Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I have this flatmate - let's call him Jim. I live with Jim and two others in a shared apartment. Jim and I have two separate bedrooms next to each other on one side of the apartment, while the other two have their own bedrooms on the other side. So it's only me who hears anything from Jim's room at night.

Jim has the tendency to stay up until 3 to 4 AM playing video games with his friends very loudly. I've asked him to at least keep quiet after 2 AM two times already, but both times he's lasted less than a month before starting back up again.  

He's complained that since his gaming friends are mostly European and he usually has classes in the afternoon he can only play with them in the middle of the night,. He's also made passive aggressive comments in the group chat about how "the Internet is so much better in the middle of the night." and has lashed at out me for doing simple things like asking him to clean his dirty dishes after they've sat in the sink for a week.

I'm getting the sense that confronting him directly a third time will just start something and I would rather not live in fear of retaliation when our doors don't have locks. I'm already leaving the apartment in less than two months, but finals season is next month and I don't want to be sleep deprived during that.

I've tried earplugs, but I can still hear him through them. I've tried listening to music, but I can't get to sleep. Sometimes I manage to sleep, but then I'm jolted awake because my earplugs or earphones fall out during the night and I hear one of his screeches.

Since I have 8 AM classes every day and have to wake up anyways, I was thinking of leaving my alarm blaring at full volume for the 15-30 minutes it takes for me to get ready, figuring if he's forced awake as early as I am, he won't stay up so late. 

I know it's kinda a dick move, but I'm just so tired. Literally. WIBTA?