My perspective of the four fanboys of videogaming.

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greenmedic88 said:

Let's face it: all fanatics are idiots, feeding on their emotions and how they feel, rather than any sort of logic or intelligent thought.

Try as they will to put together an argument that at least gives them the appearance of using intelligent analysis and impartiality, they're almost universally transparent in their irrational biases.

And that's actually fine.

Personal preference is largely a subjective thing ultimately; it often has little to do with making informed, intelligent decisions based upon a complete and impartial analysis of all available data. This is entertainment we are talking about, so no justification need be given and that's where the real problem with some fanatics lie. They try to rationalize to other people why their preferences are legitimate, but typically by using skewed, biased or even outright false information and facts.

It would actually be a breath of fresh air to see more fans own up to this and just say something along the lines of "I know I'm being biased, but I just like what I like because it suits me" without trying to convince others why their preference is Universally The Best For All, which we all know, even the people making such claims, is a bunch of BS.

Beautiful post. The part I bolded is why i avoid/never get into any kinda argument of individual games. I tend to keep my arguments restricted to nothing but sales analysis and trends and only in relation to hardware. I find it shocking when people talk up or down games with complete disregard of how subjective they are.