Thread:StoryGirl83/@comment-35158873-20180228055426/@comment-3452092-20180304215628

Perhaps the choices don't have as much of a serious repercussion as they should, but that doesn't make them any less difficult to make even if it's just the in the moment reaction that you are trying to avoid bad consequences for but, but I think whether we see see it as a case of hard choices or not (and considering the game actually has "tough choices" I prefer to avoid that term to avoid confusion, since that's not what I'm referring) is probably a matter of personal perspective and not something that we can really bring the other over to the side up. And yes, it would have been nice if they had more relationship checks in book 1 (I doubt they have any in book 2 or maybe it could be argued that the tough choices are a type of relationship check no matter how minor and I know they don't have any in book 3, because I am playing book 3 with default settings and yeah . . . if they had relationship checks I would be hitting them like crazy). You say deal with. I did a happy dance when I finally got Zahra and Craig to like me, because I love those two. And it's cool that you don't. It doesn't surprise me either, because I don't think snark is your language whereas I can be pretty snarky. I have a lot of sympathy for those two, especially for Craig and probably a bit of empathy, too, although I've never been in a long term relationship that failed like they did nor have I ever had a best friend that was constantly outshining me (unless one counts the fact that all of my childhood friends are mothers, one of them currently expecting her third child) no matter that said best friend isn't trying to do that he doesn't really hold it against him, it still hurts him and it shows.

I don't have sympathy for Rourke except in as much as I have sympathy for the fact that he made idiotic choices that consistently throw away the one person who should be most important to him. That's on him, but I do feel bad for him that he thinks that is the path that makes the most sense.