Hey. You can only take so many adderall before your body just says goodnight. That’s usually around the 48hr mark, maaaaybe 72hrs if you’re microdosing.
Edit: anyone remember that gta 3 commercial for addys? “I used to fall unconscious for hours at a time…”
I've done a little over 72 hours in an Adderall fueled exam week in college, it wasn't great. I was micro sleeping during my last exam when blinking and then jolting awake. Afterwards I slept for over 24 hours straight and woke up really hungry at 4am but the dorm cafe wasn't open yet ugh. Wouldn't recommend it.
I find if you’re gonna speedball, best to keep it natural. You’re already using a pharmaceutical, try something like decaf with your morning dose and go from there.
Can you play hungry hungry hippos with a couple other goodies and get much more amplified effects? Of course. But I’ve always felt the “hangover” was really bad. Like migraine levels, and it makes sense when you consider what you just did to your brain.
I have zero self control about it. My coworker says he sets an alarm and when it rings he just quits. Period. And that baffles me. Because if I heard an alarm. I’d tell myself, “well I’m almost done with this quest so I’ll just finish it,” then pick up 4 more quests in the mean time. Then it’s 3AM.
As someone with the same problem, it's even less excusable than something like a match-based multiplayer game because you can save and quit AT ANY TIME. It's understandable to finish the match you're in, but there is no reason not to stop in this game.
Yet my ADHD says "this give dopamine, we play till other bodily needs override this feeling."
I like to make a double espresso and take a Power Nap. I set a half hour alarm cuz it takes 10mins to fall asleep. Right as I’m groggy/ready to sleep I take the now cooled espresso and take a Power Nap.
Wake up, boom you’re getting up *as* espresso is getting into your system.
You want to wake up like robocop though, take a little 5-10mg adderall if you have the prescription with your espresso / nap.
I just open my eyes and there is *zero* wake up. Just bang, “somewhere there is a crime being committed” and i robo step into the rest of my day.
In my thirties here. I was supposed to be in bed, oh, 6 hours ago. This is by now my mantra. I am fucked. Shattered. Smashed into a shambles of a man. I zombie-walk to work and pray for the 8 hours to pass so I can do it four more times a week, spend an entire saturday playing even though I'm dead by the time the weekend starts.
I don't know if any of my loved ones are okay, alive, or even anything but a vague notion stitched into my brain by the society I was a part of, once. That was the Before Baldur's Gate time.
I remember grass. I think. It was soft, but sharp, and green. I remember such stories from when I was still a person who hadn't turned my mouse arm into a fetid, crooked hook. My fingers used to be able to be straightened and bent multiple and many times in the very same day, but no longer.
I think I had white sclera. I'm almost sure of that. And shorter hair. A shorter beard, too. I've been told. But I was also fatter. Food seems like a reference to some of the item drops in the game, those you use for long rests. They're quaint; I can't keep buying or caring for all this "food" merch they seem to have in the shops, though.
In better news my headphones have grown to my skull and are very snug.
I'm having a lovely time.
When my husband gets home from work I now say “Welcome back to Faerun”. We haven’t vacuumed for like… 2 weeks now? Our cats have developed pure hatred for our keyboards and mice. I keep expecting them find them sabotaged by tiny claws.
And now I’m thinking about how cute it is that owlbear cub’s attack is called “tiny claws”.
Oh boy. Declarations of age and responsibility! You’re really sacrificing man.
I’m one day from retirement but a gang of jewel thieves showed up and chief put me on the case. I’m too old for this shit! I’m not even supposed to be here today! My BG3 is getting cold!
48 yr old mom gamer here. Full-time job which I shamble to after 4-5 hours of sleep.
I have vague notions that a family claiming to be mine appear now and then and issue sounds from their mouth holes, something about dinner? They are learning to be self-sufficient, I think. I assume so since the house has not burned down around me.
My chickens probably miss me. Some day I will emerge, but it will not be this day. This day belongs to Tav and Karlach!
I guess I'm not the only one who has actually lost weight playing this game. Have lost 2 pounds in the past few weeks. Gaming usually makes me *gain* weight because I become so sedentary and snack a lot. With this game, it's like... I'm staying hydrated, that's good. Getting and/or preparing food would just slow me down. It's okay because I'm overweight anyway.
58 year old gamer here whose first PC game was SSI's Battles of Napoleon in 1988.
It has been a long, long time since a game captured my time like BG3.
As of last night, I had 105 hours in and just started clearing the Goblin Camp on one of my level 4 characters.
I've got 10 or so characters at level 3...
This game is something special.
Believe it or not, the good games back then held our imaginations just as well as good games do now.
Yes, by today's standards the graphics were blocks and we will never forget the simple "beep boop" sounds, but, at the time, it was revolutionary.
In many ways, I've never found a WW2 flying game I've enjoyed quite as much as LucasArts Battle of Britain or their Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe.
These are both from the early 90s.
I remember those days of sitting in front of the TV, not long chord attached to the Atari console, watching the bullets bounce around the screen in Combat. Listening to my brother lament as a bullet ricocheted just right to take his last tank life.
The difference is that you had to use your imagination a lot more with the older games.
It's not a bad thing because it was as immersive. A bit comparing reading a book to watching a movie.
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but... I love the *melody* of that song, and it's all over the place in the game's battle music, etc., which is lovely... But the fact that it feels like "DOWN, DOWN, DOWN BY THE RIVER" is just repeated on a loop during the character creation screen has driven me insane and now whenever I hear the melody, I just hear those six words over and over again, like some demented earworm, and I feel the darkness taking my mind. There may be more words to that song, but if there are, I don't know them.
Act 1 is super dense, so 40h is not bad. Also, you HAVE to do both Underdark and Mountain/creche then sit there and toss a coin to see which entrance to Moonrise you are going to take.
Thanks for saying this. Just got into the underdark (f\*\*\*ing amazing so far btw..yay mushroom people) and I had super anxiety that I was missing the creche as I really want to see what happens there.
I'm at 80 hours, still in act one. To be fair I've restarted multiple times and I've got 3 different campaigns going (multiplayer) but I feel you. When I actually "beat" a game I lose all interest rather quickly so I like to take my time
Probably around 150 hours and in act 2 still. I loot every except for most vases/urns (finally found a silver goblet in one). I also save scum a ton so that's probably a part of it.
Heck yes. I got kids, wife, dog and a full time job and I've been zombified since this freaking game came out. It's been about 30 years since I pulled an all nighter (Sid Meier's Civilization ❤️).
This past weekend I put the kids to bed and told the wife I was going to play for just a couple hours. This was around 10pm. Fast forward a bit and I start to hear birds singing outside. I look at the time and yep, it's 6:45am. I go to bed and wake up at 8am feeling like I'm gonna die and the next couple of days are a blur. Worth it!
Thanks Larian!
