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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Gaming”. 🤮[/quote]

Video games? Definitely can be a dealbreaker, if the person spends all his or her time staring at a screen rather than engaging with others.

But if you mean tabletop roleplaying games--? Whole different world. A lot of couples play these games as their mutual hobby and as a way to spend screen-free time with friends. And it's a booming world. My young adult DC is starting to get paid to be a game master for various gaming companies. It's a fantastically creative hobby, and for some, can be a little side gig too. [/quote]
In my experience, unless you’re talking about basic stuff like Sorry, tabletop gamers are rigid, legalistic, argumentative, obsessed with minutiae and that spills over into their every day personality. Hard pass.[/quote]

Then your experience is outdated and/or limited to certain games. My DC just GM'd multiple sessions of a new game that is the antithesis of "rigid, legalistic, argumentative" etc. There are lots of new games in recent years which are not remotely like you're recalling, and are cooperative and highly flexible.

It's quite narrow-minded and, well, rigid of you, to insist you know that every game beyond "Sorry" is a certain way....I'm not saying you have to play, but I'm noting you are stuck on some pretty narrow stereotypes here. Your experience in the past may have been poor but that doesn't mean every person who currently plays tabletop roleplaying games is like you're assuming, or that the games themselves are stuck in that rut these days. [/quote]

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