Actually, earplugs can help soften noise from video games but they may not block out the alarm if it’s set very high. It also depends on how light/deep a sleeper the OP is. The alarm may be right by their ears, so it’s closer and easier to hear compared to a game system/TV with earplugs in.

what an unsympathetic response. I've lived together with someone that would play video games until 4am every day when I had to get up at 7am to work and disrupted my sleep for a whole year. If you care about anyone but yourself, maybe learn to compromise if your habits are so horrible they're disrupting other people's basic needs that are living with you... Or plan to live alone. Not a lot of people will want to spend their life with someone so selfish they care more about their own fun than disrupting someone's sleep.

It’s called compromise. They both live there they both have a right to decent sleep and consideration from each other. As a gamer, I think this gamer is being rude, they can’t expect their needs to be all that matters. Both housemates need to sit and have a considerate chat and try to find a solution together.

Yes he is. People go to college to study, not to play games.

People may go to college to study but that doesn’t mean that’s ALL they have to do. They are still humans who need to relax and unwind. And whatever their reasons, they are all paying the same amount for that room. Whether through scholarship or out of pocket. You don’t get to dictate what they use their room for. I don’t agree with the original comment, but yours is no better. You’re both acting as if it’s supposed to be one way or the other.

No dude. OP's grades used to be good till gamer boy arrived on the scene. That is what 'My grades took a dip' means.