People recorded their wartime experiences before the advent of video games. This iteration is not particularly unique, excepting the level of detail and intimacy of information recorded. Otherwise it is merely consistent with the age in which we live.Its like a video game to them, hence the digital trophies.
I guess it probably makes you feel better about yourself to stumble through threads like this ensconced in a carefully maintained and cavalier ignorance of something you know demonstrably nothing about, but you should save the scorn for cases where it is warranted. It isn't like they don't exist.