It’s interesting that the two most inventive forms of games industry criticism in recent memory were both borne from oft-reviled forums, Castle Vidcons from Something Awful, and Mama Robotnik’s Star Trek GIFs from NeoGAF.

While Castle Vidcons mocks the “console war” by depicting it as a farcical medieval power struggle, Mama Robotnik uses scenes from The Next Generation episodes to lampoon the embittered fanboys who invest so much of themselves into that war, their sanity dependant on their console’s victory.

The animations also tease system manufacturers and even community members, but my favorites are the ones where Jean-Luc Picard, representing NeoGAF and console fanboys everywhere, vents his frustrations over “waggle’s” emergence and lagging PlayStation 3 sales.

Click our link above for a NeoGAF thread collecting most of Mama Robotnik’s GIFs!

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