"I used to hang out in the arcades, watching for the really promising players. It was a rather schizophrenic activity, this observing of awesome gamers. Many of us did it, but the schizophrenia came with the deep desire on the one hand to see who the next uploader might be, and the accepted (and enforced when necessary) community belief that whoever that gamer might be he needed to be treated as normally as possible—which meant we reporters werenÆt exactly encouraged to stick a microphone in front of his face."

— From My Dome Town Notebook