thread: 2008-01-07 : Another year's worth
On 2008-02-12, Joshua wrote:
Well, my remembery is that getting a new girlfriend was, precisely, a Kicker. The "Story Goal", if I could be said to have one, was to get my real girlfriend back. Coming to peace with her death (which was the really significant part, and what finding new love really represented) was, in Shock: terms, failing my Story Goal in a way that I still liked the outcome (also see Shock:1.1 pg. 66).
I think the issue was fundamentally aesthetic. Julia, Emily, and I all made what turned out to be these perverse and cripplingly sad versions of ourselves and I was already squirming. I had a lot of concern that the dude was going to be all the weakest, saddest, most selfish parts of myself and the Kickers I was imagining were all along the lines of, "You're a weak, sad, and selfish person who fucked things up! Oh, and you're lazy and have no genuine talent! Go!"
Romantic collision seemed great, by comparison.
(And thanks, Chris! I love hearing that people are happy with the game!)
