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Millennium on 09 November 2008
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It's about fanboys, but not in the way you're thinking: it's about websites, not consoles.

I wasn't really around for the original founding of the site, so I can't give you many details; I'll leave that to the longtime members. But as I understand the situation, there was a lot of sour-grapes whining when this site split away from NeoGAF. That site had a general (and completely unfounded) distrust of the statistical methods used by this site, and they got very envious of VGChartz's success over their own laughably-bad nexgenwars.com listing (which only uses the numbers from NPD and such, then tries to extrapolate from there on a second-by-second basis).



Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.

Be the ultimate ninja! Play Billy Vs. SNAKEMAN today! Poisson Village welcomes new players.

What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.