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What would you have me do to start a good-faith converstion?

For me, that would be sound arguments.

If you bring religion into a discussion, that has several issues. One of them is bringing the fallacy of appeal to authority to the table. For sound arguments one needs to avoid fallacies and one needs true premises.

In case that helps you, I am not angry with you and I believe you had a problem and faith helped you overcome that problem. But this does not mean that everyone has the same basic problem or that the same solution would be helpful. Or that people like hearing you talk like it were so.

 And I rather would like you having strength because of faith and not because of literal things that are written in the Bible or were misquoted, reinterpreted or otherwise used for centuries to tell people lies. Learning how the story of Tamar was perverted into a tale against masturbation was very enlightening.

What you can't see is the feeling that went into that comment. I practically cried writing some of these. Is empathy a bad thing? Is it wrong to try to help? I wish I'd had somebody to say to me what I'm saying to you when I needed it.

This is where you are going wrong: you are assuming too much.  I never said that I play these games, but you are assuming there that I do.  Likewise, you seem to be assuming that anyone who does is struggling with a destructive addiction, or at the least is in immediate danger of it, and needs a theological intervention.  Why that led to calling them developmentally arrested sun-hating basement trolls, though, I'm not sure.  This is the same stereotype that the corporate media has levied for decades at anyone who plays videogames in any form.

Alcohol was mentioned upthread, which you don't seem to have a general problem with - but many millions have suffered from alcoholism.  Suppose this thread instead asked "why do so many people drink alcohol?" and someone came along and posted this:

It's worrying to me as well. Probably says something about the state of the world right now, don't you think?

You do have the right to do as you like, but at the same time it's wrong and eventually drinking will catch up with you. 

If you're reading this and about to reply angrily, wait. Keep reading. I genuinely hope you find peace. You're probably trying to fill a void that can't be filled this way. Go touch grass, meet more people and get out of your parent's basement. Responsibility isn't something to be afraid of, it's really freeing. Maybe you don't even know it, but everyone is reliant on something and sometimes that thing is a weight dragging you down. Think about what you want from real life and go get it. If you're not a total creep (or regardless), you'll find something to fill that void.

God grant that this helps someone, and whoever you are I ask that He give you the means and motivation to be free.

Blessings to all and just remember that this applies to everyone. Creeps are people too.

That would be very presumptuous and would irritate a lot of people.  Nothing there says why drinking is wrong, just that it is, and that anyone who drinks champagne at weddings is a sodden lowlife deadbeat.

Incidentally, OP didn't even say they were worried about it, just that they didn't get it.

What would you have me do to start a good-faith converstion?

That depends on exactly what conversation you want to have, but whatever it is, you should avoid aggressive blanket statements like the ones above.  You might touch a nerve regardless, in fact you probably will, but you don't need to go straight for it.