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richardhutnik on 22 April 2013
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dsgrue3 said:
richardhutnik said:

Fanboyism is literally worship.  It is its own type of worship, expressed differently than worship of a powerful God, but it is still worship.  Brain science has shown that.  The same impulses that go into worshipping God, go into worshipping a videogame character, even if it has some different appearance in how it is expressed.

Worship = worship? Duh.

You're missing the point again and again. No one worships a fucking console manufacturer. 

Fanhood != worship.

End of.

Except you are wrong and have no evidence to the contrary.  As I posted before, scientific research shows that devotion to certain brands is a religious experience.  Brands like Apple, Harley Davison, and others (say consoles) do generate religious response and worship:

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=fanboys+worship+religion&oq=fanboys+worship+religion&gs_l=hp.3...37471.41243.2.41796.24.23.0.0.0.0.198.1943.18j5.23.0...0.0...1c.1.9.psy-ab.VI_9HUSNDkc&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45512109,d.dmg&fp=d78f862414922e23&biw=1331&bih=624

There is a simple link to the two.  Yes, people do worship the makers of certain electronic equipment, PARTICULARLY consoles.  Look at what goes into prelaunch of consoles, with people camping out DAYS to get one, the fact people dress up as certain characters, practice certain rituals, and also end up forming fellowships around electronic devices on here.  People sing praises, evangelize people for games, and get into fanboy wars that resembles religious or political discussions.

Fanhood alone isn't worship, but the stronger it gets, the MUCH closer it gets to being religious and showing worship.  Your disagreeing with it, is your taking offense at religion for some reason.  

Edit: Some more articles on this:

http://www.gamingupdate.com/articles/100/The-Truth-Behind-the-Fanboy-and-Why-They-Exist

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-perreault/worshipping-final-fantasy-video-games_b_1652829.html

Star Wars as religion: http://www.jedichurch.org/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jediism

Star Trek as religion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekkie

 

About ANYTHING can generate religious worship for it.  One term used to describe this, by the way, is idolotry.