Me: I love TTRPGs! What are you favorites?
Them: I love D&D 3.5e, 4e, and 5e and also Pathfinder and Billy May's Wizards of the Coast Larceny & Slaughter 2e Family Edition.
Me: Oh I've played 5e before :)
Them: What systems do you play?
Me: Oh The Quiet Year, Dialect, The Ground Itself, Galactic/Going Rogue, Belonging Outside Belonging, very story focused GM-less stuff. Oh and I've played Lancer and a powered by the apocalypse game.
Them: Oh I haven't heard of any of those.
Like Sisyphus and his boulder, the human condition is to have this conversation on dating apps over and over in perpetuity
I once had this absolute nightmare response to mentioning TTRPGs in a dating profile:
them: Hii
them: Sounds like your a dnd dm
me: I've done a little D&D in the past, but recently I've been playtesting a system I designed
them: What kind of system?
them: A similar game to dnd??
me: kind of!! it's much simpler overall and only uses one kind of dice and it's much more narrative-forward instead of being primarily combat-driven
them: I liked dnd 3.5 bc it was role play oriented more than combat oriented
them: Its only the recent editions which turn it into a video game
for the record, most of the D&D I've played was 5e, but I played 3.5 when I was in high school, and I think they've made the system better with 5e and, arguably, less video gamey. it's not my No. 1 choice for TTRPG to play, but I still think it's a pretty fun system and I've had a good time as both a DM and a player. I did not bother sharing this opinion with this stranger who clearly had no actual interest in any of what I was talking about and was mostly just looking to insult a thing I think is Fine
