What Fanbases you can't stand?

is this video games
 
Those crazy vocal minority folk.
 
Emmett Brown said:
lets be honest, nobody on this forum can actually stand the mario fanbase

we should rename this to "anti mario boards"
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Make it Anit Mario Boards.

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Baby Luigi said:
Discord said:
Because saying all extremists are bad isn't extreme in the slightest.
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Is there, like, one extremist who isn't bad?

Like, if there's a reasonable extremist, then he's not really an extremist any more.

Neither is being passionate or radical considered "extremist"
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By definition, an extremist is someone who has an overwhelming belief in something, potentially to the point where they take severe actions. If someone were to religiously collect Pokemon memorabilia from every possible source and that's all they did, they'd still be an extremist, even though they haven't done anything negative. You could call it self-destructive, but it's pretty much harmless.
 
Extremist carries negative connotations though, as a pejorative word. I wouldn't call nightram56 an extremist in his face (since he seems like a nice guy).
 
Well, we can argue connotation versus denotation, but regardless, it's not necessarily wrong for extremist to be used that way. It's like the different between "smell" and "aroma": they both have similar denotations, so it wouldn't be wrong to use them interchangeably, but one obviously has more positive connotations than the other. Point being, I'm a Literature student and being pedantic is engraved in my brain.
 
Well, the literature fanbase sucks ;P
 
Not really sure what the big deal is with BLOF's choice of words. It's pretty much conclusive from the context of the discussion what she meant and I understood it perfectly. That's the beautiful thing about language: Literal meaning is amplified, specified, bent, or even inverted through the magic that is context.

Anyway, I share the opinion that every fanbase has nutcases and demonizing the entirety of them is unfair. Like, I've encountered my fair share of rabid Zelda fans for example, and I could talk ad nauseam about what pisses me off about things that have been thrown at me from that direction, but to go and think everyone who likes Zelda is a raving lunatic would be foolish, silly, and uncalled for.

For some reason people tend to view fandoms as a single entity rather than a large group of individual people. Hearing some vague bullshit from one corner results in that bullshit getting attributed to the whole group. Like, the entire fandom is one big hivemind, and reading one stupid comment somewhere means that the entire fandom has said it. As if, every time a post is about to be made, the entire fandom merges into a huge gelatinous blobmonster, writes that post in unison, and then splits up again.

It's all very silly.
 
And typically, the bigger it is, the worse it gets. Why? Because the probability of crappy people being into the fanbase increases when you have more people. It's simple probability.

However, there are varying degrees of community quality among websites. Typically, I think smaller, but dedicated ones like this community and Rvlution tend to have better behaved people than the likes of, say, Reddit or GameFAQs, but my above probability works for this scenario too, and it gets harder to moderate bigger forums anyway. And there are some really good communities in GameFAQs and Reddit, you just have to look around.
 
Time Turner said:
Well, we can argue connotation versus denotation, but regardless, it's not necessarily wrong for extremist to be used that way. It's like the different between "smell" and "aroma": they both have similar denotations, so it wouldn't be wrong to use them interchangeably, but one obviously has more positive connotations than the other. Point being, I'm a Literature student and being pedantic is engraved in my brain.
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It's not inherently wrong, but you can't just call people like nightram59 (he collects Mario stuff to the point where he has a world record on the sheer amount of merchandise) a Mario extremist due to their devotion to whatever passion they have. It's an nasty word for nasty people or used by nasty people to describe those that disagree with them.

Phyllis said:
Not really sure what the big deal is with BLOF's choice of words. It's pretty much conclusive from the context of the discussion what she meant and I understood it perfectly. That's the beautiful thing about language: Literal meaning is amplified, specified, bent, or even inverted through the magic that is context.

Anyway, I share the opinion that every fanbase has nutcases and demonizing the entirety of them is unfair. Like, I've encountered my fair share of rabid Zelda fans for example, and I could talk ad nauseam about what pisses me off about things that have been thrown at me from that direction, but to go and think everyone who likes Zelda is a raving lunatic would be foolish, silly, and uncalled for.

For some reason people tend to view fandoms as a single entity rather than a large group of individual people. Hearing some vague bull*bleep* from one corner results in that bull*bleep* getting attributed to the whole group. Like, the entire fandom is one big hivemind, and reading one stupid comment somewhere means that the entire fandom has said it. As if, every time a post is about to be made, the entire fandom merges into a huge gelatinous blobmonster, writes that post in unison, and then splits up again.

It's all very silly.
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Just like cliques and stereotypes. I usually careful to add "the more crazy parts", but I often slip up and generalize the entire fanbase.
 
Am I the only one who thinks the people complaining about Justin Bieber are getting almost as, if not more annoying than the guy himself? I mean, yes, I won't deny he's an obnoxious brat, but all the jokes about his singing are getting pretty old.
 
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