Anatomy of a Fanboy: "We have seen the enemy, and he is us."

I'll save you the trouble...

http://www.myarcadeplanet.com/articlenav-274-page-1.html

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the reason fanboys exist is the same as the reason political viewpoints exist. Its our subconscious brain.

It gets pleasure from information that backs up it's views, and it doesn't notice information that contradicts our views.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/science/24find.html?ex=1189137600&en=be31dec3194d79eb&ei=5070

It doesn't matter what you post, everything I have and want is better than anything you have or want.

I can make fun of a 'real' gamer, or a 'hardcore' gamer the same way too. Actually, I could make fun of the entire gaming culture the same way. Somebody might take the huge generalizations personally though. Myself, for instance.

I call bullshit.

Feh, if the damned wish to ignore the most perfect console, then to hellfire with them!

you hated the dreamcast?!

Where are all our fanboys? I figured the usual suspects would chime in on this.

"Now, this isn't the first time anyone has tried to break down what makes us hate the Dreamcast, and love the Atari Jaguar"

I believe they call that "insanity".

Oh Jaguar! You died a death too soon!
It was a hard, hard day burying you in the backyard...next to the WonderSwan and lesser consoles like the NES and Genesis.

1. Dreamcast > Jaguar
2. Where is the article?
3. Commonly misunderstood, the fanboy has 3 stomachs. The first is the same as most humans, followed by a second in which small swallowed stones break down plant matter. The third stomach digests fanboy spin like "Internet play is overrated" or "More than protein folding" or "39% hardware failure is normal".

Fanboy, Casual, Hardcore.....

The only thing that makes a difference here folks is 1) Age, and 2) Maturity.

The more console cycles you go through, the more it gets very old hat.

NES Vs. Master System
SNES Vs. Genesis
3DO Vs. Atari Jagur
N64 Vs. PS Vs. Saturn
GCN Vs. PS2 Vs. Dreamcast Vs. XBox
Wii Vs. PS3 Vs. XB360
Gameboy Vs. Gamegear Vs. Atari Lynx
DS Vs. PSP

And everytime everyone picks sides and picks the console closest to their hearts and it's MINE Vs. YOURS and GODDAMNITIFMINEISNTBETTER!!!!

COS OF THE GRAFFIX AND THE BLOOD AND GUTZ AND I SHOT YOUR IN THE HEAD ROFL!!!1!

I was busy saying all that shit when the SNES came out, and you know what? In time, you grow up, and you grow out of being a fan boy. You can still retain companies/mascots/games that are close to your heart, but you can enjoy good games for being good games, regardless of which platform they're on and who published them.

1) Your console of choice "Winning" a console war is for little whiney bitches.

2) F*CK MARIO COS MORTAL KOMBAT HAS TEH GUTZ!!!1! is a little whiney bitch mantra.

3) GRAPHICS FTW!!!1! is for clearly for whiney little bitches who never enjoyed Dizzy on their Spectrum.

In Conclusion: Fanboyism is the annoying, pain in the ass equivilant of adolecnce: Being a complete pain in the ass and pissing off everyone else.

Did someone call? My ears are burning.

Ohhhh Fanboys. Fanboys themselves don't bother me so much. I mean whatever, so they're into one brand. That fine.

It's the fanboy trolls that piss me off. They pollute forums with pure gargabe, they can't offer anything useful to an argument and no matter what they're "right" *shuddder* If they wanna get into an argument that actually matters, they should talk about 3rd world debt or Global warming.

Quit posioning us with lies Fanboy trolls.

Whatever I'm done.

my name is david keating, and i've been an avid joystiq reader for 3 years now. this sounds like the kind of thing i would do too. i'm loving the overall creepiness of the parallelism going on...

Sorry, but when I look at that graphic I doubt many fanboys/hardcore-gamers look anything like that on the inside.

I'm thinking something much much much more pear shaped would have been more appropriate. ;-)

can we stay on topic for once and not fight over systems... oh..wait