1. I don't mind talking about games with other people but I usually tone down how much I like something or focus more on trying to find common interests. Like I'll usually ask first and if they like shooters, I can say I haven't played many shooters but I love (popular Rockstar games) and Bioshock Infinite. Then I'll pull a "but I like this other game more."
2. I'm not a car nut but Japanese cars are nice. I'm not a fan of Nissan due to quality and I won't ever own a Honda or Acura but I'm pretty much sticking with Toyota and Lexus as long as I can afford it.
3. My name has a nice ring to it but I'm one of the unfortunate people who shares a name with a fictional character and people ask either jokingly or not if I'm their relative. Why yes, Sherlock Holmes is my great great grandfather, why didn't you ask!
(that was just an example, my last name is not Holmes even though that would be cool)
If only my coworkers had those kind of social skills : p Like, one example, one time one of the three that Im talking about came up to me and asked "have you been playing any new game lately?", and I was actually playing a game for wii at the time, so I told him yeah. When I did, he interrupted me to say "oh cool, so I got the new Doom game(...)", and he went on telling me about all the cool guns and stuff and I felt really akward and just said "uh huh" until he went away : p I like talking about video games with people, just not my coworkers : p
(I also have one thats been going on and on about D&D with me, like its the only thing he ever talks about, and I dont even know anything about it : p)
And yeah? Never heard about Nissan's problems with quality : p Not that I doubt it but would look into it before I bought a car Im sure : p
And haha, I kinda sorta have the same problem as my last name is the most common last name you can think of, Ive gotten some weird comments because of that : p Though Id imagine yours is worse : p
Though speaking of having a nice ring, my name does not have a nice ring, in fact thats one of the things I have about my name : p Though I can imagine worse things to be worried about, haha.