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(Heather continues...)
-I am so embarrassed, I never- I mean, usually I am the one giving the relationship advice online, you know? About how we should be trying to de-centre ourselves from men, so that our lives don't revolve around them all the time? Like the cinema thing, that test in movies, about how there should be at least two named women talking in conversation with each other, on a topic that is not about men or their relationship to men. But it isn't easy, when it is your own life - just hearing his voice brought up a lot of the old bad feelings... I think it is because when I was working on the videogame, Super Vampire Basher (SVB) it was just a very male-dominated industry, all the community fans were male, there were some really sick and twisted ones, especially from that 4kennel image board... so I didn't have a lot of time to connect with any female support network, make many friends. And Finlay isn't- I mean, he isn't very controlling or domineering or anything like that, he is a nice person, I suppose, nice but- it just, it is hard to describe, he- just... everything just comes really easily to him, you know? I just felt a bit inadequate. Like I wasn't good enough, I needed him to fit in... But then, he doesn't really do anything! Like he calls himself a videogame designer, he doesn't design anything! Before I came along, he just had some stupid drawings and concepts and assets he stole from some 3d marketplace, it was all really derivative. And I was the one who actually came up with all the monetisation and marketing, who built all the awareness and outreach, the wishlist hype and funnel conversion to downloads and updates and ongoing fan community engagement. But somehow, all the awards and fame went to him...!
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>encourage Heather in her idea, to "de-centre" herself from men
>(point accusing finger) YOU! YOU are the one! You have literally RUINED ALL THE VIDEOGAMES!! I am going to... uh, I am going to... make a thread on 4kennel about this conversation. YOU WILL BE EXPOSED!! THE ENTIRE WORLD MUST KNOW about you and your blue-haired justice brigade monetisation schemes!
>ask Heather: so, tell me more about these marketing techniques. What do they involve? Can you make people want things, desire things? Even if it is against their own will or inclination? Is that possible?
>Reply: it seems like you still dwell on him often, Heather. Do you want to get back together with Finlay? You have to work on any relationship together
>Reply: from what you told me, Finlay is really manipulative. You should forget him. I suppose the idea about goths is they don't care about what others ever think about them? So once we find this amazing underground party and dance, let's never even mention him, ever again (QM: persuade Heather to leave Finlay to his own fate)
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