I'm honestly just tired of seeing this pop up, it's like I said a conspiracy theory with no basis in objective reality. It's not even fun to talk about because it's just a lame theory that ignores overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

I can sympathize because fallout 4's story has a lot of plot holes and just doesn't work that well, but replacing the story with an even worse one just doesn't make any sense to me.

What logic is that? "He said something I don't like, therefore it applies to everything in the game world?"

It's exactly like that. Impossible odds. I just don't understand how the player having some advantages from being a synth would make impossible odds less likely is all.

You are saying that a video game character beat impossible odds so there must be something special about them they we aren't directly told. When in reality every fallout character is a nobody that rose to the occasion and became someone who could make a difference in a dangerous, messed up world. The sole survivor doesn't need to be a synth to be special, and the theory that they are a synth often assumes that the survivor "had" to be a synth to make it as far as they did.

It actually makes the story worse to have the survivor be a synth. The idea that they are a rat in a maze, and all their accomplishments are because they are just created to be special is just lame. It's not a fun theory in that it takes away player agency in that respect.

Bioshock actually does something like this, but the whole game is built around this and the player character is still given some agency within the confines of the story. With fallout 4 there is no buildup and no big reveal, it's just a "maybe" that undermines the story as it is told.

Then demonstrate it's wrongness. All you've done so far is be rude.

At this point and I've already explained that the players interactions with Sean prove the synth idea is dead on arrival. The institute is paranoid about synths having unrestricted freedom and there is no precedent in the lore for synths being created without recall codes.

You being alive is clearly explained, the player character is the "backup".

In covenant you do a test that detects synths and pass. The test is shown to be not very effective, but if the writers wanted the synth idea to be in the players mind this would have been an opportunity to raise doubts about the survivor. But the writers don't do that.

The only person to raise doubts about the survivor is DIMA, who is shown to be unable to really tell if people are synths or not in the DLC's story.

Every piece of evidence for this theory goes along the lines of "The game doesn't say that you aren't a synth, and if you connect some extraneous dots and ignore evidence to the contrary, you can kinda sort of maybe totally prove that the sole survivor is secretly a synth."

More than anything, people making the claim that the sole survivor is a synth just don't have any compelling evidence, which is reason enough to dismiss it.