THIS.

I guess I'm just one of those rare hardcore gamers that does not give a flying fuck about how other people play. Because, you know, this hobby (and I don't care if people are "professional" gamers, it's still a damn hobby), is about having fun. And fun for me is not necessarily fun for thee. I will happily spend hours maxing out stats in a game for the express purpose of slaughtering whatever sekrit uberboss is in it. This is not everyone's cup of tea and I am not losing sleep over it because I am too busy having fun in my own way. Jesus.

As someone who used to regularly own the local SF2 tournaments back in the day, I can tell you that 99% of the dudes (and it's always dudes) with the loudest mouths who wank the hardest about "casual gamers" are the ones with the least amount of actual skill. These are the guys who would literally empty out rolls of quarters because they couldn't deal with anyone beating them at "their" game. This whole thing reminds me of when my (thankfully) ex-BF got all butthurt whenever I would beat him at [insert fighting game here]. And he was a self-proclaimed feminist, at that. He would "jokingly" accuse me of button mashing when I would break his supposedly unbreakable combos. He was one of those people that would print out move lists from Gamefaqs and study them. He also once spent two hours barracaded in the bedroom because I beat all his Mario Kart Advance hi scores. I tried to explain that the reason I'm really good at video games was because I was a solitary nerd girl with no friends growing up and it wasn't really anything to be mad about, but he wouldn't listen. </thoughts>