"You will NEVER be a real fan!!! I was a fan since 1989! I'm more of a fan of this game series than most of you cause you weren't even alive then! See?! SEE?!?!??
How do you respond to this behavior?
"You will NEVER be a real fan!!! I was a fan since 1989! I'm more of a fan of this game series than most of you...
You don't, they have a point, if someone has way more knowledge and experience in something they most likely know best.
I don't consider myself a "fan", I just like [game].
Okay, but what if they're like a really huge asshole about it and you also actually do know more than they do?
I do this, but only as a reaction when somebody who's clearly new starts getting argumentative and uppity about shit they obviously know nothing about (or who's knowledge comes exclusively from youtube videos), I don't phrase it like that though. An example would be recently when people started arguing that underwater combat in Monster Hunter was actually good and should come back.
Conceed my argument because he's right.
It sounds like an oldfag btfo'd your retarded ass so you're looking for validation on an anonymous image board because it's low commitment and even if people now call you a fag it's easy enough to just slink off and try again later.
I played that game and underwater was fun fuck you.
you should always listen to people who are older than you
no exceptions
Accept your inferiority as a junior newbie fan of said game and acknowledge that your seniors are fundamentally better than you are since they were there from the beginning and thus know the game on a level you can't comprehend no matter how much time you may invest
call him a sped for the outburst then quietly agree with him after seeing how dogshit modern fanbases have become like guilty gear
Have self-awareness and respond accordingly or just don't.
Some veterans are shit and their hobbies even with years of experience or they get stuck in the past knowledge wise and don't learn anything new.
Well fans don't really get to decide who else can be a fan of a third party's creation if said third party allows everyone to access it. It's absurd for anyone to assume such authority, and I refuse to acknowledge it if they do.
imagine if they remade shrek 1 instead of making shrek 5. it would suck, but it be better than the latter.
He's right
Ok, boomer.
immediately submitting to a hypothetical oldfag claiming authority over you with a completely imagined seniority
careful not to choke on that boot anon
I thought gatekeeping kept fandoms “pure”
I turn 360 degrees and walk away.
Only the media itself can gatekeep by being so inaccessible that it repels new people, never once in history have fans of something managed to gatekeep it.
How do you respond to this behavior?
I kneel.
He is the one true fan.
Sonic has existed for over 30 years, and in that long ru,n not once have they ever put out a good game. Sonic is shit, has always been shit, and will be forever shit.
grow up
There's no point in arguing with millennials, just shake your head and walk away
Ignore them. He's just a grossly insecure loser wanting attention for being a "true fan", when that means absolutly fucking nothing.
Doubly so if they post on Anon Babble.
Okay, but the music is great
This.
but what practical occasion requires the expert knowledge of a Wizardry fan?
I do this only with franchises I know nothing about.
Secondary cope
Lot of submissive anons here
You can't, they're right.
Youtube secondaries that parrot shitty ecelebs are the worst
No mommies here though
by kneeling
Secondaries? You’re not the annoying fallout anon are you? That’s the only person i know who uses that term
What do fans even do for anything anyways?
Zoomers in general seem to be overwhelmingly submissive in some way or another. It's kind of pathetic. Maybe faux news was right about the masculinity crisis
Anon what are you talking about
That sounds vere unlikely.
This.
You do what Monster Hunter fans did. You make Oldfags your BITCH who bow down to their Newfag GODs who started with World or later.
QRD on Farquaad? Who is he as it relates to Anon Babble?
You know it's funny, Farquad could have just declared himself king that whole time and avoided the entire issue.
underwater combat was not good, and it should come back.
I kneel.
Based kneelmind.
Test their knowledge. If they actually know more than you then stop arguing.
I kneel.
How can you test them in this way without knowing more than you know?
fanatic acts fanatical
!!!!!!
Well you should know at least something about the game you're talking about. So once you begin discussing it you should see discrepancies between your knowledge and theirs. Then you can either call them out on claiming to know more than they do, or you learn something new and you know that they aren't bullshitting.
Shut up niglet
CHICKEN JOKEY!
*chomps*