Meditations / Metrics / Manifests on Mastery

Meditations One of my favorite recurring bits that I do when recording episodes of This Week in Nerd News is that whenever there’s a particularly exciting tidbit of Destiny 2 content on the timeline, I like to update my co-hosts on the current number of hours I’ve racked in that franchise. According to Wasted on Destiny, I’m sitting at 1492 hours in the original and 2163 for the current iteration (at least at time of writing), which calculates the “active time” spent in the game doing actual activities. This puts me in the top 2% of the player base, at least when talking about time invested.

According to Charlemagne, my total time for the games sits respectively at 2196 and 3430 (which if you want to do the math, means that I’ve spent just under 2000 hours floating in orbit and social spaces for whatever reason). So over the course of the last six years, I’ve spent 234 days, right around four months of my life playing or preparing to play the same game. That number has stayed surprisingly steady over the last few months (for a wide mix of reasons,) and with the delay of Beyond Light to November, I’ve also found myself complementing my game time with the genre of deck-builder roguelike, namely: Slay the Spire. Since May 20, I’ve gotten 185 hours. Roughly, two hours of playtime of day. Which is a surprisingly comparable number to the 2.6 hours of Destiny playtime I’ve clocked.

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