Thread: The 100-hour no-sleep challenge.

First I drank a dozen energy drinks in 5 days. Now I'm staying up for a crazy amount of time. Next... eating a Tostino's pizza labeled "best if eaten by 12/6/2011"?

t: ~11.5h

Song: Narnia - You'd Better Believe It

I would like to see your empire. Age of empires II is a great game for this. I have had lots of games last up to 30 hours.

Wow. 30 hours is a long time.
I'm passive aggressive in real-time strategy (RTS) games, that is to say, I'll build a whole double-wall full of advanced towers and castles loaded with archers... and then just sit back and build a freakishly huge army to crush everybody with.

Problem is, the AI usually runs out of resources by then, making the game boring after a maximum of ~4 hours.

And THANK GOD FOR THE SUNRISE! Now that I'm not having to fight my body's chemistry, it is loads easier to feel good about this whole endeavor again.

t=17.25h

song: Dale Thompson and the Kentucky Cadillacs - Who'll Bell the Cat?

If I am playing against 1 I do close to the same. I like playing with a ton of enemies. I really fortify that and expand. Making my place look almost as good as the great wall in the campaign.

Even when I play on a "giant" map with seven opponents, it still either ends in defeat or boredom within 5 hours. :/

Weird. Do you ever play with cheats? Now that is a short game.

No. At that point I just say "well, I am sooo going to lose this game" and start over. Also, I never play with everybody teaming up against me.

Lol Age of Empires is so good :p

Just spent the last hour doing nothing but consciously maintaining a wake state of mind.
Erm, that is to say staying awake. Yeah. And absolutely nothing else.
Just sitting here. In a chair. Staying awake. >_>

t=20h

Age od empires and age of mythology are just amazing, but I don't think I could spend more than a solid four hours playing them. Especially since I'm used to online deathmatches.

Well I leave and come back. I don't sit there the whole time. Cheats are really fun on that game. Click on your town center and enter in 'aegis' that is the most powerful one, but it works for you and the enemy, so it really just changes the game.

Oh God aegis.... Greek mythology - the best thing ever written. :')

Funny thing about the 'aegis' cheat: I most often use it not for production, but for cutting paths through Dark Forest maps around to the rear of the enemy camp.

The guy through whom I get my internet on campus just took off, and since I don't feel like hanging around in the CCM building all night, I won't be posting again for about a day while in transit. Unless I get lucky on the road or something.
Meh.

Got over the hump (the first night), and HOLY FREAKING CRAP, FINALS ARE OVER!!!
Time to go watch anime for the next 70 hours.

t=30h

Song: Signet - Nobody Here For You

Failed. 60 Hours. I don't even remember what happened. T_T

Nice try. I was sick all weekend. you gonna get some sleep and try again soon?

Originally Posted by Signet

Failed. 60 Hours. I don't even remember what happened. T_T

Nice try though! 60 hours is still an accomplishment in itself. You can always try again when your schedule permits!

Thanks, Recon!

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Nice try. I was sick all weekend. you gonna get some sleep and try again soon?

[looks at his schedule]
....yeah. Christmas. Or Christmas eve, maybe, and continuing on until the end of the week.

And maaaaan. I have no clue what happened! I was just sorting books in my room to take to Goodwill and then mom was waking me up four hours later. I wasn't fatigued, I was clear-headed, and I hadn't even spent as long awake as my 88-hour run, obviously. Weird Lima-beans indeed.

Edit: I read over this post, and I could have sworn that it said "I was just snorting books in my room..."
Oh, gosh. The mental picture.

People can die? I thought they just automatically fall asleep or something

They do just fall asleep. Unless they accidentally do something that kills them, it is pretty safe. As he said before, not driving.

I still admire your effort Signet. I was on something called Lucia Movie Night at the Cinemas and well it's basically three movies in a row.

So when that was over it was morning around 07:30 so I stayed up that day, and even though I was just about 24 hours sleep deprived, I can't even imagine how it felt to be 60 hours sleep deprived! :insomnia:

Originally Posted by MasterMind

I still admire your effort Signet. I was on something called Lucia Movie Night at the Cinemas and well it's basically three movies in a row.

So when that was over it was morning around 07:30 so I stayed up that day, and even though I was just about 24 hours sleep deprived, I can't even imagine how it felt to be 60 hours sleep deprived! :insomnia:

For whom? I'll be honest; after the first night sleepless, I feel more energetic than on a normal day. After another day and night it all starts to level off into a slightly fatigued (physically, not mentally) sort of consistent wakefulness. -thus making my spontaneous sleep so odd-

Pulling from examples of friends of mine: Bryant, who starts playing movie-clip remixes and posting the comment "Moof, moof" (which is a "manly woof") on all possible Youtube videos come 2:00 a.m.
Or Amy, whose willingness to answer personal questions goes up exponentially about half an hour after midnight.

...and I'm just sitting there, trying like the dickens to not laugh my fool head off. >_<

And thanks for the compliment!

I would never ever try this challenge. I admire your effort signet . I'd rather sleep 14 hours a day then not sleeping at all

uhm, time ago i read that be awake for more than 48 hour has a death risk, but you say that, when it doesn't suffer more, you fall asleep. you sure? because i'm interested, and i think i could try in future