This is a half-advice half-lamentation kind of thread, feel free to tell me to eat shit if you want.
I started playing this game Sophomore year of high school, 2017-2018, and I basically no-life'd it. Any free time I had, any 2 hours I could spare, I was playing SS13. I ran the gamut in terms of servers, from LRP servers like TG, Goon, and Hippie, to MRP servers like Oraclestation, to occasional ventures into HRP Baystation, though overall I preferred the fun and chaos of LRP. Round lengths didn't really matter to me because I was playing the game all day anyway. The longest round I had ever played was 6 hours long, and I was there for 5 of those hours.
But I'm not that kind of person anymore. I've graduated college, I have a job. I can't really dedicate multiple hours to playing a game except on weekends, and I'm not really the type of person who wants to play multi-hour game sessions anyway.