Is gaming a bad habit, holding intelligent people back?

[sergiodaly]

While i game, my non gamers friends see loads more tv than me. Most of the time i feel that seeing tv does more harm than gaming. I think many people waste more time talking on the Internet about games than actually playing them so that adds up to alot of time on this subject but there are hundreds of things worse than gaming that millions on others do and while I'm gaming I'm not doing none of that.