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Hi. My name is Blake. I like games and shit. I study at university... writing and that jazz, though you probably couldn't tell it. Ok, shit you want to know.

Favourite Games: Dark Souls, Resident Evil 4, Timesplitters 2, Silent Hill 2, Ape Escape, Banjo Kazooie.

Favourite Movies: Cabin in the Woods, Shaun of the Dead, Clerks, Fight Club, Machete, Dr Horribles Sing Along Blog.

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3:04 AM on 09.19.2012

A lot of my blogs on here are written to point out an issue, or to help procrastinate assignments and neglect the education I'm paying 15000 dollars for. Every so often however, I write something with one purpose: To piss off fanboys. This too serves a point, as fanboys are like an alcoholic's wife, in that even though their husband pisses away their money, neglects her interests and beats her repeatedly, she still loves him and sings his fucking praise down the street. They make up excuses, stating "It's ok, he's doing this because he lost his job" or "I must be the one in the wrong, since he'd never do anything to hurt me..."

It is however important to realise, however, that while you may love your favourite game developer or console, that not everything they do needs defending. They've got people who write apology speeches for that. You're job is to buy their products, and hopefully enjoy them, and show them respect in the form of opening your wallet. However, when said developer fucks you over, or makes mistakes, it is important to point these out. It is important to request that nintendo make a new IP before I use mario's moustache to suffocate him, and it's important to tell Bethesda that they should treat all their customers with respect, not just the ones who take microsofts cock to the mouth every so often. Also, it's evil to sue indie companies for using a word, thus taking away free fucking speech. Are you going to sue the bakery down the street for selling cinamon scrolls Bethesda? Or what about every pc user ever for hitting scroll lock you evil fucks.

Anyway, I think you get the point. However, I will ask one thing: Play the fucking game before you judge it. Don't whinge because Dante looks different until you play it. Does his lack of hair throw his center of gravity off? Does all the My Chemical Romance he listens to cause him to give up and let enemies finish him off once and for all? Little things like that aren't anything to get up in arms about, especially when the game itself could still be orgasmically great. People whinged about David Tennant's Doctor Who when they first saw him, and guess what? He was fucking brilliant, so shut your festering gob you tit.

So in closing, fanboys: It's ok to admit that your favourite game has some flaws. I will: Dark Souls has a level called Blighttown which is the worst level in anything ever. Resident Evil 4 is one big fucking escort mission, and the person you're escorting is mentally retarded; and Silent Hill 2 has terrible combat. However, it's also important not to judge things off a knee jerk reaction. Wait till you've experienced said problem first hand before you throw chainsaws at it. Oh and one more thing: Memes. Are. Not. And. Will. Never. Be. Funny. Stop saying I took an arrow the knee or I'll force you to take a bladed dildo the throat!



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How do you sharpen a rubber dildo ;_:

I sense your anger and I can related. Fanboyism in the extreme can just be annoying to everyone. Judging without knowing? Fine. But don't actually devote effort insto sustaining weak judgement. We've not got all day.
I can 'related'? Yes. I meant that. Shush.
Fanboyism has it's place. If you like something, you support it, I get that. You support your sports team, and the same logic applies to consoles and companies. It's just the extremes I dislike.
Quite a lot of people just say "Fanboy" without understanding exactly what they are talking about. Awhile ago there was a very, very stupid "reviewer" that without playing more than the demo, condemned Space Marine because it ripped off Gears of War. I won't give you the lecture, but if anything it's the other way around.

When the community tried to point out that not only was he wrong but clearly was a moron; he immediatly threw up his hands and went "Fucking fanboys!" and made it sound like pointing out he was an idiot was completely moot because the people involved had half of an idea of what they were talking about.

My point is, is that these days people use the kneejerk reaction of "Fanboys!" instead of their thick ass skulls. There is nothing wrong with enjoying a franchise, yes extremes exist but there will always be extremes of a movement. So if you are reduced to blaming and bitching about fanboys, you need to figure out whether or not your right or just a moron. Usually, its the latter since if you are saying "Fanboys!" in the first place you are completely wrong about something.
Hmmm... someone who attacks me after reading the opening paragraph of my blog claims I'm ignorant. I'm asking fans of particular IP's to complain about flaws and not defend them, but at the sametime not have a kneejerk reaction to every tiny insignificant change in a series.
All your comment has done is make you look like an idiot.
Speaking of kneejerk reactions...

A little defensive there, huh buddy? It's really bad form to bag on people in your comments that you don't agree with. Its even funnier because you just completely proved my point.

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