Quote Originally Posted by ConsoleAddict View Post
A lot of these snooty individuals who write for gaming magazines and websites hail from the Bay Area a.k.a. San Francisco. I don't know what's in the water that makes the people who live there think their superior and better than everybody else. Only a few magazines and websites originated outside of the Bay Area. PC Gamer was based in North Carolina and EGM was based in Chicago. Just about every major magazine and website related to gaming, including PC Gamer, has their headquarters in San Francisco.

For a city that claims to have friendly people a lot of the locals I've talked to come off as rude, cold and condescending. That's the experiences I've had.

That's my take on the way they dismiss opinions from others in that fashion.
"San Francisco is really more of a European City, like Paris or Milan". Have you ever seen the South Park episode "Smug Alert"? It pretty much sums up everything you just said, and it is probably the greatest South Park episode ever made.