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.
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
ITT: OP says he’s niche… refuses to elaborate.
OP plays NBA 2K.
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.
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
Valhiem, Dwarf fortress, Starsector, Space Engineers 1
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
So like nethack in console mode with vim bindings?
Europa Universalis, Stellaris, BG3, Schedule 1, Rimworld, Timberborn, Terraria, Surviving Mars are some of my most played games.
I also have played Witcher 1/2/3, Mass Effect 1/2/3, WoW, GW 1 and 2, TERA and a little Battlefield and COD(BO2).
You see, I am somewhat of a gamer myself.
Duck game, gunfire reborn, witcher 3, random meme games
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
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
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
have you guys tried wiki gacha?
holy shit its good gambling
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
So many a year ago, I would tell people I was a gamer, and they all assumed video games when I meant role-playing games. Made me a touch upset. Now I see this happening in video game culture too, and I just have a smile of justification while sitting in my room of unread ttrpg books.
“Yes I play nintendo. You mean romhacks, right?”
Give us names here. This is what it’s like when normies ask me what music I listen to.
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.
What it’s like is the person saying they like all music but not that music.
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.
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.
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