Hi folks. Firstly, if you're reading this, thanks. Secondly, if you're reading this that means you're tracking me, which I appreciate and want you to know that in no way is this directed at any of you. I appreciate a degree of level-headed-ness in a gamer, which is why I tend to track people who don't show obvious signs of fanboy-ism. Which brings me to my point. Usually when I read an article I end up glancing at the first handful of user comments and lately have been getting f**king FURIOUS at the rampant ignorance and hypocrisy. It only gets worse when one ventures into the forums, which I don't do unless I'm totally desperate for a piece of info. Of course this phenomenon isn't exclusive to GameSpot. I also frequent 1UP and Gametrailers and it's the same trolling **** looking to poop all over someone who disagrees with them. The inspiration for this blog, however, is thanks to GS and it's awesome community. My b*tching won't really help but it helps me to vent to a group that will most likely agree. GS user DouglasBuffone recently posted a blog with some similar sentiments and I totally see where he's coming from. Hell of it all is, it's not remotely wothwhile to fire back at these people. Trying to communicate on some normal level with the unwashed masses can be extremely trying and sometimes flat-out impossible. So I fight the urge to post a comment calling people on their **** because at that point I'd be no better than these fools. I'm already not the biggest fan of humanity so I usually take people's opinions with a humongous grain of salt. But when your most loved hobby is plagued by legions of deluded morons, it becomes personal. And it kind of pains me that there's nothing I can do to stop this madness. I've always been aware of fanboys and their ridiculous ways of rationalizing their beliefs, but it wan't until this hardware generation that I truly understood the depths that these people sink to. So to wrap this rambling mess of a blog, simply put - I YEARN FOR THE TASTE OF FANBOY BLOOD. I'm probably heading to my local Gamestop tomorrow and am thinking about hanging out a while, profiling a fanboy (console preference is inconsequential) and beating the sh*t out of them. I'll let you guys know how that goes (and maybe give some impressions of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith).