Ooookay, let me try here. Um. They're-- how did I explain it to Zhongli-- it's like an illusion made by a machine? A video game is like... oh, it's like the movies on the tv here! Except instead of just watching, you're controlling it. It'd be like if in that movie, you had control of the main character and could make them do what you wanted. Not anything you want, sometimes the game just lets you pick specific actions to take, but you're still in control of that.
And a dating game is-- basically what it says in the name, the objective is to successfully date one of the love interest characters. Usually that means that when you're controlling the main character, you're trying to do things to get them to like your character, but you're also trying to make the right choices for the story in general.
More or less! We were physically there, instead of just playing it on a screen.
[when she asks about his partner, he adjusts the flower tucked behind one ear, with a fond little smile.]
I got paired with someone who was overseeing the party menu-- I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but he was actually really sweet? And the things we decided on all seemed to go over well, so I'm pretty sure that part was a success.
Mhmm. I figured it was worth trying to bring them back, we worked pretty hard on the food choices-- it would've been a shame to just leave them, right?
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mustbepurged) wrote2021-01-09 04:40 pm
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[he pauses a moment.]
Hang on, do you have video games?
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I don't think so.
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And a dating game is-- basically what it says in the name, the objective is to successfully date one of the love interest characters. Usually that means that when you're controlling the main character, you're trying to do things to get them to like your character, but you're also trying to make the right choices for the story in general.
-is this helping at all?
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[Luckily for both of them, Estelle just learned what a movie is this week.]
But instead of a character, you were making choices to try and please... a real person?
So who were you paired with?
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[when she asks about his partner, he adjusts the flower tucked behind one ear, with a fond little smile.]
I got paired with someone who was overseeing the party menu-- I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but he was actually really sweet? And the things we decided on all seemed to go over well, so I'm pretty sure that part was a success.
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Wait, is that where those sandwiches came from?
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