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[iceball3]

Actually, It seems I can work better after fewer hours of sleep.

[Keita]

Really? I find it impossible to work if I've slept ages or only a few hours.

I guess I'm just lazy as hell and that makes me happy.

[alway]

In humans, extreme sleep deprivation does eventually lead to organ failure and death.

That said, sleep isn't necessarily required for a complex organism, but it does serve many useful roles in nervous system regulation and various other maintenance tasks in the body, some of which would be quite difficult in an awake organism. In the pre-technological era, sleep also helped regulate periods of activity and resource use, since being active in a period of time in which we can not see anything around us is both a waste of energy and downright dangerous.

[iceball3]

In humans, extreme sleep deprivation does eventually lead to organ failure and death.

That said, sleep isn't necessarily required for a complex organism, but it does serve many useful roles in nervous system regulation and various other maintenance tasks in the body, some of which would be quite difficult in an awake organism. In the pre-technological era, sleep also helped regulate periods of activity and resource use, since being active in a period of time in which we can not see anything around us is both a waste of energy and downright dangerous.

Also, another fun fact is that you can live longer without water than without sleep.

[lordnincompoop]

There are no documented cases of a healthy human dying from total sleep deprivation (excluding accidents), aside from those suffering from Fatal Familial Insomnia. In carefully monitored experiments, several normal research subjects stayed awake for 10 days. While they all experienced cognitive deficits in memory, concentration, etc., none of them experienced serious medical, neurological, physiological or psychiatric problems [1]. Total sleep deprivation in rats leads to death in around 28 days. Death occurs later if only REM sleep is eliminated. In humans, extended sleep deprivation causes microsleep sessions to develop. A person who has fatal familial insomnia may die after several months with no sleep at all; people without this condition may experience dementia or develop permanent personality changes within the first few weeks.

You can survive without water for 3-5 days.

lrn2rsrch.

[Boksi]

Found a good picture that survived resizing to become my new avatar. That makes me happy.

[Keita]

Looks really good, what is it from?

[Realmfighter]

Pata Pata Pata Po-ARGHG OH GOD IT BURNS

[Keita]

Pata Pata Pata Po-ARGHG OH GOD IT BURNS

Big fish, little fish, carboard box.

[lordnincompoop]

My C++ project is, at least, compilable again. It's going well.

[Boksi]

Looks really good, what is it from?

That particular picture is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Inspector(I lurve that long name). She's called Alfimi.

She's also part of a trio of not-exactly-siblings.

[Keita]

Cools, never heard of that though. I'll go check it out.

[tomas1297]

 So...I just got Silent Storm. Goodbye, free time.

[Mindmaker]

So...I just got Silent Storm. Goodbye, free time.

Hope you enjoy it

[Itnetlolor]

So...I just got Silent Storm. Goodbye, free time.

Hope you enjoy it

From the looks of the game, I wonder if anyone has attempted to make at least a mock X-Com mod for it?

EDIT:
With a bit of rooting around different pages, it seems I wasn't the only one to think of this.