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Its a very fucking factual website for what really appeared to be a joke at first to me. He rates the morality and how good the gameplay is separately, to the point he can give 9/10 to gameplay and 0/10 to morality if that's what he feels is true.

>>535924

enjoy your alzheimers and parkinsons diseases you "superior" man

>>535924

How so? Are sports and games like chess bad? Is fiction all bad, and if not, why is interactive fiction all bad? What about the fact that many games require intelligence and strategy to be successful?

>>535957

Are you saying that playing vidya helps people not get these diseases?

>>535924

autism

grow up you fucks

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

>>536065

Based mods

>>536311

site has pornographic images just warning.

>>535924

>No fun allowed

Lay off from Anderson videos for a while

P.S someone post that story about apostle John playing with other apostles and the bow parable. I forgot the full one.

>>535922

Yes. Its a fine little gaming site. It is also connected to us since the Exodus. In fact its one of the first Websites that has been listed on the Gamgergate alternative chart.

>>536311

No. This one is run by some Niggaboo and is mostly about Hentai games. It is yet another gaming site that has emerged during Gamergate.

>>535924

>>535924

If you play once in a while that's okay to chill out. But to play enough to consider yourself a gamer is despicable.

>Video Related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as1HamvPRhM

>>536349

How is it any worse than watching TV? Most shows are garbage but I doubt you are as venomous towards everyone who watches TV every day (i.e. most people).

>>536349

>Enjoy movies

Is considering yourself a movie buff despicable?

>Enjoy reading

Is considering yourself a book lover despicable?

>Enjoy music

Is considering yourself a music lover despicable?

Is the problem defining yourself using your hobbies or is there something wrong with video games in particular? If the problem is video games, then what is the problem specifically?

It really sounds like you just personally don't like video games and want to twist it so you can feel like your opinions are somehow morally justified.

>>535967

There is an upside to playing sports, it maintains a healthy cardiovascular system.

Chess games generally take anywhere from 5-15 minutes to play.

Video games are generally played sitting on one's ass, require no thought, and the average gamer plays for several hours per day. If you even have that amount of time to waste, you're doing something wrong with your life.

>>535924

>>536065

I don't blame you. A lot of new videogames are oversimplified left-leaning products that nickel-and-dime you for everything. It's just not worth playing them anymore. I remember a girl who became an atheist because of a dumb JRPG she played.

You're better off not giving them your money because they use it to signal against you.

>>536378

You'll save a lot of money if you don't consume entertainment in general. Nearly all of the talented creators left and it's filled with sheltered young people who have nothing genuine to say besides parroting opinion pieces from the New York Times and Late Night Comedians depicted in twitter/tumblr-friendly gifs.

Older fiction was better because it was created by people from all types of backgrounds. J. R. R. Tolkien was former military, John Woo was a former action movie star and stage actor, etc.

>>536384

>Video games are generally played sitting on one's ass, require no thought, and the average gamer plays for several hours per day. If you even have that amount of time to waste, you're doing something wrong with your life.

I think the average American spends something like 5 hours a day watching TV. I agree that consuming that much entertainment every day is not beneficial and takes time away from more productive things. People should not spend that much time watching TV or playing video games. The idea that video games require no thought is ridiculous. You have to solve puzzles, come up with strategies, manage resources, figure out enemy weaknesses, practice teamwork, etc.

wew sure is reddit in here

>>536426

>>And TONIGHT, welcome to an aaaaaaaall-new episode of "HOW TO ABUSE SCRIPTURE FOR OUR OWN ENDS" with your host, ANON!!!!

>Not what it means, dinkus, and I've said this a thousand times, but context, Context, CONTEXT!!!

you should have just posted the meaning instead of sperging out

>>536384

If it takes you 5 to 15 minutes to play a non-blitz/bullet whatever game of chess either you or your opponent fucking suck. Putting aside championship matches that take days, tournament games generally have a time limit of 2 hours, but even casual amateur games should take half an hour.

In any case people literally dedicate their entire working and/or personal lives to games like chess, mahjong and go which are precisely as “useless” as video games.

i first became aware of CCG around the time of Gamergate since they were noted for not being part of the cabal pushing the rad-fem agenda

quite literally on the side of the angels

>>535922

I've gone there before, and they seem quite genuine, but the layout and navigation are horrendous. It feels like it was made in notepad during the late 1990s.

But I checked it out only due to curiosity. I haven't kept up on gaming stuff in a long time, so most of what they had on there wasn't known by me. If you're into that hobby though you could do far worse than them, IMHO.

>>536065

That is from a book describing loving God you absolute out-of-context-quoting reprobate.

Gamer here. Its really good and even lots of seculars who hate modern gaming "journalism" recommend and respect it.

>>535924

Its a way to spend free time. Get over yourself, gramps. They used to think bike riding was for children too.

Also it isnt just a "he". I think the main editor/creator is a woman.

>>536384

Chess can take much longer. Weak argument.

Even weaker is sports. Sports are, above all, FUN. It is natural and healthy to ENJOY GAMES. Obviously there is the health benefit as well. Video games are no different. Enjoying speculative/genre fiction is the same. You sit or lay down (RELAXING) for a couple or few hours. You dont need to game for the entire day you out of touch grandpa. Further, my grandfather had six kids and he enjoyed dungeon crawlers and RPGs like Baldur's Gate and Diablo. It all, just like everything else, comes down to time management.

