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.
Without context, the “are you playing games with me” meaning
Mind games
My relationship with my mother
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
Board games.
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.
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
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.)
We like both, so usually we say “cardboard” when referring to table top games
