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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"?

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[โ€“] ndguardian@lemmy.studio 22 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] can@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] krayj@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damnit, you just made me lose the game.

[โ€“] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I had probably gone a year or two until someone mentioned it last month.

[โ€“] HipPriest@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[โ€“] radix@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] ThaijsClan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

My relationship with my mother

[โ€“] heyevwebody@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Toons!

Games!

Characters...

Downlooooads!

Stooore!

Eeeemail...

[โ€“] rustyricotta@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's incredible that I can still hear exactly how these sound.

[โ€“] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

"it's dot com"

[โ€“] Lojcs@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Without context, the "are you playing games with me" meaning

[โ€“] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] ren@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Board games.

[โ€“] Surdon@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

My toxic ex

[โ€“] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Video games.

[โ€“] argentcorvid@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Homestar Runner saying it.

[โ€“] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hamstray Runner

Characters? Downloads!

[โ€“] jossbo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

*Homsar

I'm forever your girl!

[โ€“] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

War games is a legendary movie

[โ€“] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[โ€“] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[โ€“] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Arcade games!

[โ€“] Anura@artemis.camp 3 points 1 year ago

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.)

The Olympic Games was the first thing that came to mind.

I think of my mother and her actions. She's one of those people who enjoy conflict, so she invents problems.

[โ€“] frantisek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Super Mario

[โ€“] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] limeaide@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] WorldWideLem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

When I was a PC gamer, I would think of PC games. Now that I have a PS5 I think of PlayStation.

[โ€“] Cyncit@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Norgur@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Plot twist: They think you'Ve got a gambling addiction

[โ€“] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The many theme songs of the long slumbering Idle Thumbs podcast. I miss it so.

[โ€“] alex@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

games are tabletop games! video games are video games.

[โ€“] MonsieurHedge@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Indeterminate game played with six-sided dice and a tall wooden cup. More towards freeform gambling than anything concrete.

[โ€“] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] WorldieBoi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same for me. PC games. I grew up playing games on PC. My first beast was a Pentium 200Mhz with 32MB of RAM.

[โ€“] YaksDC@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Card games, like cribbage, uno, etc

[โ€“] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Board games, particularly Monopoly and Parcheesy

[โ€“] sploosh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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