Do you ever want to use examples from games in everyday conversations...

[ZedClampet]

and then stop...for a variety of reasons maybe. (realizing no one would have any idea what you were talking about, knowing that telling a non-gamer about a game is like telling them about a dream--they don't care)

I have a Chamber of Commerce lecture to give tomorrow, and there were a couple of times when I thought a game reference would fit nicely, but I ultimately scrubbed them. Just didn't feel right.

But it also comes up just in everyday conversation, where I want to mention something from a game, but my internal editor won't let me do it.

 

[Mazer]

Just go for it Zed, I'm sure there's at least one person in the chamber of commerce with an amputee fetish who'll get your Katawa Shoujo reference.

I never really feel the impulse to use the pop culture of video games as conversational touchstones, only because I don't actually have any PC gaming friends IRL any more. Even the handful of console gamers I work with are too young to have the same frame of reference as me, if I start down that road they'll start dabbing and yeeting and whatnot and my heart couldn't take that.

 

[Frindis]

Perhaps you could mold the mentions to work in your favor, without anyone knowing the backstory.

To take an example. I was told a story about several blind people who had a task to figure out what they were touching. One person would experience something and the next something else, and together they would gradually work out what they were feeling - an elephant. They all knew something about the animals, but together they would figure it out. So, perhaps that is also the way you could go with using experiences from video games.

 

[Brian Boru]

I ultimately scrubbed them. Just didn't feel right

Probably the best decision, too easy to lose your audience with unfamiliar references.

Not in conversations, except occasionally with someone whose gaming history I know—and then only a brief smart-ass like "We need more workers".

 

[Pifanjr]

It happens. I usually drop it, though I do sometimes explain the relevant part of the game and the example if I can do so quickly. This might work with a story element for example, where you don't need to explain anything about how the game works to still use an example from the story of a game.