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.