My IRL friends are inerested in soccer. I don't have many friends, but almost all of them have have a thing for soccer. So I'm fine pretending to like soccer every once in a while.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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Casually play Kick and Run, around them. ๐ โฝ๐ฅ
The things we do for love
what if they're all pretending
Be careful out there.
My ex claimed to be super into retro gaming and I even spent while putting together a nice setup so she, and me, could play on the couch like in the TV show Home & Away.
But it was all lies. All she was interested in was sex, drugs, rock & roll, and Netflix shows about complete wankers.
Thankfully her son smashed up his ps4 in a ragequit and then spent several months addicted to old retro games until he got a new one.
I would be into this maybe, but I was always terrible at Mario and stuff like that. Iโve been trying to get back into games, and nothing is grabbing me, sadly.
Just handhelds? What about PC's or consoles?
not very interested in those.
i used to be very much into pc hardware stuff when i was younger but now the only thing i care about is that i have a pc that can run what i want, which is a somewhat outdated gaming pc with a gtx 1070 and a ryzen 2600.
modern consoles never really interested me that much, there's not that many interesting things about them. you just put in the disc and play, or if it's digital, just press the button to boot up the game, and the games have felt really similar since the ps3 era when hd gaming became a thing.
i'm still stuck in the ps4 era anyway cus i haven't played almost anything from that era, and i'm not paying many hundreds of euros for a console, when i can just play older stuff that is just as good.
older stuff like the nes and snes is different though, as it's impressive what they could do with the limited hardware, so it's kind of interesting. the games are a whole lot different compared to modern ones too.
It's the age of the WWW! There are literally forums & communities full of like-minded folks who enjoy doing exactly as you describe, just online.
I mean, sure it's always nice when such buddies can physically hang out, but headsets and cameras can at least help with that, and there's various retro games that can be played together online.
I find modders and builders fascinating, too:
https://www.benheck.com/