History Quotes / UnpleasableFanbase

->I want you to change, but don't change\\

They keep movin' the goalpost, don't they?\\

-->-- "Garden Party", '''Ricky Nelson'''

->''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' was a megahit. It changed video games, revitalized the arcade scene, and pleased just about everybody -- excluding, I suppose, fanatical ''VideoGame/KarateChamp'' loyalists. Naturally, fans craved more. Creator/{{Capcom}} took an "[[StrictlyFormula if it ain't broke, don't fix it]]" approach to following it up, releasing ''Street Fighter II: Champion Edition'' and then ''Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting''... But by the time Capcom unveiled ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'', many fans were turned off. "[[ItsTheSameNowItSucks Just more of the same]]," they grumbled, and went to place their quarters on the ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' and ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' cabinets. Capcom took heed and released ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha''. It was a fine game, and a good starting point for a new 2D fighting series, but I don't recall it turning many heads. "Sure, [[SoOkayItsAverage the new graphic style is nice]]," we said. "But there aren't enough characters, and most of them are just the same people, anyway. It's still too much of the same old, same old. When is ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' coming out already?" A couple years later, Capcom released ''III'', and nobody even cared. "[[TheyChangedItNowItSucks It's too different]]," we whined this time. "Who are all these new people? What happened to the old ones? What's with only being able to pick one Super Art? And besides, 2D games are practically antiques at this point. 3D games - now ''those'' are the wave of the future!" Recently, when Capcom announced ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' would contain most or all of the old cast from ''Street Fighter II'' and would be 3D, gamers were already tearing their hair out and wailing that [[PolygonCeiling it was definitely going to suck]]. I would hate to have an audience like us.

--> '''Tom Brevoort''' to a fan on his formspring.

->'''Frasier''': "What is the one thing better than an exquisite meal? An exquisite meal with one tiny flaw we can pick at all night."
->'''Niles''': Quite right. *raises glass* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_GF7CTBNSw To impossible standards!]]"

->It’s a revolution! We’re going to offend ''somebody!.''

-->-- '''John Addams''', ''Theatre/Seventeenseventysix''

->I tink Zeruda get stale, so I make [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Windu Waika.]]\\\

-->--'''Dr. Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/one-tiny-little-gap-in-the-universe-left-just-about-to-close-kinda/ on]] [[{{Recap/DoctorWhos19E3Kinda}} "Kinda"]]

->It's like the Republican base is at war with its own talking points. 'I want someone who's gonna cut taxes, and balance the budget! Someone who's a skilled orator, but doesn't talk all fancy. A child of poor immigrants, who will build a fence to keep them out of this country. Someone who's strong enough for a man, but pH-balanced for a woman. Someone who will roll up their sleeves, but not show their arms.' I feel like if [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan this guy]] came along today, the Republican response would be, 'I don't really go for those Hollywood types.' ... You guys need to take a long hard look in the mirror. You need to take a long hard look in the mirror, and not come away thinking, 'You know, there's something wrong with this mirror.'
-->-- '''Creator/JonStewart''', ''Series/TheDailyShow'', [[http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/b3go7r/indecision-2012---the-great-right-hope---the-ideal-candidate on the 2012 Republican presidential primaries]].

-->--'''Dr. Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/02/one-tiny-little-gap-in-universe-left.html on]] [[{{Recap/DoctorWhos19E3Kinda}} "Kinda"]]

The usual cautions about the tastes of ''{{Doctor Who Magazine}}'' readers apply, but what we have to remember is that this was also an era where Creator/JohnNathanTurner was [[PanderingToTheBase overtly courting fandom]] through the magazine. And here, quite frankly, we see where this becomes really, really toxic. Because by most metrics, even in [[TheEighties 1982]], it would have been clear that there are really interesting and praiseworthy things going on here and that this is a model story for how to do ''Doctor Who''. Instead, though, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the whims of fandom had sway.]]

->First, they fell in love with [[Creator/DonaldTrump Trump]], because they remembered him from back in TheEighties, when [[BreadEggsMilkSquick they were young and happy and their penises worked]]. But, "The Donald" turned out to be a lot like his hair: ridiculous, difficult to control and not very believable. So...so then they switched to Michele Bachmann. But, she lacked a certain gravitas, [[TheDitz or whatever the Latin word is for "brain."]] And she had some skeletons in her closet. [[AmbiguouslyGay Like her husband]]. So, then they dropped her and convinced Rick Perry to run. Oh, yes, finally the conservative they were all looking for. But, then something horrible happened: [[SimpletonVoice Rick started talking. And he sounded so dumb]] that now, they're even considering voting for a black guy [Herman Cain].
-->-- '''Bill Maher''', ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher'', on the 2012 Republican presidential primaries.