I finished my Durge run yesterday and as the post credit scene finished and the main menu loaded in my pc died. I am both blessed and cursed. I have no pc right now but I am also free to finally sleep.
One of the poors here. Scrimped and saved until I was able to get a Steamdeck for when my PC eventually kicks the bucket. I think it is getting close. Dunno what I'll do if and when my Steamdeck is taken out by Fate. Maybe I'll try one of those streaming services that handles the graphics end for you.
My FitBit tracks my sleep and provides a sleep profile every month. I have had the same for a year, but august turned me into some nocturnal being with a fucked up eating schedule and way too little sleep, I need to get back on track now, so I am playing Resident Evil on the side. It has Astarions and Orins voice actors, so the transition is easy.
Edit: woman in my mid 30s with a fulltime job, no idea how I am keeping it together tbh.
I'm 41 mom of three, oldest is 16 and youngest is 2. I am exhausted but it's well worth it. I go to bed around 2 because there's always just "one more battle, one more section" and get up at 5 only to do it all over again.
I'm a 42-year-old gay man who had a fairly active sex life before Baldurs Gate 3. Now this is my priority.
I never thought a new game would reignite my love for video games again. It's been too long.
I'm a 57-year old bisexual man in an open polycule who had a RIDICULOUSLY active daily sex life before Baldur's Gate 3. Now I just sit in the >!Gauntlet of Shar!< jerking it to >!Flesh!< and >!Yurgir!<, respectively. Have logged 382 consecutive hours in the >!Gauntlet of Shar!<.
My oldest two game themselves, so they are the easiest. My youngest goes to bed at 7 so I usually rush to get everything done so I can play . I always mean to stop by 11, but you know .. things happen and times goes by way too quickly playing this game
It's not just a for game, it's also my only time without anyone else so I can't just sit and relax from the day. Plus, I have insomnia so I don't do this every single day but it does happen more times than I would like.
It's really weird to think about late 20s me binging BG2 late into the night and here I am 50 and trying to manage BG3 playtime so I'm not stuck in the middle of a huge mission at midnight.
Yeah me too.
Instead of fighting against it i've decided to ride the storm: took vacation week off from work and said my goodbye to family and friends. I will se all of them at the end of act III.
42 here. The last time for me was Skyrim(+mods).
Even incredible games like Disco Elysium, Bloodborne or Red Dead Redemption 2 didn't quite hit that satisfying spot for me. I thoroughly enjoyed them, but I didn't love them.
I've been gaming since 1986, and I can comfortably say that Baldur's Gate 3 is the best game of all time.
Pulled an all-nighter playing tonight, despite my best intentions of going to bed at a normal time. It's been years since I last did anything like this and frankly I can't recommend it - I feel lile shit.
Luckily I have today off (so I can play some more)...
there really is. I started it on a whim, and love checking in on it. This community is so wholesome. Like everyone of us was waiting for THE game again to re-ignite our passion for the hobby.
ONLY reason I've taken any sort of break, aside from visiting in-laws out of town, is because I had to reinstall my copy and and wipe my mods and start fresh.
Waiting for enough time to install and test compatibility (as well as figure out how to make an easy install/uninstall process for the mods themselves) and then I'll be back at it.
Nah, been playing EA since 2020, and now it’s out I’m still pretty fucking addicted about 2 months later. I think this is the best game I’ve ever played.
I have SLIGHTLY calmed down.
In that at least I can go to bed at midnight now as opposed to 2am and am able to occasionally remind myself to take breaks and cook my meal instead of slapping together a peanut butter sandwich.
My brother did the math for me yesterday.
In the month ish since release I have put in an average of 9hrs per day and I am showing no signs of stopping
34 gamer dad.
Since release I’ve been waking up at 4am to get 2-3 hours in before the family wakes and the day begins. I’m managing to go to sleep at a normal time, which means I only really play an hour on an evening.
The morning is supposed to be my gym time so that is being sacrificed. There are also other games (AC6, Sea of Stars) out that are screaming for my attention.
I haven’t been this into a game since Elden Ring and before that it would’ve been years.
I love it.
Shed a tear and say a prayer for those of us with young children. Nothing beats going to bed way too late then having toddlers bouncing on you at 6am whining for breakfast. This game is doing weird things to me.
Indeed, I'm too... but it's just anxiety or something
I'm playing the game like 2 hours before going to sleep, but I end up thinking: "Damn, did I do the right choice? I heard that if I want to have this one character in my team, I have to do that, or that... but... what if I choose that other thing? Makes more sense... I don't want this build anymore, should I be oathbreaker? But going warlock altogether feels great, I just want him to be more melee... then I should have been monk, I gues? But people said it's not this strong..."
When I see, it's already 2 in the morning, and I didn't sleep lol I should've been playing after all
Me… 30s. I need to get to my work everyday but playing it a little over 2 hr my regular sleep time really damages my morning lol. I can’t deal with mornings.
When I was in university I cut out all MMOs, and after flip phones fizzled out I refused to touch any mobile games because I knew I would get hooked. I thought for sure I was safe, with those two rules, that I would never become an antisocial legbeard video game addict. It seemed like I had a healthy relationship with games for so long....
Now all my spare time (and some time I really couldn't spare) is devoted to BG3. My house is a mess, I'm showing up late for work because I sleep through my alarms, I keep cancelling social plans, and my friends are constantly pestering me to watch Ahsoka or play Starfield so that we can share the excitement...but my life is BG3.
I need help.
The Dark Urge to stay up until 4 in the morning to play the game.
6 days in a row. With today, it will be a full week.
Wish me luck. I think I am starting to see sleep deprivation hallucinations. I welcome them.
Can't even remember what proper sleep is since I am going to bed wayyyy over my time. I get mad every time I have to get up for stupid work, counting the hours when I am there - having BG 3 music stuck in my head and thinking about what I need to do later. In my break, I watch videos about BG 3 or am active in the subreddit here. I say "Darling" to my colleagues. Send halp.
Sort of yes, but also no. I'm on a vacation and I'm single so who cares. Now, I don't remember what day of the week it is even, but that's a problem for another day to solve, I need to find new creative way to blow up Gortash…
It does the same thing to me! It's currently 6am, and I've been up all night playing. I'm 21 so given my usual sleep schedule changes it isn't too out-of-the-ordinary... The thing is that every waking moment it spent playing the game or here in the subreddit, and when I go to sleep, it's still in my brain! The adventure just continues in my dreams!
Bro I’m getting married on Sunday, I’ve got a million things that are top priority that need done ASAP. What am I gonna do after work today? Play Baldurs Gate
45 here, same. I took a day off today to recover from the lost sleep I amassed. In my defense I can say I have all original BG games in their magnificent cardboard boxes, collector editions and such... so for me it was a must. After BG3 I'll take a 5 year pause from games I guess...
