The worship of mass consumer products is just honestly kinda gross. I get loving the hobby, I do too, (for the most part), but I would absolutely never fawn over something that's purely meant to drive profits for a massive conglomerate, regardless of how much I'd enjoy it.
Fun little aside: Many years ago, I and an infantryman from my unit went to see Lacuna Coil in Seattle. Great fuckin band, I'm something of a fan and so is he. We roll in kinda late, huge fuckin line. We step aside to have a smoke, (don't do that anymore by the way, don't know why I feel the need to make that clear but I do), and he eventually says I gotta take a piss. Heads off to do just that, and I just stand pretty far from the line, and the venue even, to get away from the smelly mother fuckers, (metal and smash communities have some overlap it seems), and just kinda wait on my buddy to get back. Cristina Scabbia comes out of a van parked in an alley on the other side of the venue where I'm waiting for the line to die down, and I and my at-the-time wife notice her while no one else has yet, as she wasn't in her stage makeup and what not. Said hi, told her I was a fan, got a picture with her and a big hug, and right when everyone in line realized who she was and ran over to meet her, she says, and I quote, "shit, well there's the mob. It was great meeting you, but I gotta go", I said I understand, she gets back in the van and the people are being obnoxious as fuck standing outside it and screaming like morons. I head back over to the line and secure the front of it, my bud gets back eventually and asks how I got the front of the line, I explained that I just met Cristina Scabbia and hugged her, he doesn't believe me, I show him said picture of my wife hugging her, he gets extremely pissed, and we end up being the first people in the show and had a great fuckin night of moshing and getting thrown around by this giant mother fucker wearing an Iron Maiden t shirt that we dubbed "The Tree" as he was literally immovable in the pit. Great time man......
The moral of this story? ......fuck I don't know, just wanted to share it as it seemed vaguely, (and I mean extremely vaguely), related, and I got nostalgic for a second, so fuck you very much and I love you all.
