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Fanboys: These Days’ Mods and Rockers

By Jens | Published: March 2, 2010
When I was writing about the iPad and technicity, I noticed that the notion of technicity can also be applied to the scourge of the game world: Fanboys, and their hatred of other people’s choices. To recapitulate what technicity means: it is an “aspect of identity expressed through the subject’s relationship with technology. Particular tastes [...]
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Wii really can’t argue with reasons like this

By Jens | Published: November 29, 2007
Fanboys, that scourge of mankind, number 8 on the list of the worst consumer tech trends and blind adherents to corporations that (optimistically) feel about one tenth of the passion for them that they do for their gadgets.  No one wants to argue with them unless they have a fetish for insults. If you can’t resist [...]
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