Goons for me where the first people I witnessed up close who play videogames obsessively while not really deriving any enjoyment out of them, rather treating them like a job they have to do by finishing them 100% autistically even if it's not even remotely fun to do so. I mean this is of course not a goon-only thing and very widespread especially in mmorpgs and such, but with goons I've seen it first as sort of a culture and it's also just such a given in all their game-related threads that people who actually play games to have fun and stop playing them when they're not fun stick out like a sore thumb. If they'd invest half that energy they invest to 100% some throway indie "thing of the year" or to optimize their mmorpg spreadsheet simulator by 8% in actually improving their lives, they'd be a lot happier and would not feel the desire to do these things. These kinds of games goons weren't really all that funny, just mostly sad. Most of them were still very young when they were that way. I can't imagine the horror that'll creep in when they get older, realize life is finite and they wasted so much of it on this crap. It's probably one of the reasons for these types trooning out so often. Trying to "start over", in a way. There rarely are do overs in life.
I lost track of the amount of times I got into it with Goons complaining about "grinding for 100% achievements" in Mediocre Game 3.
How dare you suggest that they stop playing something that hasn't been fun anymore for the past 20 hours! Gotta get those last few gamerscore points that no one but you will ever care about.