View Full Version : You know it's time for bed when...
TheMysteriousStranger
06-09-2006, 04:04 AM
...you spend an hour stepping through your code over and over, trying to find the source of this really irritating and elusive bug. So you make a post on gamedev.net and someone asks the obvious: Did you init the object?
Your turn.
You know it's time for bed when...
Savant
06-09-2006, 04:08 AM
...you feel tired.
Indiepath
06-09-2006, 04:13 AM
......your wife is standing over you looking rather unhappy - again!
lakibuk
06-09-2006, 04:34 AM
...it's 2 pm. Time for a afternoon nap.
Fabio
06-09-2006, 04:45 AM
..when you feel either sleepy or horny.
:D
Mike Wiering
06-09-2006, 04:46 AM
... when you start hearing the birds outside and see a faint light in the sky.
Savant
06-09-2006, 05:38 AM
... when you start hearing the birds outside and see a faint light in the sky.
Ugh. Are people still doing this? I can't stand sleeping during the day. What a waste.
simonh
06-09-2006, 07:12 AM
Are people still doing this?What, staying awake until the early hours? Yeah, I really thought everyone had stopped doing that too :rolleyes:
Savant
06-09-2006, 07:21 AM
What, staying awake until the early hours? Yeah, I really thought everyone had stopped doing that too
You'll understand when you're older.
GBGames
06-09-2006, 07:48 AM
...when you fall asleep mid-keystroke.
What's weird is when you wake up and continue where you left off without missing a beat.
ggambett
06-09-2006, 07:49 AM
Ugh. Are people still doing this? I can't stand sleeping during the day. What a waste.
I never did that on a computer. Even coming out after a party (clubs here close after 7 am) and seeing the sunlight is somewhat depressing :(
Anthony Flack
06-09-2006, 07:51 AM
When you've just come back from a 14 hour work day, you check the forums while you're winding down, you've read everything that caught your interest and the only thing left is this thread. You use your last bit of conciousness to type some barely-coherent, utterly pointless nonsense in response, and then...
Savant
06-09-2006, 07:52 AM
...when you fall asleep mid-keystroke.
What's weird is when you wake up and continue where you left off without missing a beat.
How can you possibly be doing anything of worth in that state? Go to bed.
Ricardo C
06-09-2006, 08:36 AM
When you visit 1goodgame.com/blog. Surefire sign you've just run out of internet ;)
bignobody
06-09-2006, 08:55 AM
As soon as I realize I'm not thinking straight. "This should be easy. Why isn't it working!?" is a sure sign it's time to venture off to the land of Nod...
Fabio
06-09-2006, 10:22 AM
What, staying awake until the early hours? Yeah, I really thought everyone had stopped doing that too :rolleyes:
Just get married and you'll stop. When I wasn't, I used to do it a lot (usually till 8am in winter, and a bit earlier in summer).. but now.. with a baby I hardly have time to code at all.
bignobody
06-09-2006, 10:28 AM
Just get married and you'll stop.
Heh, quite the opposite for me. During the evening, it's quality time with the wife (no kids though... Thank god). Once she's tired and goes to sleep, it's time to work!
Savant
06-09-2006, 11:07 AM
I can't see not going to bed with my wife. Being out of sync sucks.
bignobody
06-09-2006, 11:46 AM
I can't see not going to bed with my wife. Being out of sync sucks.
Due to reasons I won't get into here, she needs a lot more sleep than I do. We usually get up in the morning at the same time, so don't usually get too out of sync.
electronicStar
06-09-2006, 12:04 PM
When you wake up in front of the computer and feel that someone is stalking you but there's noone, lol.
I have spent several years with the bad habit of staying awake until the early hours of the day, but I have decided to stop because the body feels so much better when you sleep early (it's a matter of biorythm and metabolism).
If you want to take advantage of the night to code, it's probably better to sleep very early and wake up at 4 or 5 am rather than to stay awake until 2 or 3 (or later) and sleep during the morning.
I think it's better to be well rested if I want to start this business seriously.
TheMysteriousStranger
06-09-2006, 01:10 PM
I must be a freak - when I wake up, I'm pretty much useless for about 3-4 hours. I really struggle with any coding I attempt in this morning period, and usually just give up and go and surf the web. I seem to kick into my prime coding time at around 2pm, then I start getting tired about 10pm and by 1am I'm having trouble focusing on the screen.
I wouldn't care that much, but no amount of biorythm control techniques or drugs or exercise have any effect. I'm stuck with it, and it makes me effectively useless before noon :(
GBGames
06-09-2006, 01:46 PM
How can you possibly be doing anything of worth in that state? Go to bed.
I didn't say I had done it recently. It sure bothers you, though. B-)
As soon as I realize I'm not thinking straight. "This should be easy. Why isn't it working!?" is a sure sign it's time to venture off to the land of Nod...
I completely agree. It's amazing how easy it is to get things working after some sleep, even if the night before featured an hour of hair-pulling and cursing.
Savant
06-09-2006, 01:52 PM
I'm stuck with it, and it makes me effectively useless before noon
Better hope this indie thing works out then. Most jobs start at 9.
TheMysteriousStranger
06-09-2006, 02:14 PM
Tell me about it :(
Success as an indie is the only thing standing between me and a killing spree.
Gilzu
06-09-2006, 02:28 PM
With me, it goes in stages:
1. I mute the speakers because my internal sfx card (a.k.a brain) starts pumping up event sfx of its own or max out sounds (finish compiling, error found while compiling, game music stuck in the head).
2. I write and plan thousands of code lines in my head, but I stare blankly at the screen (this is a prologue to 3)
3. I bring a blanket and a pillow and position myself in a nice comfy position at my programming-sofa where I can be seaten infront of the computer, but wont need to move any extra muscle.
4. Start draming/code-hallucinating and write funny code and comments (some turns out quite brilliant...).
5. wake up the next day.
My favorite are the code hallucinations while your sleeping. Say, you had a good, albiet long day. You hit the sack, and spend the rest of the night trying to fix a bug in your sleep... but the thing is, you fixed it yesterday. Man ... now that's awesome. Especially when you wake up a couple times, and don't realize it.
Or the variant, where you try to fix a bug that doesn't exist, or make any sense.
TheMysteriousStranger
06-09-2006, 03:09 PM
For me, the bug thing happens just as I'm drifting off. I start dozing off in bed, then BAM the single most amazing solution for an existing bug hits me and I'm wide awake thinking about it. Only I'm not really as awake as I think I am. I scribble notes down and the next morning I struggle to read them. The few times I have managed to decypher my sleep-writing, I realise that the solution is a dreadful one and wonder if the government have been slipping LSD into the water supply again.
You should keep a voice recorder or an MP3 player with similar capabilities handy for those moments. ;)
TheMysteriousStranger
06-10-2006, 02:07 AM
oh god no. It creeps me out listening to my voice on tape. I know most people say that they sound strange on tape, but how many of those people have a unanimous agreement from their peers? I must have some strange harmonic in my voice that doesn't record well or something. I literally sound like a different person on tape and it's really disquieting.
Besides, all I'd be recording at that time of night is "wha...na..ba.....bug!....fix....wha...ba...yeah... .buh"
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