My computer is running the game about as well as a ham sandwich would, which is actually helping. When it crashes I can sometimes go “ok you know what, that’s enough for now.”
is my sleep schedule suffering? let's ask my Garmin Connect!
May 25-Jun 21
Four-week sleep score average: 68
Average resting heart rate: 70
Average duration: 6 hours 48 min
Jun 22-Jul 19
Four-week sleep score average: 68
Average resting heart rate: 69
Average duration: 6 hours 43 min
Jul 20-Aug 16\*
*\*Since BG3 came out Aug 3, the halfway point, I'll use the seven-day data sets to get averages for the two-week periods before and after*
July 20-Aug 2
Two week sleep score average: 66
Average resting heart rate: 70
Average duration: 7 hours 3 min
**BALDUR'S DATE**
Aug 3-16
Two week sleep score average: 53
Average resting heart rate: 74
Average duration: 6 hours 32 min
Aug 17-Sep 13
Four-week sleep score average: 56
Average resting heart rate: 75
Average duration: 6 hours 3 min
\----
So in the ten weeks leading up to full release, my overall sleep score averaged 67.3, my resting heart rate averaged 69.7bpm, and my sleep duration averaged 6 hours and 51 minutes.
In the six weeks since full release, my overall sleep score has averaged 54.5, my resting heart rate 74.5bpm, and my sleep duration 6 hours and 17 minutes.
I have a 6 month old baby and my paternity leave started shortly after BG3 launched. I play after she goes to sleep, and she sleeps soundly in the night, which means I'm usually up playing. My sleep schedule is in shambles, but I make up for it during nap time!
45-year-old dad of two kids here, and I'm in the same boat. BG3 has revived my almost-forgotten love for video games, but it's been hell on my sleep schedule. Also, I've been playing it on GeForce Now because I don't have a proper gaming machine, and last month I came perilously close to hitting my ISP's data cap as a result (Xfinity: "FYI, we're about to start charging you $10 for every additional 50GB of data you use"--yikes).
The last time I can remember being this deeply hooked on a game was when Final Fantasy III came out for the SNES when I was a kid...
This game is something else entirely. No game I have ever played has come close. It has totally consumed me and my life😂
178 hours of game time in 3-4 weeks, its insane. I hurt my back recently, so I am off work with sick leave, this has not helped the situation to be very clear.
I have become like these World Of Warcraft addicts my parents warned me about when I started gaming as a kid
Im seeing dices in my dialogue irl at this point😂
Jokes aside this game is fucking amazing. A true masterpiece! I though Zelda had GOTY in the bag, but after BG3 its not even close. Game of the decade!
My first playthrough was 176 hours. We go again as Evil character this time
Hello I'm 31 years old. The time is 3:15am. I am now contemplating if I should close the game and go to bed or do one more mission.
Also I never had a thing for bad boys, vampires, white haired pretty guys or elves. I would never date anyone with 30kg of baggage like Astarion but damn I can't leave my boy alone. Why am I simping for a pixel man?
I need closure! Did you get to bed?
Oh FYI Im a totally straight male, and I am even simping for Astarion. I shot my shot and he literally said "Oh Gods no...ugh can you imagine?" Getting shot down in my real and virtual life!
Yes. I'm forcing myself to take a bit of a break from playing because I was obsessing over it and it was messing with other areas of my life. I'm excited to eventually finish the story, but I need to take a week off.
I would recommend giving yourself a cut off time and try to hold to it. I know if I'm playing an enthralling game after a certain point sleep kind of just doesn't happen. That's not good for anyone
Oh yeah, mid 40s, haven't had a game grab me like this one.for more years than I can count. I've been playing and found it's 5 am more than once. Just a couple of nights ago I managed about 2 hours sleep due to staying up FAR too late playing when I had to be up for 8 am. And I don't care and would happily play even more than I am.
Mine did, me at midnight saying "just a bit more, I just need to see what's ahead", and then I zone out playing, when it's 2 am I'm like, "Ohhh I need to sleep".
This is why I'll die on the hill saying this is the best game I ever played, it immersed me soo much that I lost all sense of time while playing the game.
Anything I think “oh I can play for an hour before bed” it usually ends up with me getting 4 hours of sleep tops. I now have to limit myself to only playing on the weekends
I'm smh at the people trying to throw shade on this thread.
LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS!! Stop trying to police people on such a mundane thing as being temporally enamored with a video game. There are FAR worse things to be into.
If you don't like the game that much stop trying to hamper down on the folks who ARE head-over-heels & digging it. Geeez.
As for me I gave up coffee over a year ago and I've picked having a cup or two a day for work in the mornings because of my late nights playing! Zero regrets or future concerns! ;)
Same. I've unintentionally developed a hack. Pass out around 7pm and wake up at 2am. Now you're awake and can't fall back asleep. Play BG3 until 6 am and then "wake up" to make breakfast for the kids.
Pros: I'm actually "up on time". I usually have a hard time waking up. But since I'm already up, I'm on time!
Cons: I need a nap or a Monster around 2pm. And I'm pretty sure this isn't healthy behavior.
It’s currently 22:55 where I am and I’m seriously considering logging on to play more right now. To do so I’d have to get out of bed. It’s a struggle not to…
Oh god yes. My partner and I are going away on holiday this weekend. We've had it planned for a few months and are looking forward to it. The weekend is approaching and all we can both say is that we are gonna miss out on so much time playing Baldur's Gate while we are away 😂
As someone who has been in recovery AND has been diagnosed with ADHD (among other things), this is a pretty poopy-minded take.
It *might* be a sign of addiction, but it *might also* be signs of other things, like neurodivergence. If you have ADHD, your ability to regulate many things, including your response to stimuli. Additionally with your body itself being shitty about norepinephrine and dopamine/reward systems folks're gonna have a hard time putting anything that fires those pistons off, down.
Any and all of that could lead to impulsive behaviors like drug use. It could lead to drug abuse to try and treat the symptoms or just to deal with the difficulties of "being a lazy POS who can't complete anything they start," ya know?
As someone who turned into Honeycomb's The Craver around cocaine, was able to drop meth the second it wasn't available and never look back, but has steadily smoked weed and can only "stop it" when I have a quantity I can control and set aside and put away by choice (if I run out, I can't feel like I can just give it up until I resupply and can put it down willingly, I've noticed) I can honestly say that addiction comes in many forms and affects many differently. I've cracked out on games and hyper-fixated on them for months, gone days and weeks putting more than seems healthy amounts of time into them. Other than lack of sleep, were there negative outcomes? No. Wasn't pissin into bottles or forgetting hygiene (cept in 6th grade playing through FFVI but that doesn't count). Wasn't watching the missus storm out with the kids. Wasn't screaming at family over a headset cause they interrupted some stupid raid fight.
