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Seriously, it tickles me silly to see all of these rabid gamer fanboys trying to puff out there concave chests and proclaim that their personal favourite console is the end all be all of gaming, as if being the proud owner of this generations "best" console somehow validates the fact that they spend their lives in a socially retarded state hibernating in their parents basements, and living off of potato chips and orange pop. 

News flash, fanboys: if you are a PS3 fanboy, and God himself intervened in the console war and purchased 40 million PS3's tomorrow to put them in the lead it would not change anything. Your pimples would not clear up. Your sagging sack-belly would not shrink. Girls still wouldn't like you. If you're an Xbox 360 fanboy and Sony decided tomorrow that they are going to stop making electronics and focus soley on kitchen wear, guess what.....you still wouldn't have a bicep. You still won't shower more than once a week, and the jocks at school would still twist your frail twizzler wrists behind your back and take your lunch money.

Do these fanboys own stock in Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo? They must, because they seem to think it matters to their very existence whether games released for their console of choice are hailed as winners or booed as failures.

Why can't we all just enjoy all of the consoles, and all of the great games released for each? Does anybody actually think it would be a good thing if Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo failed and stopped making games?

If I ever ran into one of these fanboys in real life I'd slam my fist down on the top of his head so hard that his rubber spine would accordian and the spring-back action would launch the little elbow licker into orbit.

 



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 some people feel deeply about certain things. If you don't care for their opinion, ignore them. It's not rocket science



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

Pristine20 said:

 some people feel deeply about certain things. If you don't care for their opinion, ignore them. It's not rocket science


this

So by your definition you're a squirmey, spotty, smelly, saggy sack belly, with no hint of a sex life? I mean I'm assuming you're a PS360 owner.

that or a PC fanboy.

Fanboys breed fanboys. I guess some would call me a fanboy, truth be told? I don't really hate Sony ... when I come away from these forums ... I could care less.

Its the dumbass Sony fanboys I don't like ... and I'm sure vice verser. Like everything other internet forum, the internet is NOT serious business. I don't think any (ok maybe a few) fanboys actually care about Sony or Microsoft outside of gaming forums ... least I hope not.



 

Well some of us do own stock in these companies. Luckily for me I bailed out of Nintendo stock a while ago. :P

 

People just like to feel good about their purchases and decisions in life, so they will want to back it up. Being able to flaunt something they have (or are going to have) is a great opportunity for some to help themselves feel better about their buying decisions. Same goes with putting down someone else's product that they can't buy. Making it seem bad makes them feel better about not being able to get it.



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I will not rest until Nintendo is #1 for both handhelds AND consoles again.



Tease.

Fanboyism is usually justification of "why my purchase is better than yours and why I didn't fail with buying x item over y item"

Its roots are in gaining some kind of an attachment to a product obviously.



Squilliam said:
I will not rest until Nintendo is #1 for both handhelds AND consoles again.

 

 ...then you will never rest because they'll never be #1 lol



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

To be a fan of the console you like.




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