All Nighter Tips
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If you're preparing for a midnight release, take a nap before.
For your general all nighters, keep the stimuli up. Be aware of what your limit feels like, couches will get you--you start sitting up right, then reclined, then you're asleep.
If you can, get into the "just one more" mindset, it makes a huge difference.
Then there's caffeine, which helps some.
For your general all nighters, keep the stimuli up. Be aware of what your limit feels like, couches will get you--you start sitting up right, then reclined, then you're asleep.
If you can, get into the "just one more" mindset, it makes a huge difference.
Then there's caffeine, which helps some.
I've spent a whole night up playing Castle Crashers with a friend saying "just one more level". We eventually reached 4am, stopped for second. We had to get up for a trip in two hours, so we decided to just keep playing.
The only mid-night release I've been to was the one for Skyrim. I knew my brother would want to play too, I didn't want to fight him for time and I wanted to play it first. So I took a nap in the afternoon, picked it up--one of my friends was actually first in line and some how got a promotional foam chainsaw sword from the Gamestop people--then played it until 6am.
I once spent the whole night at a friend's house try to beat one level in Stronghold 2. It took like 5 tries, but building infastructure just for my pesant to get maulded by wolves takes a long time.
The only mid-night release I've been to was the one for Skyrim. I knew my brother would want to play too, I didn't want to fight him for time and I wanted to play it first. So I took a nap in the afternoon, picked it up--one of my friends was actually first in line and some how got a promotional foam chainsaw sword from the Gamestop people--then played it until 6am.
I once spent the whole night at a friend's house try to beat one level in Stronghold 2. It took like 5 tries, but building infastructure just for my pesant to get maulded by wolves takes a long time.
Coffee. And porn breaks... But mostly coffee because you're alert while making it for fear of getting your eyeballs scalded and drinking it keeps you awake because IT BURNS!
Oh and get wet. Not in relation to said porn breaks just dip your hair in freezing water. Trust me, you won't be able to get to sleep with freezing cold hair...
Oh and get wet. Not in relation to said porn breaks just dip your hair in freezing water. Trust me, you won't be able to get to sleep with freezing cold hair...
I once accidentally stayed up for 48 hours straight while playing morrowind, then I stayed up another 24 hours just for the hell of it, then I crashed and screwed up my sleep for an entire month. I recall not seeing sunlight for over 3 weeks. ah, good old days...
anw, in my experience, a good enough game will keep you awake without any problems for an entire night, so I guess just keep your self occupied and don't get too comfy, not even on things you'd normally consider highly uncomfortable. trust me, keyboards are perfectly good pillows under certain circumstances...
anw, in my experience, a good enough game will keep you awake without any problems for an entire night, so I guess just keep your self occupied and don't get too comfy, not even on things you'd normally consider highly uncomfortable. trust me, keyboards are perfectly good pillows under certain circumstances...
Most of all, make sure you're alone.
I keep pulling all-nighters to work on my thesis, with every single instance earning me a comment from one of the folks. I find pre-emptive naps to usually suffice in picking me up for the first half, after which fruit juice keeps me up. Coffee when I'm alone.
I keep pulling all-nighters to work on my thesis, with every single instance earning me a comment from one of the folks. I find pre-emptive naps to usually suffice in picking me up for the first half, after which fruit juice keeps me up. Coffee when I'm alone.
Well capcha suggests "frozen peas" but i dont.SirDeadly said:
While i wont comment about your game of choice or that i would never stay up just to play a game 8 hours faster than other folk ill try to trell you what i do when i want to stay awake.
1. Candies. As lnog as your chewing you wont fall asleep. and high sugar content raises awareness.
2. Some people sue coffe, as i dont i cant give you personal experience, but chemically it shoudl help you stay awake.
3. Movies. a good movie wont let you fall asleep.
4. Gaming. as long as your playing games you wont fall asleep as long as the games arent boring. I suggest somthing fast paced ( i know after pulling a 52 hours non sleep i was playing silent hill 3 and i would be fine while playing and dozing off while in cutscenes, was fun trying to will myself stay awake while the big bad boss is claiming he will kill me).
5. Excitement. You are waiting for a new game. go read up on it. you get excited and wont fall asleep.
6. Now this is part of preparation, but sleep well beforehand. it helps a lot.
7. Water. water on your face scares the sleeps away. it may sound silly, but going to wet your face every 30 minutes can do wonders.
i would never use energy drinks and dont suggest anyone else to.
electronic music helps with one thing and one thing only: going insane.
Don't do it, it's dumb. Seriously. If you've got a sleep cycle going, don't fuck with it. It can take days to reestablish a good cycle, unless you can give up a day completely, and keep yourself awake whilst on the peak of exhaustion. Using caffiene for it is DUMB. DO NOT DO THIS. Caffiene, soft drinks etc should NOT be used recreationally to stay awake. I've just come off a major caffiene dependency, and if you want exhaustion, chest pains, twitches, and a host of other unpleasantness, you're going the right way.
If you need help to stay up, you shouldn't stay up. Your body is tired and it wants you to go to sleep. So sleep. If you can stay up, whatever, I'm not going to tell you otherwise. I can keep playing without falling asleep, but I've got perpetually screwed sleep cycles from night shifts, and all-nighters on assignments for university. It's nothing to be proud of, and you will regret it later.
If you've got no good reason to stay up (Like something time dependant, like a party, or a LAN), then you really shouldn't, it's just really, really silly. You get an extra 8 hours of gaming, but the next day you either crash and lose 12+ hours, or you act like a zombie if you can't crash, until you get the chance to sleep, and you'll probably oversleep in that case as well.
If you've got a vaguely good reason, like a LAN, get some sleep the day before.
If you need help to stay up, you shouldn't stay up. Your body is tired and it wants you to go to sleep. So sleep. If you can stay up, whatever, I'm not going to tell you otherwise. I can keep playing without falling asleep, but I've got perpetually screwed sleep cycles from night shifts, and all-nighters on assignments for university. It's nothing to be proud of, and you will regret it later.
If you've got no good reason to stay up (Like something time dependant, like a party, or a LAN), then you really shouldn't, it's just really, really silly. You get an extra 8 hours of gaming, but the next day you either crash and lose 12+ hours, or you act like a zombie if you can't crash, until you get the chance to sleep, and you'll probably oversleep in that case as well.
If you've got a vaguely good reason, like a LAN, get some sleep the day before.
Well cigarettes, monster BFG cans, and the occasional orange pill helped me through college, but the healthiest way would be to get plenty of sleep before hand, take breaks to eat, drink things that have natural glucose sugar so you don't crash, and when you start to get tired do some exercising.
Honestly, you're better off just sleeping 'til like 4-5am and just gaming all day, you'll be more awake/aware, and in a shooter, that can mean the difference between annoyance and fun.SirDeadly said:
I have no intention of stopping you, but I've been gaming for a LONG time, and out of the two options of gaming ALLL DAY LONG, or pulling an all nighter, then crashing, there's a signifigant difference in fun value, and if you play from 4am to midnight or say even til 1-2am the next night, you get a lot more time than starting at midnight and playing til around 10am-noon and crashing cuz your body and brain are severely overtired...
I mean I've gamed for over 70 hours straight before, of course I was also a chronic insomnia sufferer at the time, I almost never slept anyway, but that's a bit different...
