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Did you know that Arthur morgan was once a kid? Cause it eats me up everyday!

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I’m not sure if it’s been said before because I’ve not had a lot to do w red dead lately, but watching “Deadwood” is giving me my biannual cowboy renaissance:

So I was just thinking about the honor system and about how we kind of think it’s flawed, and I was just thinking if maybe it’s Arthur’s self perception. Somebody made a point on one of my posts about why he thinks he’s ugly, and they said it was how he felt about himself based on his actions.

Which when applying that to the honor system I think it’s interesting, because there’s things you do, things that are more or less unavoidable for game play (fighting lawmen when running for you life or something similar) and you lose honor as a player it would frustrate me, because I felt upset about that. But it made me wary to kill lawmen or such as I continued my high honor play through, which I think would reflect Arthur’s feelings. He knows he has to, of feels he has to to live, but it makes him feel dishonorable which I think is an interesting distinction from bad.*

But I feel it gives a more in depth look at his character and what he thinks is honorable or dishonorable. Like the fish, if you keep it, it’s not dishonorable, but if you throw it back that’s high honor. So it’s like he knows he will make good use of the fish if he keeps it, but if he throws it back he’s like “yeah… that was nice…” or it just makes him feel good about himself.

Or the things like the debt collecting, not all of them but some of them they make you lose honor, and it’s just like the other ones are ones he feels he has to do for the gang, but the ones he loses honor for are the ones he feels especially gross about, soiling his character. Or hunting deer vs hitting a horse, one is for survival and one is downright mean. You get honor for petting dogs, feeding the gang, donating to different things and people. It’s just like a window into how Arthur feels about his actions.

* Coming back to honorable/dishonorable vs good/bad: I think the distinction is important because you can have max high honor, and Arthur will still deny anyone who calls him a good man, and in fact insist he’s a bad man. But. He is doing the honorable things. He doesn’t think he’s good, but he thinks the choices he makes are honorable.

Honorable: “adherence to what is right or to a conventional standard of conduct”

He’s not good, he’s just doing what he thinks is the right thing in his stance as an outlaw, but kind hearted man.

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Sometimes I think about how Arthur must feel being out there all alone. I was up hunting the legendary bison near Colter and a snow storm hit, I could barely see anything and I wonder what that must have been like for Arthur.

I mean imagine it, it is night, the storm is howling in your ears, blocking out all other noise to the point you can barely hear the anxious huffs of the horse right underneath you. It is all cut off by the snow raging down, cutting directly through your clothing. What do you do in that situation? You can't see head or tail in anything. You can stay where you are, make camp, and you won't get lost but also there is nowhere for you to put your horse for shelter and the chance of it running off, leaving you stranded is tremendous. On the other hand you can try to seek shelter, but you have no idea which way is which and you could freeze to death before you reach anything and then if you don't find something and strike camp you might have gotten yourself so lost that you can't go back.

That is a nightmare.

Or when Arthur gets bushwacked, ten, fifteen O'Driscolls, or even worse, Mufree Brood suddenly standing in your way both back and forth. For us it might seem like nothing, if we die shooting then we respawn, if we run and get a shot or two we will still be fine, we know no matter what we will be fine because we are the main character. But Arthur, to him, he is just a man, sure a man who is good with a gun but one well-aimed shot and he is gone.

I don't think I would last a day.

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The right way to play rdr2 is by crying and sniffling and fighting for your life and punching the wall

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You, Sir, Are a Fish!

based off a sketch i did on my spam

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save a horse ride a cowgirl

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Afterlife.

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A break

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i cannot believe rockstar said this is albert mason, he needs you to retrieve his purse. keep him safe and catch him with your big strong arms. now row him around in a little boat while swamp alligators sing kiss de girl

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john and arthur are brothers in the way that if john picked player one instead of player two arthurs spinning his jaw

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I 🫶 Karen jones

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Ghost riders by Johnny cash is so Arthur morgan core

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Sits

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arthur morgan is ace rep and also a bi man and also trans and nonbinary and also a he/him lesbian and also a gay man and most importantly he shoots cops

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rdr be like these are the three playable characters and it’s the prettiest and most depressed horse boy ever, emo malewife twink, and poor little baby boy who misses his mommy and daddy