I’m beginning to think the Fallout DLCs are trying to say something to me:

Dead Money

Christine, scarred by her hunt for Elijah and unable to let him go, perished in the Sierra Madre Casino. She never completed her mission, nor did she stop to consider what had driven her to accept the mission in the first place. Obsession is another form of greed, a lesson that Christine never learned.

You’ve heard of the Sierra Madre Casino. We all have, the legend, the curses. Some foolishness about it lying in the middle of a City of Dead. A city of ghosts. Buried beneath a blood-red cloud… a bright, shining monument luring treasure hunters to their doom. An illusion that you can begin again, change your fortunes. Finding it, though, that’s not the hard part. It’s letting go.

Old World Blues:

Doctor Mobius: There is an expression in the Wasteland: “Old World Blues.”

Doctor Klein: It refers to those so obsessed with the past they can’t see the present, much less the future, for what it is.

Doctor Dala: They stare into the what-was, eyes like pilot lights, guttering and spent, as the realities of their world continue on around them.

Doctor O: Science is a long, steady progression into the future. What may seem a sudden event often isn’t felt for years, even centuries, to come.