On a more serious note: We should start scrapping the word "hardcore" from our day to day vocab. It seems to give a positive tone to what is arguably a negative thing. You don't see an alcoholic or a drug addict and say: wow, he's so hardcore, nice; though (obviously) the comparisons are at different levels of addiction, the basics are that (many times, not always) the lifestyle many of these people live is mediocre at best. It will really suck when you get old, look back at what your life's been and have nothing to show for it, especially in MMORPGs, where it's completely lights off once it's servers are shut down.
Everyone has a brain and makes decisions for themselves, hopefully, just sometimes we all need a little push to get us started.