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Szechuanosaurus
Registered User, ClubPA
Registered User, ClubPA
Jesus, right now over in G&T they are having an honest-to-God console war argument in the Bully thread. Like, it's not even ironic or anything, they are literally debating over which console is the best like it's 1989 and we're all ten years old again. What the fuck?
I'm getting too old for this forum. c/d?
I'm getting too old for this forum. c/d?
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It was weird praise.
It was like "Congratulations on not being self-centered fuck-ups as a lot."
That and the Nintendo fanboyism is ridiculous.
Steam / Bus Blog / Goozex Referral
i just
i just can't
my brain just comprehend it
i cannot understand how you can like something so much it makes you hate something else which is also good simply because it isn't what you like
but then
i guess i can't understand religious zealotry either
and they're pretty similar
thanks, pony
He was comparing fanboyism to zealotry and I really don't see that as being terribly far off.
Cell really is interesting architecture
While I don't plan on buying Bully for any platform, I have to ask if you even stopped and thought about this for a second. There's a Wii version and a 360 version. Even if the only differences were the controls... you don't think it'd be valid to say "Hey, which version do you think has better controls?"
It's a legitimate topic of discussion, at least it was before idiots started posting in it.
what kind of disconnect with reality do you have that you actually compare entertainment and squabbles over that to fucking religion come the fuck on, man
yeah
the rabid fanboyism that goes on in parts of G&T and places like the GameFAQs resembles religious zealotry in pretty much all the worst ways
also similar:
people who are intense into the whole star wars vs. star trek thing
like it just
i don't know
it seems this weird kind of insane to like something so much that if you have something else that is different that people also like you hate it just because it isn't what you intensely enjoy
like at the core of it there's no valid reason to hate it, you just do because it isn't what you love
it seems sort of
i don't know, a form of madness?
did you know that sometimes you say shit like this that makes you look like a huge knob
just sayin'
Because it is the same mindset? He's not talking about religion, he's talking about extremism. Xenophobia, nationalism, fanaticism, these are all cards from the same deck. Fanboyism displays many similar traits to these concepts. I'm not saying that its not a bit overboard to draw the parallel, but I am saying that it assuredly makes sense.
where they go from "I LOVE NINTENDO IT IS THE GREATEST THING EVER" to "RAWR I HATE XBOX BECAUSE IT IS NOT NINTENDO"
and there's that step there i don't understand at all
i can understand the passionate love
i can't understand how that turns into intense hate
Geez, calm down dudes.
Steam / Bus Blog / Goozex Referral
big star trek nerd
years of internetting has made him all angry towards star wars
and i am like, why?
so he sits there and rants about why star wars sucks and stuff
some of his criticisms i can see where he is coming from i guess
some of it is retarded bitching about nonsense that star trek is also guilty of
ultimately, i ask him about it enough and what it comes down to is he just bought into a stupid perceived rivalry between two completely different things in the same genre
like you can't enjoy both for some reason
and i can't get that mindset, like, at all
Not really, Teefs
I don't think there's much else to say other than "we get it, you don't like Pony"
that wasn't what i was saying at all
but thank you for playing
i was commenting on zealotry
but clearly you just want to argue with something you dislike for no reason
i believe we just established G&T is that way
Teefs you should know about strawmen
c'mon now
sometimes we have good chats about various things
other times i am like his nemesis and he argues with everything i say and tries to troll me directly
i should make up a calendar
wonder if it goes on a monthly cycle
girl
you'll be a woman
soon
perhaps you are taking a comparison of different sorts of zealotry and how i am unable to really get them too seriously
or
perhaps
you are just on the rag
look i don't know here
is this supposed to be a burn on smart hero or me or both of us or what
you have most certainly confused me
Coincidentally, that was me.
I just don't see it that way. He was drawing a parallel to a form of extremism. Admittedly his choice for comparison was extreme, but it was an entirely valid point to make regardless. The aforementioned extremist conditions are all the same thing but carried out in different mediums. Relegion has ferver, the ethnic supremacist has xenophobia ect ect.
I am sorry, but I cannot call his post absurd simply for drawing an over-the-top comparison in order to further reinforce his belief. I mean, come on, this is Pony. He will mention his nonspecific but potent religious convictions if he deems it necessary, or he will bring it up, because of their potency. Because he sees it important, or whatever. You should come to expect this and not blow up when he seeks the most readily available religious comparison.
That song is a ripoff of down in the boondocks.
Steam / Bus Blog / Goozex Referral
The fanboys have neat gadgets but the religious' get all the hot naked virgins.
I am so torn. Which one has the most cell sahdes?
How does paint from the farmhouse taste?
Steam / Bus Blog / Goozex Referral
so maybe i just pushed a button
my bad