Besides. People sit and watch other people play sports for HOURS every Sunday/Monday. Don't even give me that. Me enjoying a game for the same time is absolutely no different.

>>536378

I don't watch tv or movies or video games anymore after I got saved. I work out, go to work(run my own small buisness), go to charity events, read the Bible and theology and attend all the local festivals I can.

>>536382

Reading and hobbies are acceptable, but the point I'm trying to make is movies and tv is fine, but to list tv movies or games as a main hobby isn't really great unless you're in that industry.

>Judge not lest ye be judged

I recognize that and leave people to their own devices, I don't condemn people, unless I'm on this anonymous Christian board where we try to talk about CHrist and make each other better.

I used to play video games a lot, really didn't do much for value in my life

> When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11)

This is why the Left captures children so easily. They get no competition at all; to you people, video games are unproductive and unworthy of attention, yet the Left easily utilizes them for memetic infection. Video games could retell the stories of great legends of virtuous character, or teach the young the value of piety, wisdom, and discernment. Yet, because so many people like you see video games as wastes of time, video games actually do become wastes of time, and the cycle perpetrates itself with fewer capable of producing countermemetic material.

This is why I analyze video games and how they could be designed better and how they could illustrate a mind committed to honoring these things that our Lord loves: truth, objective standards, beauty, courage, understanding the past as object lesson for the future, joy, and passion.

>>536518

>I don't watch tv or movies or video games anymore after I got saved.

Yet, you spend time on a website where child pornography is a single click away? Sounds a bit hypocritical to me.

>>536524

if you use the internet in any capacity at all cp is just a click away

>>535924

lmao the butthurt in the replies kill me

>>535922

Would be a good site for parents to utilize for having some degree of foresight into what their children are playing, or what they are buying their children but because of the site's name they've put themselves into a rather niche market. They do reviews well and their new hardware videos are solid too. I go there every so often.

Gamers have embraced them mostly because they are upfront with their biases and can have a good degree of partiality, but they need help getting out into the mainstream, or even into churches. If any /christian/ anons actually go to church, maybe put up a flyer on their churches bulletin board for them.

They are nice people by the looks of it, and for the few years I've gone there I've always had no complaints with them or the site.

>>536522

Yeah man, maybe we can put those themes in porn movies too.

>>536522

We don't say it out of our lack of knowledge, we say it because we were heavy gamers in the past. There's a consensus among us that not only did gaming fall downhill, it also eats a huge chunk of your time and money. I was a huge JRPG and SRPG guy and I think that it was always bound to be left-leaning. A lot of those stories revolve around killing God or destroying religion (Breath of Fire II, Xenogears, FFVII are examples), and these were released between the 80s and 90s. From what I noticed a lot of those folks who played it turned out to be LGBT progressives.

The issue behind those games is that they teach the youth to disregard authority through any means necessary. In those games you're always a young person fighting against older unfun people with a really dumb motive, so it's not too much of a leap from them fighting against conservative right-leaning people with the mindset of "ends justify the means". Older people are depicted as realistic thinkers who get punished whereas younger people are ditzy dreamers who get rewarded for having good intentions. It's why there's a lot of Antifa types.

>>536539

Porn is intrinsically sinful, electronic games are not.

>>536598

He's probably not wrong because newer videogames like Overwatch, CSGO, and PUBG have lockboxes/crates/safes. To any non-gamer here, lockboxes are pseudo-gambling where you unlock with keys to earn random in-game stuff that you can resell. You still have a chance of earning the same ingame stuff that you've unlocked before.

If we're talking about Christian video game subjects, this is one of the few blogs I've found.

http://theologygaming.com/

>>535922

I remember this being posted about 3 years ago around the time of gamer gate. It's an okay site, but some of the reviews are not that great, and others are just really super autistic nitpicking.

>>537500

It's a botnet. Don't even bother going to their website even. It too, is owned by botnet makers.

The majority of games content are sinful and promote escapism. Do you honestly think God would want you to play these games? The whole video game industry is satanic and aims to trap people into living in fantasy worlds to distract them and make them ignore reality. It think Christians should not be wasting their time playing games when they could be doing something more productive with their time like reading the Bible. Hell any hobby that doesn't involve the internet is a good one.

Also i think that especially with technology like VR, games are created to get you hooked. If you play video games you're a fool because you are willingly accepting to be slaughtered.

>>536254

no; fuckwit mods

that post was absolutely correct

>>537500

You can allude to it positively like John Woo, J.R.R Tolkien, and CS Lewis did.

>>537583

Are warned people also banned?

>>537740

Warnings are a 24 hour ban. I doubt he was warned for posting scripture. The warning was probably for the "grow up you fucks".

>>535922

This

>>537500

>>537777

Wrong link

THIS: >>537499

>>537743

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

>>535970

Reading is also useful for this

In this board alone there's plenty of that.

>>536794

That does not apply to all games.

Especially if christians would start making games.

>>537527

By that logic, every kind of pastime activity should be condemned. It is true that ascetic life is the ideal, but it's a personal practice of self discipline rather than global condemnation of all sorts of things.

>>539926

According to some folks on /christian/, all hobbies are childish drivel. Except browsing and posting on imageboards, which is a healthy, important, and mature thing to do.