2. The "takes-it-too-far" guy
Usually plays: The same game since 1992
Favorite snack: Zoloft, Paxil, Effexor
This stereotype doesn't describe just your average cosplayer or collectable enthusiast. This is the fellow who recreated the deck of the starship Enterprise in his living room so that he could further remove his deteriorating ego from reality and transplant himself into the mind of someone with an actual sense of self-worth (Captain Picard, not Kirk, that rube).
Anyone who bought Steel Battalion and its requisite 150-something dollar controller is getting close, but to truly be considered an example of this pathetic stereotype, you'd have to disassemble the controller and carefully install each bit into a plywood replica of a mecha portrayed in your favorite Anime series, or a fanfic based on it, which you wrote, had signed by the Japanese and English voice actors, and keep in a glass case next to a cheesy fantasy sword replica which you call "The Immortal Blade."
Do that, and we won't be your friend. Not even if you let us hold the sword.
