[ Another (positive?) upside of talking to Makoto is that he'll potentially burn the candle at both ends for as long as he can. She's quite nice for amiably taking his impromptu conversational thread in stride, anyways. ]

Well, they're probably more familiar with video games than I am? As far as I know, none of us have experienced one that was fully immersive like some of the ones here, but they always bring a bunch of titles over whenever we decided to play together.

Did you have something like ViViD back home?