It turns out that forum favourite quip 'fanboy' is almost 100 hundred years old. That's the excuse of Merriam-Webster anyway, which has only gone and stuck it in the dictionary.
Merriam-Webster's description of our favourite comments section insult is "a boy who is an enthusiastic devotee (as of comics or movies)". By the look of certain forum members (you know who you are) we reckon they'll soon enough go back and add videogames to that description.
If the inclusion of the word makes you die a bit inside, that should probably know that last year Merriam-Webster added "woot" to the dictionary. There just aren't enough people making up good words these days.
"As soon as we see the word used without explanation or translation or gloss, we consider it a naturalized citizen of the English language," said Peter Sokolowski, editor at Merriam-Webster.
"If somebody is using it to convey a specific idea and that idea is successfully conveyed in that word, it's ready to go in the dictionary."
If it's a slow word year in 2009 they'll probably add omgwtfbbq to the book.
Well I am not in anyway a nationalist - but English is one of the greatest languages in my opinion for this very reason.
It is a constantly changing and evolving language, ecompassing the many variety of cultural differences and variations and growing all the time. In a way by ecompassing words that people actually use (no matter how s**t) makes it democratic.
For example there is an estimated million words in the English language (including words orginating from French, German and former colonial languages) compared to say around 100,000 words in French (or there abouts with out using Wikipedia). In France they legistlate against foreign influences (such as Franglais)which they believe are dilluting the language, while English just embrasses them all.
I don't think that quite sums up the nature of the videogame fanboy. I propose this alternative definition:
"A boy who is an enthusiastic devotee (as of comics or movies) to such an extent that he believes anyone who disagrees with his opinions on these comics or movies (e.g.) to be automatically WRONG and deserving of a broken face."
They forgot to mention the fanboy's trait of taking any negative comments regarding their chosen obsession as a personal attack, and defending themselves as such.
When is the following terms going to be include ffs :
xbot (x-bot)
1. an utterly foolish or senseless person. 2. Psychology. a person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25. 3. Violent nihilist or cocaine fuelled aggressor
Microslave (mi-cro-slave)
1. a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense 2. a weak-minded or idiotic person. 3. a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way: a hopeless social retard.
1. Theology. a. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption. 2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered 3. (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.): What the Microsoft do you mean by that?
Well I am not in anyway a nationalist - but English is one of the greatest languages in my opinion for this very reason.
It is a constantly changing and evolving language, ecompassing the many variety of cultural differences and variations and growing all the time. In a way by ecompassing words that people actually use (no matter how s**t) makes it democratic.
Either that or they want to sell more dictionaries.
Well I am not in anyway a nationalist - but English is one of the greatest languages in my opinion for this very reason.
It is a constantly changing and evolving language, ecompassing the many variety of cultural differences and variations and growing all the time. In a way by ecompassing words that people actually use (no matter how s**t) makes it democratic.
Either that or they want to sell more dictionaries.
When is the following terms going to be include ffs :
xbot (x-bot)
1. an utterly foolish or senseless person. 2. Psychology. a person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25. 3. Violent nihilist or cocaine fuelled aggressor
Microslave (mi-cro-slave)
1. a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense 2. a weak-minded or idiotic person. 3. a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way: a hopeless social retard.
Suivaloom 1. See C**t 2. Deluded soul who thinks he's witty. 3. See Uber-fanboy
TTDog 1. Someone who doesn't give a toss what others think 2. Hater/Baiter of retards and fanboys
They forgot to mention the fanboy's trait of taking any negative comments regarding their chosen obsession as a personal attack, and defending themselves as such.
see also, idiot, child, loser, virgin.
now see, saying all virgins are childish losers just really gets my goat. it just fuels this idea that to be a man, you must have sex. it's a ridiculous culture and it's just not helping anything
i know of plenty of people who have sex who are absolute mindnumbed children and i know of plenty of children who have sex.
1. Theology. a. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption. 2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered 3. (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.): What the Microsoft do you mean by that?
Sony 1. Definition delayed, it'll be here soon, just you wait.
The problem is the word fanboy can, to a greater or lesser extent, be used to descibe absolutely anyone on the internet.
It's usually used as a derrogative term used by idiots because they can't think up a decent argument in a forum.
