Ook, I'll try to make things snappy, and separate my peeves into Gaming and OT versions. Funny enough, lots of the people that most annoy me in the gaming forum are the people that I most agree with in the OT forum, and vice versa.
Gaming:
1. Insecure Nintendo fanboys. I'm a Nintendo fan, but I like them for their quality games. The people who are constantly hoping for Nintendo to reclaim #1 in the console race and who're consistently fickle (ha, nice oxymoron) about Nintendo's potential fate annoy the fuck out of me. Who gives a fuck if Nintendo isn't the #1 console seller anymore? They're still making a shitload of profit, so there's no need to worry about them going anywhere. Just play the games and stop whining. If you're so desperate to be on the "winning team", just become a Sony fanboy already.
2. PSP nazis/DS haters. I hate how there seems to be an elitist contingent of people who've decreed that the PSP is the only worthwhile handheld (*cough* Drinky *cough*). I'm sorry that you're insecure about purchasing an overpriced shitty movie/mp3 player, with only a handful of decent games, and without a very promising future.
3. Any threads involving Matt Cassamassawhatshisface. I think this probably has a lot to do with why there're so many of #1, since Matt himself is so fickle about Nintendo's future.
4. Fanboyism for any console, and taste elitism.
OT:
1. "Forum personalities" are annoying. What is this, fucking high school? Most of the posters here that I like are people who just go about making intelligent points and being funny when it's called for, without caring about how much attention they get for it. Attention whores in general are the bane of msg boards.
2. Mod fascism. I like some of the mods (Hito, Bishop, Evilore come to mind), but sometimes it gets out of control when rules are too strictly enforced (another interesting paradox
). It should be pretty obvious when people are out of line, and when they're not. But I guess I wouldn't know...
3. Circle-jerking. It's good that there're more females around these days, because I never really liked all the machismo going around at times. That's part of why I stopped posting here for a while (which I doubt anyone noticed
), but like I said, it's better now.
4. Smashing Pumpkins fans.
Talk about insecure people...I think it's because they think they're superior people for liking the Pumpkins, despite the fact that critical opinion of the band isn't really that high, generally. So they take it out by making stupid comparisons to bands that have nothing to do with SP. Like say, Pavement. And I'm not naming any names here.