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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eosin the Red" data-source="post: 1315459" data-attributes="member: 168">I find that FANBOY is about as dispariging as GEEK. I wear both titles with pride...often commenting that "If I don't do X I will get my Geek License revoked." I am a well adjusted man with a wife, three children a home, two cars and I make enough money that my wife does not have to work. I am a fan boy of B5 but can understand how others don't grok it. I am a fan boy of GRRM but understand he is not for everyone. I was a big time Fanboy of the Wheel of Time (including a 200 page website for the RPG) but his last book really turned my stomach....I can only hope he turns it around with book 11 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Why do people who paint their bodies for football teams call Vampire people freaks? Why do people who think GRRM is worthless think that people who like GRRM will find their opinion to have any merit? Why do baseball geeks put down Gamers? Why do gamers call LARP'rs names? Why do gamers make fun of fanboys?What is wrong with being 11 in your heart and really loving something. What is wrong with choosing to ignore the negative side of something and look instead to the positive? What is wrong with enthusiam and camping all night to see Star Wars with your buddies just like you did in highschool? What is better about a condescending hateful attitude that can never cheer, only boo and hiss? What is so wrong with someone that they may not build up something but instead can only tear down the things that others find joy in?I am a geek. I am a fanboy. I have fun. For a minute I get to forget that when I leave a movie theater or the gaming table or turn off the B5 DVD that I will go to work, put on my scrubs and talk to a man who has just lost his wife of 50 years to a heart attack or a father who has lost his 16 year old son in a car wreck or a son who has lost his mother to breast cancer. I don't have to think about the 17 year old with the sheared spinal colum who keeps telling me that she will be Ok. I love to be a fan boy. I love to believe in good things and in great stories. I choose to see the good in things and ignore the bad when I can. There are enough terrible things in this word that I don't need go looking for things to tear down. Yep....Fanboy. That is where I want to be. Seems like a darn fine place to me. Just like Geek or Gamer or Nerd, all titles that I have earned by sacraficing my time and energy towards something that I enjoy that others do not understand and would rather tear down than leave alone.I just find it funny that gamers so quickly use the same tone and attitude with others that hurt us as kids.</blockquote>

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