While enjoying my virtual tour of the wasteland in Fallout 4, I had the chance to romance on of the many characters in the game. The virtual girl in question was Cait. For those of you who have not yet played the game, here is her background:
Cait was born in 2261 to a distant and abusive family of Irish1 descent. She had tried to run away from her parents twice; the first time, she was locked outside in a shed, the second time, they broke one of her legs. On her 18th birthday, Cait’s parents sold her into slavery. For five years, she stole small sums of bottlecaps from her owners, until she had enough to buy her own freedom. In a pique of rage, she returned home to seek vengeance on her mother and father.
At some point after she left home, she began using Psycho, developing an incurable addiction. Sometime later, she arrived at the Combat Zone in Boston, and was hired by owner Tommy Lonegan as a cage fighter, soon becoming a strong and ruthless fighter. In 2287, a raider gang moved into the area, which then required Cait to buy friends to make life easier, making the cage fighter mistrustful of selfless offers of kindness.
Sometime later, the Sole Survivor arrives at the Combat Zone just as Cait is winning a match and subsequently interrupts the rest of the event. After the Sole Survivor defeats the raiders in the building, Tommy discusses Cait’s drug addiction and offers them Cait’s contract.
So after clearing out the raiders in the underground pit-fighting ring, that is the Combat Zone, Tommy dumps Cait in my lap and walks off. I know I had the option but hey… the white knight emerged his ugly head and I took her on as my companion. From the back story you would think she is a total basket case and would make any guys life hell, but she faithfully followed my lead, watched my back fighting off any threats that I didn’t see and even though she bitched about it, would carry any excess gear I couldn’t carry.
Later on, once I had built up enough “affinity” she became all vulnerable and emotional, saying we were friends and as such she plead for help in curing her addiction. This is a separate quest, which I followed up and completed.
Then later on once I reached the highest level of “affinity” with her, she stops me while we were traveling, turns around and tells me her whole sad story. Up until this point she is very guarded about her history, but now it’s like she emotionally breaks down and tells me everything. Then she professes her strong feelings for me (my game avatar), which opens the romance option in my available dialog choices. Choosing that she responds surprised, flattered and throws herself at me. She rejoices that nobody has ever loved her before and how happy she is to have a special someone now in her life.
I don’t know if it was the voice acting, the story writing or the lead up to that point, but in that moment I had a rush of emotions that I’ve NEVER had with any real life woman… EVER, and this is from a video game! WTF!
I realized that it’s a sad state of affairs with the modern western woman that I, a healthy white, upper-middle class male can have a FAR more satisfying romantic relationship with a bunch of pixels and computer code, that I could ever hope to have with a real woman.
Blue-Pill Virgin: Women hate me! That's what it is.
MGTOW Man: Hate them back; it works for me.
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