NA Splatfest: Are you an Early Bird or a Night Owl?

[Ansible]

Ick. That feels more a-holish than amusing.

Way things are looking, think I might go Early Bird for the challenge mode aspect. And likely fewer mirror matches.

 

[Award]

I must choose what I am. Night owl. If I were to accidentally select early bird on any of my accounts I'd have to delete Splatoon from my WiiU. Early birds are a blight upon the world and MUST BE DESTROYED WITHOUT MERCY. :D

 

[Dual]

I must choose what I am. Night owl. If I were to accidentally select early bird on any of my accounts I'd have to delete Splatoon from my WiiU. Early birds are a blight upon the world and MUST BE DESTROYED WITHOUT MERCY. :D

Chirp chirp.

 

[Award]

Chirp chirp.

My work here is done.

 

[Dual]

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My work here is done.

Not yet it isn't. FREE THE EARLY BIRDS! Also, can we all just team up against the dog, our common enemy?

 

[ShinyGirafarig]

So never go to the ER if you are about to die in the morning hours. Practice what you preach.

 

[Award]

So never go to the ER if you are about to die in the morning hours. Practice what you preach.

If I was about to die in the morning hours, I'd tell the coroner to return at a decent hour after noon. Dragging myself out the door before then would surely finish me off anyway :P

 

[Green Waffles]

Also, can we all just team up against the dog, our common enemy?

But I was on team dog =[

 

[Dual]

But I was on team dog =[

So was I, but I hate that dog. Except in Smash Bros where even though he's a troll, the true troll and camper is Villager who digs up grass and steals our early bird worms with his down smash and just plucks grass and our worms with down tilt.

 

[Flareth]

Lord knoweth I've tried and tried to wake up at a good hour, to see the sun rise over my humble head... but man, I just can't fall asleep before 1AM at the earliest. So I have to side with the Night Owls, no matter how much our popularity bites us in the ***.

 

[Dual]

Lord knoweth I've tried and tried to wake up at a good hour, to see the sun rise over my humble head... but man, I just can't fall asleep before 1AM at the earliest. So I have to side with the Night Owls, no matter how much our popularity bites us in the ***.

You'll be playing only 3 or 4 early bird teams, and those will be the committed ones.

 

[G1ng3rGar1]

That's a tumblr thing. Tumblr is obsessed with birds which of course includes owls. They call them birbs for some reason.

BIRB
BIRB
BIRBS

I didn't have an opportunity to pick my team yet or see Callie roast Marie, but I might be tempted to switch sides
I think I just might make an alt for the other team *shrug*
Also, this weekend just proved my Night Owlishness

 

[Award]

I fear this really needed to be another global splatfest. This one is going to present a SERIOUS problem. Team night owl will play exclusively when the early birds are playing. The early birds IN TOKYO.

Not only will we be more popular, but our opponents will all be sleeping when we play

Interesting question though: Why is our society built on a system where early birds are considered optimal while most of the population seems to be overwhelmingly oriented toward night (or is that just gamers?) And if we all just move to Japan do we fix the problem that our natural hours of operations are magically starting early morning or do we shift based on the sun and become night owls there too, on a 12h shift?

You'll be playing only 3 or 4 early bird teams, and those will be the committed ones.

Honestly given the difference in sleep cycles the wins will be determined on the dozen battles that are played :p

 

[Dual]

The reason I'm an early bird is because no mattter what time I go to sleep, I always wake up at 5:00 a.m., and I'm never tired or wanting to go back to bed afterwards, even if I go to bed at 3:00 a.m.. And I usually go to bed at 10 or 11 and sometimes 12.

 

[ShinyGirafarig]

I fear this really needed to be another global splatfest. This one is going to present a SERIOUS problem. Team night owl will play exclusively when the early birds are playing. The early birds IN TOKYO.

Not only will we be more popular, but our opponents will all be sleeping when we play

Interesting question though: Why is our society built on a system where early birds are considered optimal while most of the population seems to be overwhelmingly oriented toward night (or is that just gamers?) And if we all just move to Japan do we fix the problem that our natural hours of operations are magically starting early morning or do we shift based on the sun and become night owls there too, on a 12h shift?



