I think we mean the same thing, yes! When I got to the first intimidation check in class after the explosion and needed to click on the green highlighted choice, I could not. I used 0x52 to look at the variables and I realized I needed to choose intimidation instead of charisma for my first points, so I had to go back to an early save and replay a significant chunk of it to fix everything. Later on, I've been just going into 0x52 and removing a point from either intimidation or charisma and adding to the other as needed so I can follow your walkthrough.
It would be awesome to have some way to see which side we should put our points in to meet these minimum checks required to follow the walkthrough. Thank you!