Of all the people in attendance, the one who seems to take the possibility of Mario Kart 8 as an eSport the most seriously – even over the eventual winner, Marley James, a young man who speedruns the game for fun and has a playtime of over 1,500 hours – is South Australian senator Nick Xenophon.
If you don't have much time to play, stick with a playtime of around 20 minutes.
Last July Tencent said it would impose a playtime maximum of one hour per day for children up to aged 12, and a maximum of two hours a day for those between 13 and 18.
Lucas has reset it 2,896 times for a total playtime of 73 hours (he keeps track), so he knows it a little differently.
But the feeling of disappointment, of hopes raised across three games with a total playtime of several hundred hours and then dashed in five minutes, was real.
There was a lot to like about Timbuktu, which is cleverly designed, with bright colors and illustrations, offering kids a magazine-like experience which later became more of a playtime idea board, filled with daily activities for parents and kids to do together, including stories to read, printables, craft ideas, and more.
Seeking playtime of a more adult nature, Sarah indulges again in the consensual power exchange she discovered at Idyllwild, paying for the woman from the festival's spanking services before visiting ex-husband Len, and replacing the eyeshadow palette she took from his (now ex-) girlfriend.
Technology has left its mark too: in the 1970s, some prostitutes used 78 as slang for a client whose efforts were shortlived a reference to the faster speed and shorter playtime of those records.
After we got through introductions, the team, a writer from another publication, and myself sat down in front of 6 iPads Air and Mini from last year's line-up for an hour-and-a-half of playtime.
It's not that cinema is incompatible with the blithe pleasures of playtime: think of the obscure rules, the elusive clues, of Jacques Rivette's Pont du Nord, which treats the arrondissements of Paris like a giant board game.
The Game Boy could squeeze around ten times that amount of playtime out of just four.
