Arscott - I appreciate your efforts, tiring and rewardless as I and all this may be.  The Darkest Self point you made is good, that internal aspects of the character are taken over temporarily, good example (you do, however, get to choose your playbook, with the understanding of what sort of Darkest Self may come into play, and that as much as anything should affect playbook choice).  I don't, however, think the 'am I okay with ...' question you posed is quite so simple.

  I can think of numerous real *and* fictional but plausible examples of people being shut down and holding steady and lashing out physically and running away, throughout my personal experience and history at large (I'm intentionally avoiding the more magical and bizarre moves, to match basic move with basic, and because my issue has nothing to do with the supernatural element).  Heck I can even think of examples of staring into the abyss.  I can not think of examples of being turned on any which way.

  "About three days ago, a guy tried to walk out of a restaurant without paying for his meal.  The lady at the till shut him down.  She barked at him, the whole restaurant stopped, he stopped.  He gained the condition 'humiliated', stood there awkwardly, then decided to pay rather than try to run away or lash out physically."

  Simple situation, a real one I witnessed the other day, but could just as well be a play in game, imagine the character is the waiter or waitress or dine-and-dash.  I can't get the story-teller in my head to do the same with Turn On.

  Perhaps, long ago as it may be now, my high school experience was lacking and I'm thus unequipped to imagine such a sexually spontaneous school life.  This is where the pill catches in my throat, this is where the verisimilitude falls apart for me, that attraction can happen so freely.

  And I feel I should state, for the record, I am not homophobic, and it is not homophobia that is at the heart of this series of posts - it has never bothered me in anyway which way people might choose or be programmed to swing.  The move rubs my intuitions the wrong way, regardless of orientation.  I suppose I'm the sort who wondered why Shinji was complaining about his feelings so much, when he had a giant robot to pilot.  Maybe someone needs to make me a straight guy playbook.

still finding this move particularly weird, and I think it should feel so for everyone - homosexuals, bis, straights and whatever other identification you happen to be.  Attraction is not a test of strength or chance, it doesn't work more the harder you push.  You know those old carnival test your strength games, with the hammer and the bell at the top and if you hit it hard enough, bing, you get the prize?  This mechanic feels like that.  Oh, hot roll, now I'm leaning towards whichever way the wind blows.

  Dragonraven and I were bantering about this topic and came to a point of "well maybe we're overanalyzing and we should just roll with it" but I'm thinking, the game designer *chose* the name of the move.  He didn't choose "envy" or "impress" or "wow", so he's trying to say something about the make of the world - and maybe that's as far as it should go, that in "this" world and game, that is how things work - but I think an idea, a mechanic that expresses should be able to take a good shaking down, and I'm still unsatisfied with the logic of it.

Attraction leads to orientation, I think it's false and in bad faith to just say "oh, well you're attracted to this or that, but you don't have to feel it or do anything about it, you get to chose your response after this response is chosen for you".  That begs the question of why is it in the game, if it doesn't do anything?  A guru roleplaying friend once was fond of saying "If it is in the rules, it is in the game, it is real".  Or, the volition flipside which Dragonraven brought up, and I haven't seen addressed properly, and I believe is of utmost importance.

Which follows to, if I'm repeatedly finding myself swinging one way or the other or back and forth (because Chamomile was right, this applies as much to man-hating lesbians as to sworn off sex christians as to strongly identifying homosexual males or come-what-may bisexuals, or sluts of any gender, because that terms is multi-applicable, to whatever realistic nuance or comical stereotype you like, because the real world is full of both and everything in between, so the game world should have that as well) how can I just say "no, that's not really how I feel"?  Because that is what the dice will do to your character.

If I get shot in game, I don't argue about the harm, oh well, I got shot, deal with the consequences, maybe I should have thought out the plan better.  If I do the research roll, I found out the ancient secret or not.  Maybe I try again later, maybe I have to change tactics, whatever.  The fact this roll waffles -- well, it happened, you felt like this, but you don't have to *really* feel like this -- is a cop out.  I think this roll should have some spine, or should not be in the game.

I dig the youth aspect, I dig the supernatural horror, but mechanizing sexuality is proving to be unsatisfying.

its just a weird thing with his mechanics and dramatics, but its really awesome, actually.  I've got a rule in me head called the 'Aggro Exception', meaning you can bluff ranges when a character is going aggro, cause its one sided.  But when you're seizing their whatsits by force, in an alley fight, in a stairwell, the first floor of a ruined parkade, the handgun comes to bear faster and more accurately than the rifle.  Dramatically.  But the vice versa of course is true, Sarajevo Joe will pick you off with his rifle, and you won't have a chance to draw your six shooter and make much good of your threats, until you make it up the stairs that is, and then of course ...

it keeps different choices valid, plus it makes the MG, one of the gunlugger's specials, and the battlebabe's mod which you were referring to, well it keeps them special.  Otherwise there would be inflation from everyone getting that kind of range, and then the gunlugger would need an even bigger board with an even bigger nail in it.

i personally added hand range to derringers and sawed-off shotguns, to keep them ugly and surprising and in your face.  Also added intimate to knives, cause you can stab someone in bed, but you can't swing a golf club or machete without them noticing, citing, of course, my previously stated Aggro Exception.

i kinda had a hard time with the naming of some of those mods myself, like why auto and semi-auto do such different things, so just rename them, call them extended clips or bullpup conversions or stock and barrel mods or whatever, it won't change the function, just the flavour.  So long as your MC is cool with it.