Honestly given the difference in sleep cycles the wins will be determined on the dozen battles that are played :p

Because in the good ol' days in the past humanity's only light source was the sunlight and fire, eventually primitive lamps, then light bulbs which is nothing like ours today. Biologically, humanity did not catch up to evolve to the technological advancements we have today. There are even health differences both physical and psychological between early and late risers.

My backstory:


I had to force my body to be trained to wake up early. My brother hogged up the bathroom all morning. The training makes me wake up around the 6 AM hour nearly without fail. No need for an alarm clock. Even if is been long since my brother moved out. Even when I have long moved out. Even when I don't need to wake up that early for any other reason. Even when I was up until the early AM hours.

I do let myself go back to sleep right after if there is no need to do anything else.

I have an amazing full time job that even if it is 9-5 you can come late and make up the hours later as long as you make up all hours for the pay period. I take advantage of this to shop and go to tourist sites when the annoying brats are still in school. I am planning my babymoon in September when the kids are back in school too also early morning hours so it is quieter. I don't like crowds.

 

[Ansible]

Not only will we be more popular, but our opponents will all be sleeping when we play

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Honestly given the difference in sleep cycles the wins will be determined on the dozen battles that are played :p

Another reason why I'm leaning on Early Bird as my final decision. I'll actually be awake when my fellow Night Owls are playing. Prepare to see a lot of me, but first take a number and wait yout turn. =p

 

[Award]

The reason I'm an early bird is because no mattter what time I go to sleep, I always wake up at 5:00 a.m., and I'm never tired or wanting to go back to bed afterwards, even if I go to bed at 3:00 a.m.. And I usually go to bed at 10 or 11 and sometimes 12.

Ewww. I feel exhausted and hostile just reading that. :p

I mean technically it's considered a good trait in general....but it's physically just painful to even think about. Even having to get up only somewhat early is difficult. I think back to school years and having to get up super early before it's even light out etc. I mean it's almost physically painful to try.

The horrible loop of it is, I tend to stay up late because it feels unnatural forcing myself to sleep during the time I seem most awake. And then it makes it even more difficult to wake up the next morning....and the cycle repeats...every day...forever and ever... :(

Because in the good ol' days in the past humanity's only light source was the sunlight and fire, eventually primitive lamps, then light bulbs which is nothing like ours today. Biologically, humanity did not catch up to evolve to the technological advancements we have today. There are even health differences both physical and psychological between early and late risers.

My backstory:


I had to force my body to be trained to wake up early. My brother hogged up the bathroom all morning. The training makes me wake up around the 6 AM hour nearly without fail. No need for an alarm clock. Even if is been long since my brother moved out. Even when I have long moved out. Even when I don't need to wake up that early for any other reason. Even when I was up until the early AM hours.

I do let myself go back to sleep right after if there is no need to do anything else.

I have an amazing full time job that even if it is 9-5 you can come late and make up the hours later as long as you make up all hours for the pay period. I take advantage of this to shop and go to tourist sites when the annoying brats are still in school. I am planning my babymoon in September when the kids are back in school too also early morning hours so it is quieter. I don't like crowds.

The evolution and lightbulb things don't make much sense though. That would imply that night owls would be the rare exception previously unable to survive/evolutionary fodder and removed from the gene pool like tailed humans rather than an abundance of them. The early rising thing came about from the agrarian nature of civilization....but lets not forget agrarians and systematic farming were high technology at one point. Prior humans were hunter-gatherers. Afternoon through late night cycles make me wonder if at one point night owls were the norm....was there a hunter gatherer advantage early on for humans that humans were quasi-nocturnal and thus the norm and the reason night owls exist. Systematic daylight farming was a new invention that revolutionized eating long long ago. Forcing humans into daylight schedules to run the "farm factory" would have seemed unnatural for the possibly naturally noctural hunters. Night is dangerous, but stealth is advantageous for a superior hunting species that relies on cunning rather than speed and force.

Incidentally, as an extreme night owl, it's worth noting that I also have excellent night vision. People stumble around complaining how dark it is, while I can see perfectly fine. (LOL, and I'm super near sighted in daylight :p ), Wonder if that's true for other night owls? We may be actually physically adapted for low light conditions in general? But then it comes back to the experiment, if you transplant us to 12 hours away in Japan, do we become early birds or shift the cycles around light and remain night owls?


