UnknownCircle

I feel like the relationship with Lae’zel grows a lot over the course of the game. But you have to really commit to going that route.

As someone who is generally a fan of your first 2 points, the latter two really get to me sometimes. I like the characters being forward, but if I indicate that I’m not interested I’d like them to kinda back off. Sometimes I don’t even talk to certain companions because all their dialogue options are veiled flirtations. I’d like some characters to be friends and others to be romance options.

Gale is just a straight menace, every single interaction feels romance adjacent. Halsin keeps hinting at it, not nearly at the level of Gale but definitely is a constant undertone. Shadowheart was on my multi-romance train but, I decided to go forward with Laezel so I had to cut that one off. So Shadowheart is firmly in the friendly companion camp now.

Karlach, Astarion, Wyll, and Shadowheart are my mostly not too flirty companions. Astarion in particular has been great, I think I pissed him off in the early game with all my good choices so he just acts like a good friend. Which I appreciate.

I honestly didn’t realize that affinity would activate romance mode for everyone. I just didn’t want to piss some characters off and make them leave the party because they hated my character. Also didn’t want to miss any affinity related (non-romance) quests.

Also shoutout to the biggest bro, my non-companion, Dame Aylin. She’s the bro that I want my other friend companions to be.

Depends on how invested I am into the outcome. The less invested in the outcome I am, the more I let the dice decide. If I dislike the outcome enough I will reset to an earlier save.

I’d be interested in petting doggos and hanging out if that’s what you mean by tailored, but not any traditional therapy. Going affects my employment opportunities, which I care about far more than my mental health. If I wanted to not suffer everyday of my life I’d shift my priorities, expectations, push my boundaries or off myself. Since I haven’t done those things yet, things must be fine enough.

I would have a very bad opinion of any version of myself that was happy or content while being aware of all the terrible things we human beings get up to.

The only way I could be convinced to genuinely engage with therapy is if I thought it’d achieve some material goal of mine like making more money. Proving some positive correlation in earnings or attainment of things that men normally want with therapy would probably help. I’d reluctantly go and commit completely if I thought it’d significantly improve the likelihood of achieving my current or future goals. No dogs necessary at that point, just data.

Save scumming is the only way I can tolerate games like this. For as awesome as the game is (very awesome) sometimes consequences fall within the range of acceptability and sometimes they don’t. When they don’t, save scumming is what keeps me from putting the game down for good.

Just establishing enough stability in my life to have one day predictably proceed the next while I enjoy all my favorite things and keep my sanity intact.