Though I haven’t had as much time off as some folks this summer, I’ve still managed to get in some good old fashioned “Do Nothing” time. As such, I took it upon myself to take a little time and complete the Stunt Jump challenge in ‘Grand Theft Auto V’, wherein I found fifty hidden jumps and used them to launch my car into outer space. “How much time could this actually take?”, I foolishly asked myself, before spending most of an afternoon trying to land a taxicab on a lighthouse without exploding. At 3:15 a.m., I suddenly looked up and realized that my Saturday was gone, and I was still only about halfway done with the challenge, leading to today’s time suck query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) may buy a new video game at some point, but at this point, there’s no need, asking: What show, book, movie or video game has been the biggest time suck for you, personally?
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Back in the day, before computers, opening up a dictionary or encyclopedia was definitely a rabbit hole. Reading each entry would lead to another.
Now days, reading a well written and drawn webcomic will suck down hours.
It has to be some game, not even Seven Samurai, which is not a short film and I’ve seen it at least once a year last 20 years comes close. Metal Gear series, Yakuza series, Virtua Fighter, especially 4 and several other fighting games have taken hundreds of hours.
Did you get to play Ghost of Tsushima? It’s like getting to star in your own Kurosawa film – if Kurosawa made an Assassin’s Creed movie.
That was my most recent time suck.
I did! Still on it actually. Easily one of the highlight games of recent years, only Yakuza 7 could top it in my favorite game of the year list later in the fall.
I don’t know that I have a single answer to this question as my entertainment tends to come in binges. I get into something and fall down the rabbit hole, losing hours and days of my free time. As it’s a common occurrence, I couldn’t reliably say what calculated out to the most lost time.
I suppose binge-ing through all 14 (at the time) seasons of Supernatural in about a month and a half last fall was a pretty big time-commitment, but I don’t know if I’d count that since most of the time it was only getting about 65% of my attention while I did other things.
I also used to lose entire workdays on tvtropes – though I haven’t been there in a few years.