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”?
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”?
heyevwebody, Homestar Runner
TheImpressiveX, Toons!
Games!
Characters…
Downlooooads!
Stooore!
Eeeemail…
rustyricotta, It’s incredible that I can still hear exactly how these sound.
can, “it’s dot com”
ndguardian,
Lojcs, Without context, the “are you playing games with me” meaning
Blaze, Mind games
WorldieBoi, Same for me. PC games. I grew up playing games on PC. My first beast was a Pentium 200Mhz with 32MB of RAM.
plumbercraic, We like both, so usually we say “cardboard” when referring to table top games
EssentialCoffee, Funny, we say pen & paper when referring to tabletop games. (TTRPGs)
Wirrvogel, War Games (watched it not long ago)
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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?
scottmeme, War games is a legendary movie
can, I just lost the game
krayj, Damnit, you just made me lose the game.
can, I had probably gone a year or two until someone mentioned it last month.
yumpsuit, The many theme songs of the long slumbering Idle Thumbs podcast. I miss it so.
Cyncit, 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.
Norgur, Plot twist: They think you'Ve got a gambling addiction
alex, games are tabletop games! video games are video games.
Anura, 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.)
MonsieurHedge, Indeterminate game played with six-sided dice and a tall wooden cup. More towards freeform gambling than anything concrete.
HipPriest, 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...
radix, 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.
ren, Board games.
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