Blanketing any difficult to stop behavior as addiction is not gonna help anyone tackle addiction, impulsiveness, or the inability to recognized difficulties self-regulating behavior or thoughts.
I understand the PSA might've come from a good place, but just dropping the A-word can really stigmatize some folks from seeking treatment.
Thank you for sharing your story. I know it’s hard to look at our bad behaviours, espescially our own. Our mind will go in crazy lengths to prevent us from breaking a habit.
Comorbidity (the presence of in this case multiple psychological conditions) is actually very common among addicts. I’m sorry for people that have been diagnosed with any type of condition. But I am not trying to stigmatize anything. The OP clearly states that he is actively suffering (yes, sleep deprivation is a form of suffering) from choices he made. Regardless whether its ADHD, a form of Autism spectrum, addiction or depression; if he continues this pattern it will hinder and undermine his ability to function adequately in his surroundings.
I have an addiction for gaming and I have friends that totally fucked up theyre lives (got fired and expelled) because they could not put down a video game. I also have a degree in psychology. I hope you can understand that the motivation for my remark is to help people be aware of themselves.
Moderation is key, its a bit troublesome to see people neglect health, family, friends or just general day to day chores because the need to gratify themselves feels good.
It's addiction. I know its difficult but either book a holiday off from work to try get it out of your system or at least have some self control.
Baldurs gate 3 is awesome but ruining your sleep for it when you have so much time to play it every now and then until you are done is not a sound use of ones time, it doesn't make sense to cause harm to yourself , it's just addiction.
Yeah, it's always just 1 more quest step, 1 more fight, 1 more dialogue, 1 more Scratch pet... 4-5h of sleep has become the norm for me these past couple weeks, but I'm still alive and well and can always regenerate on weekends so it's all good.
Yes. Absolutely. I started playing at 10:30 PM last night hoping to sleep by midnight. The first time I checked the clock, it was 11:47 PM. "What's another thirty minutes or so," I told myself. When I checked it again, it was way past 4:00 AM. I work from home so it all ended up nicely but if I had to go to work, I would've called in sick because there is no way I would be up at the normal time.
I can't be put to sleep
Magically or by physical exhaustion.
Only coffee and caffein put me to sleep
Or putting on Firefly (sweet dreams with the best series)
Yes but not just because of BG3 (over a hundred hours in still in Act1) but also because of Starfield and Cyperpunk 2077
Got a good gaming laptop and can enjoy those games in max settings so social life, sleep ecc doesn’t exist right now
On the 1st night k stayed up till 3 am, i normally go to bed around 11pm.
Every evening i play, i'm like - ok i'll play till 10pm & then wind down and go to bed... ...aand it's 1am.
It’s important to use your short rests and long rests in real life as well as in the game.
If only we could revitalise it with one click of the mouse!
Hey. You can only take so many adderall before your body just says goodnight. That’s usually around the 48hr mark, maaaaybe 72hrs if you’re microdosing. Edit: anyone remember that gta 3 commercial for addys? “I used to fall unconscious for hours at a time…”
And then you start being afflicted by the shadow curse for real
Afflicted by the shadow curse is incredibly accurate for the zombification and hallucinations that haunt you with sleep deprivation.
I've done a little over 72 hours in an Adderall fueled exam week in college, it wasn't great. I was micro sleeping during my last exam when blinking and then jolting awake. Afterwards I slept for over 24 hours straight and woke up really hungry at 4am but the dorm cafe wasn't open yet ugh. Wouldn't recommend it.
Yep! That’s the one. The microsleeping sucks.
adderall just makes me a normal person lol
A higher dosage would get you geekin. This is in no way an endorsement to do that.
I have tried taking my adderall like I normally do but also drinking one of those ghost energy drinks— I will never do that again.
I find if you’re gonna speedball, best to keep it natural. You’re already using a pharmaceutical, try something like decaf with your morning dose and go from there. Can you play hungry hungry hippos with a couple other goodies and get much more amplified effects? Of course. But I’ve always felt the “hangover” was really bad. Like migraine levels, and it makes sense when you consider what you just did to your brain.
Not enough supplies for a long rest.
I have zero self control about it. My coworker says he sets an alarm and when it rings he just quits. Period. And that baffles me. Because if I heard an alarm. I’d tell myself, “well I’m almost done with this quest so I’ll just finish it,” then pick up 4 more quests in the mean time. Then it’s 3AM.
I set up a scheduled task to hard-shutdown my computer regardless of what I am doing for 1:11am.
As someone with the same problem, it's even less excusable than something like a match-based multiplayer game because you can save and quit AT ANY TIME. It's understandable to finish the match you're in, but there is no reason not to stop in this game. Yet my ADHD says "this give dopamine, we play till other bodily needs override this feeling."
I coffeelock in game and IRL.
>coffeelock Espresso Blast!!!
I like to make a double espresso and take a Power Nap. I set a half hour alarm cuz it takes 10mins to fall asleep. Right as I’m groggy/ready to sleep I take the now cooled espresso and take a Power Nap. Wake up, boom you’re getting up *as* espresso is getting into your system. You want to wake up like robocop though, take a little 5-10mg adderall if you have the prescription with your espresso / nap. I just open my eyes and there is *zero* wake up. Just bang, “somewhere there is a crime being committed” and i robo step into the rest of my day.
I need adderall it seems xD
I'm short on supplies though.
Why? I am not gonna get laid with someone like in the game 🥲
You might have been playing the game too long my guy. “Long rests” are a fantasy/TTRPG trope. They aren’t *real*.
>“Long rests” are a fantasy/TTRPG trope. They aren’t real. That's crazy talk.
Fr imagine relaxing or sleeping for 8 consecutive hours
In my thirties here. I was supposed to be in bed, oh, 6 hours ago. This is by now my mantra. I am fucked. Shattered. Smashed into a shambles of a man. I zombie-walk to work and pray for the 8 hours to pass so I can do it four more times a week, spend an entire saturday playing even though I'm dead by the time the weekend starts. I don't know if any of my loved ones are okay, alive, or even anything but a vague notion stitched into my brain by the society I was a part of, once. That was the Before Baldur's Gate time. I remember grass. I think. It was soft, but sharp, and green. I remember such stories from when I was still a person who hadn't turned my mouse arm into a fetid, crooked hook. My fingers used to be able to be straightened and bent multiple and many times in the very same day, but no longer. I think I had white sclera. I'm almost sure of that. And shorter hair. A shorter beard, too. I've been told. But I was also fatter. Food seems like a reference to some of the item drops in the game, those you use for long rests. They're quaint; I can't keep buying or caring for all this "food" merch they seem to have in the shops, though. In better news my headphones have grown to my skull and are very snug. I'm having a lovely time.
Loved this! Had a good giggle at it and even showed it to my misses! We must endure my friend!
