Community Fallout fans analyzed. Conclusion: Not so evil?

[Trash]

Or is Trash pwning himself?

You've got to try everything once, right? :wink:

 

[Unradscorpion]

analyzed in-depth but some guy for his master

Typos, horrible things.

I avoid them whenever I can.

I heard the reductors guild is recruiting..

I still hope he has some more on why this particular fanbase can be so fanatic about the game though.

You mean Fallout fanbase are significantly more fanatic? I don't see any significance to their(our?) fanaticism. There is an equally fanatic fanbase for even the most mundane shit out there. I think all that matters to make a noteworthy mention of either fanbase is the object of fanaticism and the owner of the object. So I believe Fallout 3 and the "fanaticism" of fans are making such a noise mostly because it's Bethesda, who previously made Oblivion, the "masterpiece of gaming". If it was somebody else, another studio, fans would most probably still be equally fanatic, but minus the audiance and the spotlight.

Think of radical muslims. They want heads roll all the time, they scream like juvenile spoiled little bitches day and night, calling for Jihad or whatever the shit. They are just fucking nuts. However, you only see them under spotlight when there are cartoons published here and there, or some other similarly non-issue stuff critical of religion happens.

Note: not drawing a parallel between fallout fans and radical muslims themselves

And we are probably even more pissed because media and other people pushed Oblivion down our throats. And we know it will all repeat again...

 

[Murk]

Is Sheek NiM? Was a post deleted? Or is Trash pwning himself?

Make way, i want to sit in this confusion boat with you.

 

[Trash]

Me too.

 

[Brother None]

I read and.. what was the point he tried to make again? It lacks an overall focus and seems to be terribly limited in its scope, in where it feeds source material from and how it uses that material.

That's because those two blog posts aren't the thesis. This 140 page pdf file is the thesis.

Also note he uses only BGSF as a source, tho' he mentions other sites and events like other sites (like NMA's BoS rewrite contest).

You mean Fallout fanbase are significantly more fanatic? I don't see any significance to their(our?) fanaticism. There is an equally fanatic fanbase for even the most mundane shit out there.

Ever seen a Transformers fansite? Compared to the shit they throw at Hasbro and each other, Fallout fans are really mild.

 

[NiM82]

Is Sheek NiM

He better not be.

 

[denizsi]

That's because those two blog posts aren't the thesis. This 140 page pdf file is the thesis.

Worth taking a look at. Might even read it if first 20 pages are good enough.

Also note he uses only BGSF as a source, tho' he mentions other sites and events like other sites (like NMA's BoS rewrite contest).

I wonder how he managed to write 140 pages just using BGSF as a source, especially since there are so many other sources and past "incidents" to study, like when Tactics and FOBOS was coming out. Anyway, I read first..

 

[Claw]

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I don't see forums as viable sources. They're not even representative of their own member base half the time, a few very vocal members can alter the perception of an entire forum. Take Rosh, you could pretty much pin all the bad press NMA has got over the ages on him alone.

Isn't that more a failing of the observer than the source?