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hi there!

welcome to my humble blog, where I spill my RDR related thoughts, post photos I take in-game and share my theories.

feel free to discuss theories, ask away your questions or just yap to me in general!

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Seeing Expedition 33 win all these awards makes me feel like a proud mother

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replaying the mission where you go bear hunting with Hosea is so depressing; Hosea genuinely believes that they only need one big score for things to calm down and for them to even settle down if they wanted to.

Ouch.

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started playing Overwatch 2,

immediately my favs are Cassidy and Ashe.

I see Arthur in everything.

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outlaws from the west

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A neat detail I noticed is that Dutch's betrayal paranoia is already hinted at in the opening cutscene of the game; in the end of it he gives a speech to the gang before he heads out with Arthur, in it he gives the gang instructions and ends it with an emphasis on the sentence "stay with me", which sure, can be just shrugged off since he's their leader, but in my opinion it happens too frequently to just be a coincidence. (a good example is Who The Hell is Leviticus Cornwall, I linked my theory about it here)

I believe that Dutch's paranoia started sometime before Blackwater, since it was mentioned how Micah, Mac and Davey were an odd edition to the gang, maybe hinting at Dutch's changes? but it was dismissable, same as this comment from him. however, when put together, it's clear his behaviour at the end of the game wasn't just a random outburst; it was slowly building up from the very beginning.

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took me an embarrassing amount of playthroughs to realise the loading screens in RDR2 are photos being developed

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just remembered I have free will and I can be delusional, stop playing at chapter 6 and pretend it never existed in the first place

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I love the endless cycle of replaying RDR; I got busy and haven't touched it in a while, but the moment I got some free time I was immediately haunted by the thoughts of the family dynamics we could've seen (and probably happened in earlier days of the gang, when John and Arthur were picked up). sooo... 6th replay it is.

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I went ahead and touched grass for a while,

can confirm it doesn't work,

the gang used to camp on grass,

Arthur's grave is next to a patch of grass.

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I love those RDR inspired scented candles that headcanon all these nice smells, when I just know every single gang member smells absolutely foul.

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once a month I remember Arthur is dead and I crash out

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One of my favourite stranger quests

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I don't know how but I've never realised that the names of locations are actually written in game;

I always just assumed someone in the gang went and asked around about their surroundings.

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The way Charles constantly tells Arthur to sit down next to him every time he's at the camp fire at chapter 6, my heart is in shambles.

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just two dudes canoeing together, 5 feet apart, because they're not gay.

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The dialogue in the beginning of the quest "Revenge is a dish best eaten" always seemed a bit odd to me; it starts out with Dutch making fun of Bill's army experience which causes Bill to gets defensive and criticise Dutch. What strikes me as odd is that Dutch changes the subject, he chooses to dwell on Bill's comment about the native americans, using it to paint Bill in a negative light and go on a rant. It happens again later in the conversation; Arthur asks Dutch if they're ready, but Dutch ignores the question and fixates on the beginning of Arthur's sentence instead ("don't you ever leave love aside"). he never actually replies to Arthur or Bill and it feels like he's deflecting.

From a developer stand point I can see that maybe Rockstar didn't want to drag out the dialogue and make it generic, but his choice of answers feels very intentional. He does something similar in the quest "That's Murfree country"; When Arthur starts doubting Dutch and his decision making, Dutch doesn't actually answer Arthur's concerns for the women and Jack, Instead he brings up Hosea, telling Arthur he sounds like him and that he misses him. the only difference is that this time it doesn't work and Arthur pushes for an answer.