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’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.
“Sinisistar 2”. Cue the terrified expression and sudden teleport to elsewhere.
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 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
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.
When people ask me about music I just say “I don’t really listen to much music”
I know they’re trying to develop a conception or me, I recognize that they’re trying to get an idea of who I am, trying to start a conversation but I also know they will not draw any meaningful information from the answers I could give. Not because what i like is “too sophisticated and they just wouldn’t get it” but because my taste is completely incoherent. My taste is obscure and trash, and each listened facet is tonally dissonant from the last.
I have to find out what genre they are into and think of what I like ajacent to that.
Better than acting like you’re a better person because you listen to some math rock group.
Idk what it means to have trash tastes, id like it if someone said that and then named the stuff they liked and I conformed it was trash lol. Id find it really endearing.
I have really eclectic tastes too, and I like my own taste in music, but I’ve also found a lot of people don’t really like some of the music I get really into. I can’t tolerate like 90% of popular music from the last 20 years or so, but I still like a lot of indie and experimental stuff.
I don’t believe there’s such a thing as bad taste in music. If you enjoy a certain type of music, then that’s the right music for you. But there does tend to be a big divide between what musicians and non musicians listen to and to what music afficianados and casual listeners listen to. Musicians and music afficianados can have lots of crossover, but casual listeners tend to have little crossover with the other 2 groups.
just get into 70s prog or 80s hair metal that’s way cooler than “not being into music”. Cool t shirts n all that.
I’m not a musician really at all but I’m a huge music listener of a lot of genres and the “don’t like music” people are the worst ever. No offense
Just name off a few sub-sub-subgenres they don’t know and watch their eyes glaze over.
VVVVVV N QWOP
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?!”
Let me show you my drawf fortress world
OP likes playing Witcher 3, doesn’t they?
Le hidden gem of a game
old games, indie games, games with the graphics settings turned all the way down
What’s the polar opposite of AAA?
Just came home from LAN playing CS 1.6 at 480p
Since you didn’t mention those games by name: do you play them with one hand, perchance? 🤪
indie only
I got big into tidy-em-ups the last month or two. Just unfortunate that the scene is full of slop knock-offs of Librarian at the moment
I read that as tiddy-em-ups and thought it was some new genre of gooner game.
Based off the shit I see on the steam store sales I’d say that’s the majority of the gooner games.
I feel like FIFA should have been in the list
every individual’s preference is distinct.
I play the Sakura series and everything from my favorite publisher Kagura Games.
Don’t ask why I have so many boxes of tissues. They’re uh…really sad and emotional games.
The one with the shovelware VN?
Shovelware? Such words should NEVER be associated with masterpieces like Sakura Swim Club or Sakura Spirit!
Ok, a blind hen…
La-Mulana, Star Sector, Tower of the Sorcerer, Lemmings, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Reality Break, IJI.
I am definitely not a standard gamer. Spent $600 on a copy of the Merc Stealth keyboard, called the Ergo Sentry Plus.
Ancestors! Great game!
