Sudoku players are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another high difficulty grid.

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 grid designers? Sudoku players aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by middle aged adults solving those casual grids in the newspaper columns. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange 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/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.

They targeted sudoku players.

Sudoku players.

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, and over all for nothing more than a little filled in number grid saying we did.

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

We'll spend most if not all of our free time slicing and slotting the squares of a small grid all to minimise our solve times by a second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same grids over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little number combination such that some have attained such sudoku nirvana that they can literally solve these grids blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many pencils have been snapped, grids made illegible, paper torn up in frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

+rep humongous booty

+rep kinda gay but I guess it's a good thing

-rep his foreskin is really dry