“What I really liked about the post was that it was coming from within the gaming community. Far too often, the gaming community is unquestioning in its immature, violence-loving, obsessive nature.”

That, I totally agree with. Sometimes I forget that articles like this one aren’t necessarily directed at me. I have to cool my jets a bit from time to time.

I just checked out your “In Praise of…” articles from last year. My comment now seems wholly misdirected, and ill-conceived. Any chance you could delete it and pretend it never happened?

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I think nothing, as long as it occupies the proper place in your life. The phrase “responsible men with good jobs and families transform into ten-year-olds with controllers in their hands” implies that they suddenly become bad parents, fathers, and employees.

Men get sucked into whatever hobby they enjoy. I’d suspect that more marriages and families have been hurt by men who were obsessed with golf, hunting, sports (as Matt Chandler points out, allowing your happiness to be controlled by the success or failure of 19-year-old boys playing with a ball), and work. But those are “mature” pursuits, so they are more acceptable.

I love playing XBox, it’s one of my times of relaxation, and it’s fun. But it doesn’t cause me to be any less a man.

One of the commenters shared a particularly apt quote:

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -C.S. Lewis

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