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Hey man, I wasn't insulting gamers as a whole. I'm saying they're the useless collectable like as beanie babies but targeting gamers.
My response was all in good fun ;)
A term I think about often is "gamer with a hard R"
Like most fandom types gamers who make gaming their whole identity are prone to over reaction.
You just need to look at the insanity of the pro-shipping vs anti-shipping fandom ‘wars’ for another example lol
Or reading the comments under a game's patch notes...