Rated X wrote:megatronus wrote:I think your assumptions of "extremism" are flawed, and I dislike how you lump the entire fandom into overly simplified buckets.
Im not sure why you would get offended. You post on this forum regularly so I assume youre a buyer of 3rd party products. Needles to say you wouldnt fall into the category of fans that I consider to be hasbro extremists. Its a pretty small group actually, but cmon you know they exist. I know the word extremist is generally used to describe negative outlooks, but I didnt mesn it in a bad way. You could be an extremist when it comes to house cleaning or personal hygiene. That doesnt make you bad or evil. When you think about it, the word "fan" is short for fanatic, which is often used to describe someone who goes to extremes. So calling them hasbro extremists is just being politically correct.
I'm not at all offended, I just think that way of thinking is somewhat faulty. Think of it as a dispassionate, Shockwave-like parsing rather than an emotional reaction to your statement.
Sure there are people who only buy Hasbro products, but they have various reasons - either expense, wariness over QC, simple lack of interest, you name it. Lumping them all together as "extremists" just seems like a flawed way to make an argument.
Besides, if anything, you're an anti-Hasbro extremist. You would go out of your way to screw Hasbro, and screw them hard ( ). Or at least that's the impression you give.
I'm somewhere in the middle. Sometimes I think of myself as a Hasbro apologist, but I certainly buy 3rd Party stuff (MMC Leo Dux releasing this week! Woot Woot! ), and enjoy what the unofficial market has to offer.
My point is that you're over-simplifying the fandom by applying labels, and I think that works against you.