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Your meetings with Fandom people; Tragedy Thread
Topic Started: Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:26 pm (572 Views)
Miro Fortan
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Let it be Bronies, Superwholock, Hussieists, Dangan Roncrap, Sonic Fans, Mormons or Weeaboos. We all know what fandom means.

Tell how you've involved with their atrocities, or how they attacked you and tried to drag you in their satanic rituals.
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NewStuffs
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Well I haven't actually met them in person, per say. But I am a member a other message boards where I have talked to and/or witnessed a few.

And let me tell you, there's nothing I hate more than a fanboy.
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ReloadPsi
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I've spoken to a person who thought The Bouncer was a really good game. He and his brother also still thought Sephiroth was the best villain in the history of anything after the graphics were no longer too shitty that you could get a really good impression of how fucking stupid he looked.
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Bry
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I haven't seen any real life Bronies (if you don't count me passing by some jeeps with Rainbow Dash stickers on their windows), but I have trekked the terrifying spaghetti jungle that was /mlp/.

Does that count?
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Miro Fortan
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hurpdurpmanguy
Aug 29 2013, 09:17 PM
I haven't seen any real life Bronies (if you don't count me passing by some jeeps with Rainbow Dash stickers on their windows), but I have trekked the terrifying spaghetti jungle that was /mlp/.

Does that count?

I mainly thought of Internet meetings so yeah, it counts.
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MrGuy
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My university is fairly large and definitely nerd-filled, so I've seen more than a few bronies. Some of them are pleasant enough, but I do know that I've seen some of the biggest neckbeard stereotypes ever.

Once I saw a dude who was not only wearing a pinstripe fedora with a casual outfit... he had covered the fedora in pins, at least a few of which were pones. It was vaguely horrifying.
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Hamsteere
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Recently, I finished a course on video-game design (with triple distinction grades, awww yeeeah) which was great, but as you can imagine there were some...characters in there.

For bronies, there was one that was actually a great guy who didn't ram the fandom down your throat if you tried to start a conversation, and later we became pretty good friends. However, in another group there was a short, pimply, wannabee /b/ro who spouted 4chan and MLP memes at any given time. I have no idea how popular he was.

For SANIC fans, there was a guy who was autism incarnate. He was fat, scruffy, had a creepy face and sexually harassed the few girls in our group. He also made a series of pointless, droning vlogs on Youtube talking about various shit nobody cares about, ala Chris Chan. After I made a single YTP out of his videos (which I had to remove shortly after, because the college tutors found out) he completley shut down his channel. I felt like I had done the internet a service that day.
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ReloadPsi
Aug 29 2013, 08:26 PM
I've spoken to a person who thought The Bouncer was a really good game. He and his brother also still thought Sephiroth was the best villain in the history of anything after the graphics were no longer too shitty that you could get a really good impression of how fucking stupid he looked.

oh my god I remember my older brother getting the bouncer because of the demo and being solely disappointed by the onslaught of angst and hairstyles.
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BlueDudeWithATude
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There are a lot of Homestucks at my school. I don't know why.
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Bry
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The usual Naruto people at my school.
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Rockwater
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I know a guy who's such a big SEGA fanboy that he wishes the old-timey console wars were still going and thinks that Sonic having games on Nintendo consoles is heretical and wrong. He's an interesting phenomenon, actually: an artificial nostalgia brat. Despite being born on 94, he tries to wax nostalgic about the NES and the Genesis just because he read about them and because it's cool to like old games without having played them.

Other than that, a few narutards back in the day who eventually grew out of it. I never met or saw an actual brony. One of the advantages of living in the bumfuck of nowhere, I suppose. Either they're really reclusive or hide it well.

As for internet encounters, I've interacted with most major rabid fanbases out there over the years. I don't have much experience with stuff like Wholock or Harry Potter, but that's more because I tend to avoid their "core" sites like tumblr or FF.net unless I'm specifically looking for something.
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I'm friends with a guy who's really into Megaman; he has most of the games (hand-me-downs from a cousin), and a really good artist.
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Rockwater
Sep 22 2014, 09:53 PM
I know a guy who's such a big SEGA fanboy that he wishes the old-timey console wars were still going and thinks that Sonic having games on Nintendo consoles is heretical and wrong. He's an interesting phenomenon, actually: an artificial nostalgia brat. Despite being born on 94, he tries to wax nostalgic about the NES and the Genesis just because he read about them and because it's cool to like old games without having played them.

