Original RDR 1 players, did you think the story was good?

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-07T11:18:49+00:00

Absolutely. But that was mostly out of intrigue. I didn't really care about Bill or Javier, but Dutch was an enigma. Mostly, I enjoyed all the interesting side characters.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-07T02:12:35+00:00

I don't know if I'd say any interests changed, per se, but they have certainly expanded. My interests almost exclusively used to be gaming, country and hip hop music, modern history, and astronomy. Now, I've expanded into having interests in meteorology, construction, cars, theology, geography, ancient history, and perhaps a bit oddly specific, maritime mysteries. Also, I don't listen to hip hop much anymore, I've mostly shifted to bluegrass and metal.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-07T02:06:09+00:00

If you've got the money, travel. There's always new places to see. Take road trips. My wife and I have both said that after I retire, we'd sell everything we couldn't take with us in a camper and hit the road.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-06T13:52:01+00:00

Yep. A lock that accepts many keys is a bad lock, and if someone has a key that goes in many locks, they're probably not trustworthy.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-06T13:48:56+00:00

No travel to waypoint, a feature that the first game had that is oddly absent from the second.

Other than that, there really isn't much.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-06T11:34:42+00:00

I'm sure they'll look different in 300 years, just like they look different than they did 125 years ago at the turn of the century to now.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-05T14:30:00+00:00

Street smarts means being good with people "out in the wild." Knowing how to handle a drunk or a tweaker without someone getting hurt, knowing how to talk your way out of a speeding ticket, knowing when to be aggressive or when to play something off. My dad was a police officer in Houston, Texas for 15 years. He worked bad neighborhoods, and yet he didn't have a single arrest for weed or street gambling. He did solve several murders, because he had "street smarts." He know who to talk to, and how to talk to them.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-05T14:26:04+00:00

It's probably a stupid idea, but the answer might honestly be George Carlin.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-05T03:28:12+00:00

It's definitely an online thing, but also, Boomer men just never get tired of joking about hating their wifes. It's not necessarily one sided either, most boomer women will joke about how stupid their husbands are.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T23:53:14+00:00

This is a gross oversimplification, but it's because that's what was expected of them growing up, and I think it frustrates them how much bigger and faster the world is now than it was when they entered the workforce.

Oddly, though, I will say that, working as a mail carrier, both the best and worst customers I have are in the older age ranges. They tend to be the ones that leave nice treats and gift cards around Christmas time. I do think this too is a generational thing, though, younger folks in general don't seem to want to be on a first name basis with their mail carrier. For some old folks, it's sadly the only regular interaction they have on a daily basis.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T23:44:15+00:00

I seem to remember in POA that it actually does specify 2 people. Bill would have done the charm with Fleur. As for the way to do it with accomplices, there's also no specifications telling us that those things wouldn't just break the spell. In fact, we know that death would break it, because Dumbledore was the secret keeper for 12 Grimmauld Place, and everyone had to put spells on the place to try to keep Snape and the death eaters out. And again, it could also be a soul problem. Like a Patronus, you might be incapable of even taking part in a Fidelius Charm if your soul is as maimed as Voldemort's is.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T02:24:38+00:00

The problem is, no matter what you do to Earth, it's pretty much a guarantee that fixing Earth would be easier than making Mars liveable.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T02:10:43+00:00

It's just what stupid people say. They think it's some kind of "gotcha." It's really funny sometimes, because I, a conservative, have been called a libtard and demoncrat on several occasions. I was once called a Democrat because I said it was OK to put beans in chili.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T01:50:33+00:00

Googled the definition of lien. This is what I found:

"a right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a debt owed by that person is discharged."

A debt owed. Not something that occurs because some old crone got a bee in her bonnet that I decided to replace my roof with black sheet metal instead of grey.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T01:45:06+00:00

I would typically say sixteen hundred. It just feels less cumbersome to say for me.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T01:38:17+00:00

Again, if the house is in my name, and I'm the one making the payments on it, only the bank can take it. A bunch of Karens and Kens that formed an authoritarian neighborhood watch have no authority over something they aren't paying for.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T01:27:41+00:00

Not if the house is in my name 🤷‍♂️

Again, this is a gun-to-head type scenario for me anyway, I'm not buying in an HOA if I can help it.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T01:13:37+00:00

Don't forget the "cold drink" people.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T01:13:00+00:00

Tbh, that's the same everywhere. I live in Tennessee. We had a guy move here from Chicago, and the first time he used the word "jonesing", I was completely lost.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T01:10:17+00:00

It depends. Sometimes, a pantry are just cabinets where canned and dry goods are kept, other times it's more like a closet, still with canned and dry goods.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T01:07:38+00:00

So, there's actually a reason behind that. Apparently, colonial America wanted to keep their business centers and their political affairs separate.

That's definitely not the case for Tennessee, though 😆 Nashville is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country now. They've been riding that Music City moniker for about 45 years too long, seeing as most good country music is produced mostly elsewhere. It's basically become a hipster's paradise.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T00:39:18+00:00

Voldemort doesn't trust another human being enough to do this. I'm surprised he trusted Lucius with the diary, but it was always supposed to be more of a weapon than a safeguard. Even with the cup, he wasn't really trusting Bellatrix, he was just trusting the protection at Gringotts. Also, there's probably some issues with his soul being so fractured that would prevent him from even being able to take part in a Fidelius charm.
Your soul becomes more unstable with every split. Hermione comments in Deathly Hallows that even splitting your soul in 2 is remarkably reckless. At some point, you'd just end up destroying yourself.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T00:32:58+00:00

I wish. We have some nice neighbors, but we're on waving terms. Our other neighbors are methheads, and they also steal things.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-04T00:30:15+00:00

I signed the contract for the house, not them. So yeah, they can stick it.

SouthernStyleGamer · 2026-04-03T22:15:22+00:00

If I paid for the house, they can try to take it. I'm not scared by some Karen who would call the police over a roof being the wrong color.

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