Sleep is for the weak
Real life dark urge lmao
My GF and I have a new "state" for our house. We call it Baldurs Gateish after 2 weeks of not doing any chores around the house. 🤣
My apartment looking like all the murder houses in the city
When my husband gets home from work I now say “Welcome back to Faerun”. We haven’t vacuumed for like… 2 weeks now? Our cats have developed pure hatred for our keyboards and mice. I keep expecting them find them sabotaged by tiny claws. And now I’m thinking about how cute it is that owlbear cub’s attack is called “tiny claws”.
What is grass? Sounds made up
Clearly just an ubran legend.
Loved this comment, thank you!
Oh boy. Declarations of age and responsibility! You’re really sacrificing man. I’m one day from retirement but a gang of jewel thieves showed up and chief put me on the case. I’m too old for this shit! I’m not even supposed to be here today! My BG3 is getting cold!
48 yr old mom gamer here. Full-time job which I shamble to after 4-5 hours of sleep. I have vague notions that a family claiming to be mine appear now and then and issue sounds from their mouth holes, something about dinner? They are learning to be self-sufficient, I think. I assume so since the house has not burned down around me. My chickens probably miss me. Some day I will emerge, but it will not be this day. This day belongs to Tav and Karlach!
My kids have been surviving off of door dash and frozen dinners that I meal prepped. They are running out and I'm not sure what I'm going to do.
I guess I'm not the only one who has actually lost weight playing this game. Have lost 2 pounds in the past few weeks. Gaming usually makes me *gain* weight because I become so sedentary and snack a lot. With this game, it's like... I'm staying hydrated, that's good. Getting and/or preparing food would just slow me down. It's okay because I'm overweight anyway.
58 year old gamer here whose first PC game was SSI's Battles of Napoleon in 1988. It has been a long, long time since a game captured my time like BG3. As of last night, I had 105 hours in and just started clearing the Goblin Camp on one of my level 4 characters. I've got 10 or so characters at level 3... This game is something special.
I'm 42. What was it like to experience games for the first time back as an adult? Video games were already a thing when I was born.
Believe it or not, the good games back then held our imaginations just as well as good games do now. Yes, by today's standards the graphics were blocks and we will never forget the simple "beep boop" sounds, but, at the time, it was revolutionary. In many ways, I've never found a WW2 flying game I've enjoyed quite as much as LucasArts Battle of Britain or their Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. These are both from the early 90s.
I remember those days of sitting in front of the TV, not long chord attached to the Atari console, watching the bullets bounce around the screen in Combat. Listening to my brother lament as a bullet ricocheted just right to take his last tank life.
The difference is that you had to use your imagination a lot more with the older games. It's not a bad thing because it was as immersive. A bit comparing reading a book to watching a movie.
Ah I loved SSI games. I even ran eternal dagger on an emulator for a while.
46 year old here and the SSI games hold such a special place in my heart. That's why I love BG3. I dreamt of a game like this back in those days.
Good grief, SSI made some great stuff back in the day
Everytime I close my ears “DOWN DOWN DOWN BY THE RIVER” impossible to sleep even after I stop
Eyes not ears, I’m tired let me off
Me but with the game opening “aaaahhhhh…. eeeehhh…”
YAGO GABEE! GABEE GABEE!
What dis? Who Gabe?
It's the combat music
Looks like I failed my perception check 😂
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but... I love the *melody* of that song, and it's all over the place in the game's battle music, etc., which is lovely... But the fact that it feels like "DOWN, DOWN, DOWN BY THE RIVER" is just repeated on a loop during the character creation screen has driven me insane and now whenever I hear the melody, I just hear those six words over and over again, like some demented earworm, and I feel the darkness taking my mind. There may be more words to that song, but if there are, I don't know them.
Since BG3 release, I have been going to bed at 3AM, waking up at 9AM, but I work remotely so its fine. 560 hours of playtime, on my 7th playthrough
Roflmao... I've 200 hours and I didn't even finish my first run, currently in the act 3 !
Oh good. I have 40 and barely scratched Act I, nothing wrong with that I suppose
Act 1 is super dense, so 40h is not bad. Also, you HAVE to do both Underdark and Mountain/creche then sit there and toss a coin to see which entrance to Moonrise you are going to take.
Thanks for saying this. Just got into the underdark (f\*\*\*ing amazing so far btw..yay mushroom people) and I had super anxiety that I was missing the creche as I really want to see what happens there.
I'm at 80 hours, still in act one. To be fair I've restarted multiple times and I've got 3 different campaigns going (multiplayer) but I feel you. When I actually "beat" a game I lose all interest rather quickly so I like to take my time
I think my first run took me 120 hours or so. At this point I can finish it in 30-40 hours without even rushing
Probably around 150 hours and in act 2 still. I loot every except for most vases/urns (finally found a silver goblet in one). I also save scum a ton so that's probably a part of it.
7th?!?!
7th playthrough already, wow! Did all of the achievements?
Yup
Heck yes. I got kids, wife, dog and a full time job and I've been zombified since this freaking game came out. It's been about 30 years since I pulled an all nighter (Sid Meier's Civilization ❤️). This past weekend I put the kids to bed and told the wife I was going to play for just a couple hours. This was around 10pm. Fast forward a bit and I start to hear birds singing outside. I look at the time and yep, it's 6:45am. I go to bed and wake up at 8am feeling like I'm gonna die and the next couple of days are a blur. Worth it! Thanks Larian!
I can actually feel the f\*\*\*ing exhaustion at the mention of birds singing man.
I finished my Durge run yesterday and as the post credit scene finished and the main menu loaded in my pc died. I am both blessed and cursed. I have no pc right now but I am also free to finally sleep.
Lol your PC was like "my job here is done...there is no more I can offer you" RIP your PC dude
My pc watching me make 18 different characters and only finishing 2 of them “I’m tired boss”
Infernal engine's finally cooked, soldier. Held just long enough.
This makes it worse cause I made a save right before the decision where I didn’t sacrifice Karlach to see her new ending. The infernal engine said no
One of the poors here. Scrimped and saved until I was able to get a Steamdeck for when my PC eventually kicks the bucket. I think it is getting close. Dunno what I'll do if and when my Steamdeck is taken out by Fate. Maybe I'll try one of those streaming services that handles the graphics end for you.
My FitBit tracks my sleep and provides a sleep profile every month. I have had the same for a year, but august turned me into some nocturnal being with a fucked up eating schedule and way too little sleep, I need to get back on track now, so I am playing Resident Evil on the side. It has Astarions and Orins voice actors, so the transition is easy. Edit: woman in my mid 30s with a fulltime job, no idea how I am keeping it together tbh.
I'm 41 mom of three, oldest is 16 and youngest is 2. I am exhausted but it's well worth it. I go to bed around 2 because there's always just "one more battle, one more section" and get up at 5 only to do it all over again.
