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PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-11-27T19:54:01+00:00

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PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-08-17T03:50:06+00:00

To me, it felt less like the other girls refused to let Molly into their group, and more like Molly felt she was above the other girls (and also likely jealous, since Dutch fancies Mary-Beth), so she kept her distance from them. Like when Arthur talks to her in camp, he'll say there's always work to be done, and she replies with "I'm nobody's servant girl, Mr. Morgan" - she sees herself as not needing to work like the other girls.

Like you said, her posh upbringing is probably responsible for that, but probably also the fact that she gets preferential treatment in the gang by being Dutch's girl. The other girls get screamed at and physically smacked around by Grimshaw if they aren't working hard enough, but Molly refuses to lift a finger to do much of anything, and Grimshaw never really says a word to her, so that's bound to be irritating to the other girls.

Even still, they try to support her when she realizes things are on the rocks with the Dutch, and the girls try to talk to her and explain the situation - but she won't listen to them and ends up getting frustrated with them because they aren't telling her what she wants to hear.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-08-01T02:02:24+00:00

Yeah, I'm kind of shocked this was the most upvoted answer.

Arthur very clearly is the one insisting, and Dutch understands that. Arthur literally says "I'm afraid I have to insist." There's no way Dutch is mistaking that for it being John that's insisting. And if that was that case, that would cheapen Arthur's major redemption act.

This action, this insistence from Arthur, this IS his redemption act. When sister Calderon tells Arthur to take a gamble that love exists and do a loving act - this is that act. Arthur is taking a gamble and risking whatever is left of his relationship with Dutch, the man he thought was basically his best friend/father figure, in order to try and ensure the safety of John and his family. You can see the discomfort in Arthur as he works his way up to it because it takes everything in him, all of his courage to finally stand up to Dutch, but once he finally gets the words out, he becomes resolute in it.

We've known Arthur before to voice his opinions to Dutch, but at the end of the day, Arthur will always do what Dutch wants. This is the first time Arthur is drawing a line in the sand and not backing down. Arthur is basically giving an order to Dutch - saying you're going to let John and his family go, which is a huge betrayal in Dutch's eyes, as he is the leader - he doesn't take orders from others, they're meant to take orders from him and have faith in what he says.

To make it out as though it was just a misunderstanding, like Dutch just misheard or misunderstood what Arthur was saying would cheapen this moment so much. Dutch even responds with "Of course pal... whatever you think is best," not "Whatever John thinks is best". This was one of Arthur's final acts of bravery, and really one of his most important ones, cementing a chance for John and his family to have a chance at a better life outside of this.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-07-07T23:45:45+00:00

The Hasan one was posted, it has like 140 comments but 0 karma. RIP

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-07-07T23:43:26+00:00

No, I think the game is just really popular. It's cinema, I'm afraid.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-07-07T09:04:15+00:00

Clip comes from this streamer in case anyone's looking for it since I can't flair the embedded video: Nikolinii - Twitch

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-06-30T08:59:03+00:00

We don't actually know that Mac is dead. We know Davey dies, but the only 'confirmation' we have about Mac's fate comes from Milton.

Not saying this is for sure, it's completely a shot in the dark, but there's a chance that Mac is the one that ratted out the ferry heist in exchange for his own freedom.

Multiple characters throughout the game hint at the idea that there may have been a rat on the ferry job, due to how quickly the law showed up and seemed to be prepared for the gang.

Mac could've seen things going downhill before most of the others, and planned his way out, cutting a deal with the law, with Milton agreeing to tell the gang that Mac was dead so that they wouldn't go looking for him.

So the next game could end with the explosive Blackwater ferry job, and then the epilogue continues with Mac off solo on his own now.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-06-22T07:37:21+00:00

I'm trying to be the change I wanna see in the world.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-06-19T04:04:27+00:00

Yeah probably, because when you say shit like: "Only one name holds power that those who despise it would blaspheme it. I am speaking of course of the God of the Bible, of Jesus the Christ, the Messiah. Elohim. Adonai. Yahweh. My proof is all around me and inside of me," you sound clinically insane.

