As important as maintaining hobbies is, sometimes, you do need to know when you have to draw a line.
A good litmus test for this is to check if your actions or priorities are actively affecting your living experience or that of the people in your life. The gamer in this anecdote had been late 1-2 weeks on paying rent for 6 months in a row after spending a ton of money on the latest edition of his new favorite game.
That most certainly qualifies as an extreme example in which the gamer was not exactly playing his cards right.



