Video games! Those are a... harmless... activity! Yes! Hooray!

[He gets a smile for that.]

I prefer more social activities, but... oh? Are you offering to take me someplace to play video games? Sure! I'll try it! I thought we might've just been talking about our hobbies in general. But, I'll never turn down a friendly invite! --You know, unless I had to, because of some, other thing, I had to do. Which might happen! It's not happening now, obviously! But, it could someday happen, maybe.

[...]

That's what you meant, right?