Ive actually noticed, if I drink Coke I cant work, I just can’t put myself in the mood to work. Coffee seems to get me going thou.
Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies!
Okay, perhaps it is not so much lies as it is subjective.
A Red Bull Sugarfree to get out the door. A Rockstar Sugar Free for the drive to work. A Starbucks Doubleshot Light to get up to the office. A Monster Energy Absolutely Zero to get the day started. A couple diet Mountain Dews at lunch. An AMP Energy Sugar Free after coming back from lunch. A 5 Hour Energy Extra Strength at break time. An Arizona Diet Green Tea w/Ginseng until it’s time to go home. A diet Mountain Dew for the drive home. Some MiO Energy Green Thunder in an Arnold Palmer Zero Half Half Iced Tea Lemonade to drink with dinner.
Neither energy drinks nor anything else is a “necessary evil”. If you like them and drink them that’s fine. They sure as hell aren’t healty but I think we’re all (mostly all) grown up enough to decide for ourselves what we want. Necessary, though? Hardly.
Energy drinks aren’t a good substitute for sleeping well at night, and eating a healthy breakfast. But I still like to drink one if i’m going to a long meeting with low interactivity.
If you’re actually a health nut, you’re not going to be weak. Health comprises a lot more than just nutrition. I also don’t see what health has to do with religion.
No, I take a lot of creatine, taurine, and caffeine for performance enhancement of both mind and body. There’s no way for me to get any of the first two in my diet, and a human body doesn’t produce them in the level that I want. The same goes for caffeine, even in someone who eats only of beast.
I have a feeling this may have something to do with sugar content. One of the best things I ever did was stop having sugar in my tea/coffee. The mental clarity and focus I’ve had since I did that is amazing. I have raw honey in my tea/coffee now and I’ve come to prefer the taste. If I start eating sugar in my tea/coffee because I run out of honey I actually start feeling really unfocused and even depressed.
I’d highly suggest anyone who doesn’t feel like they are at 100% to try this. It worked wonders for me.
I prefer xylitol. Better for your teeth and way easier to manipulate than honey. But I generally drink flavored coffee iced and black.
Nothing wrong with honey for your teeth 
It is in fact anti-bacterial and one of the best foods you can put in your body.
Very true. Honey is freakin magical.
I’m addicted to coffee. I used to take cream and sugar, but waitresses at greasy spoon diners tend to screw that up when they’re constantly whizzing by adding more coffee to your cup and screwing up your coffee:cream:sugar ratios. Now I drink it black.
New health top tip. Honey instead of sugar 
seems to be that sugar is the thing that makes it hardest for you to work!
Anywho, Ill be back in a week, Off to Ibiza! will be sure to get my sugar count up
Yes energy drinks are needed in my opinion. I have ADHD and when drinking anything with caffeine it actually makes me concentrate better.
Thats perfect tip, i always hate that those apple juices, fruit or anything with a lot of sugar put you in sleep, but then on other hand if you eat them you will have to stick to sugar anyways, honey can be replaced in very little occasions.
Brain #1 energy works with glucose, but also you cannot take quite too much or it will unbalance your insulin level in your blood which is badly taken by the brain. When I’m tired, i simply get some sleep. I usually drink one cup of coffee in the morning and that it that’s all. I drink energy drink from time to time but never abused of them. XD
They gave free energy drinks at Unite 12. I didn’t handle it so well… can’t control myself around free energy drinks. Almost fell asleep at one of the last sessions of the day 'cause of that.
I’ve worked in construction, factories, supermarkets, education, and even in other entertainment sectors too. Hell, I even had a paper round as a kid.
Take a look at the kind of work that goes into building, say, an Olympic park in a glorified industrial wasteland and marsh in just five years, including a brand new, partially-demountable sports stadium that was being built while its architects were still designing it.
Or constructing a brand new metro line under a historic world city that already has extensive and congested underground infrastructure that the new tunnels and stations need to be threaded through, without allowing a single structure above to move more than a couple of millimetres.
Or a massive new underground water main that’s longer than most underground tube lines.
Or upgrading an existing cross-city railway that includes part of the oldest underground urban railway infrastructure in the world, including the complete rebuilding of a major railway station so that its platforms cross a river.
And now… imagine you’re doing ALL of those, at the same time, while keeping disruption to existing transport and other services to the barest minimum possible—including rebuilding that station around an operational railway—and all while bringing all the people, construction materials and debris in and out of the dozens of works sites without impacting on existing, very congested, traffic, with logistics chains including trucks, barges, special goods trains, and even a bird sanctuary over 30 miles away.
And now, stop imagining it: that’s what was going on in London all the way up to the 2012 Olympics. And which will pick up again immediately after the Paralypmics.
Still think developing games is “hard”?
If your managers keep forcing you to work overtime, that’s got nothing to do with “tight budgets, strict deadlines and unexpected delays”, because those are always there! None of those factors change noticeably from project to project, so any decent project manager worthy of the name should be allowing for them as a matter of course. What you’re seeing is lousy project management. It’s not as if cranking out a new entry in an FPS or sports franchise is that unpredictable. Try digging tunnels through sand, clay and gravel beneath a 2000-year-old city sometime.
Stop giving those lousy managers any excuses, because I’ve been there. I’ve been through the burnout. It is deeply, seriously, unpleasant. If you don’t have anything else to fall back on, your life will be completely screwed. You will wake up and realise the one thing you used to love has become something you hate with a deep, burning anger.
And when I mean “burnout”, I mean coming into the office one morning and realising you’ve literally forgotten how to program. You’ll stare at that source code and NONE of it makes any sense to you. None of it. It might as well be a foreign language. It’s utterly terrifying.
For five years, my brain blocked all my programming knowledge. I couldn’t read C++, any assembly languages, Java—you name it. It was as if a wall had gone up in my head, keeping all that stuff locked away. Eventually, that wall started to come down, but even today, over 15 years later, it’s still hard for me to get that coding bug again. Where once programming was something I lived for, today, it mostly feels like a chore and my primary satisfaction comes from the design processes.
Luckily, it turns out I can write tolerably well, so I fell into technical authoring and, more recently, translation. But if you don’t have a Plan B (and C, D, E and F) for your life, you’re going to be in serious trouble if you throw your talent, your passion and your future away just to earn some McDeveloper’s managers a fat bonus.
Extremely complex projects, like building that Olympic stadium, on-time, and on-budget, CAN be project managed effectively, so what the hell is your project manager’s excuse? Or are you seriously claiming that a project that could be built by a team of a dozen or so, in an office, with just a few thousand dollars of tools, is even remotely comparable to building a brand new public sports stadium that’s still being designed just one step ahead of the construction?
You’re building games, not hospitals! Get a sense of proportion, and stop treating yourselves like the drones your managers clearly think you are.
That was a whole lot of text. And no, I’m not saying those two things are even remotely comparable… I’m not the one drawing the comparison. They are worlds apart and trying to compare them is pointless. Here’s some differences that stand out.
No one else was competing with those construction workers while they were building the stadium.
The construction companies weren’t the one’s paying for the work (quite the opposite, in fact).
In a physical structure, if something goes wrong, you can see it. You won’t finish the stadium, then suddenly realize you can walk right through the south wall.
But again, these are two completely different businesses operating with completely different variables. Trying to compare them proves nothing.
Me too. Usually 6-7 cups a day. With french vanilla coffee mate
ooh yes. I have a giant container of that in my fridge (when I wanna treat myself) 
Sweeping declaration, no more coke.
Coke’s bad, have you tried heroin?
Mmmmmmkay, terrible joke is terrible joke.