waitwaitwait... the Hasbro cd has Eluveitie and Sabaton on it?!?! Hot damn! I need a copy of this.

(Also it's pronounced more like eh-loo-vay-tee)

 

Getting caught up on a backlog of WTF@TFW. I apologize for bumping this thread, but I wanted to answer Vangelus' question about what gives fans tunnel vision and makes them take things more seriously then they probably should.

To me it's parallels. Paraellels between the fictional world of the franchise and the real world. It's not something that I really think about when it comes to Transformers, but it is something I run into with Warcraft.
I won't go into details, but I had family who died in the Holocaust. There is an event in Warcraft's backstory that draws on the Holocaust (the genocide of the Draenei, for those in the know). It's impossible for me to discuss it in a level headed manner because I think about the fictional event in terms of the real atrocity it was based off of. Some orc fan enters it and it's like their own fandom just reeks of the approval of the mass slaughter of my own family.
Now here's the thing. I KNOW that's not the case. Liking Warcraft orcs does not make one a neo-Nazi. The event in question draws on a real tragedy and hits the right serious of emotions, however, to sort of fry the logic centres of my brain.
Now do I want to change that about myself? You bet.