Rikudou_SageWhen someone says "games", what's the first thing that comes to mind?
heyevwebodyHomestar Runner
TheImpressiveXToons!
Games!
Characters…
Downlooooads!
Stooore!
Eeeemail…
It’s incredible that I can still hear exactly how these sound.
“it’s dot com”
Without context, the “are you playing games with me” meaning
BlazeMind games
Same for me. PC games. I grew up playing games on PC. My first beast was a Pentium 200Mhz with 32MB of RAM.
plumbercraicWe like both, so usually we say “cardboard” when referring to table top games
Funny, we say pen & paper when referring to tabletop games. (TTRPGs)
WirrvogelWar Games (watched it not long ago)
ScottWar games is a legendary movie
I just lost the game
krayjDamnit, you just made me lose the game.
I had probably gone a year or two until someone mentioned it last month.
The many theme songs of the long slumbering Idle Thumbs podcast. I miss it so.
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
games are tabletop games! video games are video games.
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.)
MonsieurHedgeIndeterminate game played with six-sided dice and a tall wooden cup. More towards freeform gambling than anything concrete.
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...
radixI 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 (a they/them)Board games.
Arcade games!
Card games, like cribbage, uno, etc
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
My relationship with my mother
ArgentCorvid [Iowa]Homestead Runner saying it.
JWBananasCharacters? Downloads!
jossbo*Homsar
I’m forever your girl!
Skyrim
aCosmicWaveWhen I was a PC gamer, I would think of PC games. Now that I have a PS5 I think of PlayStation.
Triple H.
“I am the game, and you wanna play me…”
Super Mario
ddhThe Olympic Games was the first thing that came to mind.
Video games.
My toxic ex
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.
For me personally gaming is a combination of tabletop and vidya roleplaying and strategy games.
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.
Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) (Official HD Video)
The Alan Parsons Project - Games People Play (Official HD Video)
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