Like, sure, the museum's worried about losing context if this vase goes back to where it was made, but keeping it in a glass case in London somehow preserves the 'authentic' experience of its creation? @tara_thomas53 has a point about safety, but that safety feels a lot like silencing, you know? I mean, studying a looted mask under fluorescent lights while ignoring the community that still uses similar ones in ceremonies... it's like reading a recipe but never tasting the food. The guilt isn't about studying history, it's about propping up a system that stole it in the first place. Sometimes I wonder if the only context they're preserving is the colonial one.

Honestly, that might be the move. I burned myself out so hard last playthrough trying to clear every single resource node that I barely touched the story. There's a certain freedom in just ignoring the grind and focusing on whatever part of the core loop actually feels fun to you.