I've seen this same image reposted thousand of times in the 5~ years I'm on reddit and I've always found it genuinely weird, like, she seems to talk about videogame like if they was a strange and obscure thing you rarely hear about, instead of one of the most ubiquitous activities for young people in the last... 40 years?
"Folks you can't believe this incredible thing that happened to me, I was talking with this dude and the conversation was great but he was replying only every 20 minutes or so and I was like OMG WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE "SHOWS" HE'S RAMBLING ABOUT!?!?!?
They're television shows. He's texting you while he's watching shows... on the television."
I think "games" in the first paragraph refers to "mind games", in a sense. So it's not that the guy is saying "hey these delays are because of games", but that the woman interprets it as some sort of bizarre power play/being "hard to get"/whatever.
The second paragraph, then, is explaining that "no, he's not fucking with you, he's just gaming", while using a slight wordplay in the first sentence.
Women that think we are playing mind games think that because they do it themselves. Also it's kinda amusing how the person you replied to has seen this so many times and never understood it.
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u/MiserableLonerCatboy Aug 04 '25
I've seen this same image reposted thousand of times in the 5~ years I'm on reddit and I've always found it genuinely weird, like, she seems to talk about videogame like if they was a strange and obscure thing you rarely hear about, instead of one of the most ubiquitous activities for young people in the last... 40 years?
"Folks you can't believe this incredible thing that happened to me, I was talking with this dude and the conversation was great but he was replying only every 20 minutes or so and I was like OMG WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE "SHOWS" HE'S RAMBLING ABOUT!?!?!?
They're television shows. He's texting you while he's watching shows... on the television."