my brother vs me

[graveexcitement]

i just realized i've been complaining about this on twitter but forgot to do so here:

so, after nearly an entire year of telling my younger brother, "hey, you love Danganronpa, you'd totally love Zero Escape..." and him going "meh/maybe later/whatever"

after a year of that, we had a conversation that went about like this:

he was doing his own “pssst you should play/watch the thing i’m into” (in this case Hollow Knight) and i was like meh, maybe later. (so like, it's not like i didn't understand his reticence on zero escape, lmao.) and he was like it’s so GOOD tho

& i was like "well, things being “so good tho” haven’t been enough of a motivation factor for you to play zero escape or your turn to die. sometimes i just don’t feel like getting into new media; you understand this feeling." he was quiet for a moment, and then:

brother: ok i’ve just bought zero escape

me: wh-

brother: you can play hollow knight while it downloads

me: well damn. i guess i’m gonna play hollow knight then

and i did play some hollow knight -- love the aesthetic and the exploration, though i am kinda woeful at combat. and then he started 999 (the first zero escape game) and got hooked! i watched him play through the entire game and lo, it was super satisfying/vindicating! especially since he seemed to really enjoy it!

and then he started the second game, vlr, and... got midway down one route (even that's stretching it; he entered the B Garden and then stopped), and hasn't picked it up again in the week or so since. just hasn't seemed interested.

is this it? must i sit here consoling myself with, "at least he played my favorite of the 3 zero escape games?"

maybe i haven't played enough hollow knight, in recompense. or maybe it's just the same reason that i still haven't started playing ace attorney 3 with him again. truly remarkable how my brother and i's tastes in media are so similar, and so is our habit of getting obsessed with said media; yet our sluggishness with regards to getting into and/or finishing each other's media choices can be rather like unstoppable force vs immovable object.

in other, clearly far less important life news...

• i've been thinking about starting bullet journalling again. except i don't know where the current one went and i'd rather finish that one before starting in the brand new one i got for christmas last yr.
• i kind of feel like i'd find the missing journal if i were to thoroughly clear out my computer desk, which i am on the verge of doing, but which i am also averse to because nyeh, so much stuff, and making decisions about the stuff
• after spending this semester spinning my wheels in a depressive fugue state and failing to apply to even a single job, i last-minute applied for readmission to my old university (the one i left after my very-depressed freshman yr 3 yrs ago), and now i'm in. will have to find out when i need to register for classes and whatnot.

might try and post to dreamwidth more often. or maybe this will be like my putting the laundry away half an hour ago: an event that will be only seldomly repeated.

Comments

[orangerful]

LOL my brother and I have such DRASTICALLY different taste in games, it's crazy. At some point, he got into these hardcore rogue likes games where you just die over and over and over. Though every now and then we will find something we both like, but, same, it takes a LOT of convincing! And with so many games I want to play, sitting down and playing something he wants me to play is HARD!

Do you already have a degree in mind or are you just going back to school to try go get your focus back?

[graveexcitement]

oh yeah, my brother likes roguelikes too. so do i to some extent, but i tend to like the ones that are less straight-up fighty (my faves are probably Crypt of the Necrodancer and Slay the Spire)

yeah, mostly trying to get focus/purpose/structure back .-.

[orangerful]

Yeah, he likes the more serious roguelikes and I'm more into the fun ones, like Necrodancer. Though we have an overlap with Darkest Dungeon, which he did turn me on to so credit there.

Good for you!

[graveexcitement]

my cousin showed me darkest dungeon! it looks cool.