If you ever come across a problem or issue or statement or anything (game? trick? music?), that suddenly becomes so important you have to stop everything else and "figure it out", you may have been "nerd sniped". Some people are very vulnerable to this and some other people are basically immune.
Most forms of this relate to either a mental task, or possibly a very light physical task that is otherwise "not accomplishing much". For a counter-example, if you have a compulsion to clean and organize a space, that would not be "nerd sniping". Nor would a need to walk 1000 steps.
Ask questions if you have any.
If it's pretty rare you can pick No. If you have specifically built defenses against it then you're a Yes even if you don't get sucked in often.
If you didn't know what "nerd sniping" was until now you can still be a Yes. Maybe you will recognize it happened to you in the past.
Share interesting examples if you have them. I would have made this a bounty but people seem to like polls better.
1,000this shit happens to me on the daily, and usually I'm the one sniping myself in the service of some game I'm designing. some recent multi-day rabbit holes: medieval military logistics, soil ecology, textile production from fiber characteristics to weave patterns, edibility and toxicity of a myriad of common plants, the lifecycles and characteristics of stars, protostars, stellar remnants, and sub-star brown dwarves...