After playing for 4 years aprox, spending most of em´ in RS, I probably quit playing guitar completely. Is not because I dislike RS in fact was so much fun but because I´m suffering of ear deafening and actually RS have increased this issue somehow, now more than I increased my practicing habits. And I´m into metal and one of those persons who say: "Turn it out loud or don´t turn it at all". I can´t blame RS completely, I used to hear music and videogames loud decades ago. At the same time I never mind in that too much, was a combination of it wouldn´t happened to me and I don´t care. In fact I have a distant relative who I didn´t frequent at all or even know more than from a couple of times who was failed to be a successful musician and my mother always mentioned him of becoming deaf. I didn´t care or think about it at all, again. Burn my mother´s tongue for being right, I don´t believe her completely, she is used to exaggerate stuff always. I don´t mind it until right now that my right ear is hearing some sort of a buzz or ringing and is somehow annoying. So my advice for all of you little buddies is that don´t overlook at the issue. It exists and it´s a price that someones pay just for do what they do. For now I´m not wearing ear protection ,I not used to and always forget to do it so and not turning down volume , maybe I must change to acoustic? Nah, I don´t want to know abuit it for now. But have to say that playing guitar was so much fun, PANTERAAAA!!!!!!!! (headbanging). I don´t think that there´s 100 percent that I wouldn´t play again ,but it´s very probable. See ya! :D