Do playing videogames make you stay up too late?
say during the week, you know you have to go to either work or school early in the morning but yet you end up staying up till 1 in the morning playing a game and don't even relize it and next thing you know you gotta be up in 4-5 hours and have trouble waking up the next morning. I have trouble with that quite often and I've even been thinking of setting an alarm so i know what time to go to bed and i don't get sucked into another game. Does anybody else do this or am I the only one?
I used to play Counter Strike religiously from about 6 at night until 2 in the morning and then try to get up for work the next day at 7. I did it for about a year and a half and eventually lost the job from being late too often. I don't let games keep me up anymore. It just isn't worth it.
Yes, but not always. It only happens when I get a new game or something I really like playing.
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yes I do
My wife and I have debated on and off in the last year about me going to bed at the same time as her. I agreed that it would be beneficial for our relationship---and don't read into this (if you know what I mean). It just kind of seems like the right thing to do.
However, she has realized that my 8-5 M-F job just doesn't offer me a whole lot of playing time. When I get home we eat, watch some TV and just generally relax. She doesn't play--so that option is off the table.
What does that leave me? It leaves me 10:30-12:00. I'm trying not to stay up past that. If I do, I need about 4 cups of coffee to keep going the next day. Any other married guys with a similar situation?
My wife crashes well before me, but usually out on the couch while I'm playing. So we're sorta together lol.
Lately, Kingdom of Loathing has been keeping me up late... the rollover (new "day"- you get so many adventures per day) occurs at 9:30-10:00 my time, and I've gotten in the bad habit of waiting until it occurs and then playing... 'tis a bad idea lol.
In college I would always stay up way later than was good for me. Usually playing an online game. Not as much anymore though.
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I occasionally stay up waaaayy late. Like 6 or 7 am. Depends on what I'm playing. I have a severe problem with "Just one more game".
I have a 15 month old kid, and have to drop him off at school. Since he's around, the overnights have become less.
Before him, I used to do it twice a month or so...
Need. More. Games.
Short answer: yes, yes they do.
I'm a night owl anyway.
Sometimes they make me stay up late, but most of the time they don't.
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Yes, too late. Itś really because I start too late, too
Sometimes I just get hooked on a particular point of a game and just keep playing and playing because it's so enjoyable. It happened most recently with ZTP towards the end, I think I finished that at around 3am though seeing as it was over Xmas, I didn't have to get up.
Before that... probably PW:JFA, I got through the entire game in three days, a total of about 15 hours gametime, with all three days finishing into the night...
Usually not anymore too much responsibility at work. Usually I will only stay up 30mins-90mins too much now-a-days if/when I do. Generally it will be something like a level that takes wayy to long or opening up a new area and not noticing the clock.
sometimes. I work at 8:30am a lot and I've been going to bed at 2am because of friends and videogames
No I enjoy my sleep to much. But it helps that I mostly play my neo geo so I don't have to look for any save points. I can just turn it off when I am tired
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Some times my brain is hardwire for the night these days...
I generally tend to enjoy anything I do much more during the (late) night. Whether its playing a game, listening to music, reading a book, watching anime, programming, or just doing homework (I'm a uni student at the moment), I often get carried away and stay up (at least) until the sun comes out.
Last night for example I played through some Final Fantasy III(DS) for a few hours, listened to some Machinae Supremacy, and watched the whole mini-series of The Lost Room (awesome show btw) - I ended up going to sleep just after 9am.
Of course, I'm currently on my summer holidays here in Australia and I'm not working, so I'm doing it now simply because I can afford to. Of course, if I'm working the next day I sleep a little earlier, but rarely before 3am or so
No so much lately, mostly because someone close to me has asked me to stop exhausting myself, but back in the daya yeah all the time.
I remember this time last year we'd start an online game of DOA4 at like 8pm. 12 hours later i'd be like, "What the fuck, where'd the time go?" Then the next night the same would happen again.
yes, usually i'm up to at least 3 or 4 gameing. never effected me in grade school or for work but it was pretty bad in college. i missed alot of class gameing. i remember my roommate getting up at 7 in the morning for class and i would still be sitting there playing
roommate: "still playing that game. did you sleep at all?"
me: "yes, and no i havn't"
roommate: "well are you going to class today?"
me: "naaa"
roommate: "oh.....i suppose i won't either"
then he went back to bed. i guess i was a bad influence.
he used the deckard cane rap from Diablo II as his alarm clock to...good times.
as for the life at home with the GF. yhea its came up as an issue from time to time. altough i think the idea that if one partner goes the bed the other has to is extremely lame. i did find an solution though. bought anouther large television for the bedroom, problem solved.
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Yes and no.
Both my Fiance and I do it. We then that night as we're climbing into bed grumbling how we can't do that anymore and how we wake up really tired and grumpy the next day. My most recent 'issue' with staying up too late was being up til almost 1 last night playing Metal Slug Anthology and then some Castlevania PoR while she was surfing the net for something before we went to bed.
It just takes will power that we seem to be ignoring for some stupid reason, cause I really hate waking up so tired in the morning.
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