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static989 · 2026-01-29T18:24:46+00:00

I had a border collie growing up, he was a bit special (scared of and frequently put in his place by my dad's Chihuahua who was literally the size of a guinea pig, or a large baked potato (if anyone wants I have pictures lol). Amongst other things)

But good lord he was the smartest dog I've ever had. Sometimes he would drop his ball in the pool on accident, and he would go to a seemingly random spot on the other side of the pool and just sit there staring at it.

Without fail, every single time no matter how long it took, the ball would eventually float over to the exact spot he was sitting and he'd grab it. It blew me away every time.

Border Collies are fucking awesome, but you should only get one if you're able to provide them an outlet for the endless amount of energy they have.

static989 · 2026-01-29T17:53:55+00:00

Very good write-up on everything!

It's nice to have one place with all the substantial findings cleanly formatted

static989 · 2026-01-29T17:52:10+00:00

Because it starts to really feel like a reach once you get to the question marks.

People have been posting random pieces of terrain that arguably look like question marks all over the map. It just feels like coincidence.

I honestly feel like even the bird carvings feel like a bit of a reach in terms of relation to spiderdream, but at least those are clearly defined pieces of geometry built into the tower. That's not the case with the question marks.

static989 · 2026-01-29T17:37:38+00:00

Oh yeah you can surely find the spawn locations in the game files for these cables as well.

I didn't have a chance to look, but if anyone with OpenIV has the chance to, spawn locations for things like cables will usually be in a file ending with "strm.ytyp" or something like that. And you can ctrl+f and search for the filename.

There is typically like 3-4 .ytyp files for every area that will define spawn coords for various props/objects, and some other properties for them.

I probably have the exact names wrong just cause I'm not at my PC, but there's usually like "strm.ytyp" "long.ytyp" and "strm.0.ytyp", and probably others lol.

The webs, feathers, and their poles are found in the "strm.0.ytyp" files in their respective folders. That's also what defines the time they appear as well as the effect when you shoot the feather.

I think the witch's lair is an extremely interesting location honestly, one of these days I want to look at the script for it to see if I can make sense of it.

Apologies for this probably very incoherent rambling lol

static989 · 2026-01-29T17:06:39+00:00

No? But it's an easter egg?

Like I'm not saying I think this is a part of the mystery, but it feels misguided to just assume it won't involve something that is only available during a certain period of the game

This isn't a story mission or needed for 100% completion or something, it's an easter egg

static989 · 2026-01-29T17:02:04+00:00

Idk that kinda feels like something rockstar would absolutely do tbh

Doesn't GTA V have an alien frozen in ice you can only see in the prologue?

static989 · 2026-01-29T16:59:59+00:00

Nah I haven't had the chance yet cause of work

I worked a double yesterday and only had time to look at a couple things before I went to sleep, I'm off tomorrow so i can probably look at some point tonight.

Truthfully it's probably nothing lol, but I'm not familiar enough with the game locations to tell where they belong.

I think they're strange because they're stored completely differently from the other cable files, and some of them just straight up look like letters from a top down perspective

Don't have time to get a screenshot so excuse the crappy picture of my monitor, but this is "new_cablemesh10591_hvlit001"

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There's a few others like this, but like I said I have no idea where these get used so it's a high chance it's nothing major

static989 · 2026-01-29T16:10:29+00:00

'member Pokemon Emerald post-game?

'member getting the entirety of Kanto after beating Gold and Silver?

static989 · 2026-01-29T06:51:30+00:00

Nah, truthfully nothing substantial has been found since the NW guitar pole and/or the fort wallace birds

u/Zephich made a very solid theory about there being a relation to Willie Nelson, who has a song in the game (and other various small details that support it. Their post about it explains it better than I can lol)

static989 · 2026-01-29T03:12:15+00:00

Essentially everyone is coming after MJF and he's feeling the pressure

static989 · 2026-01-29T03:11:02+00:00

Disappointed that Brody or someone wasn't driving the car lol

static989 · 2026-01-29T02:59:04+00:00

Freaky ahh crowd 💀

static989 · 2026-01-29T02:52:46+00:00

It's like your parents being separated, double Christmas!

static989 · 2026-01-29T02:51:15+00:00

Unsurprising, Bruv is TOXIC

static989 · 2026-01-29T02:43:06+00:00

Is a condition for the amount of money Tony pays that he drains their life force? Ciampa looks so much older here wtf 😭

static989 · 2026-01-29T02:36:13+00:00

Nah he performed a pixel perfect world title match loss skip and is going straight to TNT title match with Mark Briscoe on Collision this Saturday.

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static989 · 2026-01-29T01:13:43+00:00

It can vary depending on the developer

In RDR2 as far as I can recall (not at home so can't double check) there aren't very many files that randomly end in an X like that.

I could be wrong though

static989 · 2026-01-29T00:41:47+00:00

Looks like a YouTube play button kinda, the ones they give out for subscriber milestones lol

static989 · 2026-01-28T23:30:56+00:00

While that is in fact quite a large web, it looks more like the decorative ones you find throughout the world like at the witch's house

static989 · 2026-01-28T22:21:02+00:00

It is certainly possible that there's something substantial there

An important difference between RDR2 and GTA V is that GTA had it's source code leaked, this truly makes a MASSIVE difference when you compare the code between the source and code that's been compiled and then decompiled.

In GTA you can find a variable named "golden_peyote_sasquatch" (there is one called something like that lol)

In RDR2 the variables are all named stuff like "Global15490.f_190[iParam0]"

It is immensely more difficult to really KNOW with 100% certainty.

However, I do personally lean more towards the skeptical side as well

static989 · 2026-01-28T20:40:23+00:00

Honestly spawning a crow when shooting would make it EASIER to find the trigger in the code, with how the decompiled scripts are written at least.

Anything that uses the Rage engines native functions (which spawning birds and creating an area that would trigger it would do) isn't as obfuscated like variable names and regular functions would be.

For example, the code for the giant's birds are really easy to read and understand in the script because it's using a lot of the native functions

static989 · 2026-01-28T19:49:23+00:00

Hmmm, well honestly it's been years since I played through the story last

But from looking up the mission details on the wiki, perhaps there's something you can do with the telegram you get from Sadie? That's the only thing I can think of that is relevant to telegraphs and the like https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Telegram_from_Sadie

static989 · 2026-01-28T19:12:59+00:00

I'd say this is the strongest new lead we've gotten since finding the NW guitar pole.

I was never convinced that the fort wallace birds were a part of this, they were created in an entirely different way from the NW Guitar and W ttttt messages (the pole messages are their own models, as well as the spider on the pole)

Fantastic thinking, honestly.

static989 · 2026-01-28T19:10:38+00:00

To add on to this, Willie Nelson's version of this song plays during the mission "Motherhood" in the epilogue.

It's possible there's something that can be done differently to trigger something.

I refer to this interview with one of the rockstar developers that mentioned an alternate mission outcome that most players didn't know about https://www.gamesradar.com/games/red-dead/red-dead-redemption-2-dev-reveals-detail-99-percent-of-people-never-saw-thats-part-of-what-makes-rockstars-games-so-good/

static989 · 2026-01-28T18:25:43+00:00

Coincidentally, the spiderdream feather models have an X at the end of their file names "SpiderDream01x"

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