tinyE: He doesn't own any games here so I'm guessing he posted the question as a means of opening up a philosophical debate rather than a gaming debate.
Philosophical debate? Here you go:
To play, or not to play, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The gunshots and arrows of outrageous gaming,
Or to take arms against a sea of pixels,
And by opposing, end them? To win: to rest;
No more; and by a victory to say we end
The life-loss and the thousand gun wounds
That gaming disorder is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To win, to rest;
To win: perchance to live again: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that rest in victory what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this morbid addiction,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes gaming of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The addiction’s wrong, the opponent’s contumely,
The pangs of one´s retreat, the victory’s delay,
The insolence of nerds and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a carpal tunnel syndrome? who would hardmode bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary game,
But that the dread of something after gaming,
The undiscover’d life from whose bourn
No cured gamer returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those addictions we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of daily grind and routine
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. – Soft you now!
The fair Hylia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember’d.
Please discuss.