‘Wow, it’s my day off!’ I say ‘Time to get round to playing some of the games from the http://itch.io  bundle. Huh, I wonder what Arcade Spirits is?’

Anyway livetweet thread of Arcade Spirits by someone who works in an arcade

“The air conditioning hits me like a cool breeze”

This place has air con! It’s better than the real thing already!

“She looks up from her knitting, seated behind the ticket prize redemption desk”

Knitting?? On the job?? This game truly is an escapist fantasy

The most relatable bit is where the MC is like ‘it’s so fucking loud’ ‘yeah you get used to it’ ‘done.’ ‘A.. already?’

My dad literally won’t come into my work because it’s so loud but even though I normally am pretty sensitive to sensory stuff I’ve just. Blocked All Of It Out

An actual staff room?? We just have the kitchen and it’s public access. I got my job interview in a hallway.

it asked why I want the job and. I did basically give the first answer in my real interview, I said something like 'Nobody comes here to be sad'.

And that is true!

They come to be very, /very/ angry

stares directly into the camera

exactly like the real thing! but they let me have a stool this time!

WHY IS THE SHOP AND FLOOR PERSON THE SAME PERSON DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW BAD AN IDEA THAT IS. You need one for box, one for shop, and one for floor AT A MINIMUM! That's 10AM on a Tuesday in January shift.

If you're running in the summer you need AT LEAST 7 PEOPLE WORKING

Hahaha. Hahahaha. AHAHAHAHAHA.

okay but this does look exactly like our workshop, we even have those specific little plastic wall shelf-boxes

i'm literally so concerned. if gavin is in his office, naomi is in the workshop, francine left and i'm in the back room eating lunch, WHO'S AT THE SHOP?? OR THE BOX?? OR ON THE FLOOR??

WHO'S AT THE CASH BOX YOU CAN'T ALL JUST LEAVE???

this is the nightmare scenario

now i'm literally just RPing my own daily life

Work brain is LITERALLY HAVING A CRISIS ABOUT THIS.

WHAT DO.

WHAT DO???

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