"I cannot see waisting hours on end on an activity so unproductive as playing video games,"
No flame here. I used to do just that. It was an addiction of sorts. I cannot stress how much better my life got when I gave it up.
Here, let me fix that for you...
I cannot stress how much better my life got when I gave it up traded an addiction to video games for an addiction to Freeping!
There, isn't that better now?
Mark