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JayWood2010 said:
binary solo said:
Everyone is biased. No one is truly neutral. Fanboy however is a particularly fanatical and one eyed sort of bias. So to call someone biases is merely stating a fact, though contextually it might be more or less accurate. Calling someone a fanboy is pretty much always insulting and flamebait.


Im going to use this as an example http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5753523

In this post particularly he resorts into calling someone biased simply because he didnt believe the way he did.  Was it really called for?  Was there any reason to say that?  What did it establish?  And can he prove what he said?

Like the word fanboy, if you use it in the right context it is allowed.

This is prime example of what I like to call the "biased trumph card" that people use when they cannot win an argument with a factural information. Here you basically have two people aruging over who has better makerting for the two consoles coming out soon. First guy says "Sony is the king of makerting since back in 90's", and then the second guys " ad populi agrument on the net says Mircosoft is better at makerting". First guy has no good argument to make to him so he just throws out the biased card and thinks that he wins because that trumphs every other arugment out there. Plus, to top it off he throws out old "everyone and their little brother" line and adds Kevin Butler to the mix lol. 

Everyone on this site and every gamer for that matter is biased towards one companyconsole or another, all you need do is look at their posts or signature. Its just a question of how biased a gamer is and to tell this apart we have words like fanboy to describe the varying levels. Its just that the word fanboy has become game world equivalent of "insert racial slur here".