I really appreciate the focus that this brings on self-improvement. In the past, I have tested different strategies for making new years resolutions. One of the most productive has been doing or abstaining from things a month at a time. I did no alcohol, no video games, no meat, and several other things that involved…

Amazing no one has mentioned Chrono Trigger yet. Random-encounterless wonder.

Why go through all this to make people feel bad about playing golf? They should feel bad about playing golf because it is objectively BORRRRRRRRING!!!

This all has to do ONLY with the HDMI passthrough on the Xbox. It has nothing to do with being a smart TV, being Microsoft, or anything of the sort. You can pipe a PS3 or 4 through the HDMI in. And no one is asking anyone to purchase more services if you don't want them.

It plays games.

"Experiences only possible on PS3."

Oh god, now she's going around sticking her onus on everyone...

I obsessively collect CAH cards, but if the standard sets are wearing thin, look for Crabs Adjust Humidity. It's an unofficial expansion with great cards that integrate very well.

Video games as a sport has become a tenet of video games as a religion. If you call yourself a hardcore gamer, you're under social pressure to find the legitimacy in gaming as a sport. And if you can't, then they demand you accept it by faith.

I've opened many Xbox 360 controllers and to look at the plastic and the way it precariously sits on this one tiny button, you would think so. But I haven't seen a bumper button have a problem unless I was trying to put it in a modded controller.

Well, someone calling a gay person a faggot really is putting their diminutive IQ on display. It's not so much offense than it's the knowledge that whatever that person has to say is probably lacking in intellectual quality. The sooner someone were to get over their offense to the word, the sooner they can realize…

Being an asshole and being objectively correct aren't mutually exclusive. I guess we are talking about the difference between arguing and speaking persuasively, then.

Perhaps "right" was the wrong word to use here. What I'm trying to point out is that offense in itself shouldn't earn any hits. My claim is that offense doesn't entitle you to anything, much less a formal right to censor OR a societal response. Of course, this is the Internet and mob tactics are more useful than…

His argument is quite clear and you are merely trying to turn it back on him. The key assertion is that offense is itself without argument, which must be dealt with before you can claim the same about him. He's entitled to make his point first.

What are we supposed to do with a person who spends more time being offended and less time getting over themselves? What do we do with a person who thinks they can ride "being offended" forever? Maybe they don't want to NOT be offended because they will lose power over others. If certain people insist on cashing in on…

I think it's time for a "For the Lulz Summary Execution" law. If you cut across five lanes of traffic, a bullet in the head. If you send SWAT to someone's house, bullet in the head. If you leave the stickers on your hat, bullet in the head.

That's an interesting point because I and my family suffer from a familial tremor that makes us shake a little. It's hard to keep our hands truly still.

This is a strangely smart kid. She wants the iPod Touch, but she knows that to get it, she has to couch it in the middle of a stupidly expensive list of crap or shit that doesn't exist.

This entire conversation and justification is dependent on two flawed premises: video games are a sport, and sports are just that important.

Yeah, I bought the Xbox One for the multitasking. I can be in the middle of a game, have my wife come in and demand Netflix, jump over to Netflix with my voice, and when she's had her fill, jump back to the game. I'm also digging the voice control which lets me turn on the Xbox AND the TV with my voice and turn it off…