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Catherine: relationship advice thread that doesn't mock you

I have a certain love for block related puzzle games, I dunno about you, but whenever I combine blocks to progress in someway is absolutely satisfying. Seriously, some of the best games are block related, Tetris, Minecraft, Blocks: The Videogame (Note, that last one doesn't exist). So when I first saw Catherine's gameplay being described, I thought how long it would take for me to buy the game after it came out. The answer by the way, is 3 days. But I saw the review of it from Jeff yesterday and thought two things. First was "Holy shit I have to choose between this and El Shaddai, nice to know I've been unconscious for a year again". But the second was that Jeff's review was very... short. Yes, it is a block related videogame driven by story, gotcha. What could be said? Apparently shallow characters and boring gameplay is one of the things to be said. If you've played the game, the first critique of the characters seems to be a whole lot of horseshit (Cough cough Erica), but the blocks pushing/pulling/hanging/so on so forth is boring? Also untrue, but nitpicking Jeff's opinion can only go so far, he is entitled to it. But I'll treat it as the outlier to all the reviews out there (Like a reviewer giving Toy Story 3 2 out of 10 stars, where everyone else gives it 9 or 10 with the strong urge of murdering the asshole that gave it 2/10). 
 
But never mind that, something that really hit me about the game was looking straight at how we view relationships, ya ya, preachy preachy whine whine. I really did answer everything honestly, and managed to get the blue karma. It's not about good or bad karma, it's about if you are submissive in the relationship, unsure about how one would be outside of the relationship and unable to cope. Essentially, imagine being Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.   

 Do go on
 Do go on
And red karma is someone who manages to be a lot more dominant in the relationship, takes charge, if someone comes near your respective partner, whether they be girlfriend, boyfriend or one of the characters from the game, you'll walk up to that person and give him what for! Which may or may not mean you kicking the shit out of them. Who knows? This is me, and was even asked in the game. Now me being not Cameron for a second, I was about to answer the red karma choice, because I am extremely needy. I would step in!... except... I would be a hypocrite. 
The fuck you talkin' about? 
The fuck you talkin' about? 
You heard me. I would not pick for the life of me that option. I would step in until I thought about it for a second. I'm a massive asshole and hypocrite, I would be even more guilty of the person who is hitting on your boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever. Because they would be doing it maybe without knowing that they're already with someone, or maybe it's silly harmless complimenting. Eitherway, better than me, because I do it with the knowledge that they've already got a girlfriend, nonstop and every chance I get. Why? I dunno, I'm a bastard probably. But their girlfriend trusts them, even though I'm not subtle at all with my flirtatious attitudes with them, if I didn't do the same I would feel really awful about myself.
 
Catherine is definitely really good at storytelling and making you realize you suck. All it took was one question. 7 hours in and I'm almost through, definitely gonna give it another go when I beat it. Hopefully I'll get some red karma choices that apply to me, I dunno. All I know is this, my back hurts. 
 
G'night everyone, take care, try not to die before you wake up 
Snippy McMuttonchops
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