Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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    I’m 33 but most people I talk to in my regular life only play stuff like COD or 2k, maybe a big release here and there like God of War but that’s it. Most people aren’t playing indie shit or RPGs anyways

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        3 years ago

        I’m not saying they aren’t playing games. They play games, they just only play the most popular stuff and anything else is weirdo shit to them. I actually think I work with some of the most normal people in existence lol

        • It also generally isn’t a primary hobby. It’s something they do for like an hour at most at a time, specifically to kill time. You’re not gonna discuss nuance and other, deeper things about gaming in general without having them glaze over.

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            Exactly true with it not being a primary hobby for most people who game.

            When I was a kid gaming wasn’t as widely considered as an acceptable hobby in general, but as a kid you just didn’t care what grown ups thought (games make people violent anybody?). By the time I hit university, people got shamed for it by non-gamer peers and I did a computer science degree too so it wasn’t a group of non-tech people who did the shaming either. By my early twenties I learned not to talk about it and just mention gaming as a hobby if asked and never elaborate further…