Elastomania.
You can spend an arbitrarily small amount of time on it, like a 1 or 2 minutes.
It also turns off the brain well.
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#12Factorio, for 5 minutes? HahahHAHAHAmuhabahHaAha
I’m envious of your discipline ;-)
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#13I have mame installed and the roms for some SNK games. I have a few saved states (boss battles) and I usually just play those and quit.
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#14Splatoon matches are between 3 abs 5 mins.
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#15Skater XL on a Steam Deck
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#16Chess. Any time I have a couple minutes I manage to squeeze in a blitz game.
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#17I had a friend that used to take mid-day breaks to play CS:GO. The weird part is that it seemed to work wonders, I guess there's something about getting shot at that really gets your energy levels going
Pretty much this. CS:GO, Halo Infinite, basically any FPS where I can jump in and play N quick rounds where N is determined by how long of a break I need.
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#18I like playing tetris and subway surfers to pass the time
Good ole Tetris. Have you been following the classic Tetris scene by any chance?
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#19I played some Warband: Mount & Blade recently. I think many tasks in this game can be done in-between real-life stuff.
But last weekend I also bought Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos on GOG. And I think if you can control yourself, you can also play short times in-between real-life tasks.
The pixel art looks really good and I like how Westwood added specific graphics and animations to support parts of the story. The music adds a nice atmosphere and voice acting is pretty good to great (Patrick Stewart does part of the voice acting).
A review here: https://retrofreakreviews.com/2020/06/12/lands-of-lore-the-t...
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#20Deep Rock Galactic!