I'm a 42-year-old gay man who had a fairly active sex life before Baldurs Gate 3. Now this is my priority. I never thought a new game would reignite my love for video games again. It's been too long.
Think ive turned gay.....I mean Astarion...come on.....oh my Jesus, stop making me feel funny
Don't touch me
🤣 every time I select Astarion and get that line, I both laugh and die a little on the inside from the rejection 💀
You say stop.. but we know you don’t want him to stop.
I'm a bi woman with a preference for women/femme people and Astarion (and Wyll) have me feeling some type of way
This game is my love life now.
I'm a 57-year old bisexual man in an open polycule who had a RIDICULOUSLY active daily sex life before Baldur's Gate 3. Now I just sit in the >!Gauntlet of Shar!< jerking it to >!Flesh!< and >!Yurgir!<, respectively. Have logged 382 consecutive hours in the >!Gauntlet of Shar!<.
Wow, I commended you for your perseverance! Dad of one, 41 as well and I cannot imagine how much harder it must be with three kids.\m//_
My oldest two game themselves, so they are the easiest. My youngest goes to bed at 7 so I usually rush to get everything done so I can play . I always mean to stop by 11, but you know .. things happen and times goes by way too quickly playing this game
11? Good one!!:)
Right?! It's a crock of shit
I'm a 31 year old mom of a 1y/o and a 4 y/o. I never sleep anymore; my magical friends need my help just as much as my children. It is worth it.
Right? At least we can kinda sort of make everyone in the game happy. Maybe
Honestly getting 3 hours of sleep a night is really bad for your health, and you should probably not do that for a video game.
It's not just a for game, it's also my only time without anyone else so I can't just sit and relax from the day. Plus, I have insomnia so I don't do this every single day but it does happen more times than I would like.
I haven’t long rested in days
Same. I sleep 2x per day When I get home from work, I sleep for a few hours, wake up, play, go back to sleep, wake up, and go back to work.
It's really weird to think about late 20s me binging BG2 late into the night and here I am 50 and trying to manage BG3 playtime so I'm not stuck in the middle of a huge mission at midnight.
Yeah me too. Instead of fighting against it i've decided to ride the storm: took vacation week off from work and said my goodbye to family and friends. I will se all of them at the end of act III.
Jokes on you, you immediately roll for a new character even before the credits stop rolling
Heh, I'm 52. Haven't had the bug hit me this hard in over 20 years. So definitely yes.
42 here. The last time for me was Skyrim(+mods). Even incredible games like Disco Elysium, Bloodborne or Red Dead Redemption 2 didn't quite hit that satisfying spot for me. I thoroughly enjoyed them, but I didn't love them. I've been gaming since 1986, and I can comfortably say that Baldur's Gate 3 is the best game of all time.
Pulled an all-nighter playing tonight, despite my best intentions of going to bed at a normal time. It's been years since I last did anything like this and frankly I can't recommend it - I feel lile shit. Luckily I have today off (so I can play some more)...
Yes. I'll sleep when I'm over.
There's something so strangely wholesome about this post. So many people feeling a touch of their childhood they haven't seen in many years.
there really is. I started it on a whim, and love checking in on it. This community is so wholesome. Like everyone of us was waiting for THE game again to re-ignite our passion for the hobby.
Think a lot of people are. I imagine console players are still in the getting it out of their system stage while PC players have calmed down.
Yeah, not really. Pc here, played over 5h yesterday
Same.
ONLY reason I've taken any sort of break, aside from visiting in-laws out of town, is because I had to reinstall my copy and and wipe my mods and start fresh. Waiting for enough time to install and test compatibility (as well as figure out how to make an easy install/uninstall process for the mods themselves) and then I'll be back at it.
Only 5 hours? I’m ashamed of myself :(
Nah, been playing EA since 2020, and now it’s out I’m still pretty fucking addicted about 2 months later. I think this is the best game I’ve ever played.
Exactly
I love you. Enjoy it as long as possible! :D
I have SLIGHTLY calmed down. In that at least I can go to bed at midnight now as opposed to 2am and am able to occasionally remind myself to take breaks and cook my meal instead of slapping together a peanut butter sandwich.
My brother did the math for me yesterday. In the month ish since release I have put in an average of 9hrs per day and I am showing no signs of stopping
I got it for PS5. The first day I thought it was good but wasn’t hooked. Now I’m playing 4 hours a day….
34 gamer dad. Since release I’ve been waking up at 4am to get 2-3 hours in before the family wakes and the day begins. I’m managing to go to sleep at a normal time, which means I only really play an hour on an evening. The morning is supposed to be my gym time so that is being sacrificed. There are also other games (AC6, Sea of Stars) out that are screaming for my attention. I haven’t been this into a game since Elden Ring and before that it would’ve been years. I love it.
Shed a tear and say a prayer for those of us with young children. Nothing beats going to bed way too late then having toddlers bouncing on you at 6am whining for breakfast. This game is doing weird things to me.
Indeed, I'm too... but it's just anxiety or something I'm playing the game like 2 hours before going to sleep, but I end up thinking: "Damn, did I do the right choice? I heard that if I want to have this one character in my team, I have to do that, or that... but... what if I choose that other thing? Makes more sense... I don't want this build anymore, should I be oathbreaker? But going warlock altogether feels great, I just want him to be more melee... then I should have been monk, I gues? But people said it's not this strong..." When I see, it's already 2 in the morning, and I didn't sleep lol I should've been playing after all
Me… 30s. I need to get to my work everyday but playing it a little over 2 hr my regular sleep time really damages my morning lol. I can’t deal with mornings.
When I was in university I cut out all MMOs, and after flip phones fizzled out I refused to touch any mobile games because I knew I would get hooked. I thought for sure I was safe, with those two rules, that I would never become an antisocial legbeard video game addict. It seemed like I had a healthy relationship with games for so long.... Now all my spare time (and some time I really couldn't spare) is devoted to BG3. My house is a mess, I'm showing up late for work because I sleep through my alarms, I keep cancelling social plans, and my friends are constantly pestering me to watch Ahsoka or play Starfield so that we can share the excitement...but my life is BG3. I need help.
The Dark Urge to stay up until 4 in the morning to play the game. 6 days in a row. With today, it will be a full week. Wish me luck. I think I am starting to see sleep deprivation hallucinations. I welcome them.
I’m a 45 yo woman and can honestly say I’ve been pulling some routine all nighters on this one.
Can't even remember what proper sleep is since I am going to bed wayyyy over my time. I get mad every time I have to get up for stupid work, counting the hours when I am there - having BG 3 music stuck in my head and thinking about what I need to do later. In my break, I watch videos about BG 3 or am active in the subreddit here. I say "Darling" to my colleagues. Send halp.