Alarm clocks, for me, are horrid. No matter how loud, how obnoxious, they drive anger and hate and fury at their audacity to wake a sleep. And so counter to nature I've even learned to sleep through them even if I make them blare beyond loud. It's really quite frustrating. Waking up in the morning, every morning, is a task I dread. :)

I should have been a DJ. :p



And not liking crowds...yeah, it's quieter because the volumes of night owls aren't there :D

 

[ShinyGirafarig]

Ewww. I feel exhausted and hostile just reading that. :p

Alarm clocks, for me, are horrid. No matter how loud, how obnoxious, they drive anger and hate and fury at their audacity to wake a sleep. And so counter to nature I've even learned to sleep through them even if I make them blare beyond loud. It's really quite frustrating. Waking up in the morning, every morning, is a task I dread. :)

I should have been a DJ. :p



And not liking crowds...yeah, it's quieter because the volumes of night owls aren't there :D

I don't wake up to alarms. If I set an alarm, I wake up earlier than that to avoid it. I have sound sensitivity issues. I don't like phones ringing, door bells, blenders, I had to force myself to tolerate vacuum cleaner noises, thankfully I overcame toilet flushing noises and pots clanging with each other and falling on the floor gets me to panic. My parents and sister seem to know I hate door bells so they knock instead of ringing even though I never told them they should not ring the bell.

Once when I was a child, I shut my father's alarm because of how much I could not stand that noise and got in trouble for it. I had trouble with communication. I had to suffer in silence.

Can you see I hate all kinds of noises in general and maybe that's why I like going to places when it is quiet?

 

[Award]

I don't wake up to alarms. If I set an alarm, I wake up earlier than that to avoid it. I have sound sensitivity issues. I don't like phones ringing, door bells, blenders, I had to force myself to tolerate vacuum cleaner noises, thankfully I overcame toilet flushing noises and pots clanging with each other and falling on the floor gets me to panic. My parents and sister seem to know I hate door bells so they knock instead of ringing even though I never told them they should not ring the bell.

Once when I was a child, I shut my father's alarm because of how much I could not stand that noise and got in trouble for it. I had trouble with communication. I had to suffer in silence.

Can you see I hate all kinds of noises in general and maybe that's why I like going to places when it is quiet?

Hates noise.
Plays video games.

Besides you're going to have yourself a shiny, new, fairly stinky alarm clock not too far in the near future ;) (Desire to become a night owl in 5...4...3...2... ) :p

Actually I hate LOUD noise (industrial machinery and such, motorcycles, those &*$#&@ helicopters and 747's that seem like they want to graze the treeline more and more..... so I can somewhat appreciate that. And I certainly loathe my alarm clock. But it's either that, no job, or become a DJ anyway :)

But night time is quiet too. More quiet even than mornings! :)

 

[ShinyGirafarig]

Hates noise.
Plays video games.

Besides you're going to have yourself a shiny, new, fairly stinky alarm clock not too far in the near future ;) (Desire to become a night owl in 5...4...3...2... ) :p

Actually I hate LOUD noise (industrial machinery and such, motorcycles, those &*$#&@ helicopters and 747's that seem like they want to graze the treeline more and more..... so I can somewhat appreciate that. And I certainly loathe my alarm clock. But it's either that, no job, or become a DJ anyway :)

But night time is quiet too. More quiet even than mornings! :)

I don't hate all noise. There are those that sets me up more than others. I like hearing animal sounds for instance.

And who actually likes hearing a baby cry? I would be forced to be a night owl anyway then because I will be staying up a lot. Or more accurately an always exhausted pigeon. Or a giraffe. Giraffes can sleep a minimum of 20 minutes a day. They can go up to 2 hours but it is not slept all at once but a little each time. The rest of the time is munching leaves and kicking predators in the face.

One of my pregnancy symptoms is fatigue all the time so I could sleep a good amount of hours, wake up, two hours later, time to sleep again, yay! It's like I am sleeping so much now to make up for much later.