Agreed. While financially speaking paying off the highest interest debt first makes the most sense, seeing a $0 balance is a liberating and immeasurable accomplishment especially for somebody drowning in debt.

"If you buy a PC that meets (but does not exceed) recommended specs for an average game today, in 2 or 3 years you will be dropping below minimum on some games."

Also not true. I bought my rig in 2009.
GTX 260 graphics card

That makes no sense. The medium level settings on a $600 PC are still superior to the output you get on a PS3 or 360. and on top of that lets not talk about the freezing issues you get with games like Fallout and Oblivion on Console.

BTW I game on both consoles and PC, more so on consoles because of convenience so this…

Yes. You don't have to be evil, just incredibly incompetent.