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Solid chapter dismantling the tired trope that gamers are social outcasts who have no friends. Nice to see my friends at Everyday Gamers being represented.

Incredibly disappointing chapter on women in video games. Schut completely disregards the lack of clothing many female characters have in games (often for exploitative reasoning) and instead spends time pointing out that women play video games and taking a jab at complementarianism, a topic he shows to have a skewed, and surface level, view of.

"...we need to critically engage what we play...obviously, we're fallible players and we're going to miss things. And sometimes, it's okay to just play and have fun and not worry about deep things...I think God calls us to think about our entertainment and to use those thoughts to gain a better understanding of our world and our relationship with God."

Strong, sound, and fantastic opening. Very excited to dig into this more.

The chapter on gender in video games was not as strong as some of the rest of the book. I haven't skimmed the ToC yet to know whether other chapters will also touch on it or not.

At 39% done, I feel comfortable recommending this to any Christian who A) plays a lot of video games or B) thinks all video games are evil.

This is much headier stuff than the highly-enjoyable scifi/fantasy novels I usually read, and I'm having to pace myself so that I don't lose focus while reading.