I typically go with single player games. Niche stuff casuals rarely play. It’s not a flex or anything, I just a “distinct” taste in gaming
I go to the same barbershop every two month or so, but not always tge same barber. Every now and then i get a guy around my age who is pretty chatty, but we have literally nothing i. Common. So every time he remembers that i play video games, because he also plays video games. But for now a decade or so, his answer is always: fifa and cod and gta, when the new one came out. He has literally no idea what i’m talking about when i name some games i play. “Video games” to him is synonymous for fifa and call of duty. So we still have nothing in common
Yes, but at least soon he’ll have another GTA to discuss with you!
Can’t wait since i won’t play it.
Depending on how you gauge him, maybe you’re his opportunity to discover a vast fun world of indie games? At the very least, if you’re tired of him talking your ear off about Ball and Gun, you could at least talk his ear off about Expedition 33. Yapping as a defense mechanism.
I’ve had several girlfriends who were like “you play video games? Like… <worried expression> call of duty?”
They were all relieved when I was like no.
Less relieved when I got them to play cuphead co-op.
I’m not a COD guy, I prefer battlefield.
I always included my partners into playing it with me. Either taking turns or, as my partner for life, has come to love. Minimap watcher!
She calls out whatever is on the radar. Saved my ass so many times. I know it has to have made somebody mad, cause there’s times when she notices someone on the minimal and tells me turn around or something, and I end up getting em.
That’s so sweet!
Thank you. It really is. It started in bf1. I am colorblind (can’t remember which) but bf1 blended together for me a lot. Made it harder to see folks. She came in clutch more than I can count.
She’s the reason I have, I think 3 of the 4 horsemen dog tags.
And she’s great overwatch when I am flying heli with my buddy Squash on bf6. She can spot an enemy heli the moment it comes out. Where as I am basically blind because of my sight.
And she’s even gotten better at playing herself. Especially since we’ve worked on our communication skills and I have learned not to be so “harsh” sounding when she messes up a firefight and gets vented. And she’s learned that I’m not trying to be mean, but get the point across that you gotta stay calm under fire.
Something I love about her is that she’ll admit when she’s wrong, even when I am the bigger asshole. She can sit there look me in the eyes and say “how you acted wasn’t right, but I can see how I was acting made you act that way.”
To be acknowledged, to be seen as human, to be loved even when flawed. I wouldn’t trade it for the universe.
I’ll never be able to pay this woman back for the love she has given me and the support she has shown me. I’ll shutup now, as I could just go on about my partner.
Thank you for sharing this sweet story! I hope for you two to have a long and healty relationship!
Thank you! 12 yrs going strong. 6 yr old kid running us up a wall lol. Couldn’t ask for more. I’m as rich as a man can be.
“Sinisistar 2”. Cue the terrified expression and sudden teleport to elsewhere.
My wife has more hours in stardew than I do
Niche stuff casuals rarely play.
that’s the kind of gatekeeping I’d like to avoid in my hobby
A lot of that ‘niche’ stuff may also be what ‘casuals’ do play
Yeah like so many of the single dev indie games I’ve played have been extremely casual—that’s why I play them!
I don’t think ‚casual‘ refers to the difficulty of the game for OP.
I’m probably into those too tbh
I read it more as what the sentence actually says than gatekeeping tbh
I play the wikipedia game. Start on a random article, click the first link over and over until you reach philosophy. How many clicks did it take? try and beat that
This is awesome!
Though in my first attempt I ended up in an infinite loop. To be fair, the 4th link in the last pages of the loop is philosophy George Krugers -> Dutch East Indies -> Dutch Colonial Empire -> Overseas Territories -> International Politics/Relations -> War -> Armed Forces/Military -> Armed/Weapon -> Kill/Death -> Life -> Matter -> Physical Science -> Natural Science -> Science -> Knowledge -> Descriptive/Declarative Knowledge -> Awareness (4th link here is Philosophy , so not quite) -> Back to Knowledge
But it was a fascinating exercise. Yes I am bored and need something to occupy my mind.
