So, gaming.
I started playing Dungeons and Dragons (tabletop role playing) in 1980 and still play tabletop RPGs 1-2 times per week. Over 40 years now.
For board games, a friend and I would play Titan by Avalon Hill a couple times a week for a few years in the early 80s. After that I didn't play board games again until the 2000s, after the board game revolution started in the late 90s. Before the pandemic I was part of a group which would meet every other Friday evening to play, and another group that would meet all day Saturday once a month. I currently have well over 30 board games on shelves on the other side of the living room.
Video games have also been part of my life since I found arcades in the late 70s. By the early 80s, I could play Asteroids for several hours on a single quarter. My first, and pretty much only, console was a Pinball/Breakaway game that I bought from Sears in the late 70s. After that, I didn't pick up video games until I started playing World of Warcraft with friends in 2007. For about four years I played the heck out of it with my housemates and their young son. My buddy's brother would come over on Friday nights and we had a LAN party dungeon group in the dining room. We dropped WoW in 2011 for Star Wars the Old Republic, which we played for about nine months. Then it was Guild Wars 2. Then I moved.
During this time, I also started going over to a good friend's house on Saturdays. His best friend and I would have dinner with him and his family, then we would talk with his wife while we cleaned up and did the dishes. Then the three of us would go into the den and play MMOs until 2 in the morning. The list of games we played includes City of Heroes, Hellgate London, D&D Online, Conan, DC universe Online, Champions, Guild Wars 2, Secret World, Diablo 3, Warframe, and probably some that I am forgetting. We slowed down when I moved to NC at the end of 2014 and we stopped when my buddy's friend passed away a few months later.
These days, I mostly play Path of Exile and Warframe, though occasionally I pick up others like Fall Guys or No Man's Sky for a few months. When my daughter and her husband and their friends happen to be playing to same game I am, we get together over Discord (it's like Skype, or Zoom) and game together several times a week. They also play D&D together every Saturday, so my daughter is officially a second generation gamer now.
So, yeah. Games.
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