Worst Fan Base Out There

[Irony's Acolyte]

Colbert's thinly-veiled satire is easily identifiable, and that makes his extreme Left Wing perspective stick in the mind of Leftists who let him do all of the thinking for them with his sarcastic tone.

I really hate it when people think I'm an idiot when, in fact, they're misreading what I said.

Eh, I just figure he's making fun of the extreme right-wingers like Glen Beck or Bill O'Rily. You can mock one side without supporting the other.

And I never said you were an idiot. Just thought you misread him. It seems I misread you instead.

The funny thing is that Colbert and Stewart are rather fair in the sense that they have a satirical take on news as a whole, not with such a pronounced bias. The problem is, however, that many of their fans around the world, mostly young people from 15-25, allow the satire of the Right-Wing news outlets to form their entire opinion. Many young people look down their nose at Conservatives or, in America's case, Republicans, and see them as just as biased a caricature as Beck's fans se Liberals/Socialists.

And although you seem smart enough, I can tell that this applies to you as well, for as soon as I typed "extremist news" and mentioned Glen Beck, your mind jumped straight to Right-Wingers being the extremists.

Hey, I know that there are Left-wing extremist just as there are Right-wing extremists. I never said that all extremists are right-wing. The only reason why I focused on the Right rather than the Left (as if they could be so easily grouped...) was because Glen Beck is conservative and the Stephen Colbert Report is a satire of right-wing news shows, which were the two examples you gave. Hence Right-Wing Extremists were foremost in my mind rather than Left-Wing Extremists.

I do agree that most people don't really bother to actually find out what the Right actually believes before they start bashing them though. I'll admit I don't know a huge amount about what different conservatives believe, but I try to avoid criticizing them about it due to said ignorance.

 

[Sunrider]

The League of Legends community. Guess why I stopped playing.

I actually made a thread here about how bad the LoL community was a few months ago. Seriously, if I didn't play with IRL friends all the time I would have quit a long time ago.

I don't have any IRL friends playing LoL, and it was hard to make friends, so I went back to Heroes of Newerth. I can't believe I actually like this community better, seeing as it is horrid. But I guess that goes for the entire DotA genre.

I've always heard HoN has an even worse community. But yeah, you are totally right. For whatever reason the DoTA genre (if it can be called that at this point) has the most hostile player-base I have ever been a part of.

HoN had a worse community, until recently (or, the last five-six months), when LoL became insanely popular. Now it's a cesspool of bad manners, basically. I won't turn this into a LoL vs. HoN discussion, since I like both games, but in my experience, the LoL community is worse nowadays. Pretty sad, because it was alright when I started playing, when the game wasn't HUGE.

The sad part is, despite all the money and popularity LoL has received, Riot still can't manage to act like a professional company. I like the devs well enough, but the business-end is handled very poorly. That may have something to do with why LoL is full of whining brats... that and the fact that its F2P. XP

That's one of my problems with it too. With all those microtransactions, LoL is basically printing money for them, but they are still struggling with the servers and whatnot. I mean, sure, it takes some time to adjust, but this is bordering stupid right now.

 

[Alexander Cunningham]

Honestly? All fanbases piss me off. Because mosst of the time the fans are piss drinking assholes who will defend even the owrst game/movie/band.

 

[Kolby Jack]

Looks like half of these posts in this topic are more "I hate fans of this things that I hate because I hate it" rather than "I hate these fans because they are fucking annoying."

That said, I am a Sonic fan (big time since I was a kid), but I have stopped talking about Sonic and his games with anyone because everybody falls into one of two categories: The Sonic haters "OHHHH WHY DOESN'T SEGA JUST KILL HIM ALREADY ALL HIS GAMES SUCK AND HE'LL NEVER COME BACK FROM THIS!!!!" No, that's not true. Sure, he's had a run of bad games, but the portable titles were always decent, Sonic 4 is doing well, and Unleashed's day stages were pretty awesome. Sonic Colors expanded on those stages and was praised by most. Then there are the Sonic fanatics "NOOOOOO YER LYING I LURVED EVERY SONIC GAME EVER PEOPLE WHO CRITICIZE HIS GAMES JUST NEVER LIKED HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Also not true. Well, maybe some people are like that, but nobody can really deny that Sonic had a bad, bad, BAD run of games since the Dreamcast days and has only recently started to get any better. Denying that Sonic games have flaws, especially glaring ones, just hurts the series as a whole, and far more than any harsh criticism would. You love Sonic, I get it, but you aren't doing him any favors. Shut up.

