Cringe Worth CP

They targeted gamers.

GAMERS.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even WEEKS ON END, performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over and over, all for nothing more than a little digital token saying "yep. That was me."

We'll punish ourselves doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time maxing the stats of a fictional character, all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know every little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed in frustration? All to later be referred to as "bragging rights"?
Do these people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us "racist", "misogynistic", "rape apologists" is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10-year-olds with a shitty head set.

They picked a fight against a group that's already become desensitized to their strategies and methods. We enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. We perceive it as a contest when they tell us we "no longer matter". Our obsession with proving we CAN after being told we CAN'T, is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers and/or sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be, that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competitive, hard core, by nature. We love a challenge. The worst thing you did in all of this was to threaten us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

Step right up. Us gamers are ready.