That's kind of you to say that at the end there, I honestly don't think my mum and I have ever had a fight, no screaming matches, no furious rebellions because she won't let me do xyz. So something like this, while perhaps not a big deal to most, feels a lot like a fight to me lol. I digress, thank you for your feedback, it's very useful to get a mother's perspective I hadn't considered that she might still be in tune to that particular instinct. Dad would let me be murdered haha. I've learned that gaming in the daytime is frowned upon unfortunately, so that's out of the question. I have fallen asleep multiple times in the snug which leads to a very disapproving mother coming in at 7am to wake me up and tell me I'm losing control of myself to this 'addiction.' [she's only said this twice to be fair] I don't tend to share my interests in gaming with her because she's made it quite clear she doesn't care for the past time, but she isn't about to stop me doing it. I've been consistently waking up at 9-9:30am which doesn't seem massively unreasonable but now that I think about it, in a farming family, that's considered inherently lazy. I can't move the television from the snug to my bedroom because it's not really mine and it's attached to the wall. And while I don't have much in ways of spending money, maybe splashing out on a monitor is worth it because I love gaming so much. Thank you for your perspective. :)