"almost christmas" means it wasn't christmas!

[graveexcitement]

about a week ago, my hollow knight obsession met the obstacle of a boss fight i'm stuck on (Traitor Lord), but! my brother finally came back to playing zero escape, so most of my game time has been watching him play. a few highlights:

"have any of y’all uncultured fucks played zero escape?” — my brother to his friends

the rest are spoilery: bro, learning Luna has a medical license: “doctor seems like a profession with a high chance of being Zero”

(he's not wrong... he also suspected Luna of being Zero for almost the entire game, up until he finally got Luna-end.)

[on seeing the old woman laid out in the infirmary for the first time] “is this... June. ... no it hasn’t been nearly long enough for her to get that old”

“what if K is one of the players from 999, with amnesia ... what if K is Junpei that’d be so weird, but it’d be great”

(oh, junpei's here alright. he's just not K. that would've been interesting tho)

dio: “A cat? What, so now Zero Sr.’s a crazy cat lady?” my brother: “no, that’s sigma”

:3c

he finished Virtue's Last Reward yesterday and has played like, the very first scene of Zero Time Dilemma, haha.

did last minute christmas shopping yesterday; found stuff for all the family members who will actually be here on christmas itself (several more will be arriving on the 28th, and i don't have their stuff yet but i'll either order it or go shopping again on thursday.)

speaking of extended family members, i'm gonna come out as trans to my grandma tomorrow and the others when they arrive later this week. because now that i'm out to my immediate family and they call me the right name most of the time, i no longer want to be closeted in my own house. so that'll be a little awkward/stressful, but it had to happen eventually. might as well be now.

also. seeing presents addressed to my new name has made me unbelievably happy. the euphoria makes up for any stress. (fingers crossed lmao)

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

I'm enjoying reading about your brother's adventures with Zero Escape!

and has played like, the very first scene of Zero Time Dilemma, haha.

Hey, technically that means he's won Zero Time Dilemma; congratulations to him!

I hope the coming out goes well. ♥

Also, I've just noticed the title of this post and it's beautiful.

[graveexcitement]

i'm glad i started writing down some of his comments, because sometimes he is hilariously spot-on without knowing.

thanks :D & gotta love the ace attorney christmas memes!

[orangerful]

I'm catching up on posts, I hope the coming out to grandma went smoothly. **hugs**

Are you hitting up the Steam winter sale? I want SO many things but I'm trying to be realistic about what I can play before the Spring sale LOL

[graveexcitement]

it went very well, & so did coming out to the rest of (my mom’s side of) the family yesterday! i just haven’t had the chance to post about it haha.

yesterday i picked up Tacoma, Cultist Simulator, and Analogue: A Hate Story (i think that’s the title? iirc, it’s a VN about AIs on a generation ship that went wrong, which sounded interesting.)

[orangerful]

I've had Cultist Simulator on my list for awhile, let me know how that is!

[graveexcitement]

will do! :D