Aug 19, 2025

Today was my final day of work before my staycation tomorrow and I was honestly really excited. Work passed by quickly and ended.

For the evening, I essentially just played Peak with someone and Luan in the evening. We were fine playing Peak and I was initially following someone before I had to stop for a bit to reply to some work stuff and then someone keeps going ahead on her own. I eventually die because I didn't follow either Luan or someone to the top and I just got lost. They weren't able to revive me at the top of the shore area because someone had already activated the statue for a mythical item.

We continued on to the tropics where someone and Luan had both completely taken different sides and I mostly stayed with Luan because he didn't mind it and maybe that someone would get mad at me for being a backseat climber. Luan was able to reach the peak of the tropics and revive me while someone took a while to climb. I wanted to try to help them and I tried calling out to them but we got no response. We did notice that the distance meter at the campfire was shortening but eventually someone turned into a ghost and then they got so pissed off, they left the game.

What happened afterwards was that someone was pissed off at me for a number of reasons, but it wasn't relevant to this round because I was really following them at the start of the game. I even showed them screenshots but they didn't want to believe me and instead wanted to believe the narrative they have in their head. They got into this weird stance and was very standoffish, which was honestly incredibly disgusting and reminiscent of how we used to work the years before with all the petty, stupid arguments and such. But somehow, someone was able to be reasoned out and things were okay after I had to acknowledge their struggles and we were okay after that.

Surprisingly, we were okay with no repercussions and we continued to play R.E.P.O. afterwards in the late evening. It was fun and it saved the day from being a really poor one by someone's selfish hardheadedness. It's still a massive surprise how they're the only person in my life I often/only get into arguments like these, but whatever. I did tell someone that it trigged my anxiety and she wondered if it would be healthy, but I just continued on just enduring toxic mini-arguments like this. I had my staycation to look forward to tomorrow so I'm weathering whatever storm comes my way until then.