[quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Mar 11 2006, 09:25 AM\']Ya know, it drives me crazy when I see these kinds of posts, making it sound like anyone who is a PYL fan is some sort of cultist or fanboi. Now I agree that there are people who do take the show waaaay too seriously (more than the show ever did), but that could be said for pretty every game show out there. But bringing out "Tomarkenite" again? I thought we were past that, guys.
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I think you're overreacting, since I can't imagine that Matt meant any harm by it.
It is indisputably true that back on ATGS, the number of obsessive fans of PYL far outnumbered those of any other show, and as the person who coined the term "Tomarkenite," it was never my intent to brand every PYL fan as such -- just people like the guy who thought that 100 letters to Tiger would force the company to make a PYL handheld game, or the guy who screamed about PYL sound effects not working on a web site and who wanted to pay eleventy bazillion dollars for a pirated Whammy T-shirt on eBay. Unfortunately people who couldn't see the difference -- or didn't want to admit that there was one -- started claiming that every PYL fan was being branded a Tomarkenite, which in turn led to certain other people
actually branding every PYL fan a Tomarkenite in response.
That said, while the term eventually was abused on ATGS, this doesn't even come close to abuse. And since I see the thread going nowhere fast, I think this is as good a place as any to end it.