So yea, both of those people are extremely annoying, and I've met only a few people in the real world or the internet who aren't either.

 

[Deoxys0125]

In fact, I hereby take back everything I said in my last comment, in favour of ranting about the religious types. They are the true, worst fanbase ever. If you don't believe exactly what I believe you're going to be eternally punished whilst on Earth; then in death when you think you are safe you will have no choice but to retreat into the fiery pits of purgatory. The preachers - you know who I mean. Yes we accept you believe in a (or multiple) God(s), and that you have some sort of 'higher calling'; but that doesn't mean you have to force it down our throats! I'm no atheist, and I'm open to the possibility of these things existing and maybe even being true; but we made our decision not to follow a religion, just as you probably made yours to follow one, so be as accepting of us as we are of you if you please. Anyway, rant over, I just genuinely do NOT like people who do that.

 

[Ickorus]

Forums: 4Chan fans. (Fuck off, seriously)

Not every board is alike im guessing you either went to /v/ or /b/

Yeah but it's not due to a visit that I don't like them, it's the fact that they can't keep themselves to themselves, also they act like it's some exclusive members only club when it's really just the cesspit of the internet. (Once again, referring to /b/ & /v/ in general, don't know much about the other ones so can't comment on them)

 

[Magicman10893]

Movies - Twilight*
Books - Harry Potter*
Games - Bioware
Music - Bieber

*Yes, I know that they are both movies and books, but the Twilight fans are slobbering over the movies more and the Harry Potter fans are slobbering over the books more.

 

[Dragunai]

I actually might be able to explain where the hatred for foreigners on X-Box Live started. Not sure if you've been on X-Box live pre 360, but back in the old X-Box days when X-Box Live first started it was setup very different There wasn't as many servers and the network was not as robust as it is today. The way you created an account was also different. X-Box Live had several different regions where I'm guessing their server farms were located. There was East Coast USA, West Coast USA, Midwest, etc. A European region was added later.

When you were creating an account you could pick a region. X Box live advised you to pick the region closest to where you lived to ensure you had the best lag. The thing was, you could pick any region you wanted regardless of where you lived. If for example you lived in Europe you could still pick the West Coast USA region and play on the West Coast servers. The problem was whenever someone did that it would make any game they join on that server slow to a crawl.

I was playing on the East Coast USA region. Whenever someone with a European accent would join in a game the game would become laggy as hell. And this was serious lag. This was hardcore lag. This lag did not fuck around as we say. Nine times out of ten the reason for major lag was because somebody in Europe was playing on an American server. This understandably annoyed a lot of people. The thinking was "why is this European asshole lagging up the American servers when there are perfectly good European servers he can use?"

There was a big gap between X-Box and X-Box 360 where I wasn't on X-Box Live but it seems like those issues have been largely corrected. X-Box Live has improved matchmaking and you're no longer allowed to pick a region of servers to play on. You instead just select whatever country you live in. Granted if people in different countries try to play together in the same game it will lag but not nearly as bad as it did in the old days. Yet I keep hearing that lots of Americans are still giving foreigners a hard time on X-Box live. I'm guessing that even though the server issues were fixed the hatred towards foreigners still continued out of tradition.

I'm not 100% sure if that's the reason why but I'm pretty sure it is.

This wasn't really the case though. I can understand your point and do. But this was when I literally joined a pregame lobby for a highrise round on MW2 and these 2 kids instantly started giving me aggro before I had finished loading in. They sounded too young to have been around in the xbox classic days to have been subject to the above reasoning.

Reality is some people are just tragic bastards with big mouths who hide behind their monitor.
I also made sure to include a UK example of abuse in the COD fan base as well to make a point of not raging on the USA as I have met a lot of really decent American games. Oddly enough most of the nice ones reside on L4D 1&2, I met some black American dudes (you can tell from their voices and way they speak awesomely enough) on Gears of war 1&2 and they were also really funny and chilled out guys, great to game with.

Just seems to be the wannabe baby gangsta hardmen in the COD games who haven't hit puberty yet that have the issues.

On behalf of all normal Americans that play games to have fun and arent asshole douchebags I am sorry.

OT: I'm gonna say its between CoD or Battlefield and Twilight or Justin Bieber.

Battlefield and CoD are locked in massive and close Douche off to see who's got a bigger amount of hate and poison in their fan base.

