• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    916 months ago

    There are a few magic spells that can turn 10:30pm into 2:30am quite effectively:

    • “I’ll just boost iron production and then go to bed.”
    • “Landing on Eve won’t take me that long.”
    • “Just one more turn…”
    • @perviouslyiner
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      416 months ago

      “I’ll just watch this video of a disney hotel review, it can’t be that long”

      • TheRealKuni
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        266 months ago

        This video on YouTube plagiarism can’t be that long…

        • @[email protected]
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          6 months ago

          Never underestimate yt video essays and livestream vods. That hbomberguy video falls under the former.

          • TheRealKuni
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            56 months ago

            Oh I love that shit. See also every video by channel Shaun (the skull with glasses).

      • veroxii
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        76 months ago

        Yeap I did that one. Last night it was the full history of Pan Am.

      • @NegativeInf
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        46 months ago

        “I don’t know James Rolfe” last night… But totally worth it. Every frame a painting and just enthralling for the film choices Dan makes in the production.

    • @funnystuff97
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      176 months ago

      I’ve said this before, but Factorio is genuinely the only thing that has made me lose track of time before. When I’m goofing off into the wee hours of the night, normally I have a vague sense of time passing. I won’t know what time it is, but I’ll know that it’s late and I should probably stop whatever it is I’m doing (and won’t). And then I’ll look at the clock and it’s 2am-- late, but not surprising.

      But then came Factorio. This was when I first started playing, around the time I just started making black science packs. I was refitting my bases to work with laser turrets, and making minor modifications here and there like upgrading from 2 saturated belts of iron to 4 and such. Nothing major. I’d just do these things, maybe an hour or two, and head to bed. So you can imagine my surprise when I look at the clock and it was 5:30 AM. I was baffled; I had no idea I’d spent that long modifying my base. Like 7 hours straight, no breaks. And then the exhaustion hit, and I saved and went immediately to bed.

      Cracktorio man, the addiction is real.

    • NielsBohron
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      156 months ago

      God, I spent so much time I didn’t have playing KSP.

      On the plus side, I did learn the basics of rocket science, so it wasn’t a total waste of time…

    • aname
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      106 months ago

      “I’ll just fix this one bug”

    • @NegativeInf
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      86 months ago

      Hmm. I think I’ll just rewrite this compressive memory code real quick… And it’s dawn.

    • @blazeknave
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      56 months ago

      Are we a cult? Civ was my first thought and there you were up top.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        36 months ago

        We are the cult of Civ and Sid Meier is our prophet.

        • @Brickhead92
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          16 months ago

          And he said unto them “just one more turn”…

    • @Matriks404
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      Or what I did recently: “Just go to war over claim for Kingdom of Serbia, that can’t be that long”.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      If it was 0079 I would have said you dropped some acid while "just one more turn"ing it.

  • @[email protected]
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    96 months ago

    Well, going from 11:59 PM to 12 AM is also a 1 minute gap.

    Make it make sense, that 12 hour AM/PM nonsense.

  • boredsquirrel
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    86 months ago

    Damn this hits hard.

    Sometimes I say “no I dont start watching that movie at 12:00 now” and bam! it’s 3 am…