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 mana saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs betting on questions others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character stock all to draw out a single extra point of mana per day.

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

Do these people have any idea how many portfolios have been smashed, AI secrets leaked, league placements and streaks destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our stocks? We're already turning numeric questions into stocks. They take our non-predictive markets? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their mana else where, or even making markets our selves. They think calling us minnows, insider traders, gambling apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 day old bots with a shitty trading algorithm. 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 effective altruists and rationalists laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers 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 boss fight.

This question resolves YES if anyone who works at Manifold confirms that they are targeting gamers (as a potential audience) more than they were before the day this question was created. If there is no such official confirmation by market close on 8/10/23, this question resolves NO.