Twilight and Bieber are trying to see who can turn a large portion of males into homicidal maniacs fastest.

Again man, its not all Americans. I encounter just as many English douches in COD games which is why when I play Black Ops to kill some time until my friends come on so we can play Bad Company 2 together I usually sit in a party with someone in my friends list to avoid hearing them play their chav music, cussing each other and generally talking with the IQ of a brain damaged rock.

I do, sadly, have to disagree with you on the BF suggestion. Whenever I've played it on my own and talking in-game chat I've had nothing but pleasant conversations with decent gamers from around the world.

I know this isn't exactly on topic and I'm not making a racial slur. Just want to ask.

Has anyone else noticed the sudden MASSIVE surge in french players these days?
When I'm on Black ops on those rare occasions where I listen to in game chat), TF2 or just about any other massively played online game I have found that the UK / American player base seems to have peeled away into mostly french players. Not an objection as I have no beef with them. It's just the sudden surge in their numbers that caught me off guard.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

Damn you double post!

 

[Hawk eye1466]

Again man, its not all Americans. I encounter just as many English douches in COD games which is why when I play Black Ops to kill some time until my friends come on so we can play Bad Company 2 together I usually sit in a party with someone in my friends list to avoid hearing them play their chav music, cussing each other and generally talking with the IQ of a brain damaged rock.

I do, sadly, have to disagree with you on the BF suggestion. Whenever I've played it on my own and talking in-game chat I've had nothing but pleasant conversations with decent gamers from around the world.

I know this isn't exactly on topic and I'm not making a racial slur. Just want to ask.

Has anyone else noticed the sudden MASSIVE surge in french players these days?
When I'm on Black ops on those rare occasions where I listen to in game chat), TF2 or just about any other massively played online game I have found that the UK / American player base seems to have peeled away into mostly french players. Not an objection as I have no beef with them. It's just the sudden surge in their numbers that caught me off guard.

Tell me what times you play! I need normal people who aren't trying to piss me off to talk to!
But you are right it's only been a few occasions that there have been huge pains in the ass and only 1 time I can remember that I got mad enough to snap a controller in my hands. But to be fair that was only because he was sending me messages on how great it was that I kept letting him kill me while he was a sniper with a shotgun, AND HIS PROFILE BIO WAS NOTHING BUT HIM GOING ON ABOUT HE DIDNT USE A "WUSSY SNIPER CLASS OR GAY SHOT GUNS" BURN YOU BASTARD I WILL FIND YOU!!!! Sorry he was a big pain in the ass.

 

[shadyh8er]

There should be two categories of anime fans. Fans of anime, and fans of animu. What's the difference between anime and animu? Anime is the term for Japanese animation; Animu is that low-quality, generic, fan service filled shlock weeaboos drool over.

You mean like High School of the Dead?

 

[Dragunai]

Again man, its not all Americans. I encounter just as many English douches in COD games which is why when I play Black Ops to kill some time until my friends come on so we can play Bad Company 2 together I usually sit in a party with someone in my friends list to avoid hearing them play their chav music, cussing each other and generally talking with the IQ of a brain damaged rock.

I do, sadly, have to disagree with you on the BF suggestion. Whenever I've played it on my own and talking in-game chat I've had nothing but pleasant conversations with decent gamers from around the world.

I know this isn't exactly on topic and I'm not making a racial slur. Just want to ask.

Has anyone else noticed the sudden MASSIVE surge in french players these days?
When I'm on Black ops on those rare occasions where I listen to in game chat), TF2 or just about any other massively played online game I have found that the UK / American player base seems to have peeled away into mostly french players. Not an objection as I have no beef with them. It's just the sudden surge in their numbers that caught me off guard.

Tell me what times you play! I need normal people who aren't trying to piss me off to talk to!
But you are right it's only been a few occasions that there have been huge pains in the ass and only 1 time I can remember that I got mad enough to snap a controller in my hands. But to be fair that was only because he was sending me messages on how great it was that I kept letting him kill me while he was a sniper with a shotgun, AND HIS PROFILE BIO WAS NOTHING BUT HIM GOING ON ABOUT HE DIDNT USE A "WUSSY SNIPER CLASS OR GAY SHOT GUNS" BURN YOU BASTARD I WILL FIND YOU!!!! Sorry he was a big pain in the ass.

Best way to deal with them is keep laughing at them, and saying "Yeah dude, awesome stuff."

Or my personal favorite - Speaking in a really pretentious upper class English accent while denigrating them.

