When someone says "games", what's the first thing that comes to mind?
For me it's PC games, for my gf it's tabletop games, so I was interested, what do you folks imagine as the first thing when someone says "games"?
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For me it's PC games, for my gf it's tabletop games, so I was interested, what do you folks imagine as the first thing when someone says "games"?
I just lost the game
Damnit, you just made me lose the game.
I had probably gone a year or two until someone mentioned it last month.
For me I'd probably assume it was video games of some sort if someone said they were 'really into games'. That's speaking as someone who knows a lot of hardcore boardgame players.
That said context is everything...
I feel like people who play video games call it "gaming", like "really into gaming". Saying just "games" sounds unnatural for video games but maybe okay for board games.
Homestar Runner
Toons!
Games!
Characters...
Downlooooads!
Stooore!
Eeeemail...
It's incredible that I can still hear exactly how these sound.
"it's dot com"
Board games.
My relationship with my mother
Without context, the "are you playing games with me" meaning
Mind games
My toxic ex
War Games (watched it not long ago)
Joshua/WOPR: Greetings, Professor Falken.
Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua.
Joshua/WOPR: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
War games is a legendary movie
Homestar Runner saying it.
Characters? Downloads!
*Homsar
I'm forever your girl!
For me personally "gaming" is a combination of tabletop and vidya roleplaying and strategy games. Generally I like very cerebral and slow-paced stuff.
What's weird is if somebody tells me they are into games, I immediately assume they are into genres of games I don't enjoy like FPS, action games, MOBAs, etc.
Arcade games!
We like both, so usually we say "cardboard" when referring to table top games
Funny, we say pen & paper when referring to tabletop games. (TTRPGs)
Videogames of any sort is my default assumption - usually for tabletop games I'll say tabletop games, or a more specific category (TTRPG, board game, etc.)
Video games.
Super Mario
Both, I sometimes ask if I am unsure. I try to assume the context and sometimes know they mean video games. But sometimes its tabletop
The Olympic Games was the first thing that came to mind.
It depends who I'm talking to.
If I'm talking to an older person, I might think of arcade games or mobile games.
If I'm talking to a millenial or gen z, i probably think of a console.
Even though I mainly play on PC, it's usually not what people around me are referring to
Quit playin' games with my heart
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Same for me. PC games. I grew up playing games on PC. My first beast was a Pentium 200Mhz with 32MB of RAM.
The many theme songs of the long slumbering Idle Thumbs podcast. I miss it so.
games are tabletop games! video games are video games.
When I was a PC gamer, I would think of PC games. Now that I have a PS5 I think of PlayStation.
Skyrim
Card games, like cribbage, uno, etc
Board games, particularly Monopoly and Parcheesy
I think of my mother and her actions. She's one of those people who enjoy conflict, so she invents problems.
Games People Play
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My friends and family know that I often play PC games so if they ask me: what are you playing these days? I assume it's PC games or at least phone games.
Plot twist: They think you'Ve got a gambling addiction