I think this might the crux of the issue, in most instances I don't feel emotionally involved with the characters in those games, there are a few instances that hook me emotionally and yes like you I don't want to share those, but maybe 99% of the time the characters in those games never rise above the status of two dimensional sex objects.
Well they may be 2 dimensional sex objects but they are representations of people so they can't be totally seperated so to speak, they are related to real people in a sense.
I believe everything we take in with our senses affects our subconsciousness and causes feelings(they don't have to be strong ones) Its like subliminal messaging in a sense, you are affected but you don't realize it. Through meditation/deep thinking , people can discover these things sometimes.
I will never be totally in the light(good) nor will I be totally in the dark(evil) I will straddle the line when I can and try to maintain balance. So for me I use fantasy games for several reasons , one being the ability to explore things I would never want to do IRL due to consequences and two so I can nail done my feeling towards these darker concepts. Once I have nailed down how I feel about whatever, I don't feel a need to keep going, unless I really like it. This game tweaks me in some ways I would never be like Red in real life but I want to root for him in this game. Besides he cracks me up , I mean the shit he says, you can't tell me you don't wish you could get away with some of that shit. My philosophical view points will not make sense to many but that is where I am coming from, and yet I still appreciate opposing view points because people are constantly evolving and I am people the same as everyone else. ( Just a smuck on the vast interwebs
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) I am sure there will be many who read this and think he's right he is a smuck, I would say Thanks for joining the club
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