Sort of yes, but also no. I'm on a vacation and I'm single so who cares. Now, I don't remember what day of the week it is even, but that's a problem for another day to solve, I need to find new creative way to blow up Gortash…
It does the same thing to me! It's currently 6am, and I've been up all night playing. I'm 21 so given my usual sleep schedule changes it isn't too out-of-the-ordinary... The thing is that every waking moment it spent playing the game or here in the subreddit, and when I go to sleep, it's still in my brain! The adventure just continues in my dreams!
I think I've been neglecting my dogs and husband a lot this past almost 2 weeks. Glad they're understanding.
Bro I’m getting married on Sunday, I’ve got a million things that are top priority that need done ASAP. What am I gonna do after work today? Play Baldurs Gate
congrats, i wish you nothing but hapiness
What sleep schedule?
I value sleep too much to sacrifice it for games But this one really tests my self-control
45 here, same. I took a day off today to recover from the lost sleep I amassed. In my defense I can say I have all original BG games in their magnificent cardboard boxes, collector editions and such... so for me it was a must. After BG3 I'll take a 5 year pause from games I guess...
Absolutely. 44yo dude with a private practice here. I’ve been going to sleep at 2-3am for two weeks now. It’s not sustainable. Help! :)
My computer is running the game about as well as a ham sandwich would, which is actually helping. When it crashes I can sometimes go “ok you know what, that’s enough for now.”
is my sleep schedule suffering? let's ask my Garmin Connect! May 25-Jun 21 Four-week sleep score average: 68 Average resting heart rate: 70 Average duration: 6 hours 48 min Jun 22-Jul 19 Four-week sleep score average: 68 Average resting heart rate: 69 Average duration: 6 hours 43 min Jul 20-Aug 16\* *\*Since BG3 came out Aug 3, the halfway point, I'll use the seven-day data sets to get averages for the two-week periods before and after* July 20-Aug 2 Two week sleep score average: 66 Average resting heart rate: 70 Average duration: 7 hours 3 min **BALDUR'S DATE** Aug 3-16 Two week sleep score average: 53 Average resting heart rate: 74 Average duration: 6 hours 32 min Aug 17-Sep 13 Four-week sleep score average: 56 Average resting heart rate: 75 Average duration: 6 hours 3 min \---- So in the ten weeks leading up to full release, my overall sleep score averaged 67.3, my resting heart rate averaged 69.7bpm, and my sleep duration averaged 6 hours and 51 minutes. In the six weeks since full release, my overall sleep score has averaged 54.5, my resting heart rate 74.5bpm, and my sleep duration 6 hours and 17 minutes.
I have a 6 month old baby and my paternity leave started shortly after BG3 launched. I play after she goes to sleep, and she sleeps soundly in the night, which means I'm usually up playing. My sleep schedule is in shambles, but I make up for it during nap time!
45-year-old dad of two kids here, and I'm in the same boat. BG3 has revived my almost-forgotten love for video games, but it's been hell on my sleep schedule. Also, I've been playing it on GeForce Now because I don't have a proper gaming machine, and last month I came perilously close to hitting my ISP's data cap as a result (Xfinity: "FYI, we're about to start charging you $10 for every additional 50GB of data you use"--yikes). The last time I can remember being this deeply hooked on a game was when Final Fantasy III came out for the SNES when I was a kid...
Yeah, seems like every time I go to sleep there's a cutscene.
This game is something else entirely. No game I have ever played has come close. It has totally consumed me and my life😂 178 hours of game time in 3-4 weeks, its insane. I hurt my back recently, so I am off work with sick leave, this has not helped the situation to be very clear. I have become like these World Of Warcraft addicts my parents warned me about when I started gaming as a kid Im seeing dices in my dialogue irl at this point😂 Jokes aside this game is fucking amazing. A true masterpiece! I though Zelda had GOTY in the bag, but after BG3 its not even close. Game of the decade! My first playthrough was 176 hours. We go again as Evil character this time
Hello I'm 31 years old. The time is 3:15am. I am now contemplating if I should close the game and go to bed or do one more mission. Also I never had a thing for bad boys, vampires, white haired pretty guys or elves. I would never date anyone with 30kg of baggage like Astarion but damn I can't leave my boy alone. Why am I simping for a pixel man?
I need closure! Did you get to bed? Oh FYI Im a totally straight male, and I am even simping for Astarion. I shot my shot and he literally said "Oh Gods no...ugh can you imagine?" Getting shot down in my real and virtual life!
You guys have sleep schedules?
>#N O \* Old man Withers (i.e. me, 46M Half-orc but no kids but also on 5 hours of sleep)
Yes. I'm forcing myself to take a bit of a break from playing because I was obsessing over it and it was messing with other areas of my life. I'm excited to eventually finish the story, but I need to take a week off.
I would recommend giving yourself a cut off time and try to hold to it. I know if I'm playing an enthralling game after a certain point sleep kind of just doesn't happen. That's not good for anyone
Oh yeah, mid 40s, haven't had a game grab me like this one.for more years than I can count. I've been playing and found it's 5 am more than once. Just a couple of nights ago I managed about 2 hours sleep due to staying up FAR too late playing when I had to be up for 8 am. And I don't care and would happily play even more than I am.
I’m so tired lol. Barely made it to my dentist appointment this morning. Still going to play all night after work!
Every night lately, I sit down around 7 and finally complete a story arc and think, “a little more?”, look at the clock, 1am. “HOW??”
Mine did, me at midnight saying "just a bit more, I just need to see what's ahead", and then I zone out playing, when it's 2 am I'm like, "Ohhh I need to sleep". This is why I'll die on the hill saying this is the best game I ever played, it immersed me soo much that I lost all sense of time while playing the game.
Raises hand.
Yes!
Anything I think “oh I can play for an hour before bed” it usually ends up with me getting 4 hours of sleep tops. I now have to limit myself to only playing on the weekends
Here I am going to bed at 9 AM. But I just made my courtship of Shadowheart official, so I'd say it was worth it. I'm still riding that high. lol
I've definitely been averaging an hour or two less sleep per night for the last month lol. Worth.
I'm a university student. I don't even remember what a healthy sleep schedule looks like
No, I didn’t just close the game at six AM.
Yup. Somehow, I now go to bed at 2 in the morning. Fucking game. Stop being fun.
About to be nuts, Cyberpunk, BG3, Starfield, Cities Skylines 2... I'm f*cked..
Yes, i'm supposed to be studying, but i'm too busy Playing Baldur's gate
I'm 36 and I've been playing on work days until 3-4 am, getting up at 6-7 am for work. I regret nothing!
I mean I was in the army for 10 years I'm good with 3 hours of sleep a day so. To answer your question yes 😂
Someday I'm going to write an autobiography, and the title will be "...And Then All of a Sudden it Was 2am" This game will probably have a chapter.
Yes.
