I have taken a graduate level course in game theory (where I got a 4.0 grade, in case you suspect that I coasted through it), and have Fudenberg and Tirole's "Game Theory" and Joyce's "Foundations of Causal Decision Theory" as two of the few physical books that I own.

Ok, so it is me who is convicted of condescending without having the background to justify it. :( FWIW I have never taken a course, though I have been reading in the subject for more than 45 years.

My apologies. More to come on the substance.