"Do you have some pathological need to help people?" says the miller to my salty heroine. This is the kind of reaction I would, under normal circumstances, expect from a new acquaintance to whom I had just given nearly all of my recently-looted money. It is a kind of reaction I would expect — and yet — not really. You see, I have been conditioned by this damn genre to accept that the perfect stranger I have just helped by bankrupting myself will say something like "Thank you," or "Thank you very much," or maybe even "Oh, thank you so very, very much! You're a lifesaver!" — and then continue to stand there ignoring me. In that light, miller's reaction was awe-inspiring. Nothing in the tone of the game up to that point prepared me for that response.​