If Ellie had sat on Sophia's lap, it would still be against the law. Jules sitting on Ellie's lap on the way to Patricia's house is against the law. But we don't have a choice about that.
Which is my point. The choice. In the Introduction, as a player we have the choice to either break the law or take two cars. I choose to take two cars. Which as far as I'm aware, takes me off the Dylan route and the most boring content I'm aware of. Which I'm perfectly fine with.
What I object to is the insistence that I play all routes. Especially the ones with content I have no interest in.
I think part of the challenge is how we relate to each other when there are so many different paths and choices.
Your AWAM story is very different than mine - no better or worse.
When someone following your path relates their Sophia story, there has been enough divergence in the paths to make it easy to forget that your experience may be very different than mine, for example.
I like both the Dylan and Sam paths.
I have no problem with those who prefer one over the other, or neither for that matter, all it takes is making different choices to create a different story.
I think relating to eachother and finding common ground in our stories will get harder if we forget that L&P has 'divorced' the paths from each other. My Dylan path is not predicated upon the vast majority of your Sophia lesbian path choices.
I think we were 'forced' to share common ground - the same initial path choices - early on as L&P developed the world and relationships.
Today, the very slow development time makes it hard to me to be supportive of paths not my own.
This will be an increasing frustration with AWAM and L&P through time and the ever-slow development -- we either endure or let it go and move on.
For 2023, I am still in 'endure' mode.
