that's showbiz, baby!

As with many, this game consumes my thoughts and feelings, and has helped me get through tough times, and I wouldn’t be here without it, as strange as that is to say. It allowed me to become more comfortable in my own skin, to appreciate the little things, to not take each day for granted, and so on.

I knew that there were others who loved the game the same as I did, it was all that my feed on social media was: people that adored this game and obsessed over it just like me. But it didn’t click until I went to the world tour or the Strands of Harmony concert.

It blew my mind just how many people I was in the same room with that shared my love for Death Stranding. Up until that point, I just had a select few people in my life who knew about it, who I’d introduced them to.

The whole time I just couldn’t wrap my head around it, just how many people that finally, if I could talk to them about this game, they’d get just as excited as I was.

At the world tour, I was in line at the merch shop while they stocked up the cryptobiote plushies, and there were two other guys behind us. Clearly we were all awkward to talk to each other first, but one of them complemented my Bridges hat, and I complimented his shirt with Sam on it, and just like that we were all talking about where we were in the second game and our experiences with it.

At the Strands of Harmony concert, there were so many amazing cosplays and outfits inspired by the game. I walked past a guy with a whole Porter outfit on and I told him: “Woah, dude your cosplay looks sick!” And he said “Thanks! Keep on keeping on!” I think I almost cried.

These two interactions just stuck out to me. Maybe it was nothing to those people, but it meant a lot.

Don’t know, been thinking about this for months and just wanted to ramble about it.