To Catch a Fanboy

We all love to hate fanboys, good thing too, many of us have had the (dis)pleasure of 'meeting' a real fanboy online, a fanboy who's completely cracked and will sooner have bull ants poured into his underwear than admit even a tiny failing in the company he worships.

To that end I present to you something, spoken from a true fanboy, one who shall remain nameless. Everything has been preserved, even the colour of the text except for the black font which are key extractions from his post that show just what kind of a fanboy he is.

The Playstaion 3 is my choice, hands down. While I agree that it is very expensive, it's marketed at the adults that have all gotten careers while playing the PS2 and can now afford it so it should not be a problem. I live in Europe and I have preordered it; they are the entire first shipment in the largest electronic store in my city has been preordered and sold out. Don't think Sony is gonna have much problem finding it's fan base.

I have been gaming since 1978 and see many consoles come and go. One thing that has always been true: the release games are NOTHING compared to what is to come in about a year. BTW, there are some amazing games already sitting around waiting to be played (by adults) right now for PS3; Fall of Man, Vitua Fighter 5 etc etc. We will be looking forward to other (adult) games such as Gran Turismo's next installment and Grand Theft Auto 4. Or maybe even Sonic the Hedgehog, Marvel Alliance, or the entire Mortal Kombat line. There will be hundreds of great games for PS3, just like there was for PS2 after a while for the devs to get a handle on the architecture. Blu Ray is your future; accept it. I seem to remember the Playstation 2 going on to become the best selling console of all time by a massive margine, despite initial problems with the first batch of dvd drives. The Wii has an innovative controler which you move around? Ever hear of the Sixaxis? Same bloody thing. Rumble? Who cares; I hated that cheap jumk. Seems like a way of saying, "The game isn't exicting enough to convince you with the gameplay or graphics or story alone so here is a cheap gimmick".

The PS3 has been under development for the last year or so, while the Xbox360 has been taking the quick road and selling medium games. There has never before been a console of such power and potential. Xbox is made by microsoft; they have enough money to float it if it starts to sink. Sony is selling enough Ts and stereos to support the PS3 into adulthood. Nintendo has....game consoles....hope they have superior games and graphics.....oooops. The cell processor will ensure that the games you will be getting for the life of the system will be nothing short of astonishing. This is not just an empty promise as some will say, it's simply fact based on trends over the last 30 years or so. Peace.

When accused of being a fanboy with the following post (made by yours truly),

Wow, that was quite a fanboyish comment, you need to take a step back and look at the way the industry works mate ;-)

He shot back,

I'm not particularly a fanboy; I have had every console that has been available for the last 30 years, Nintendos, segas, ataris, comodore vic 20 and 64, intellevision, coleco, and sony, not to mention many others. I liked them all for different reasons, and disliked others for other reasons. Besides I dont think most of the "Fanboys" you refer to are 35 years old...how old are you, by the way? I know alot more about the industry than you, without doubt. You like to throw around the word fanboy, but you are clearly one yourself, probably for the childish and passing Wii.

Notice how he starts accusing me of being a Wii fanboy, so I shall say now, I freely admit I'm stuck between liking the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii, though I wouldn't mind the Playstation 3 in a few years time.

Heres my reply,

wow, so you ask for my age, claim being 35 automatically makes you some sort of god take a pot shot at me claiming I'm a ('childish') wii fanboy and say you know more about the industry than me.

You're just proving to me and everyone else further that you are a Sony fanboy ;-)

You also have no idea, you've made quite a few errors in your first comment.

Wow, re-reading your first comment, I don't know why you bother trying to claim you're not a fanboy, seriously, do you get paid for posting this crap all over the internet?

In his next post his text was in black, he couldn't be bothered changing the font colour anymore, to that end I shall italize key phrases from his post.

Why not just go play with yourself some more to net porn, till your mind becomes further warped, moron. Where are the errors in my first post? What's wrong with liking a particular kind of game console? Is that what you mean by Fan boy? You like the Wiii, guess you are a fanboy of nintendo's current product then aren't you? People like you with small mind make me sick; can't have it that someone as another opinion so you flame them because you take it as a personal attack. Go beat off "Ahmed", and try reading a book you useless pile of internet shit.

(yeah the whole thing is italized, sorry, couldn't make it work otherwise)

Yeah, I know, I've just been feeding the troll the whole time but damn well it was bloody funny seeing him chuck the skits like that.

