His Gamer cohorts' regard.

My ignorance of the field is vast, but I take this reporter's version to be no exaggeration--who would invent such? and to what end.
It occurred to me that, given RW's (Implicit) psychological state, these shared adventures may well have kept him from bailing, for an .. unknowable time. His acceptance as a full-fledged Peer (by a group apparently cynical and sharp-witted: no patronizing there!) nobody could now dissect.

It wasn't enough, but it seems it was Something. Nobody can guess what occurs inside a mind so instantly malleable; it may be comparable to the quip about Feynman's genius? (with attempts to describe what was Different in its form.) Is there 'comic genius'? it would seem so.