#also I think the primary plot of the game is about letting go of Shaun (and thus the corrupted past) so the Shaun stuff doesn’t bother me

[augory]

While I hate that fallout 4 makes your pre-war life straight and conventional and stuffy, I do think f4 touches on a certain fantasy of being trapped in a socially inhospitable life and then being loosed on a suddenly inhospitable world - a world in which you are weirdly natural and (dareisay) happy? like, the thesis of the game (given your interpretation) could be that one life is much worse than the other, and it’s not even close

#something something ‘yes YES the tiger is free’ #like yes water is scarce but at least I’m LIVING #also I think the primary plot of the game is about letting go of Shaun (and thus the corrupted past) so the Shaun stuff doesn’t bother me