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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eh. Same recycled story as the Animal Crossing letters from mom story. Or an even earlier version where their sister/girlfriend/etc etc left a note on some game they were playing, or a version from 5000 years ago where a scroll they were transcribing had a note from a friend who recently died from yellow fever or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Animal Crossing one with the mom is way more hard hitting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the way the mom letters are delivered through the in-game mail. The game isn't incidental to the story like in here - the very mechanics of how the game works are inherently important to the method of the delivery of the message.

We can see through the veil on this one because Zelda here could easily be anything. Could be a movie. Could be a board game. Could be a bike. But you could not replace animal crossing, and if you did, it could not work as well with the same characters (message in a MMO? Why is your Mom playing a MMO???)

Mom story had the better worldbuilding.

[–] Ashen 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone got a link to that?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't even make sense, why would his brother not live at the same house

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because he's an adult and moved out into his own place?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Our world is not one and the same place, we still have places where Humans experience the stoneage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

in this economy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't live in the same house as my brother.