# In Search of ... a time sink

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**Created:** [November 30, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-time-sink/773427 "2016-11-30T00:31:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-time-sink/773427/1 "2016-11-30T00:31:38Z")

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A couple years ago I had a bookmarked site for an online time wasting activity. It was a very slow moving bunch of microbe looking things swimming around in different levels. You sort of dragged your cursor around and ate smaller microbey things and by eating certain ones you could go up or down levels.

Sorry for sounding so damned vague, I think it was actually put together as a class project for some sort of programming class originally. Sound familiar to anybody?

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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-time-sink/773427/2 "2016-11-30T01:24:01Z")

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Sound like Flow: [Welcome to Flow in Games](http://interactive.usc.edu/projects/cloud/flowing/)

I’m having trouble connecting to the game site, so here’s a link to the Wikipedia page: [Flow (video game) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(video_game))

and the designer’s page: [Welcome to Flow in Games](http://www.jenovachen.com/flowingames/flowing.htm)

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-time-sink/773427/3 "2016-11-30T03:43:24Z")

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> [@Terminus\_Est](#):
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> Sound like Flow: [Welcome to Flow in Games](http://interactive.usc.edu/projects/cloud/flowing/)
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> I’m having trouble connecting to the game site, so here’s a link to the Wikipedia page: [Flow (video game) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(video_game))
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> and the designer’s page: [Welcome to Flow in Games](http://www.jenovachen.com/flowingames/flowing.htm)

Bingo =) Thanks!