I play Space 1889; should my views be discounted because I'm a Victorian SF fan? Do you have a web site devoted to fantasizing about imaginary weapons and people? Do you devote any time to calculating the relative strengths of these imaginary weapons? If you do, you may have a bean loose, much as I suspect this young individual has.
I have a website devoted to an entire gaming system, complete with conversions of weapons and such from other gaming systems. I belong to mailing lists devoted to these games. It's a hobby. Hobbies are for folks who have imaginations and enjoy life. This is probably why most creos do not appear to have hobbies.
BTW, what the fellow at stardestroyer.net is doing is being a "gearhead." These folks are mostly engineer-types who enjoy, as a hobby, dissecting the gear found in movies, books, and games, and rating them using real-world science. These folks are typically "hard science fiction" fans, as opposed to fans of "science fantasy" (which Star Wars arguably is), though in some cases there are crossovers. They seldom accept that something just works, and want to know why it works (sounds a bit like your typical researcher, doesn't it? Same mindset, different genre).
You learn something new every day...