[vex]

...or you're waiting in line for the NMR, or you know your advisor's out to lunch, or you're "doing" a fully automated analytical experiment...

What games do you play? (We all take breaks, right?) I'd like to find something that I can pick up and put down quickly, and that's multiplayer. I was playing Illyriad for a while, but it got boring because the community is so anti-war; the whole game is basically one big peacekeeping force.

First person to post about how you should be reading papers loses! 

[Arkcon]

Back when I had a job, the most important time wasting game for me was ... browsing http://www.chemicalforums.com/ , of course.

[curiouscat]

Back when I had a job, the most important time wasting game for me was ... browsing http://www.chemicalforums.com/ , of course.

You don't even have to switch windows in a hurry if your advisor suddenly barges in! 

[curiouscat]

What games do you play? (We all take breaks, right?) I'd like to find something that I can pick up and put down quickly, and that's multiplayer. I was playing Illyriad for a while, but it got boring because the community is so anti-war; the whole game is basically one big peacekeeping force.

I used to play Travian

www.travian.com/

We even had lab-wars going on....

First person to post about how you should be reading papers loses! 

Even if it is "The Sun" or "Onion"? That kind of papers?

[eazye1334]

We had some lab friends playing Ikariam for a while, which was cool. Of course my all-time favorite time-waster was an online RPG call Kingdom of Loathing, which basically made fun of everything.

[vex]

Heh, thanks for the suggestions.

My friends and I discussed leaving a game of Axis and Allies set up somewhere in the chem building, and going to play our turns while we had a spare fifteen minutes or so. We couldn't come up with a place where we all had access that wouldn't be disturbed, though. 

[Dan]

Of course my all-time favorite time-waster was an online RPG call Kingdom of Loathing, which basically made fun of everything.

Oh man, I wasted hours on KoL once upon a time...

[eazye1334]

Of course my all-time favorite time-waster was an online RPG call Kingdom of Loathing, which basically made fun of everything.

Oh man, I wasted hours on KoL once upon a time...

No kidding. I swear my labmates and I had probably 4 characters each going at once. It's quite amazing how much time we spent on what was essentially a joke game, but holy crap was it addicting.