Yep, they lost me with the gyro thing too.
Despite the employees there in my local Euro Gyro messing up the pronunciation and calling it 'Jairo', the correct pronunciation for Gyro is 'Yee-rroh' with a rolling R sound similar to the double R in Spanish. If said without the rolling R, it sounds rhymes with 'hero' and sounds very similar to the word 'Euro'.
That's the joke, why in City of Heroes the gyro place is called City of Gyros, and the joke for this comic.
I'm not to worried about these kinds of posts. It's human nature to want to be on the winning team. The odds are stacked against us, and they don't want to bet on the long shot. On August 31, it seemed impossible to do what we're trying to do. Sitting around and saying, "Yeah, the game is doomed," is easy because then on December 1, they can sit around and say, "See? I told you so," and they think they look really smart. Even if we're successful, they'll sit around and say, "Even though I said I thought it was doomoed, I was hoping that they'd save it, so that makes me kind of right in a way."
The thing is, nobody will remember them. When was the last time you read an article about something shutting down and a scrappy group of people saying, "Yeah, it's over with," and being right about it, yay them? Whether we win or lose, one thing I can guarantee you is that that blog post will have long since faded into obscurity and no one will remember it. The people who are standing with us, who are working hard to save the game, they will be the ones who people remember. This blog post, for example, will be remembered for years. This video is eternal.
So hey, if people want to write about how doomed we are, more power to them. It just makes our fight that much more important, and makes victory that much sweeter.
I don't even think so much it's people wanting to be on the winning side, so much as that it's much easier to be negative and despite it being the year 2012 and not 1992 gamers, at least those that play more than Farmville or Angry Birds, are still an 'acceptable target' to bash for a quick laugh.
It's so much easier to go "Lol, look at this entitled whiny virgin brats living in their mother's basements complaining about a game they were too cheap to spend money to save". Does any of it have to be true? Nope, but that's the nature of 'acceptable targets'.