My attitude toward the military has nothing to do with my theological outlook—or lack thereof. That I responded to Ramenlover as I did was an indication of my answer to the individual question asked by the youth pastor—not a blanket statement about all military service everywhere.

And if you're seriously about to play…

Well sure, it definitely isnt ok. But its also unsurprising. Assholes are in every sport but of course in the safety of anonymity, theyre much less afraid to show it.

Ditto. I certainly don't mind people being of a different religious faith, or no religious faith at all. I have plenty of friends on both 'sides'. But don't you (general you) dare mock or belittle me for what I believe in, when it has zero bearing on yourself. Doing so puts you on equal footing with the religious folk…

Thank you for a very well thought out and presented post about your relationship with religion and video games, Nathan. It's refreshing to read a piece like this that doesn't come off as an anti-religious screed. It's also nice to read about people who have interacted with religion in ways that are similar to my own…

I grew up Christian as well. My parents weren't really what could be called fervent—we went to church on some Sundays, and not on others, depending upon what the family was doing at that time; part of that intermittent attendance also came from the fact that—for the first fourteen years of my life—the family was…

It's perfectly natural for people to question their faith as they get older, especially when confronted with a group of people not acting like proper Christians when you were younger, coupled with aggressively anti-Christian messaging in videogames and movies.

Sorry to hear that (don't mean to sound condescending, though I'm sure that's what this'll sound like, sorry :P). I grew up not as religious as you, but it was still a decent part of my life. However, while I did lose my "religion," I didn't lose my faith. That is, I'm still Christian and have firm belief in God, but…

ok, "common courtesy" > games

I have zero interest in gauging my own progress in a vacuum. It means nothing to me. If there's no story to progress, no chapters to move through, no ending to see, then it's all just wasted time.

This article perfectly encapsulates why I cannot ever get into the MOBA genre. Too much stress, too much frustration, too much nonsense for a game where the only reward for playing it is...playing it more.

One night this week, I left someone knocking furiously on my door for a good 10 or 15 minutes while I kept shouting, "One second!" We were just so close to taking these last two towers and sealing our team's victory.

Something to consider when government is trusted to regulate anything:

Government regulation is gonna do nothing but fuck this up.

Good try, but no.

Oh now your going to get attacked by idiots yelling about how you can hook a PC up to a television and that you can use a PS4 controller on PC games....Completely ignoring that it doesn't always have to do with the cost of building a PC, but the EASE OF ACCESS.....I can put a game in my PS4 and play, yet the same game…

Sure, but do I want to spend my time self-educating on how to build a gaming PC or do I just want to play a freaking video game?

It's more about convenience. They want better resolution, but they want a small ps4 rather than a tower. Maybe they want to take it to a friends house. Not an easy thing to do with a PC. Consoles are just more convenient for the average gamer.

What is also known is that if you're on a budget and prefer console gaming to PC gaming, than the PC really isn't an option. Like lol wut?

Home theater experience on a nice comfy couch on my 60" HD TV with a PS4 controller to me is more enjoyable than my 4K modded computer experience at a computer desk with a keyboard and mouse.

Uh-huh. Well in real life it would be pretty costly and time consuming to build new playing surfaces for games from day to day. In the world of video games, our only limit is our imagination!