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Amongst the vast variety of multiplayer games, there are a minority of players who take the game far more seriously than everyone else. The self-imposed high standards of behaviour, and the expectation that those standards apply to everyone they interact with, is known as e-honour, sometimes referred to as e-bushido.
Examples of e-honour can include a requirement to emote a bow or other gesture before battle, waggling wings in flight simulators before combat or even demands for all other participants in a battle to stop fighting in order to permit some convoluted roleplay activity irrelevant of the fact the other participants are not role players.
There are many types of behavior that these e-honor aficionados consider repulsive, beyond their demands to follow a made up ruleset which is unsupported by the game. This can include many elements of the metagame such as spying or sabotage, ganking, scamming or other nefarious activities. However the key thing to remember is that violating e-honour does not necessarily mean violating any in game rules.
The honorable 1v1 battle was quickly discovered to be a ruse, the aggressors discarding any sense of e-honor for the sake of an easy kill.
Irrational feelings of dread and paranoia caused by being in the (virtual or physical) presence of a member of the Something Awful forums. In extreme cases, it can be classified as a phobia. Symptoms include posting illogical accusations usually containing association fallacies, comparisons of Goons to Hitler (see: Godwin), demands for preemptive banning of said group, claims that Goons ruin everything and causing moderators to lose their shit.
Goonfear is not limited to being in the presence of Goonswarm members, but any of the numerous Goon groups from the Something Awful forums.
When the Goons arrived on the forums it wasn't long before Goonfear set in.
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