaring flaws and just denies them outright.
Man I used to live with one of those. Did it piss me off? Fuck yes.Tallim said:
It was actually worse if we had happend to start playing the same game around the same time which he liked... THEN I wouldn't hear the end of it, and after all his rambling on I just couldn't be arsed to play the damn game.
Seriously, dude it's 3AM, I JUST got in and I am pissed out of my mind and you came running down the stairs to talk to me about fallout3?
Thats not how you proove your a bigger fan. To prove your the bigger fan is to throw the most money at! collectibles posters figuruines everything lol that proves love. Just being sarcastic but i tend to buy alota crap for the games i like.FargoDog said:
as for me the Snooty type they tend to be Valve and Bioware fanboys.
Metal fans.
They are everywhere on the Internet, like roaches in a Wendy's. All of them take Metal very, very seriously and very, very personally. They ***** and fight over the stupidest possible facets of their object of affection, like which of the thousand meaningless, identical sub-sub-genres of Metal a particular band, album, or even song fall into, and they do so under the impression that it matters even the tiniest little bit or has some bearing on the quality of the music. They often obsess over tiny details that only exist in their minds and argue for pages on end with other Metalheads about: whether one single lyric is a betrayal of a band's entire body of work, all their fans, and Metal as a whole; whether or not a band, album, or song is as 'brutal' as another, and what in Christ this actually means (spoiler: not a God damned thing); and, most commonly, and best of all, who among the shambling horde may bear the exalted title of 'true' fan, and is therefore subject to all the privileges that entails, such as wearing the same shirt for an entire week, talking at wearisome (meaning 'any') length about why their favorite band sucks so totally much now, or failing to get laid by telling a big girl with a spiked bracelet how they once met an apparent strung-out hobo urinating behind a Denny's who turned out to be this one band's lead singer.
What's greatest about the Metal fandom, though, is that they manage to be both so vehemently factious and yet so insular. I've never understood if Metal fans chose to wall themselves off into their own musical ghetto, or if all non-fans wisely chose to disassociate themselves from the braying herd, but there is very little interplay between fans and non-fans. If die-hard Metal fans have any affection at all for any other types of music they rarely or never seem inclined to mention it- it's possible that hearing anything insufficiently 'brutal' is physically deleterious- and non-fans are rarely impelled to express any love for the genre, classic work that could never pass for Metal today notwithstanding. I get the impression that Metal fans are, at least, not bothered by this, and I can speak for the rest of us when I say we're rather fond of the arrangement. So thank Heaven for that, at least.
Why, on this very forum the afflicted find it necessary every few days to troll themselves by asking, with an almost charming incredulity, why no one likes Metal (or, even more adorably, why no one likes a particular kind of Metal), why Metal should be used more in media, or what your favorite genre of Metal is- which is frankly a good question, since I honestly wouldn't be able to answer that even at gunpoint. I imagine nothing good comes from any of these topics, the only possible respondents being: those with no opinions, who by definition can add nothing to the topic; non-fans, who will not be able to express an opinion without causing serious personal offense; and other Metal fans, who will inevitably prove incapable of maintaining any pretense of civility, and will either foment disagreement just for the sight of it, or quickly reach it with the natural ease innate to the fandom.
Now tell me that's just my opinion like it means something.
They are everywhere on the Internet, like roaches in a Wendy's. All of them take Metal very, very seriously and very, very personally. They ***** and fight over the stupidest possible facets of their object of affection, like which of the thousand meaningless, identical sub-sub-genres of Metal a particular band, album, or even song fall into, and they do so under the impression that it matters even the tiniest little bit or has some bearing on the quality of the music. They often obsess over tiny details that only exist in their minds and argue for pages on end with other Metalheads about: whether one single lyric is a betrayal of a band's entire body of work, all their fans, and Metal as a whole; whether or not a band, album, or song is as 'brutal' as another, and what in Christ this actually means (spoiler: not a God damned thing); and, most commonly, and best of all, who among the shambling horde may bear the exalted title of 'true' fan, and is therefore subject to all the privileges that entails, such as wearing the same shirt for an entire week, talking at wearisome (meaning 'any') length about why their favorite band sucks so totally much now, or failing to get laid by telling a big girl with a spiked bracelet how they once met an apparent strung-out hobo urinating behind a Denny's who turned out to be this one band's lead singer.
What's greatest about the Metal fandom, though, is that they manage to be both so vehemently factious and yet so insular. I've never understood if Metal fans chose to wall themselves off into their own musical ghetto, or if all non-fans wisely chose to disassociate themselves from the braying herd, but there is very little interplay between fans and non-fans. If die-hard Metal fans have any affection at all for any other types of music they rarely or never seem inclined to mention it- it's possible that hearing anything insufficiently 'brutal' is physically deleterious- and non-fans are rarely impelled to express any love for the genre, classic work that could never pass for Metal today notwithstanding. I get the impression that Metal fans are, at least, not bothered by this, and I can speak for the rest of us when I say we're rather fond of the arrangement. So thank Heaven for that, at least.
Why, on this very forum the afflicted find it necessary every few days to troll themselves by asking, with an almost charming incredulity, why no one likes Metal (or, even more adorably, why no one likes a particular kind of Metal), why Metal should be used more in media, or what your favorite genre of Metal is- which is frankly a good question, since I honestly wouldn't be able to answer that even at gunpoint. I imagine nothing good comes from any of these topics, the only possible respondents being: those with no opinions, who by definition can add nothing to the topic; non-fans, who will not be able to express an opinion without causing serious personal offense; and other Metal fans, who will inevitably prove incapable of maintaining any pretense of civility, and will either foment disagreement just for the sight of it, or quickly reach it with the natural ease innate to the fandom.
Now tell me that's just my opinion like it means something.
If you ever post anything but praise for the song and artist as a comment on youtube, you get so many thumbs down. I've even received a lot of hateful replies for not thinking some songs were the greatest thing in existence.Furburt said:
Sonic fangirls. If you go to any fanfiction site there is bound to be at least ten SonicxShadow fanfictions. Also the kind of fangirls that flipturnupsidedown the anime/manga to make their little twisted world. And don't even get me started on multifans who do horrible crossovers.
Fans who pair everyone together.
Rule 32, I believe- If it's written, there's a porno of it.
That makes me facepalm- badly.
WHAT BASIS IS THERE FOR THAT RELATIONSHIP, HMM? Oh, you don't know? You just think it's CUTE?!
Sorry, that's always bugged me. It's just a mindless thing to do, in my opinion.
Rule 32, I believe- If it's written, there's a porno of it.
That makes me facepalm- badly.
WHAT BASIS IS THERE FOR THAT RELATIONSHIP, HMM? Oh, you don't know? You just think it's CUTE?!
Sorry, that's always bugged me. It's just a mindless thing to do, in my opinion.