Edit: typo
hah yes sometimes the game breaks, you have to restart it
Maybe you should allow skipping links already visited, then it could (?) converge
that sounds like it would work
It doesn’t work that well anymore.
After an edit to the Awareness article in April of 2024, switching the order of Philosophy and Psychology, the number of articles that lead to Philosophy this way had been greatly reduced, as Awareness and Psychology formed a loop of their own. In the months after the edit, there were numerous attempts to switch the order of the links leading to a discussion on the Awareness talk page. Following another discussion, the order was changed back in July 2026.
Following discussions like Talk:Mathematics#Hyperlinks missed in the first paragraph about over-linking in the first paragraph of articles, some first links were changed or removed in July 2026. As a result, almost no articles continue to lead to “Philosophy” as of July 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy
Well they said “click the first link”
Oh I totally missed that. I suspect you’d end up in a lot of circles tbh.
Heh, I found one starting from the featured article of english wikipedia today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Krugers I clicked on the first link in the article, not on the page, and also skipped the reference links. Took about 8
yeah you do find yourself clicking in circles sometimes
Now we just need someone to publish a paper on probability of landing in a cycle without philosophy in it, and cycle length statistics
have you guys tried wiki gacha?
holy shit its good gambling
And then I go “Hey what if you could play CoD from the perspective of the psychopathic senior officers whose orders make all this violence happen?”
“Rimworld, what’s that?”
“Its like the Sims on a hostile alien planet with robots and cannibalism”
“Cannibalism?!”
"Yea… Usually not intentionally. I mean no one sets to eat their friends or even their enemies but after a few lean seasons and you have run out of pets… But it’s not like you let them go to waste, you can use the leather too.
… (Doesn’t notice them pulling away)
Human leather is actually kind of a premium value product…". “Hey where’d you go?!”
Evil genius is fun too
Give us names here. This is what it’s like when normies ask me what music I listen to.
What it’s like is the person saying they like all music but not that music.
It’s just more like they’ve never heard of anything outside of the top 40 so the conversation gets weird when I show them my music library and they’ve never heard of any of it.
If someone answers me that they like all music, we are gonna linsten to worm Shepherd or some obscure Norwegian black metal for sure
Same, except I’m going with some Japanese rock. Either way, we’re gonna test that theory.
VVVVVV N QWOP
OP likes playing Witcher 3, doesn’t they?
Le hidden gem of a game
I think some people have heard of it.
They may get even more sales this autumn with the new DLC coming out soon
you exclusively play mainstream slop games, right?OP:
( ˶°ㅁ°) How do you write in stickers like that?
Yeah this post doesn’t make sense. Natasha Legerro said it best “I’d rather walk in on my boyfriend jerking off while hanging him self than have one of those CoD headsets on”
CoD/ Fortnite/Counterstrike players, to each their own, but I can guarantee you that they’re not perceived by women as superior to indie game players as the padme meme insinuates. If anything, girls like watching indie games being played than the mindless slop battle royale type games that necessitate micro transactions and headsets.
Indie narratives games only.
Indie warcrime games only
Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld I’m guessing
Since you didn’t mention those games by name: do you play them with one hand, perchance? 🤪
Let me show you my drawf fortress world
old games, indie games, games with the graphics settings turned all the way down
What’s the polar opposite of AAA?
What’s the polar opposite of AAA
Submarine sims, 4X, point and click, euro jank, everything older than 2020, everything single player.
My video game habits closely match my music taste: everything except new pop country and mumble rap (coming around on Migos, though). Ill play any game that isnt an FPS or third person open world.
Highly recommend giving Spec Ops: The Line and Kane and Lynch 2 a shot, those games stray in really interesting ways from the third person shooter formula.
NNN, it’s on the other side of the alphabet.
Just came home from LAN playing CS 1.6 at 480p
Love me some factory simulators but most people haven’t heard of them. Games like Satisfactory or Dyson Sphere Program, or the one I’m putting way too many hours into right now Captain of Industry.
How could you play all of those and not Factorio? Did a 2D sprite kill your parents?
