There is nothing so ruinous to good character as to idle away one's time at some spectacle. Vices have a way of creeping in because of the feeling of pleasure that it brings. Why do you think that I say that I personally return from shows greedier, more ambitious and more given to luxury, and I might add, with thoughts of greater cruelty and less humanity, simply because I have been among humans?

The other day, I chanced to drop in at the midday e-games, expecting sport and wit and some relaxation to rest gaymers's eyes from the sight of pixleated human blood. Just the opposite was the case. Any fighting before that was as nothing; all trifles were now put aside - it was plain butchery.

The avatars had nothing with which to protect themselves (Indian gamers are not rich enough to afford the exclusive lootbox character upgrade), for their whole bodies were open to the thrust, and every thrust told. The common noobs prefer this to matches on level terms or request rematches. Of course they do. The necromorph's arm blade is not parried by a high-tech helmet nor an Advanced Power Suit, and what use is skill or defense? All these merely postpone death.

In the morning characters are thrown in a Battle Royale Map, at midday to custom maps' those who were previously watching them. The crowd cries for the killers to be paired with those who will kill them, and reserves the victor for yet another death. This is the only release the players have. The whole business needs fire and steel to urge men on to fight. There was no escape for them. The slayer was kept fighting until he could be slain.

'Kill him! Flog him! Burn him alive! FINISH HIM!' (the spectators roared) 'Why is he such a cuck? Why won't he rush on the steel? Why does he fall so soyly? Why won't he die willingly?"

Unhappy as I am, how have I deserved that I must look on such a scene as this? Do not, my PewDiePie, attend the games, I pray you. Either you will be corrupted by the multitude, or, if you show disgust, be hated by them. So stay away.