The Game Developer's Three-Hour Work-Life Balance

Description

A four-panel comic follows a bearded man in a red shirt sitting at a desktop computer with a bowl of snacks. In the first panel he says, "Let’s see, what do I want to do? I’ll stay in all night," before considering "Play a game? Or make a game?" in the second panel. The third panel repeats his unresolved loop as "Play a game... ...or make a game?" while he remains frozen at the keyboard. In the final gray-background panel he tells two coworkers, "...in the end, I decided to sleep for three hours," prompting "Respect!" and "So I can live like this!!!"; the joke captures game developers sacrificing sleep because both work and leisure pull them toward the same machine.