condescending article (Score 1)

Aside from the laundry list of inaccuracies (uniquely Korean - c'mon; L337-speak "invented" by Quake players - yeah; and so on), the article was incredibly condescending towards its subjects. Was it integral to the article to spend several paragraphs telling us how pathetic Ricky/sataN was (in the author's HO)? It may have been, if the purpose of the article was to make eastbayexpress.com readers fill superior to gamer geeks. I got the distinct impression that the author wanted his readers to feel that he and they were superior to the gamers. Why else would the author imply there was something wrong with this lifestyle? Are they hurting anyone? Are they enjoying themselves? Did the author expect /.er's to approve of this article? He may be as out of touch with reality as he believes Ricky and Vinh Bui are.