"Mhmm, Judging from the way you speak you're clearly very poor. Should you be spending your Dole money / Welfare money (strike off as applicable) on Xbox live? I thought you and the 20 other children who, like you, don't know who THEIR fathers are, would need it for food? Then again I guess your mom is drunk on vodka in a back ally making brother or sister number 21 right now eh? So you lack proper guidance, there there"

I'm not a total prick like this in real life but when some guy is giving you an attitude popping a seriously stuck up English attitude and mocking his heritage is such an easy head shot.

Adding "There there," in false pity is a nice addition too. makes the point that you're patronizing them as well as holding superiority over them and egos online are all they got.

Additionally this can lead the way for cock blocking all come backs.
"You're moms a whore" / "Perhaps, but I know my mom... and my dad. In fact they are married. You're just another wedlock baby aren't you? The literal meaning of bastard. How sad,"

"You're shit at the game," / "I guess I am, probably has a lot to do with me working in (add job here) paying taxes for you to use to buy XBL and ... well food. I'd be good at the game too if, like you, I stayed at home doing drugs, 12yr old girls and ... well nothing... there there,"

It goes on and on and is so much fun because most COD players are idiots, low lives or 12 haha

 

[Hawk eye1466]

Again man, its not all Americans. I encounter just as many English douches in COD games which is why when I play Black Ops to kill some time until my friends come on so we can play Bad Company 2 together I usually sit in a party with someone in my friends list to avoid hearing them play their chav music, cussing each other and generally talking with the IQ of a brain damaged rock.

I do, sadly, have to disagree with you on the BF suggestion. Whenever I've played it on my own and talking in-game chat I've had nothing but pleasant conversations with decent gamers from around the world.

I know this isn't exactly on topic and I'm not making a racial slur. Just want to ask.

Has anyone else noticed the sudden MASSIVE surge in french players these days?
When I'm on Black ops on those rare occasions where I listen to in game chat), TF2 or just about any other massively played online game I have found that the UK / American player base seems to have peeled away into mostly french players. Not an objection as I have no beef with them. It's just the sudden surge in their numbers that caught me off guard.

Tell me what times you play! I need normal people who aren't trying to piss me off to talk to!
But you are right it's only been a few occasions that there have been huge pains in the ass and only 1 time I can remember that I got mad enough to snap a controller in my hands. But to be fair that was only because he was sending me messages on how great it was that I kept letting him kill me while he was a sniper with a shotgun, AND HIS PROFILE BIO WAS NOTHING BUT HIM GOING ON ABOUT HE DIDNT USE A "WUSSY SNIPER CLASS OR GAY SHOT GUNS" BURN YOU BASTARD I WILL FIND YOU!!!! Sorry he was a big pain in the ass.

Best way to deal with them is keep laughing at them, and saying "Yeah dude, awesome stuff."

Or my personal favorite - Speaking in a really pretentious upper class English accent while denigrating them.

"Mhmm, Judging from the way you speak you're clearly very poor. Should you be spending your Dole money / Welfare money (strike off as applicable) on Xbox live? I thought you and the 20 other children who, like you, don't know who THEIR fathers are, would need it for food? Then again I guess your mom is drunk on vodka in a back ally making brother or sister number 21 right now eh? So you lack proper guidance, there there"

I'm not a total prick like this in real life but when some guy is giving you an attitude popping a seriously stuck up English attitude and mocking his heritage is such an easy head shot.

Adding "There there," in false pity is a nice addition too. makes the point that you're patronizing them as well as holding superiority over them and egos online are all they got.

Additionally this can lead the way for cock blocking all come backs.
"You're moms a whore" / "Perhaps, but I know my mom... and my dad. In fact they are married. You're just another wedlock baby aren't you? The literal meaning of bastard. How sad,"

"You're shit at the game," / "I guess I am, probably has a lot to do with me working in (add job here) paying taxes for you to use to buy XBL and ... well food. I'd be good at the game too if, like you, I stayed at home doing drugs, 12yr old girls and ... well nothing... there there,"

It goes on and on and is so much fun because most COD players are idiots, low lives or 12 haha

I will definatly do this but I would not want to piss you off reading this makes me think your some kind of mind terrorist.
But still Brilliant comebacks.

 

[Dragunai]

I will definatly do this but I would not want to piss you off reading this makes me think your some kind of mind terrorist.
But still Brilliant comebacks.

Hahaha. I do what I can.
Enjoy ^_^