What are good conversation starters?

My partner and I are in a LDR and have dull conversations. I love/miss you, sex and video games are our revolving topics. We want to talk about different things but silence is usually the answer. We talked about our traumas today which was more of a one sided story telling and a few “I don’t know” responses to certain questions. We won’t be seeing each other for a while because of school so this is the perfect time to really start learning lol
What are good conversation starters?
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