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Okay, the title is a bit misleading, because the reason I'm sick of this certain iPhone game, FlightControl, is because it's so addicting.

I bought this game on a whim and then got into a friendly competition with a friend of mine who also got it. We went back and forth with high scores until we realized that there would be no end to it. We decided that when one of us reached 1,000 points (planed landed), we'd quit the game. Well, he got there first, but I kept at it until I reached that score. And then I reached 2,476 planes, and he felt compelled to try to beat it. (He has yet to.)

The game has a stats screen that shows you the total number of planes landed. When I saw that I've landed more than 71,000 planes since playing the game, I did some math and realized that I've been playing this stupid game for nearly 17 days!

So now I have to make a touch choice. Do I keep the game, trying for a higher score? Or do I delete it and get nearly three weeks of my life back ... as well as my iPhone battery?