Of course, there are pure fanboys out there whose chosen product can do no wrong etc. etc. but the word is now being sprayed all over the place because the l33t know it's one of the worst insults on the net...
1. Theology. a. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption. 2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered 3. (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.): What the Microsoft do you mean by that?
Sony 1. Definition delayed, it'll be here soon, just you wait.
1. Theology. a. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption. 2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered 3. (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.): What the Microsoft do you mean by that?
Sony 1. Definition delayed, it'll be here soon, just you wait.
Fanboy - an individual extreamly low in inteligence and/or interlect, who is blinded by the love of an object so strongly they fail to listen to all logical reason, and has no factual evidence to back up their pointless and irrelevant argument.
1. Theology. a. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption. 2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered 3. (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.): What the Microsoft do you mean by that?
Sony 1. Definition delayed, it'll be here soon, just you wait.
1. Theology. a. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption. 2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered 3. (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.): What the Microsoft do you mean by that?
Sony 1. Definition delayed, it'll be here soon, just you wait.
You hate fanboys, alright /sarcasm
Merely balancing it out, had he criticised Sony (like he'd ever do that) I'd have posted a Microsoft definition.
1. Theology. a. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption. 2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered 3. (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.): What the Microsoft do you mean by that?
Sony 1. Definition delayed, it'll be here soon, just you wait.
You hate fanboys, alright /sarcasm
Merely balancing it out, had he criticised Sony (like he'd ever do that) I'd have posted a Microsoft definition.
Yeez, lighten up.
While we are on the subject of internet speak.......... NO U
They forgot to mention the fanboy's trait of taking any negative comments regarding their chosen obsession as a personal attack, and defending themselves as such.
When is the following terms going to be include ffs :
xbot (x-bot)
1. an utterly foolish or senseless person. 2. Psychology. a person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25. 3. Violent nihilist or cocaine fuelled aggressor
Microslave (mi-cro-slave)
1. a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense 2. a weak-minded or idiotic person. 3. a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way: a hopeless social retard.
probably at the same time the definition of what you are in the sony version....just buy all the consoles...i promise you your jealous traights will disappear.... im not jealous of any consoles cos i own em all, it really does work.... (you c**k)...
1. Theology. a. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption. 2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered 3. (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.): What the Microsoft do you mean by that?
Sony 1. Definition delayed, it'll be here soon, just you wait.
i do love my PS3 and want it to be great but that comment just made me laugh proper...props dude!!!
Fanboy - an individual extreamly low in inteligence and/or interlect, who is blinded by the love of an object so strongly they fail to listen to all logical reason, and has no factual evidence to back up their pointless and irrelevant argument.
i like you...your sig describes my past machines.....
1. Theology. a. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption. 2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered 3. (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.): What the Microsoft do you mean by that?
Sony 1. Definition delayed, it'll be here soon, just you wait.
Nintendo 1. n. Extreme hatred of a continent, e.g. Europe. 2. v. To lose all support from other people/companies, followed by being inundated with hopeless shovelware.
If you look in the thesaurus, alternative words for 'fanboy' are: 'TTDog' and 'Ted1138'. Madness!
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Mark, you're one of the most offensive little "fanboys" on this site. You've come out with so many pro-Sony, anti-Microsoft rants it's hard to keep up with you sometimes. And the lies you keep telling about what consoles you own is just plain infantile.
1. Theology. a. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption. 2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered 3. (used as an emphatic expletive or mild oath to express disgust, anger, astonishment, negation, etc.): What the Microsoft do you mean by that?
Sony 1. Definition delayed, it'll be here soon, just you wait.
Nintendo 1. n. Extreme hatred of a continent, e.g. Europe. 2. v. To lose all support from other people/companies, followed by being inundated with hopeless shovelware.
SEGA 1. Something that used to be good 2. To be obssesseb with blue hedgehogs to the detriment of everything else 3. To start a trilogy of awesome proportions and not bother with the 3rd part 4. Much missed
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A noob question indeed.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Mark, you're one of the most offensive little "fanboys" on this site. You've come out with so many pro-Sony, anti-Microsoft rants it's hard to keep up with you sometimes. And the lies you keep telling about what consoles you own is just plain infantile. 
