[alt text: a screenshot of a tweet by @no_goblins. The tweet says: “Ladies if you go to a man’s house and the only games he has are COD and 2k DON’T SLEEP WITH HIM! You deserve someone who plays open world RPGs”.]
If he has Disco Elysium ask him who his favorite character is to gauge whether he is marriage material.
(Hint: The right answer is Kim.)
Hond@piefed.social 18 hours ago
I killed several really well going conversations in the past by mentioning that one of my hobbies is to play racing games with my plastic toywheel.
Like dont get wrong i'm fully aware that its not a sexy hobby. But if thats enough to tank an otherwise well going conversation for you then i'm not interested either way.
Telorand@reddthat.com 18 hours ago
I have to wonder if they’d be more interested if you’d said you fly a space ship with a HOTAS (as in Elite Dangerous).
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
„I like playing with my stick“
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
I got really into elite dangerous at one point. I never got a HOTAS though, but I’d considered it.
How is the game these days?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Played a fair bit of Elite but now kinda feels like there isn’t really that much purpose to play and most things get boring quickly, especially if you are trying to be vaguely efficient and stack missions or what ever the meta is now.
Doing a variety of different things with my multiple ship and SRV or on foot was most fun and least rewarding. If there was more co-op focused stuff I think that could help too, even if it was just a mission variant that increased enemy spawn rates in the mission area. Then rewards that make the mission worth doing.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
racing sims are a sexy hobby, that shit ain’t cheap up front and also it’s legitimately a good experience
oh I’m sorry I have a hobby that doesn’t require ongoing expenses, takes up little space, and feeds me adrenaline. you’re right that if that is enough to tank a convo then byeee
of all the things to be a dealbreaker, playing video games is… lol. not the kind of person you want to be around. odds are they watch brainrot tiktok and reality TV, right?
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Sim racing is one of the most expensive video game related hobbies out there.
*Ask me how I know. *🤣 Jokes aside though, if you’re not competing in iRacing and you’re happy with a decent but entry-level/intermediate wheel its not so bad. It’s not hard to blow 10k real fast if you want to though!
dil@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Talk to them about vr and theyll want to come over and try it usually
dil@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
it’s a fat hassle tho and its prob more common now, also youll look stupid lol