(Average+) Hi Score Girl

Series in one sentences: 
Video games turn you one-dimensional, go burn your Playstation before it's too late.

Series in more sentences: 
Follow the adventures of a young boy obsessed with video games who's one purpose in life is to beat his superior rival. His relationship with the quiet, popular girl in class is a strange one that not even he understands, but there's one thing that connects them: video games.

Listen. I love video games. I love video game history. I love to talk about video games. So it says alot that the main character managed to annoy me.
He won't shut up and it's pretty sad he has nothing else going on for him, except to ramble on about games. It's his hobby, it's his personality, almost every time he opens his mouth you can expect the same dribble. The scenes that had actual character building were refreshing, but few.

The only morally decent character in the show is this blonde girl who appears out of nowhere later in the show, and is only there to replace the horribly violent rich girl the boy first bonded with. I don't think her presence was needed, though I find myself agreeing with her inner monologues all the time, so I'm grateful for that. She often criticizes her love interest, which is good, yet she's still in love with him. Why though?

The bonding in this show means little. Every few episodes is a giant skip in time, where it's revealed that the main character hasn't once seen or spoken to the people he supposedly hung out with before. We're not talking about days or weeks, but months, or even exceeding a year. That's horrid. Why is the anime doing this? Why can't they have written him to be more social? 
There are 2 girls lusting after his ass and he seems to have a preference, but they hardly meet up or talk, so why should anyone care about the conclusion of this love triangle?

The first one had to leave him behind at the airport, and did so while bawling her eyes out. Then she returns to his school 2 years later and neither one of them even take the initiative to run over and jump in each other's arms. I hated it. They seemingly care nothing about each other, until some piece of dialogue comes up that insinuates they're everything to each other. Like a year later. I hate it.

Still, I'm going to check out the next season. I need to know if it becomes better, I really want it to.