Susan

I made a crack about "'How did THAT trigger the romance: RPG dialogue options as a metaphor for an asexual experience' In this essay I will" and honestly am I joking. I keep trying to click on options that sound like "I like you and we're friends!" and then suddenly people are acting like I've declared my love or propositioned them? Genuinely starting to wonder if it's the game being weird or I just haven't calibrated my personal real life "This is a friend thing vs this is a romantic thing" settings properly. Do I need to start warning people that I'm not flirting with them, I'm just Like This?

Speaking of me being Like This: Offline Friend Chris apparently put £30 on my Guardian being a big half-orc woman and he won because I'm both predictable and gay. (Tav is very pretty but 100% less butch.)

ANYWAY: spoilers through the Underdark and act one.

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LexGarrett bought himself Baldur's Gate 3 for his birthday, and let me play it too! This was exceptionally bad timing because I'm out of my ADHD meds so the only defence between my loved ones and me hyperfocusing on this game is my willpower. ... So lemme talk about my latest hyperfocus, Baldur's Gate 3!

I have no idea what's a spoiler and what isn't, so basically EVERYTHING is going behind the cut. Spoilers through the goblin camp/Emerald Grove/getting lost in the Underdark because that's where I'm up to; maaaaaaaaaybe spoilers through act 2 because that's what Lex is up to.

Lex is playing a half-orc paladin who is romancing(??????) Lae'zel. I am playing a half-drow bard who is going to hug the living daylights out of Karlach as soon as physically possible. Offline Friend Chris, who is getting a lot of my screaming via discord, is currently playing the Dark Urge and trying not to let the intrusive thoughts win but has finished the game a couple of times.

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