Guy goes overboard fanboying up his house

Or perhaps I’m really just jealous and want all that stuff for myself. :(

I was going to post some sort of “Hey, that’s mean” type thing, but that guy has Penny Arcade bedspread. BEDSPREAD (and the Crazy Frog is right out). I enjoy reading PA and all, but there’s something so foul and sad about a grown man advertising his enjoyment of a webcomic on bed sheets. It’s like a full step beyond donning Star Wars covers.

Just think about the girls who get in it with him. ;

What? Shut up.

They _so_ don’t. At least they’d better not. There are like a billion red flags that should be going up before said girl even gets to the dude’s bedroom.

just think about the girls who cried on him.;

I think you’re just jealous of most of the stuff, the painting on the wall is cool, at least.

Actually owning this stuff is all well and good, but it’s when your whole home becomes a gigantic fair that you need to worry!

Sure, everyone should make their home their own, but it does seem the kind of place that might freak a visitor out. What would you think if you went to a girl’s house and it was full of Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and World of Warcraft figurines/posters/bed covers/etc?

Well, I’d be a bit worried anyway.

Personally that sounds like my type of girl.

Now it’s easy to think that my whole apartment is a “shrine”, as you put it, when you only look at pictures of details. When my journalist friend came over we both thought it would be fun to overdo it. So let me just reply to a couple of things.

It’s not an apple engraved toilet seat. It’s an apple sticker you get whenever you buy an ipod. I thought it was funny putting it on the toilet.

It’s not a PA bed sheet. It’s a blanket, and it never goes on the bed unless a gaming journalist wants it there.

I won’t sink to the level of defending my lovelife, but let me just say it’s just fine so you can stop worrying :)

And why hate on nerdy girls? If you like games, movies, books and comics, why would you want a fight club apartment just so you can impress girls who don’t share your interests anyway? Sounds a bit sad.

Man, talk about a bump!

If the decoration was exaggerated for journalism then that paints a totally different light on the whole thing. Perhaps it’s just me, but if I had paraphernalia for everything I’m interested in all over the place I’d soon go insane, and I’d feel a bit self-conscious about looking a tad obsessive too.

I mean I got some lovely Psychonauts stuff from Majesco, but I wouldn’t want it all over the walls and such. I’d get bored of looking at it quickly and I know anyone coming round would be a little creeped out by it.

I guess totally filling your house with merchandise and stuff isn’t really something you see very often here in general, though; that goes for both game stuff and film stuff (eg: Fight Club). Perhaps it’s more common where you hail from!

Yeah I guess you’re right on the obsessed thing. But I mean walls can be painted over and stuff can be replaced. Though I’m pretty sure I won’t replace stuff I think is fun with a ceramic vase. Like I said, these are just pictures of details, it makes the apartment look alot more crazy than it actually is. I don’t take it very seriously and it’s all in good fun.

But I might be a bit set in my ways. I review games for a living so I’m not exactly ashamed of my hobby. But if I ever came into an apartment with a huge football mural on the wall I’d get the hell out as fast as humanly possible so I’m also a hypocrite ;)