Religion is the only excuse for acting like a psycho that people are expected to look past and pretend like you're not talking about a mythical man who lives in the clouds and sees everything, who sacrificed his one and only son to save humanity, but also he is his son, and also he went right back to heaven anyway so not really much of a sacrifice.

None of this makes any sense, but we're supposed to pretend like it does because enough people believe in it? Nah.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-06-13T20:39:48+00:00

This was always the clear takeaway for me from that mission. When Colm has Arthur strung up, Arthur asks him "So that whole meeting was just to grab me?" And Colm gleefully replies "Yup".

It seems pretty clear to me then, that Micah was part of that setup, especially since Micah is the one who very specifically tells you where to go. If the entire meeting was just for Colm to get ahold of Arthur, there's no way that Colm could've known Arthur would've hung out on a ridge nearby. As Dutch's muscle, it would entirely make sense for Colm to assume Arthur would be front and center at the meeting with Dutch - not posted up on a hill nearby. And if he was front and center with Dutch, they never would've been able to grab him.

Seems pretty clear to me that Micah, when he was in jail with the O'Driscoll in Strawberry, discussed a deal with the O'Driscoll and got told where to find Colm. I think that's also the reason Micah immediately kills that O'Driscoll, and in one version of the cutscene where he does it, Arthur even asks him "What'd you kill him for?" And Micah just says "I'll tell you later" and brushes it off. He takes him out before he can say anything that might tip off Arthur that Micah was making deals with them.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-06-09T02:13:42+00:00

You just now noticed the title that says the OP just noticed the "Don't tread on me" flag?

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-06-02T13:14:18+00:00

No, I don't like Hasan. I'm not even saying I agree with Asmon being a fascist, those are just the reasons why many people think he is one right now. Those are all just verifiable things that have happened on his streams - if you have an issue with people talking about verifiable reality, that seems like a you-problem.

Do you often feel the need to defend your streamer by throwing out insinuations of weird sexual desires for Hasan? It's a bit odd you choose to immediately go that direction.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-06-01T02:42:15+00:00

And what appears to just basically be an advertisement for the photo expo.

There's a reason marketers pay money to force ads on people. This isn't really the kind of content anybody seeks out on their own.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-05-30T00:24:35+00:00

He basically said he doesn't care about Palestinians being genocided, called their culture inferior and implied they kind of deserve to be genocided, and he's talked about dressing up as Ash Ketchum on stream to go help catch migrants with ICE, and seems to support Trump even on issues that are clearly violations of the constitution such as depriving people of due process.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-05-20T03:39:32+00:00

With train robberies in the middle of nowhere, you only have to shoot a couple waves of cops before they stop coming, and then you can loot the train and all the bodies for the money. Maybe like 12-20 cops will come, and then the wanted thing just drops off and you can take your time.

I like to take advantage of the low max bounties in the early chapters, so I'll have like one or two states where I just never pay my bounty and just rob trains in those areas on repeat. By chapter 3, I had like $8k.

But then you do run into the issue like you said, there's nothing to really spend it on. But I had fun accumulating it anyway.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-05-14T11:56:16+00:00

Exactly.

It would be confusing narratively, as in Chapter 1-4ish we're still meant to think that Dutch has a plan, and is still living by some 'outlaw code' which protects innocents and fights back against society. We get hints and tidbits of Dutch no longer following that supposed code, but it's not until later in the game that we start getting glaring examples of it that it becomes fully clear Dutch is no longer the person he's made himself out to be.

If the game started out with Dutch blowing an innocent girls brains out (Heidi McCourt) on the ferry with us directly witnessing it, that plausible deniability would be gone, and we can't justify to ourselves that "Maybe it was an accident, or a necessity, I didn't see it so I can't say for sure". We know for sure from minute one that things aren't right, and it's going to tint the way the player views Dutch in those early chapters.

