So I'm reading through the comments in the news-post regarding the inclusion of demos in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. For the record, I'm not a big fan of the series, but I thought that the latest news was sort of interesting, so I wanted to hear what my fellow gamers had to say on the subject. And that's when I came to the following post.

holy look at all the fanboys for nintendo. All their games suck and all they can look forwards to is a cheap fighter knockoff using characters out of all their first party games. And look the fanboys go to all the pro nintendo statements and add thumbs up, dojo possibly? Thats really lame, the game is nowhere near the greatest games ever, mindless fun sure, just like any first person shooter minus the longevity of course, storyline, and/or lack of originality. Yea nintendo milk Link, Mario, and Metroid for as long as you can. Thats all you got, 3rd party support will kill the Wii-tard revolution soon enough.

Now, I'm the sort of guy who gets annoyed when I read crap like this. There is absolutely no place in rational discussion for people who's IQ is outclassed by that of the crap I take after eating at Taco Bell, yet this stuff is more common than free BJs back-stage at a Maddona concert.

It's just pitiful to see people irrationally striking out at other people over something like this, when we should all be united by our love of the hobby. People are all too quick to jump on the jerkwad bandwagon, when at the end of the day the name on your favorite fun-box is inconsquential as anything other than a means to an end. It's the games that matter, and it's right there in the word we use to describe us! We are gamers, not Playstationeers, XBoxers, or Nintendolphins, or whatever stupid name you might want to attach to us. Some of us have placed all too much importance on the wrong aspect of the hobby, and it's pretty-much been the source for all the stupid crap we have to wade through when those of us with IQs in the positive make the mistake of thinking that we can discuss the hobby with like-minded individuals.

I know that this guy didn't say anything about what console he favors in his little rant there, but one can assume that he was motivated to ape-spit there by an unspoken love for a console that doesn't have Nintendo's name on it. Why else would someone be compelled to trash Nintendo, it's games, and the people who play them? If he's not a fan-boy of either Sony, Microsoft, or the PC platform, then he's just being a jerkwad for the sake of it, and so in his case it would almost be better if his mentally-deranged ranting was motivated by being a fan-boy.

Whatever the case may be though, he said a lot of inane things for no good reason, and that in a nut-shell is why I'm becoming increasingly more ashamed of being a gamer. You like what you like, and nobody is going to tell you otherwise, including myself. I'm here simply asking that if any of you should feel the need to abandon all common sense and reason in order to bash something you don't like amidst people who do just to make yourself feel a little bit better about your beloved game-box, that you think twice. You gain nothing from it, and you're forever branded a jerk by those who's brains function on a level above that of mayonnaise that's been left out in the sun for a week.

In closing, I'd like to leave you with the immortal....initialism of some random guy on the gaming blog Destructiod; STFUAJPG. After all, that's what being a gamer is all about. Just playing games.