It's safe to assume that if you are reading this, you love video games. It's not by chance that someone becomes a community member on Destructoid. The circumstances of finding our wonderful slice of gaming heaven may be but not the commitment made by gamers to coexist with one another. We have such an eclectic mix of gamers here with their own tastes and preferences, one can't help but smile at the sheer camaraderie on display here. For while we may all have different views on things, for the most part we are not at each others throats. From PS3, 360 and the Wii fans, everything is as it should be.

Or is it? I'm here to share with you there is a group, a select few, a secret sect that is among us who are not what they seem. A brotherhood of people who say they are gamers but all they do is seek out any reason, any excuse to not buy a game, to bend your interests in games... and their numbers are growing among us.

They are the ying to our yang. The anti-gamer and they recruit new members unknowingly to their cause through subliminal propaganda within our own community. Beware of them. For their dark purpose is for us to stop buying video games, cripple game companies through lack of sales and bad word of mouth. They seek to unravel our gaming utopia one less sell at a time.

Oftentimes their calling cards will vary from post to post but they all share one thing in common. Any reason or excuse not to get a game. Usually found loitering in most reviews and or previews, they're not above writing a blog or two themselves. Though they prefer being in the sidelines than the forefront. With friends in high places these people have learned from the mistakes of boisterous public advocates against video games and have instead become splinter cells among us. What follows below are but a few examples of their tricks of the trades. If you see comments like these on a post or review... be wary my friends. Dark purposes are at work.



* I'll grab it when it goes down ten or twenty bucks.

Observation: They will not buy it until it's in a bargain bin. Subsequently if they can get everyone to think like them, the game will be a flop and will land on said bargain bin all the quicker.

*The game is only single player. No thanks, 60 bucks for any single player game isn't kosher.

Observation: One of the most often used excuse of the Brotherhood.

*The game is too short and has no replay value whatsoever.

Observation: The Number one excuse is this one right here.

* The graphics suck.

*The game is too long, I don't have time to play it, it requires too much of a commitment.

*I'll pirate it.

Observation: Rarely used as it is deemed to upfront of their objective but sprinkled in every so often.

*The multiplayer sucks.

*It's meh.

Observation: Simple, elegant, effective.

*It's not compromised of a handful of pixels and crayon looking levels.

*It's a third party game on the Wii.

Observation: This has become an excuse on the rise.

*It's not original.

*I'll wait till it comes out for the [ insert any other system that the game wont come for here ].

These are but a few examples here ladies and gentlemen. As you can see some of these may even sound legitimate which is the greatest thing about them. Be vigilant and don't let your guard down my fellow comrades. Because you don't really know when it's a ruse to entrap you. Hell, you don't even know which one of those smiling faces may be part of them. Some have even thought select few hold upper echelon positions as game reviewers. *gasp* Be alert.

The Brotherhood of No is very real, they mean to destroy our cherished way of life... and they are among us.