At least nighttime you just wants to play video games. When I was a young man, nighttime me wanted to go out dancing, get shit faced, get into fistfights, and paint the town red. That’s a lot harder to recover from at work the next day than a late night video game session.
No sympathy from me lol, sounds like something awful to do to yourself (and others). 👎
If I go to bed when I’m not tired then I’ll end up getting even less sleep than if I’d stayed up.
“Dude’s a sonofabitch… though they are living their best life.”
Trust you to bring such a granularly appropriate reaction gif. 'Preciate ya, ummthatguy.
It’s backwards, the guy got angry about his work taking his time during the day, or maybe he did some overtime…
Then he hit something called “revenge bedtime procrastination” - which is when you take back time at night, because you feel like something or someone took too much of your time during the day.
I feel attacked.
What game are they playing? My best guess is Terraria.
But also, yeah, relatable.
edit: added full stop.
My first thought was Terraria for sure, and it’s definitely a game that can keep you up.
That’s an excellent point.
Or something like factorio. And that’s entirely unrelated to why I’m awake after midnight.
Hmmm, Factorio is fantasticio, but does not resemble a side scroller in my experience.
Maybe Steamworld Dig? Which I would highly recommend, btw.
edit: s/b/n/
My husband and I just rediscovered Civ after not playing any of them for a decade.
Even now, a decade later, we have been sitting there for the past 2 weeks being like “Just one more turn” @ 2 am.
Fair warning, TV Tropes link.
There’s a name for that: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JustOneMoreLevel
The big mystery is where does my body find the streng to magically flip from tired all day to seeming infinite energy every evening?
You borrow it from the next morning. A few years ago I went through a phase where I would get up at something like 4AM, voluntarily, and in the morning and early afternoon I was fully awake and alert like I usually am at night. It actually felt really good to be functional and productive when the sun was out, but the problem is I would tend to get sleepy and pass out at around 8pm when I wanted to keep doing things. My theory is that your body needs a balance of sleep, awake but not very active time, and active time, and it is all controlled by when you fall asleep which determines where your free time is to do the things you actually enjoy doing.
Like when I woke up early, I would usually start the day doing things that I would at night - playing video games and scrolling through memes primarily, and during that time I could also get housework done, my (at the time) university homework, and planning for the week. I realized that it was the same productive time but only shifted because of when I had the free time to so.
Eventually I returned to night life because the time limit on my free time imposed by when my obligations for the day start versus how much sleep I am willing to sacrifice and move my unproductive time to work hours is a trade off I am very willing to make.
Morning: fugue state. Feel as if I’ve been slingshotted into a separate plane of time where the hours of the day feel drawn by random.
Evening: alert, focused. Each minute feels precious. Backlog of ideas overflowing. Dread having to go to bed at a time that feels ‘normal’.
A term I learned just this year: chronotypes. Basically, the preferred timing of the wake-sleep cycle varies among humans. Easy to imagine how that might have been useful from an evolutionary perspective: always someone to keep watch while the rest sleeps.
slingshotted
The proper term is slingshat.
Oh yes i am definitely one of them “keep the fire alive while telling stories about the night sky” types.
But what that really means is that somehow during the day my body already has the energy to be alert and focused. It just refuses to let me selfdrive unless i fill it up with caffeinoline first or till when actual cosmic phenomena are aligned to my subconscious.
It’s easy to lose an entire night to Terraria
yes but let us not forget what motivates us in the first place: that it is also possible to dedicate an entire night to terraria and win
The Civilization Series has entered the chat
I’m not even going to look at the clock right now. It’s not worth it.
what you don’t know can’t hurt you
Daytime me is cursing that decision right now. In at 1a. Up at 6a.
Read at 1:35am with my alarm set for 5:45am 😅😭😭
Since I have schoolchildren this has become a real problem. But it’s so deeply ingrained in me that I have the feeling I can’t change it without some behavioral therapy.
Can’t relate
Isn’t that dude sitting too close to the monitor at home?
