Do you still call consoles "systems"?

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@“Hunter”#p139905

What do people say now instead of computer?

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@“Hunter”#p139905 I think we discussed this one on the podcast, it's a fun one. I still like “the computer!” but I think people now say either the RNG or the AI depending on the situation.

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@“exodus”#p139919

Thos are so collosally inferior to the computer!

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I've been running some FGC locals lately, and this thread made me realise I use “console” to refer to the object and “system” for the category. I could ask? “Which console are we using” to mean which of the specific objects will we be sitting by, but “which system is it for” delineates between the categories of xbox, ps4, pc, etc ".


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I only ever really call them systems when I am being facetiously verbose, I’ve called them consoles for as long as I can remember.

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