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Ten Golden Rules of Videogame Fanboyism

gamefreak101 | April 29, 2008 | Blog | Linux PC Company Misc 
The fanboy. An odd species that can be found trolling nearly every gaming forum, including Neoseeker. If you're interested in becoming a fanboy yourself, you need only to follow these Ten Golden Rules.
Ah, fanboys. What industry can truly call itself an industry without them? Those who prove themselves obsessively loyal to any product or corporation can be found among many communities, and nowhere do they flourish more freely than within gamer culture.

Although it may sound ridiculous to normal people, swearing undying allegiance to a heartless box of electrical components is a perfectly rational act in the mind of the fanboy, even though if he defended something like a particular brand of cheese with such rabid determination, he'd be rightly locked up in a mental hospital. Thanks to the Internet, where any anonymous coward can say what he likes, fanboyism runs rampant, and shows no signs of slowing down.

That said, the term fanboy is thrown around all too casually, and is now on par with the word emo when it comes to having lost all meaning through erroneous overuse. If you want to be a true fanboy -- and I know all of you do -- then you must, of course, follow ten golden rules. The ten elegant laws that will see you rise above the pretenders and take your place in fanboy Valhalla.

Welcome to the latest in our ten golden rules series, the ten golden rules of videogame fanboyism.
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    Zeon I | April 29, 2008
    If you defended the Wii's name, you're a Nintendo Fanboy. Do we really need another Website to tell us what it takes to be a Fanboy. Us Fanboy's will decide that, thank you very much.
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      Final Blade | April 30, 2008
      Thanks for tell everyone your one of those fanboys

      Anyway none of those apply the me, but i do get a good laugh at fanboys, the idiocy that they spew is mind numbing.
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        gamefreak101 | April 30, 2008
        Right? Those silly fanboys...
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        Zeon I | May 01, 2008
        I didn't defend the name "Wii". I hated it, tbh. I liked Revolution more.
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    StarJet | May 01, 2008
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    If you're interested in becoming a fanboy yourself
    Jeez, what is the world coming to? I thought fanboys were just made and that people never intended to be them. Oh, well. *Shrugs*
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      gamefreak101 | May 02, 2008
      Hehe, that was a bit of a joke. Although, you never know.
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    kI_NgX_3 | May 09, 2008
    what's wrong with fanboys?
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    Bale Fire | May 09, 2008
    If you truly need that answered for you your a fanboy

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