Other than the obvious of Twilight, Beiber, etc...
Star Wars fans. Never have I met a bunch who hate the creators, themselves, and each other more. Add that to MMO fans and...well...a cesspool of scum and villainy in the TOR forums is hardly surprising.
Final Fantasy fans because of how much they lie to themselves about how good the games were and how they refuse to listen to any criticism toward the games.
Can't decide between Call of Duty, World of Warcraft or Nintendo.
Call of Duty: "YEAH, BEST GAME EVAH!!11!!, AND I LOVE JERSEY SHORE!!!"
World of Warcraft: "Yeah, we hate all other MMOs and we hate Blizzard, but we still keep grinding for that precious phat lewtz"
Nintendo: "WAAHHH, WE HATE WII, GIVE US MORE GAMECUBE, WAHHH!!!", "WAHH, NOT ENOUGH ZELDA/METROID/MARIO, WAHHH!!!", "WAHHH, TOO MUCH ZELDA/METROID/MARIO, WAAHHH!!!", "WAAHHH, WIIU TOO GIMMICKY, GIVE US WII, WAAHHH!!!"
I love Nintendo, but good Lord, I hate their constant whinning.
Honorable mention goes to: Sonic "fans". You know why. Everyone knows why.
I actually made a thread here about how bad the LoL community was a few months ago. Seriously, if I didn't play with IRL friends all the time I would have quit a long time ago.
I don't have any IRL friends playing LoL, and it was hard to make friends, so I went back to Heroes of Newerth. I can't believe I actually like this community better, seeing as it is horrid. But I guess that goes for the entire DotA genre.
Also, those kids who read approximately 100 or so pages of Nietzsche and constantly name-drop them in every single gorram class they attend, no matter the relevance or context. I mean seriously, who name-drops Nietzche in chemistry lab?
Hm, don't know if I would be guilty of this, though I've certainly read more than 100 pages. I do drop a few of his ideas or arguments into conversations about various topics sometimes, but to be fair he is a very diverse and opinionated philosopher, and can really be a good catalyst for an interesting debate. His idea of eternal recurrence (and the various interpretations thereof) can link to ideas such as entropy or the big crunch.
That said, I'm just as likely to bring up another intellectual figure who is more appropriate for the discussion.
If I'm right about the 'type' you're talking about though, it is those who quote some small phrase (probably paraphrased) from a section which has little to do with what you're talking about, and have little knowledge of what Nietzsche actually thought.
To those I'd just quote my Professor who wrote: "To quote Nietzsche is to misunderstand Nietzsche."...hopefully to quote him isn't to misunderstand him, but you get the idea.
I know this is your opinion and all, but still im inclined to disagree with some of your points.
The first Halo was awesome IMO. Its not until the second and third one that they really fucked up and even then it was only in relation to the story, not the gameplay.
Rabid Battlefield fans are just as annoying as rabid Call of Duty fans, much for the same reasons actually.
PC elitists are just as bad as console elitists. Especially those who think that they are automatically superior and that console players are just some dirty peasants that they can just treath however they want.
henritje said:
ANY console fanbase fucking up the internet with EVERY FUCKING GENERATION!
PC fanboys aren't that bad in comparison they can be smug but at least they don,t start flame wars and COD fanboys are just ignorant.
I know some of you are going to say Twilight or Justin Bieber but those are just going to end after this year.
Console fans may whine about which system is better and I agree that that is indeed pointless and annoying but at least they don't have a superiority complex like so many PC elitists I've come across.
EDIT: What I meant to say was in relation to PC fanboys.
These are the fanbases that remind me why "fan" is short for "fanatic"
1) CoD fanboys, even though I am still technically part of that group ( am slowly droppig out of it). The ones I have talked to were acting like Black Ops was the reason for video games being invented and to be honest, it was not better than Modern Warfare.
2)Anime fans. The extreme ones (I believe "otaku" is what they want you to call them because they think that is a complement)
3)Halo fans. I am still in this fanbase which is why they annoy me a lot.
4) Console fanboys. I'm not talking about people who like the console they have, I'm talking about people that believe a game is inherently better because it is on their console (usually as an exclusive).
5)The Star Wars original trilogy fanboys. At least the ones that act like episodes 1-3 didn't happen or that they are pure garbage. (And by extension of this, any "fan" of a 'verse that dismisses parts of the canon because that part sucked.)
6) Can fans of 1 particular shipping pair be counted as a fanbase? Because if so, I have 2 ships that need to be destroyed sunk: Zutara (it was never going to happen, so quit your whining) and Wincest (that is just disturbing, sick, wrong and "wrongsick")
7) The Twilight fans are bad but they are currently being evened out by the Twilight haters. I can't really tell which is worse.
Rossmallo said:
Runescape. Holy FUCK, Runescape. I literally think I am the ONLY person in the ENTIRE fanbase that actually like the developers anymore.
Montreal Canadiens or Vancouver Canucks fans. All you people citing video game fans...I've yet to see a riot over video games (maybe a trampling or two on Black Friday, but nothing like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihAx8WyXS9o&feature=related])
I don't really think sportsmanship had much to do with it. I hear there was a group of people who prepare for events like that and use the the peoples emotions and drunkenness against them to cause riots.
Not sure how much of that I believe but I do know that a large collection of drunken people can be incredibly stupid and will do anything if enough people are cheering.
