{"author_link":"\/users\/splitpainter","author_name":"SplitPainter","author_uid":"splitpainter","comments":[],"epoch":1682843904,"event":"LD53","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":365258,"likes":8,"metadata":{"p_key":"199353","p_author":"SplitPainter","p_authorkey":"1057198","p_urlkey":"431347","p_title":"Take care of yourself, no jam is worth more than your health! Sleep and eat well","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD53","p_time":"1682843904","p_likes":"8","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1057198","us_name":"SplitPainter","us_username":"splitpainter","event_start":"1682726400","event_key":"118","event_name":"Ludum Dare 53"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD53","removed_author":false},"_superparent":332127,"_trust":1,"author":57198,"body":"For #LDJam or any other jam or hackathon: never go without sleep & don't eat junk food or drink energy drinks. Keep your normal routine - sleep well, eat well and don't mess up your sleep with energy drinks. \n\nUnfortunately after 13 years participating in Ludum Dare **it's still normal to see \"I didn't sleep\" posts here and on Twitter, Mastodon, etc** - this is not cool!\n\nIt's not worth it, since after the jam **you are going to be wasted and long term there are huge health impacts.** \n\nGood, you earned 1-2 additional hours of real accounted productive work, **while risking yourself for a health attack** when not sleeping and drinking energy drinks. Is it worth it? In exchange of what? A few more Ludum Dare votes?\n\nThis is not a drill nor a joke. **My daddy passed away due to that kind of crazy routine**, for 20 yrs he stayed awake almost every Fri-Sun to edit his videos to deliver to a TV channel Sunday mornings (he had an independent TV Fishing Show in Brazil), then amongst other things, he had a heart attack 2x. \n\nSo no game jam is worth that :pray: \n\n![ab6c0fa7f6c2d20d.png](\/\/\/raw\/e6f\/d\/z\/58027.png)","comments":2,"comments-timestamp":"2023-04-30T09:51:04Z","created":"2023-04-30T08:33:34Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":365258,"love":8,"love-timestamp":"2023-04-30T17:09:15Z","meta":[],"modified":"2023-04-30T17:09:15Z","name":"Take care of yourself, no jam is worth more than your health! Sleep and eat well","node-timestamp":"2023-04-30T08:55:02Z","parent":362522,"parents":[1,5,9,332127,362522],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/$362522\/take-care-of-yourself-no-jam-is-worth-more-than-your-health-sleep-and-eat-well","published":"2023-04-30T08:38:24Z","scope":"public","slug":"take-care-of-yourself-no-jam-is-worth-more-than-your-health-sleep-and-eat-well","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1112362},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"365258","n_urlkey":"431347","n_parent":"362522","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/$362522\/take-care-of-yourself-no-jam-is-worth-more-than-your-health-sleep-and-eat-well","n_slug":"take-care-of-yourself-no-jam-is-","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"57198","n_created":"1682843614","n_modified":"1682874555","n_version":"1112362","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/$362522\/take-care-of-yourself-no-jam-is-worth-more-than-your-health-sleep-and-eat-well","text":"For #LDJam or any other jam or hackathon: never go without sleep & don't eat junk food or drink energy drinks. Keep your normal routine - sleep well, eat well and don't mess up your sleep with energy drinks. \n\nUnfortunately after 13 years participating in Ludum Dare **it's still normal to see \"I didn't sleep\" posts here and on Twitter, Mastodon, etc** - this is not cool!\n\nIt's not worth it, since after the jam **you are going to be wasted and long term there are huge health impacts.** \n\nGood, you earned 1-2 additional hours of real accounted productive work, **while risking yourself for a health attack** when not sleeping and drinking energy drinks. Is it worth it? In exchange of what? A few more Ludum Dare votes?\n\nThis is not a drill nor a joke. **My daddy passed away due to that kind of crazy routine**, for 20 yrs he stayed awake almost every Fri-Sun to edit his videos to deliver to a TV channel Sunday mornings (he had an independent TV Fishing Show in Brazil), then amongst other things, he had a heart attack 2x. \n\nSo no game jam is worth that :pray: \n\n![ab6c0fa7f6c2d20d.png](\/\/\/raw\/e6f\/d\/z\/58027.png)","title":"Take care of yourself, no jam is worth more than your health! Sleep and eat well","wayback_source":[]}