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Alright, I accept that you didn't mean it to come across that way. Unfortunate implications happen. I'm not going to act like one of those "death of the author" meta-analysts who insist that authorial intentions mean nothing. On the other hand, I hope it's helpful to you to be made aware that my mistaken interpretation is possible from the content and that you'll do what you can to avoid giving such a false impression --if nothing else to avoid mistakenly alienating people from what has the potential to be a great and successful game.

To start, I would suggest that you find other terms to use than "Alpha" and "Beta" because those are used in some extremely toxic gender war philosophies by misogynists and misandrists alike. On the misogynist side is the PUA crowd (and their legions of moronic followers) who use Alpha and Beta interchangeably with "chad" and "simp" in a framework that states that either you treat women like shit and screw them over by any means possible aka "run game on them" to have any sexual or romantic success, or you treat them with caring and compassion and get walked all over, taken for everything you're worth, and get nothing in return. On the misandrist side you have women who have bought into a similar framework and claim there are two types of men, masculine men who are inherently abusive rapacious predators and those who reject masculinity and thus are safe to be around.

A lot of this will go away when you're able to introduce more routes, which I was unaware that you had planned. It's unlucky that the two routes you've had time to introduce so far coincidentally line up with the gender war stereotypes of male nature, and even one more option will probably defuse much if not most of that.

In particular, a path where you're able to play a hetero male that isn't railroaded into becoming a sex criminal and actually respects lines of consent while still very much desiring to have sex with willing women would be ideal as a middle ground between the two extremes currently being presented. It would send a signal that those two extremes do NOT represent men as a whole and are not intended to make a statement about the inherent nature of the male gender, they're just two options on a spectrum that will be filled in further later in development.

Thank you for the polite reply, and for clarifying your intentions. I really feel a lot better about where you're going with this now that I know more of what you intend the future of the game to look like.