bobisbob

Hah! Thanks, I see it now too.

This is an example of condescension and holding contradictory beliefs.

This person implies that this study is a replication of “known” things and that replications like this are not useful. But the replication strengthens the claims of 1, 2, and 4. This is a contradiction.

The sense of condescension comes from “oh great”, “absolutely nothing new”, “foolish”, and claim 5.

Claims 2 and 5 suggest some kind bias but I’m not sure how to classify it. Whatever it is, they give me a gross feeling.

I'm a native English speaker. You're feeling that there is a belittling connotation is valid.

The first quote is potentially a dismissal, which is belittling. However, if it stood alone, it could also be interpreted as the person backing off because they lack qualification to interpret the results. But the second quote includes dismissal terms like "complaining" and "not objectively" in a demeaning context.

So, with all that, I'd say your impression is valid. The context highly suggests that these responses were meant to belittle the parent author's contribution to the conversation.

Here is my take on the parent's search results. The God Of War director ( Cory Barlog ) was a big part of the marketing for the game. And he did some in-game commentary for it too. So, this suggests some kind of SEO manipulation. But it could also just be the google spellcheck guessing wrong.