DATS WHY I MAKE {{WII SPORTS}}. AT REAST DAH KIDS AND MOMS WIRR ALWAYS RIKE IT!

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->Fans are clingy complaining dipshits who will never ever be grateful for any concession you make. The moment you shut out their shrill, tremulous voices the happier you will be for it. [[HypocriticalHumor Incidentally, why not buy a]] [[TheMerch Zero Punctuation T-Shirt]]?
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]'''
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-->-- ''''[[http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A6756294 h2g2]]'''''

->'''Focus Group Guy:''' (''{{beat}}'') So...you want a realistic down-to-Earth show...that's completely off the wall...and swarming with magic robots?

-->-- '''John Lydgate''', later paraphrased by AbrahamLincoln

->It's like the Republican base is at war with its own talking points. 'I want someone who's gonna cut taxes, and balance the budget! Someone who's a skilled orator, but doesn't talk all fancy. A child of poor immigrants, who will build a fence to keep them out of this country. Someone who's strong enough for a man, but pH-balanced for a woman. Someone who will roll up their sleeves, but not show their arms.' I feel like if [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan this guy]] came along today, the Republican response would be, 'I don't really go for those Hollywood types.' ... You guys need to take a long hard look in the mirror. You need to take a long hard look in the mirror, and not come away thinking, 'You know, there's something wrong with this mirror.'"
-->-- '''Creator/JonStewart''', ''Series/TheDailyShow'', [[http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/b3go7r/indecision-2012---the-great-right-hope---the-ideal-candidate on the 2011-12 Republican presidential primaries]].

->'''Focus Group Guy:''' So...you want a realistic down-to-Earth show...that's completely off the wall...and swarming with magic robots?

-->-- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxPsXPCR5MU "Philosophy of the World"]], '''TheShaggs'''

->It's like the Republican base is at war with its own talking points. I want someone who's gonna cut taxes, and balance the budget! Someone who's a skilled orator, but doesn't talk all fancy. A child of poor immigrants, who will build a fence to keep them out of this country. Someone who's strong enough for a man, but pH-balanced for a woman. Someone who will roll up their sleeves, but not show their arms. I feel like if [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan this guy]] came along today, the Republican response would be, 'I don't really go for those Hollywood types.' ... You guys need to take a long hard look in the mirror. You need to take a long hard look in the mirror, and not come away thinking, 'You know, there's something wrong with this mirror.'"

-->-- '''Jon Stewart''', ''Series/TheDailyShow'', [[http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/b3go7r/indecision-2012---the-great-right-hope---the-ideal-candidate on the 2011-12 Republican presidential primaries]].

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->I'm not a SethMacFarlane fanboy. I've always been staunchly pro-''Simpsons'' and anti-''Family Guy''. I never watch any of [=MacFarlane's=] other shows, either. And I'd take a bullet to the dome before watching five minutes of ''{{Film/Ted}}''. So I'm not in the tank here when I say that [=MacFarlane=], all things considered, did a perfectly adequate job hosting the Oscars on Sunday night. He took a thankless task and the worst audience in show business and managed to, at the very least, slip in a few subversive wisecracks AND keep his energy level high for four straight, interminable hours. At this point, I don't really know what else you want from an Oscar host. If people aren't bitching about Billy Crystal being too mild, they're bitching about [=MacFarlane=] being too harsh on a group of people that '''DESERVE''' harshness.

->There is a diabolical twist to StarWars fandom, you see, that defies comprehension, and yet is the life-blood of all Star Wars fans. It is this: '''Star Wars fans hate Star Wars'''. If you run into somebody who tells you they thought the franchise was quite enjoyable, and they very-much liked the originals as well as the prequels, and even own everything on DVD, and a few of the books, ''[[NoTrueScotsman these imposters]]'' are not Star Wars Fans.

-->--''''[[http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A6756294 h2g2]]'''''

-->--'''Pat R.''', [[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff08 "A Series Discovers Its Crack Pipe"]]

-->--WebVideo/TheAmazingAtheist in his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvPppffh6Q BEST SONGS EVER]] video