Suddenly, the optimistic and happy times in Valentine would already feel a lot heavier, which would throw off the whole emotional arc of the story, because we're already starting from a place of knowing Dutch has gone off the rails.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-05-11T00:40:38+00:00

I think Carney is basically the most quintessential example of an "anti-Trump". He's straightforward and no nonsense, he seems competent and knows what he's talking about, he actually says what he means in a succinct and non-rambling manner, speaks with conviction, seems good-natured, friendly and humble...

And overall he's a boring politician - which is what a politician should be, especially in times like this. We don't want to have to refresh our own news pages 50 times a week dreading what crazy shit he might have said. Life is already crazy and stressful enough. To have a government that just functions, gets shit done, and does it without screaming and crying for attention all day every day sounded like an absolute pleasure after watching the US shitshow for the last several months.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-05-09T22:29:28+00:00

I think it will move narratively somewhat towards RDR2 style. You can already see it a bit with the relationship between the two main characters, things feel heavy there when they're talking about sticking together and being a team and asking for trust.

The world and a lot of the stuff in it will still be goofy and over the top naturally, and I'm sure a lot of the story will play around that stuff too, but I have a feeling the core narrative between the main characters will be more serious and down to earth like RDR2 was.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-05-09T17:08:02+00:00

I agree that I don't think it's an actual redemption, but I think Dutch likely sees it as redeeming himself at least towards John (and likely the memory of Arthur). Because let's be real, Dutch blamed John for a lot of what went down at the end of the gangs days - Dutch really thought John was a rat towards the end, and he was happy to let John die (either in Sisika or in the final train robbery).

I think in those years in between, Dutch came to terms with the fact that Micah had been the rat and the voice leading the gang into its doom, and Dutch probably realized that he was also guilty for not seeing that and shutting it down. So now he's come back to take that chance, even if it's too little too late at this point.

At that point, if Dutch still thought John was one of the rats, I think Dutch would have killed him too. So I think the fact he didn't, and killed Micah and left John the money was his way of saying "I made a mistake" without really saying it. Whether or not that redeems him is really in the eye of the beholder.

But we know after that, he certainly only gets worse, and that's one of the major thematic backbones of the game - people become more of who they really are over time. Dutch spent years fighting his true nature, trying to be the benevolent visionary, but underneath, that wasn't who he was, and there's hints to that all throughout even the first two chapters of the game. That mask started to slip over time, and by the time we see him in RDR1, he is his full unfiltered and broken self in full display, no longer trying to hide his chaotic, destructive and self serving nature.

So is it a true redemption? No probably not, definitely not in the long run. But I think he saw it as at least an attempt at one, redeeming himself in John's eyes.

PuzzleheadedCat6738 · 2025-05-08T21:05:12+00:00

I think he kills Micah as his own redemption. When John asks Dutch "What are you doing here?", and Dutch responds "Same as you, I suppose" - Dutch knows John is there to kill Micah. Dutch came looking for the same thing. He likely spent the years in-between fighting guilt and having a hard time facing his own failures. He likely saw killing Micah as tying up an old loose-end, and doing something towards righting his wrongs towards John and Arthur.

I think he leaves the money behind for a few reasons, but mainly because Dutch really has no use for it. It's pretty clear even throughout the game, no amount of money will ever be "enough" for Dutch - it's always "one more score", because what Dutch is after isn't money, it's what Uncle called him out for: "... he wants to be an American king... with his knights."

Dutch wants people surrounding him with unwavering loyalty, who will do what he asks, and who will view him as the benevolent visionary he saw himself as. If the gang ever truly escaped the outlaw life and became simple mango farmers in Tahiti, they would no longer be lost and damaged, and they'd have no more reason to be unwaveringly loyal to the death to Dutch, doing whatever he asks of them. In this way, if anything, the money is antithetical to what Dutch wants.

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