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Some of us take our fun a little too seriously, I guess. The solution: Quit talking about games and just play games. You'd be surprised how much you love your hobby when people aren't always there to tell you how much everything sucks.

We just have too many people (myself included--but I'm pretty good at catching myself.....sometimes) that just can't resist the urge to impress strangers with their knowledge. They tend to express that knowledge in a condescending "I'm so smart and you don't know shit!" sort of way. Unfortunately, many lack that little thing I like to call "tact". They come off as abrasive assholes instead of intelligent and respectable. Add the anonymity of the internet and the world can be a very cruel place.



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Well you are not a magazine..



Welcome to grown up land.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
Well, if you are a Nintendo fan and prefer less serious discussion there is always mynintendonews.com

Trolls are praised over there!

Oh my God!

That is what you would call spam; all those posts at MNN. 



Kantor said:

The Wii is a toy, the PS3 has no games and the 360 is a nice alternative to a radiator.

There, sarcasm.


That's actually pretty funny!

I use my ps3 to heat my room in the winter time, together with my house's heat, and computer my room stays toasty!



           

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It's the normal evolution of a media, since games became popular (especially in this gen) then more people started to "care" more about games thus becoming more serious, of course that doesn't mean gamers weren't serious before, but because of the internet and social media it become more obvious to see this "serious gaming world", which wasn't easy to observe before. 



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Ostro said:
Amen.
It's because everybody can use internet now. Back in the day without it or when you had to know what you're doing to log on only people who really were into it were critics. Nowadays everybody is.
There was even some research showing that the internet is almost only made of negative comments while classic media was also about pushing positives and not trying to sound superior and smarter than the rest.
That's why I hate this "new" web. It may look cooler but the content is crap.


Irony is fun.



"Pier was a chef, a gifted and respected chef who made millions selling his dishes to the residents of New York City and Boston, he even had a famous jingle playing in those cities that everyone knew by heart. He also had a restaurant in Los Angeles, but not expecting LA to have such a massive population he only used his name on that restaurant and left it to his least capable and cheapest chefs. While his New York restaurant sold kobe beef for $100 and his Boston restaurant sold lobster for $50, his LA restaurant sold cheap hotdogs for $30. Initially these hot dogs sold fairly well because residents of los angeles were starving for good food and hoped that the famous name would denote a high quality, but most were disappointed with what they ate. Seeing the success of his cheap hot dogs in LA, Pier thought "why bother giving Los Angeles quality meats when I can oversell them on cheap hotdogs forever, and since I don't care about the product anyways, why bother advertising them? So Pier continued to only sell cheap hotdogs in LA and was surprised to see that they no longer sold. Pier's conclusion? Residents of Los Angeles don't like food."

"The so-called "hardcore" gamer is a marketing brainwashed, innovation shunting, self-righteous idiot who pays videogame makers far too much money than what is delivered."