Stop Digg’s Abuse! – An Open Letter to Digg

So long as someone takes what I have to say into consideration I’ll be more than happy.

Dear Digg Team & Digg Users

Little Green Football has apparently been organizing a campaign of hatred towards Muslims using Digg. While I in no way am in support of stopping freedom of speech they are actually abusing the Digg voting system to meet their own end while ruining the quality of content that reaches the front page on Digg.

Digg is all about a democracy, no one group or entity should have a higher say than anybody else. What Digg should reflect is the community not individual groups who are in fact not at all related to Digg but rather have agenda's they wish to push forward they do so via Digg's voting system.

Little Green Football is in fact abusing Digg, I doubt the majority of members even knew what it was about before this campaign started as he says in the comments section on Little Green Football

"Who is/are digg.com and why does anyone care?
Until you recently linked to it at LGF I'd never heard of it."

As you can see this group is not using Digg for what it was created for, they are exploiting Digg to further their own political agenda's, they don't care what Digg is so long as it helps them further their own personal agenda's.

If Digg really turns into some sort of political tool for such groups then it will be a problem for all core Digg members who visit the site for the stories, not furthering political agenda's.

Of course I'm not as well versed on Digg's system and am not claiming to be a speaker on behalf of everyone who uses Digg. However it is upsetting to say the least that these people can use Digg as a political tool rather than what it was made for. It ruins the quality of content that reaches the front page on Digg as the system turns into a means for war, one way or the other.

Anyway, I'll leave it to you guys to decide whats best and if what I'm saying should matter at all. Just please understand I don't support censorship, but I don't support abusing Digg like this either, which is why I would like some sort of action taken against Little Green Football.


Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Obsessed Digg Fan
- Ahmed (Digg user linkedList)

As a personal note I’ve already mentioned on one of the wonderful Digg submissions from the Little Green Football campaigns that I am a Muslim, I have more Atheist and Christian friends than I do Muslim friends and I do not at all want to blow anyone up (least of all me :-P).

Do I need to say more? I pray five times a day, I read the Quran but I still have non-Muslim friends I still go to university and I still support freedom of speech. I support scientists who do research into evolutionary biology and the origins of the universe amongst other things, in fact I love learning about the world around me and like most Digg users always look forward to hearing about the latest discoveries in most fields of science.

Come on people, no matter what the people at LGF say they can’t change who I am, they can take verses out of context from the Quran to their hearts content and post trumped up news reports but at the end of the day I as a dedicated Muslim am not interested in blowing myself up and I definitely do not hate non-Muslims simply because they are non-Muslims.

Like almost every Digg member I’ve come across the only people I am intolerant towards are those who are intolerant, I’m intolerant to intolerance. No I am not lying to anyone when I say this either. So to all the people from LGF and other extremist right wing groups, stop trying to tell me I am not following my religion because of such and such out of context verse from the Quran.

I am a Muslim and I know how it is best to be a Muslim, and this is how I am a Muslim and all my friends regardless of religious background don’t give two bits that I am a Muslim (save for the fact I’m not too keen on going to the pub Friday nights).

It's sad to say but this came to my attention when a six month old comment from the ultra neo-conservative Australian Treasurer Peter Costello made it to the front page on Digg. He simultaneously vilified Muslims as if they did not uphold the laws of Australia while making himself look like a great person who believes in separation of Church and State. Nothing can be further from the truth, he's pro-life, he has blocked RU486 based on religious grounds (of course he doesn't admit it) while also making derogatory comments on homosexual's. His party is allied with 'Family First', an extremist right wing conservative party which promotes such things as 'Christian values' being taught in public schools, such as prayers being recited before classes.

Peter Costello's brother is a 'humanitarian' who shares the same ultra conservative views, going to countries like Africa on humanitarian missions and god knows preaching what to the people there (I wouldn't be surprised if he was one of those people who claimed it was a sin to wear condoms).

I know a lot of my fellow American Diggers think it would be great if politics in the US was like here in Australia, I would gladly swap our governments, our prime minister is still increasing troop numbers in Iraq and our Health Minister is a religious nut case while our treasurer likes to speak outside his portfolio to gain political ground.

Oh what we'd do for a Barrack Obama equivalent here in Australia! As it stands our leading opposition party has been at each others necks for the leadership for the past decade! So please, I know the majority of people on Digg are North American based, but please understand our plight!


Yes, I’m sorry, blogspam *cough* but I’m not doing it for evil (well at least not trying to). Sometimes you have something to say you want everyone to hear, you submit it to Digg.