There's a lot of "seeming" and "feeling" in the thread, and very little reasoning. It's all Tiger Beat fanboying, and it doesn't help that Nvidia was a video game company before it became a channel-stuffing circular financier working on destroying the US economy.

Video game people are like sports fans, they fall in love with the producers of their entertainment and have parasocial relationships with them. I imagine that a lot of people who work at Nvidia now had that same relationship with the company as children.