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

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.

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

“I’ll just fix this one bug”

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

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…

All these apply to me

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

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