History Main / AntiPoopsOCKing

* The ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' digital pets, much like real-life pets, go to sleep at night (as late as 11 P.M.). Thus, there is no point in checking on it until morning - good thing too, because the Tamagotchi handhelds are known to be quite addicting to the point that they have a form of TheTetrisEffect named after them called the "Tamagotchi effect".

* ''Webcomic/PlusEV'' (related to online TabletopGame/{{poker}}).
** Since multitable tournaments usually last for several hours, most online poker rooms have introduced synchronized breaks 5 minutes before every full hour.

* ''Series/DoctorPhil'' featured a BasementDweller who would pee in a water bottle instead of leaving the couch. Dr. Phil joked that he probably used the cat's litter box to poop too.

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5094 SCP-5094]], an EdutainmentGame CoolTeacher whose lessons are engrossing, engaging, and supernaturally effective at imparting knowledge. She also gives restroom, lunch, and recreation breaks for her students.

** As you nears the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', your support staff starts calling you near-constantly to tell you random things, most of which are fourth wall-breaking nonsense. In a pair of these calls, you're [[ContinuityNod ordered to turn the game off]], told that "it's just a game". Immediately after, your staff calls you again to tell you that you've been playing for a long time (they say this regardless of how long you've actually played), wondering "don't you have anything else to do with your time?"

** Crops up again in ''VideoGame/CyberdimensionNeptunia4GoddessesOnline'' (which has the central premise of the characters playing an InUniverse MMO) when Vert casually mentions that after a while, the ability to stick together for a 96 hour session should come naturally. When Noire asks how she even stays awake for four days at a time, Vert mentions she mail-orders special energy drinks. At this point Neptune [[BreakingTheFourthWall ignores the fourth wall]] to remind the player that Vert's a goddess, and trying to copy her is a really bad idea. Also, the 2nd times this comes up, it turns out that not only Vert plays really long session, she sometimes plays multiple games at once. Neptune has to ask, if [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritically]], if she gets any work done at all.

There are several reasons for a game to want the player to take a break. One of the biggest is that [[NewMediaAreEvil not doing this leads to bad publicity]]. There are real dangers to poopsocking; it's clearly not healthy to be playing video games for that long, or to surround yourself in your own waste products. The media will usually bring out the [[SpotlightFallacy rarest and most horrifying cases]], like players who literally play themselves to death because they [[ForgetsToEat neglected basic needs like food and water]], babies who died because their parents were too preoccupied with playing video games to care for them, or players who have [[TrashOfTheTitans allowed their own messes to turn into literal piles of garbage]]; games which are commonly associated with this sort of thing might implement anti-poopsocking measures to disassociate themselves from these extremes. Games with a particular risk of eyestrain after long sessions (often using 3D effects, like the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy) may implement anti-poopsocking for this reason as well.

* [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife How long have you been reading and editing? Is the text starting to blur together? Can you feel your legs? Maybe you should crash.]]

** There's a ''[[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife reason]]'' this add-on exists...

* After you beat the video game adaption of the first ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManTheMovie Spider-Man]]'' movie, Spidey will tell you to "go outside and play." Despite this, it's still a good game.

* ''AngryBirdsEpic'' used to have "rested bonuses" for not being online over a period of 30 minutes, but they were removed in an update.

** In ''[=EarthBound=]'', Ness tends to spontaneously develop a mild StatusEffect known as homesickness. This can be cured only by calling his mom over a landline phone, and you have to use these same phones to [[JustifiedSavePoint get your father to record your adventures thus far]].

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5094 SCP-5094]], an EdutainmentGame starring Miss. J, a digital CoolTeacher whose lessons are engrossing, engaging, and supernaturally effective at imparting knowledge. She also gives restroom, lunch, and recreation breaks for her students.

* As a forced variation of this, the ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' made fun of the fact that there is no pause function in one of the early Ghostbusters games.

* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault''[='=]s Bravely Second feature uses Sleep Points, and one way to get them is to leave the 3DS in sleep mode.

** A maximum of 1000 Valor Points (used to purchase and upgrade high-level gear) can be earned per week; most players who invest much time into the game at all can make this within a few days. With Valor disappearing entirely come ''Warlords of Draenor'', it remains to be seen if there will be an analogous feature.

* In addition to the now fairly standard Rested EXP system, ''VideoGames/{{Tera}}'' forces mid-session breaks with its Stamina system. Every character has a stamina gauge, normally ranging from 0 to 120%. When Stamina's high, you get extra Max HP and MP. When it's low, you actually ''lose'' max HP and MP, as well as your combat effectiveness diminishing in other ways. You lose stamina as you fight (faster in instances) and [[ContinuingIsPainful death or mission failure also come with a stamina penalty]]. Besides some ''very'' rare potions, stamina can only be increased by waiting near temporary campfires or permanent bonfires, requiring the player to take a break from questing or grinding every so often if they actually want to remain effective at it. It also reminds you for every hour of play. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the mention of government mandates on this below, it's from South Korea.

* The game ''Eat Lead: the Return of Matt Hazard'' (which is basically just a parody of action games) has some silly trophies/achievements. One of them is an achievement called Take Five acquired by ''pausing the game''.

** There is also [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5168 MeeTimer]], which has no relation to [[UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} Miis]] whatsoever.