# The most important question of all time.
**URL:** https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63
**Category:** \_games
**Created:** [October 22, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63 "2025-10-22T17:10:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@AlienBob](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/AlienBob)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/1 "2025-10-22T17:10:55Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/1))_
Please motivate your answer with a 300 word essay. This test is worth 80% of your grade this semester.
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### Author:  [@barleybap](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/barleybap)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/2 "2025-10-22T17:18:21Z")
My head says video game, my lazy hands often say videogame. The little Scottish kid I used to be before the internet ironed out all of my Briticisms still insists it’s “computer game”.
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### Author:  [@Vulnavia](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/Vulnavia)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/3 "2025-10-22T17:30:12Z")
The answer is always videogame in my book. But yeah, that’s only because “computer game” has fallen out of fashion.
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/4 "2025-10-22T17:52:19Z")
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### Author:  [@pc2000s](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/pc2000s)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/5 "2025-10-23T03:26:48Z")
David cage told me it was “interactive drama"
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### Author:  [@blotcity](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/blotcity)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/6 "2025-10-23T09:59:53Z")
Vidcon
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### Author:  [@EnVee](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/EnVee)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 11:03am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/7 "2025-10-23T11:03:52Z")
Clearly the true answer is neither, just use game and for anything else you slap something in front of it, cardgame, board game, or just go to acronym hell with TTRPG.
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### Author:  [@Jhpdf](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/Jhpdf)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/8 "2025-10-23T12:55:34Z")
It is, objectively, a computer game. A video game would be, for example, Atmosphere 2.
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### Author:  [@Scabzilla](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/Scabzilla)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/9 "2025-10-23T13:02:16Z")
My buddy and I will sometimes call them “bideo games” or “vidyal games”, so my answer is probably not valid in the slightest
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### Author:  [@retrohistories](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/retrohistories)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/10 "2025-10-23T13:35:13Z")
most persuasive argument I’ve seen for ‘videogame’ (by Greg Wohlwend back in the twitter days) is that not every videogame is a game.
(examples: Dear Esther, Proteus, Townscaper)
despite this, I use both terms interchangeably based entirely on whim.
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### Author:  [@barleybap](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/barleybap)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/11 "2025-10-23T16:24:32Z")
You’re right and you should say it.
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### Author:  [@rpwtf](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/rpwtf)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/12 "2025-10-23T18:13:32Z")
I’m a cool millenial, so I have to say “gamez” (even if singular).
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### Author:  [@Sunset](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/Sunset)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/13 "2025-10-23T18:26:30Z")
C) Bideo James
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### Author:  [@Lady\_Data](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/Lady_Data)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/14 "2025-10-31T00:04:30Z")
the thing is i’m only including the video part in the first place if i want to be ironically hyper verbose in which case the space adds
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/15 "2025-10-31T03:27:54Z")
I’ve started using “digital interactive experience” because I’m a pretentious bitch.
Also it acronyms to “DIE”.
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### Author:  [@Caaz](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/Caaz)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/16 "2025-10-31T04:38:22Z")
I think I’ve usually just used “game“ because video feels a little redundant when I’m sat in front of screens 24 hours a day. Video game gives me the same vibe as saying “moving picture“ instead of “movie“.
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### Author:  [@irishninja](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/irishninja)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/17 "2025-10-31T05:00:17Z")
to quote my dude sean seanson: video games: don’t worry about it!
but also, video games are a fuckin nightmare
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### Author:  [@livvyglizzy](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/livvyglizzy)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/18 "2025-11-03T09:11:40Z")
absolutely no skin in this game i just like “video games” more aesthetically
the rest of this essay is left as an exercise to the reader
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### Author:  [@ToulouToumou](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/ToulouToumou)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/19 "2025-11-03T11:17:10Z")
every time i see “video game” i assume it is posted by a narc
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### Author:  [@Chwoka](https://theunderscore.xyz/u/Chwoka)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://theunderscore.xyz/t/the-most-important-question-of-all-time/63/20 "2026-04-27T02:48:03Z")
Gotta be video game. The word video is an adjective narrowing the category game. My preference if I could fight the tide would be that we called them all “computer games,” though. Consoles and arcade cabinets are also computers, and computerization is the defining trait that differentiates these games from traditional and tabletop games. Whereas video output is not actually a universal property of all video games. The original Oregon Trail, among others, relied on printer output; the Vectrex showed a weird bespoke thing, not video; and does anyone else remember that audio-only port of Skyrim?
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