Basic Trope: Gameplay is discouraged or even forbidden after a certain amount of time.
- Straight: Call of Tropers asks you to get outside after an hour of gameplay.
- Exaggerated:
- Call of Tropers shuts down your console after about 30 minutes of gameplay.
- Not even after a second, Call of Tropers asks you to get outside.
- Call of Tropers immediately kills your player character after about a half-hour of gameplay.
- Downplayed:
- Call of Tropers warns you about fatigue after 2 hours of gameplay.
- The game has a system where you use a certain amount of lives/energy, and once it's depleted you have to wait for it to refill. However, you can also watch an ad or pay (using either in-game or real currency) to refill it.
- Justified:
- Call of Tropers has parts of intense action that are difficult to resume if paused in the middle. The game's requests for the gamer to take a break is so they don't have to soil themselves during the difficult parts of the game that aren't made for being interrupted.
- Games in this setting are required by law to introduce such mechanics to protect player health.
- Inverted: Bladder of Steel, when pausing to get some fresh air is forbidden.
- Subverted: The game gives you a reward for heeding the anti-poop socking warnings...but gives you a better reward if you ignore them.
- Double Subverted: ...then gives you the Infinity +1 Sword only if you don't have the reward for ignoring the anti-poop socking messages.
- Parodied: Playing for a certain length of time without pausing gives you the achievement "Did You Poop in a Sock?"
- Zig Zagged: The game has Anti Poop-Socking settings: you can decide before you play whether the messages will come up, or their frequency.
- Averted: You can play as long as you want without any warnings or interruptions.
- Lampshaded: A character's Idle Animation calls attention to the fact that "wow, someone actually listened to that warning about getting up from the game."
- Invoked: The player character in the game feels tired, and so they break the fourth wall to tell the player to take a break.
- Exploited: Call of Tropers gives bonuses to players while they are logged off. Bob has his entire schedule based around getting the most of these bonuses while maximizing his play time. To take this further, Bob is a NEET whose entire schedule consists of switching between several games with this feature at precise times to reap the most benefits.
- Defied: Loading screen tips that may otherwise encourage you to take breaks, or the "Are You Sure?" message before closing Call of Tropers has a smarmy message mocking you quitting instead of playing for longer.
- Discussed: While Call of Tropers protagonist John Shootem'man talks to the drone recon expert Albert Nerdyguy, he says: "I won't suggest taking a break from looking at that data like so many others did to you, but I will say I'd avoid crapping into a sock."
- Conversed: "I'm so tired of this game warning me to take a break!"
- Implied: ???
- Played For Laughs: In the new "Call of Tropers" office complex missions, one of the first cubicles you find has a keyboard with worn-out letters, several empty food & drink containers and most notably; multiple suspiciously-full socks with flies spawning around them.
- Players For Drama: ???
- Played For Horror: A second cubicle similar to the one that was played for laughs appears again, but there's instead a dead body slumped against the office chair that looks like it's been dead for days... Until the player interacting with the corpse realizes the person died hours ago and they were simply an unhygienic person before meeting their untimely demise.
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