In my situation, there's enough space to sit with the water hitting part of me, and have the phone to the side or away from it in general, often water hitting my back if standing. The shower curtain is open enough to ventilate, and I don't think it's hot enough to steam badly. I wouldn't do it in an enclosed standing shower, only bath/shower combos, and the one at home has the seat for comfort.
I've been thinking about your definition, and while it does get me to consider what I'm getting out of my time sinks, I think it's ultimately narrowing a definition to the point of uselessness. Asking what someone's hobbies are would end up with a very narrow range of answers when someone might be extremely active doing things like camping, sports, trainspotting, salsa dancing.
I was going to type more but I'm late for work lol I don't think it added too much
The whole situation with Oblivion Remastered feels so strange to me. If I had to guess, Bethsoft has very little marketing budget for this game, being a remaster, so they're doing a marketing by leaks strategy. But even then the leaks are like "It could launch any day now!" And that seems like such a quick turnaround for an unannounced game, though it may have to go through platform related stuff before actually selling. Fire Emblem Engage had something similar happen, but it didn't really sell well at all.
Not really relevant to your post, but the Remaster has been on my mind.
I've found that cheating in singleplayer games is a pretty good way to keep me from bouncing off them. Especially stuff that's sandboxy, mods and cheat starts sustain me.
Ghost of Tsushima is very pretty, I got it during the recent sale. The lethal difficulty is fun, I probably should have started on the an intended difficulty level rather than the gimmick level but I'm afraid to change it.
Played a little bit of Echo Point Nova, a... movement based first person shooter with a (small) open world level design? Highly recommend it, I 100%ed it in 8 hours and go back every now and then. The dev also did Severed Steel, which had some pretty decent post launch support and game types, and the dev seems to be shooting for the stars with additional content.
Trying to 100% achievements for Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen after getting it in DD2, and did it on the Xbox years ago. Trying to kill Death pre max level sure is something. Doing it max level without items is already a pain. Losing interest in continuing, but I gotta see it through eventually.
Got Space Marine II to play with friends eventually, it just seems ok. The defensive quick time events don't seem to be very responsive? I'll have to try it with a controller sometime.
I also played through TMGC about a month ago. There are ONES of US on Hexbear.
I had a lot of fun, though I did do my Fire Emblem thing of getting a few chapters away from the end then taking like a month break. Extremely solid and I continue to love GBA Fire Emblem, but I think I did burn myself out on it for a little while on it. Maybe not burn out, more like scratched the itch?
Not a turn-based JRPG, but Dragon's Dogma 2 I think nailed its steal mechanic. The skill is just a little yoink that can only happen when an enemy is staggered, but gets you an extra drop. The table is slightly different than actual drops, but you aren't getting unique equipment from stealing, but those drops can help with your forging. Having a Thief in your party with Pilfer/Plunder and the grapple hook that can knock down enemies easy does give you more loot. Certain NPCs can also be stolen from once, but there's near 0 risk or test involved, it's just finding out who has what.
I live in in a deep red rural-suburban area, and I drive to people's houses for service. The sparse but common of Trump flags/signs are annoying (and they're always in the most annoying in-your-face spots with the hostile tone they have), but more disheartening is the amount of anti-abortion signs that are everywhere. It's on the ballet, and there are literally hundreds of signs everywhere saying to "Protect women and children" by voting against protections of reproductive healthcare. I've only seen one sign in favor, and that was in the city.
Not extremely relevant, but it's been on my mind lately.
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I think they did something like "Our next SM Lieutenant" and it was the body on the base of Abaddon.