It's true. Such is the ferocity of their snarky barbs, and such is the strength of their console-specific convictions, that even an atom-splitting, Fallout 3 end-of-the world nuclear event would not be enough to eliminate their insatiable ranting and raving. Lucky for us, we'd be gone, but we cannot say the same for the hapless cockroach, which would be doomed to an eternity of "first" posts and incoherent rants about monthly NPD Group sales figures (and yes, future cockroaches learn to surf the web).

Well, maybe we exaggerate. This *probably* won't happen, thankfully, but we can be sure that as long as there are video games there will be fanboys.

Earlier this year we taught you all about the warning signs of fanboyism. We even taught you how to self-diagnose to figure out .

Our article was relatively, shall we say, polite. The points made were in the "constructive criticism" category. Not so with this new top 10 list we discovered Wednesday .

Body odor, weight, virtual girlfriends and camping out for the latest tech (guilty as charged on that last one) all made the list, and the snark employed was the GamePro list multiplied by a factor of ten.