I'm a case of this. I met these motherfuckers from Turkey and Bahrain through the community surrounding that little flash game "n". Also several (?) people from Finland, a guy from Bulgaria, and another from Singapore.
Odd. The context of the article and the rest of what you wrote, I would have expected a word like "friends" or phrase like "cool guys" in place of the vulgarity.
duh - I'm from Bulgaria, I worked on Call of Duty - Black Ops - and there are 3 more bulgarians that worked on it :) - all of us programmers - two leads.
We have scandinavian folks, not sure whether specifically finnish, and we do have folks from Singapoer