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Why should tech people play video games? Video games rely on computers to work, but other than that, how are they closer to the soul of communities like hackernews than traditional art? Does being interested in programming mean people can't have interests outside of "nerdy" things?

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where exactly does he allude to "nerds" mandatorily being interested in "nerdy things"?

his point was that the article had a very old world elitist attitude where "art" = "culture" and if one is to be considered cultured and is rich, there is somehow some obligation to purchase art.

it smelled more of, "give me some of that hi-tech money" than any serious exposition about the rift between the tech rich and the art world.

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