g*mers who get irate that people don’t take their artistic medium seriously

I'm sympathetic to the folks who had to live through the 80s/90s reactionary politic take on video games. My high school got turned into a Counterstrike Map that was passed around in the wake of Columbine, and kids caught playing it were legit hounded out of the school.

But we're so far passed that today. The martyrdom complex just feels vestigial at this point.