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 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.
My relationship with my mother
Mind games
Board games.
Without context, the "are you playing games with me" meaning
Homestar Runner
Toons!
Games!
Characters...
Downlooooads!
Stooore!
Eeeemail...
It's incredible that I can still hear exactly how these sound.
"it's dot com"
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
Video games.
Homestar Runner saying it.
Hamstray Runner
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!
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.)
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
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)
The Olympic Games was the first thing that came to mind.
Super Mario
When I was a PC gamer, I would think of PC games. Now that I have a PS5 I think of PlayStation.
I think of my mother and her actions. She's one of those people who enjoy conflict, so she invents problems.
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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
games are tabletop games! video games are video games.
Board games, particularly Monopoly and Parcheesy
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
Indeterminate game played with six-sided dice and a tall wooden cup. More towards freeform gambling than anything concrete.
Same for me. PC games. I grew up playing games on PC. My first beast was a Pentium 200Mhz with 32MB of RAM.
Card games, like cribbage, uno, etc
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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.