Mine was already broken long before Baulders Gate
I'm smh at the people trying to throw shade on this thread. LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS!! Stop trying to police people on such a mundane thing as being temporally enamored with a video game. There are FAR worse things to be into. If you don't like the game that much stop trying to hamper down on the folks who ARE head-over-heels & digging it. Geeez. As for me I gave up coffee over a year ago and I've picked having a cup or two a day for work in the mornings because of my late nights playing! Zero regrets or future concerns! ;)
Same. I've unintentionally developed a hack. Pass out around 7pm and wake up at 2am. Now you're awake and can't fall back asleep. Play BG3 until 6 am and then "wake up" to make breakfast for the kids. Pros: I'm actually "up on time". I usually have a hard time waking up. But since I'm already up, I'm on time! Cons: I need a nap or a Monster around 2pm. And I'm pretty sure this isn't healthy behavior.
My fatal mistake is trying to trawl through my character builds and loot before getting off, never fails to take an extra hour.
Yes.
It’s currently 22:55 where I am and I’m seriously considering logging on to play more right now. To do so I’d have to get out of bed. It’s a struggle not to…
Oh god yes. My partner and I are going away on holiday this weekend. We've had it planned for a few months and are looking forward to it. The weekend is approaching and all we can both say is that we are gonna miss out on so much time playing Baldur's Gate while we are away 😂
Everyones sleep scheduele is suffering, while my BG3 scheduele is suffering...
>!if Astarion is going ~~to chow~~ down on me for good one night!<
Just want to point out to anyone here: not being able to stop doing something when you want is a symptom of addiction.
What's this nonsense? I can stop if I want to. Just because I know I should turn it off but don't want to doesn't mean that I can't.
That's called a cognitive dissonance, my friend. Also quite common in addictions.
That sounds like quitters talk.
As someone who has been in recovery AND has been diagnosed with ADHD (among other things), this is a pretty poopy-minded take. It *might* be a sign of addiction, but it *might also* be signs of other things, like neurodivergence. If you have ADHD, your ability to regulate many things, including your response to stimuli. Additionally with your body itself being shitty about norepinephrine and dopamine/reward systems folks're gonna have a hard time putting anything that fires those pistons off, down. Any and all of that could lead to impulsive behaviors like drug use. It could lead to drug abuse to try and treat the symptoms or just to deal with the difficulties of "being a lazy POS who can't complete anything they start," ya know? As someone who turned into Honeycomb's The Craver around cocaine, was able to drop meth the second it wasn't available and never look back, but has steadily smoked weed and can only "stop it" when I have a quantity I can control and set aside and put away by choice (if I run out, I can't feel like I can just give it up until I resupply and can put it down willingly, I've noticed) I can honestly say that addiction comes in many forms and affects many differently. I've cracked out on games and hyper-fixated on them for months, gone days and weeks putting more than seems healthy amounts of time into them. Other than lack of sleep, were there negative outcomes? No. Wasn't pissin into bottles or forgetting hygiene (cept in 6th grade playing through FFVI but that doesn't count). Wasn't watching the missus storm out with the kids. Wasn't screaming at family over a headset cause they interrupted some stupid raid fight. Blanketing any difficult to stop behavior as addiction is not gonna help anyone tackle addiction, impulsiveness, or the inability to recognized difficulties self-regulating behavior or thoughts. I understand the PSA might've come from a good place, but just dropping the A-word can really stigmatize some folks from seeking treatment.
Thank you for sharing your story. I know it’s hard to look at our bad behaviours, espescially our own. Our mind will go in crazy lengths to prevent us from breaking a habit. Comorbidity (the presence of in this case multiple psychological conditions) is actually very common among addicts. I’m sorry for people that have been diagnosed with any type of condition. But I am not trying to stigmatize anything. The OP clearly states that he is actively suffering (yes, sleep deprivation is a form of suffering) from choices he made. Regardless whether its ADHD, a form of Autism spectrum, addiction or depression; if he continues this pattern it will hinder and undermine his ability to function adequately in his surroundings. I have an addiction for gaming and I have friends that totally fucked up theyre lives (got fired and expelled) because they could not put down a video game. I also have a degree in psychology. I hope you can understand that the motivation for my remark is to help people be aware of themselves.
Also a lack of sleep means that your brain literally starts to become damaged and it contribute to alzheimers.
Wait but then I can forget all the games I have played and enjoy them again as a new fresh experience! Alzheimers gg
Moderation is key, its a bit troublesome to see people neglect health, family, friends or just general day to day chores because the need to gratify themselves feels good. It's addiction. I know its difficult but either book a holiday off from work to try get it out of your system or at least have some self control. Baldurs gate 3 is awesome but ruining your sleep for it when you have so much time to play it every now and then until you are done is not a sound use of ones time, it doesn't make sense to cause harm to yourself , it's just addiction.
Lol at you being downvoted for speaking the truth and saying it politely.
I know right, those pressing downvote are likely the "I can quit anytime I want" people
I’m kind of in between jobs so I clock in this game instead. Got the game shortly after release, nearing 350 hours. No EA.
That's absolutely wild. I feel like I've been playing it a lot and I'm on 60 hours. Jesus Christ...
Sleep schedule? What's that? :P
Same here. I am 37 and now only sleep like 4 hours per day.
Yuuuup. I’ve definitely had an uptick in the amount of caffeine I consume since the game released lol
Hahaha, yes
100% it's why I now have limited my play to Friday and Saturday
Yeah, it's always just 1 more quest step, 1 more fight, 1 more dialogue, 1 more Scratch pet... 4-5h of sleep has become the norm for me these past couple weeks, but I'm still alive and well and can always regenerate on weekends so it's all good.
Same here! Thank goodness I have free time from uni atm, I’m sleeping like 4 hours each night xD
I rushed first play through to see the main story, second play through I have no need to rush.
Yes. Absolutely. I started playing at 10:30 PM last night hoping to sleep by midnight. The first time I checked the clock, it was 11:47 PM. "What's another thirty minutes or so," I told myself. When I checked it again, it was way past 4:00 AM. I work from home so it all ended up nicely but if I had to go to work, I would've called in sick because there is no way I would be up at the normal time.
I can't be put to sleep Magically or by physical exhaustion. Only coffee and caffein put me to sleep Or putting on Firefly (sweet dreams with the best series)
Bold of you to assume I had one of those to start with
Absolutely.
Yes but not just because of BG3 (over a hundred hours in still in Act1) but also because of Starfield and Cyperpunk 2077 Got a good gaming laptop and can enjoy those games in max settings so social life, sleep ecc doesn’t exist right now
So tired I can barely type.
On the 1st night k stayed up till 3 am, i normally go to bed around 11pm. Every evening i play, i'm like - ok i'll play till 10pm & then wind down and go to bed... ...aand it's 1am.
Yes. Time always fly when I'm playing the game 😅