u/Jose_Bove

I'm aroace, always have been and always will be, and I physically cannot understand romantic love, nor do I understand heartbreak.

Unfortunately, I am also the therapist friend. And unfortunately, a lot of things I have to help people through are about love and heartbreak. Other topics I can deal with : addiction, loss, grief, mental illnesses, parental issues, hell even gang violence, but love ? I'm clueless as to how to help anyone through it.

I try to be open-minded and non-judgemental, but boy is it hard when people can't simply do the logical thing. Maybe I'm an asshole, but I simply cannot understand how someone absolutely *needs* a romantic relationship in order to be happy and fulfilled, especially when the relationship is unhealthy.

"She cheated on you ? Well she wasn't worth your love to begin with. Betrayal sucks, I get that. How about we go hang out so you'll think of something else, you can pick- what do you mean you want to get back with her ?"

"My man, your relationship *sucked*, you were basically her slave and you weren't happy in the slightest from all the calls I got from you at 2 in the morning, WHY are you still trying to get back in contact ?"

Of course I don't say things like that, this is just to give an idea about the type of things my friends tell me about. And honestly, this annoys me to no end. I can deal with pretty much anything else, but this is the topic that makes me roll my eyes every time I receive a text or call about it.

I have made it obvious too, "I'm really not the right person for that", "You know I can't relate to that sort of things, right ?" to no avail. The closest thing to their struggle I've ever felt was losing friends, but even then I knew to let go and admit the relationship wasn't good for anyone, it sucked but the solution was obvious, and I'm baffled that I have to hold people's hands though something I consider so trivial, and do so for *literal years* for some, over and over again.

Again, I might seem like an asshole, and maybe I am, but please tell me I'm not the only one to be fed up with this.

To be fair, I managed to get the game to run through Xenia Canary emulator, but it's riddled with flickering textures and the black character/dog texture glitch is an eyesore.

I have found a temporary fix for the black textures by copy-pasting two files in the hero folder, but even so I have to repeat the process every time I change location which renders it very much useless because of the time wasted.

Some other fixes are apparently available, but they're all compatible with the GOTY edition only (which I cannot find online anymore) or involves editing a line I don't have in the files (readback = off, or something)

I genuinely tried to ignore the visual glitches and the crashes, because the emulator has come a long way from what it was a few years ago, but even so the glitches are too much for me, and I'm losing my mind trying to fix them in vain. Is anyone playing the game on pc at the moment ?

Ps : please don't recommend the Xbox game pass, I'm not paying 100€ for a single game

EDIT : Huge thanks to the people who actually reached out and helped instead of having classic redditor reactions when someone doesn't agree with them. I truly appreciate it ^^

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