Funny, I recall telling people something that pretty much amounts to that. "Either they will be in the streets rioting because their team lost or they will be out in the streets partying because their team won. And those 2 things will look exactly the same".
Oh and @DarkRyter : I think you are currently winning this thread.
Edit: @Martintox : thanks for the clarification, I checked urban dictionary real quick before my post and it seemed to agree with what I was saying, so I assumed they were right. Damn, confirmation bias is a pain in the ass.
Hardcore comic book continuity aficionados. Pandering to them has ruined good stories, and their smug level of condescension makes it difficult to see where they're coming from.
That being said, I'm looking forward to the DC reboot. Not having to slog through 100,000 pages of minutia backstory would make superheroes more fun to read about.
Why? Because they continue to get good things from the series but still want more you pretentious bastards.
Seriously, I'm not being joking, okay I am but it does ring a bit of truth to it. CoD fans are mindless shouty 13 year olds, as are most fanbases, but Mass Effect fans just post how wonderful their games are and how well crafted they are, and then want another game to play where all hell could break loose and destroy the perfect well craftedness they love so much. Plus it's by Bioware and they're always being praised for writing. Why can't they be praised for the overall game experience more than their writing?
I don't hate the games and I don't despise the fans, I just thought it'd be an interesting point to make...though I probably fucked that up so feel free to point out what's wrong with my statement[/sarcasm that started after the world 'so']
Call of Duty fanboys annoy me because they think that the seires has always been at the forefront of innovation. But the sad thing is, the seires has always been about ripping off other better seires. Call of Duty 1-3 were obviously rip offs of Medal of Honour, the Modern Warfare mini-seires rips off the Rainbow Six games, and Black Ops rips off (but people insist they are homages) every single war movie ever made.
Twilight fangirls (and rather depressingly, fanboys) are the worst, though. Not only can they not argue their way out of a plastic bag, they drool obsessively over someone who looks really pale for a vampire, they look up to a girl who has been a constant tease to every male character in the entire seires, and worst of all, the thing they are trying to defend is, without doubt, the worst written book, and the worst directed film seires ever made in the history of literature and film.
Say what you want about Harry Potter, at least it was well written and made (up until Book and Film 5, where the books started to resemble scripts, and the films started to resemble Lord of the Rings, in terms of length and confusion.)
They ask for more games and then proceed to complain about them rushing their games( The l4d boycott fiasco)
Team fortress?
WE WANT MORE ITEMS(Update appear)
WE WANT THEM TO BE EASIER TO GET(Store appears)
THEY ARE SELLING OUT COMPLETELY( ignoring the updates)
And they constantly want a new meet the video.
half-life
The constant whining about Episode 3
honestly i could proberly make more examples but i think my point has been made.
Final Fantasy fans because of how much they lie to themselves about how good the games were and how they refuse to listen to any criticism toward the games.
Excuse me, I don't lie to myself about how good the games were. I'm aware of their flaws but overall I think the series is very good. 12, 9, 4 and 7 are my favourites in that order. If you have criticism for them I'll accept it, none of them are perfect games but 12 especially rates amongst my favourite games of any genre so chances are I'll disagree or at least say the rest of the game makes up for it.
I'd say the worst fans are Sonic the Hedgehog or reality shows like Big Brother. Watching a programme where a bunch of sociopaths have to live together would be enjoyable if I didn't have to discuss it 24-7. Sonic the Hedgehog just... ugh, you know what I mean.
Anyone who says Cloud and/or Sephiroth are deep characters reads way too much into it. I could go on and list numerous reasons as to why its not the best game in the world but not even its own series, but I gotta go to work soon
Pop stars: Justin Bieber fans. (I think everyone can agree with me here, these guys treat him like the second coming of Jesus)
Books: Twilight fans. (Look at this fucking letter [http://www.latinoreview.com/news/taylor-lautner-fan-letter-to-universal-your-wolfman-ripped-off-twilight-9247#idc-cover], LOOK AT IT)
Games: CoD fans. (I refer you to this [http://www.ubercharged.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/1258035395841.jpg] now famous screenshot.)
Developer: Valve fans. (I am a fan of Valve but dear god sometimes I am ashamed of the other people who share that title)
Console: All of them. (All console fans[footnote]I won't say fanboys because I know plenty of girls also play games now, they just hide to avoid shit like TITS OR GTFO and other equally juvenile crap.[/footnote] suck equally, it's a platform to play games on, stop acting like yours is better than everyone elses)
....I read that letter, and I feel like punch a kitten. I need to sit down, this hurts me....
OT: COD fans are incredibly annoying, they deserve every bad thing said about them, Halo fans too. Kesha fans too, I refuse to use a dollar sign to spell her name because that's just ridiculous, and I thought Bieber fans were annoying, good sweet gravy I was wrong.
I actually made a thread here about how bad the LoL community was a few months ago. Seriously, if I didn't play with IRL friends all the time I would have quit a long time ago.
I don't have any IRL friends playing LoL, and it was hard to make friends, so I went back to Heroes of Newerth. I can't believe I actually like this community better, seeing as it is horrid. But I guess that goes for the entire DotA genre.
I've always heard HoN has an even worse community. But yeah, you are totally right. For whatever reason the DoTA genre (if it can be called that at this point) has the most hostile player-base I have ever been a part of.
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