I, for one, despise the new points system...

+1 :D

My sentiments exactly.

If these posters were writing something for publication or a more formal environment than an internet forum about video games, it'd be one thing. As it stands, this is the equivalent of stopping people hanging out in a park to correct them on their grammar.

OP maybe consider playing some video games and talking about those instead

For ultimate gramar-cringe:

I could care fewer :D

fever

That's indeed a rule I learned no later than during my second year of English lessons... Surprised to hear English schools don't teach this :o But I guess this explains why I see that mistake so commonly

most people who are speaking English as a second language don't make this mistake

You got a source on that or should I trust you blindly?

In my opinion the ones who don't bother have the right idea. It's a useless rule. The more people make the "mistake", the sooner it will be declared correct usage. That's what always happens, and that's as it should be. It's senseless to keep wasting people's limited mental resources on rules that are superfluous enough for everyone to understand each other without following them.

Nobody told me that xD or I wasn't paying attention
So thanks for that lesson :)

What a strange cat...

read the image description

but yes

And not to mention they have very very little tomato's (think they use an extract) in them, and loads of sugar. :p

I think he was joking.

But the fact that "fewer" sounds so obviously wrong to any native ear when used in sentences which should use "less" demonstrates an exceptionally clear differentiation, from a purely descriptive point of view.

I don't believe that would be descriptive at all. Especially if you never learned this rule until the age of 20, that is a clear sign that this usage is prescriptive in nature. What you have recognized is why the rule was invented in the first place.

The word "fewer" is derived from the word "few" from the Old English "feaw" which indicates a countable quantity and simply adds the suffix -er, while "less" is derived from the Old English "læs" which had no need for such a distinction.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites that the usage of "læs" to refer to an uncountable noun has a long history.

Swa mid læs worda swa mid ma, swæðer we hit gereccan magon.
So we may prove it with less words as with more, whichever of the two.

The historical usage of "læs" could also refer to subtraction.

He rixode twa læs .xxx. geara.
He ruled for 30 years less two.

The more strict definition was proposed in 1770 as an aesthetic preference by Robert Baker using the justification that because "fewer" had a stricter definition than "less," it'd be more pleasing to the ears to not use "less" as often. Thus it was proposed for "less" to exclude any usage which could also be expressed with "fewer. The fact of the matter is, this rule has never been used by the majority but has always been a fringe suggestion used to promote one as having elegance over other speakers, giving a certain academic prestige.

As per last time this came up, kilograms of jam and other measure are usually treated as uncountable, unless you are talking about taking the measures as discrete units themselves. For example:

If jam is only sold in 1kg containers, you have to buy no fewer than 2 kilograms ("kilograms" is a stand-in for jars) to get no less than 1.5 kilograms ("kilograms" is a stand-in for the mass of jam) to make a big batch of jammy dodgers, or one enormous cookie. That may sound a bit weird because we're not accustomed to thinking about kilograms of jam, and may make more sense with pints of beer.

A pint of beer is countable when you're talking about buying everyone at the bar "a pint," but as an amount it remains uncountable. Pouring out no fewer than 20 pints requires no less than 8 gallons. A pint of beer can be a thing unto itself or a measure (as I've used gallon), and it can be valid to use one or the other. That doesn't make them interchangeable: your use of less or fewer informs the listener as to whether you are talking about pints as a measure of volume or count of units. Pour out a dozen pints into a dozen glasses and you're talking about a dozen discrete things. Pour our a dozen pints from a skunky keg down a drain and you're talking about an amount. In the former case, you'd use fewer and in the latter case you'd use less whether if you refer to it as "pints" or "pints of beer."

Likewise, if you have $2.50 in the form of a dollar bill and six quarters, you have fewer than two dollars (as a count of dollar bills) but not less than two dollars (in terms of currency). Both fewer and less are valid, but you're speaking of different things because dollars has two meanings; your choice of which you use informs the listener as to which meaning you've chosen.

Yes, I've seen it. Sad.