Other than that, a few narutards back in the day who eventually grew out of it. I never met or saw an actual brony. One of the advantages of living in the bumfuck of nowhere, I suppose. Either they're really reclusive or hide it well.

As for internet encounters, I've interacted with most major rabid fanbases out there over the years. I don't have much experience with stuff like Wholock or Harry Potter, but that's more because I tend to avoid their "core" sites like tumblr or FF.net unless I'm specifically looking for something.

To be fair, I was born in '93, and I have fond memories of everything from the NES up because I had older systems as hand-me-downs from my older cousins, and they had the newer stuff, so I'd play those with them.
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Rockwater
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Cyberguy64
Sep 23 2014, 12:43 AM
Rockwater
Sep 22 2014, 09:53 PM
I know a guy who's such a big SEGA fanboy that he wishes the old-timey console wars were still going and thinks that Sonic having games on Nintendo consoles is heretical and wrong. He's an interesting phenomenon, actually: an artificial nostalgia brat. Despite being born on 94, he tries to wax nostalgic about the NES and the Genesis just because he read about them and because it's cool to like old games without having played them.

Other than that, a few narutards back in the day who eventually grew out of it. I never met or saw an actual brony. One of the advantages of living in the bumfuck of nowhere, I suppose. Either they're really reclusive or hide it well.

As for internet encounters, I've interacted with most major rabid fanbases out there over the years. I don't have much experience with stuff like Wholock or Harry Potter, but that's more because I tend to avoid their "core" sites like tumblr or FF.net unless I'm specifically looking for something.

To be fair, I was born in '93, and I have fond memories of everything from the NES up because I had older systems as hand-me-downs from my older cousins, and they had the newer stuff, so I'd play those with them.

I meant more that the guy is completely artificial about it. I like retro games, too, but I understand that I wasn't born during their time, and that from an outside perspective those generations of games weren't exactly flawless, so to speak.
I actually had an NES as a hand-me-down from someone as well, now that you mention it. But it stopped working when I was 5 years old or so, and I only had light gun games for it for some reason.

This guy talks like he lived through the NES's and the Genesis' s original shelf times and that it was the best thing ever. It's like one of those "wrong generation" kids. And I know for a fact that he hasn't really played that many games from that era other than Sonic and Final Fantasy.
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Miro Fortan
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I knew Homestuck fan once who thinks Andrew Hussie is a prick, but still won't boycott the fucking comic despite boycotting a lot of other things.
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Oh man, a few years ago, I knew a guy at school and he was a huge Sonic fan. It wasn't just "just a fan" but he would bring it into everything. Later on calling himself a brony, too. He was constantly trying to make stuff about him, and pushing himself into conversations when nobody asked.
And I've known the guy all my life since he was at my first school, too... it was embarrassing. It's even more silly when you realize he dissed eight-year-old me all those years ago for liking My Little Pony. Seriously, man.

I also remember another few years ago when Twilight was a huge thing. I was not only anti-Twilight but also anti-Twilight fans and I found myself to be quite a jerk to people back then. I mean, it's a shitty franchise, and those fans were everywhere, but I was just being mean at that point. Ah well.
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Scorch XIV
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I knew somebody who could speak a little Japanese (I'm not calling her a weeaboo because she could form sentences and not shoehorn 'desu' or 'kawaii' into everything) and was a Kingdom Hearts fangirl. She also drew anime and chibis. She was actually pretty good at it.
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Heef
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I know someone who publicly quit being a furry to become a brony.

I don't know how that works.
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Bry
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How do you "publicly" quit?
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hurpdurpmanguy
Sep 23 2014, 07:32 PM
How do you "publicly" quit?

He wouldn't shut the fuck up about it. He's not been as triumphant about it recently, mind.
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