I'd be interested in what you have to say about Ben Kuchera's remarks about your article over at the the Penny Arcade Report. Personally I think he has a point.

Some people are receptive to handholding and encouragement, and some people are receptive to blunt truth.

Maybe, but it amounts to the same. You are responsible for your own actions, and as such you are responsible for changing your own negative behavior.

Agreed. Lesson one would be: Stop blaming the object of your addiction as though you're some kind of victim, and start taking some personal responsibility for your actions.

Then why doesn't the title of your article put the blame where it belongs?

The achievement thing there ruined the way he plays video games. That is his point. If achievements didn't exist, he wouldn't have that problem.

Better than you know, and well enough to know that blaming the object of your addiction is a cop-out.

It's still your responsibility, and putting the blame on the object of your addiction is just refusing to take responsibility for your own actions.

Tell them that the problem lies with their own lack of self-control, and not with the specific object of their addiction?

If he knows then why is he writing here about how achievements are ruining his video games? They're not. He's ruining his own video games with his own behavior, and if he wants that to stop, then he just needs to stop.

This is how I play video games now.

Here's the thing: I know it will have good games. I'm not worried that there will be no content for this console. So sure, go ahead and show off your new games, but that won't be why I'm watching E3.

"How could enlightened, feminist guys like myself put up with these unbidden fantasies that violate our dedication to gender equity and basic human decency?"

Aside from being generally complicated to a needless degree, this part seems strange to me:

If it meant I could still trade that disc in or give it away and it would still work, absolutely. It would be no different than the way it works now on the 360.

It's not Kotaku unless some asshole's claiming bias.

How many used CD's did you ever purchase in your life?

About you, maybe.

You take electronic devices far too seriously, and it makes you come across like a petulant child. Don't be that guy.

Seconded.