I use bone conductors almost all the time. They're great.

Am I just weird?

For not just using headphones? A little, yeah.

For me it depends. If I'm playing a game for the first time, I have to have sound on, but if I'm not playing for the first time then I'm okay without sound. Also some games like factorio, cities:skylines, minecraft, etc I like to play with my own music or a podcast.

I play 99% of my games without sound honestly. I only have time to play games in the evening, and I can't focus on the sound if there's other sound around me (like my wife talking or my son doing his toddler babble), so I just mute every single game.

I just use headphones if my wife is on the TV.

OK, side question. Doesn't it drive you insane to be trying to follow a game's audio while people are talking on TV?

I like handhelds for playing in bed, or tucking away in a corner of the house, but sitting there while people are watching TV or having conversations while trying to play a game is... hard and not very productive, unless the game is very casual or purely mechanics-driven.

I don't prefer it but it's very different for sure. I grew up with a Hitachi laptop that didn't have working speakers and so my NES and SNES games had no sound so I got pretty used to it.

These days as an adult it s just either or. Games with sound, great! Games without sound, so it is!

Headphones, brah