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You jumped on that quick. Have you subscribed to Woolies by any chance? I've been subscribed to him already, but I didn't get a chance to look at the video yet. I know it came up last night.
I didn’t have time to watch yet, but it was in my feed, probably because I watched the other Silent Hill aged well vid you posted. Not subscribed but hell I might as well based on their content quality.
 
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As long as it's not mainstream rap from the mid to late 2000s, most mainstream crap from the 2010s, or Kanye West, I am good. I listened, excellent choice. Don't know who that guy is, but he is good!
Lupe Fiasco. Was apparently a competitive Street Fighter player before his rap career took off.
 
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In anticipation of Forbidden West -


Also an in-depth look at one of the more infamous gangs in games -
That one about the Raiders was interesting. I never realized there was so much about them in the game.

Granted, this does raise some really interestng questions about geography.

So it's been confirmed in the game the following places exist: New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Kansas. So The first two are on the US East Coast and don't intersect with the RDR game world, fair enough(though New York and not Liberty City implies it's not the same universe at the GTA series). Texas and Kansas Existing is interesting because it makes you wonder exactly how the RDR2 game world works. They're fictional states in the US Midwest/West and on the SE end is St. Denis which is meant to be a stand in for New Orleans(and the river is implied to be the Mississippi), thus you can infer everything is more or less taking place East of Califonia(which is supposed to be on the other side of that river on the west end of New Austin) South/ East of the Rockies(Unless that's what the Grizzlies are meant to be), West of the Mississippi and North of Mexico, but now you have references to Kanas and Texas mentioned and both of those are kinda Smack Dab in the middle of the map, or should be, but aren't shown, so they're off on the side somewhere? I mean, I assumed New Austin was more or less supposed to be Texas and West Elizabeth being roughly where Missouri/Kansas would be.

Or maybe I'm putting way too much thought into this but considering how detailed RDR2 is it feels wierd. Anybody from the midwest who has played the game want to throw in on this?
 

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That one about the Raiders was interesting. I never realized there was so much about them in the game.

Granted, this does raise some really interestng questions about geography.

So it's been confirmed in the game the following places exist: New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Kansas. So The first two are on the US East Coast and don't intersect with the RDR game world, fair enough(though New York and not Liberty City implies it's not the same universe at the GTA series). Texas and Kansas Existing is interesting because it makes you wonder exactly how the RDR2 game world works. They're fictional states in the US Midwest/West and on the SE end is St. Denis which is meant to be a stand in for New Orleans(and the river is implied to be the Mississippi), thus you can infer everything is more or less taking place East of Califonia(which is supposed to be on the other side of that river on the west end of New Austin) South/ East of the Rockies(Unless that's what the Grizzlies are meant to be), West of the Mississippi and North of Mexico, but now you have references to Kanas and Texas mentioned and both of those are kinda Smack Dab in the middle of the map, or should be, but aren't shown, so they're off on the side somewhere? I mean, I assumed New Austin was more or less supposed to be Texas and West Elizabeth being roughly where Missouri/Kansas would be.

Or maybe I'm putting way too much thought into this but considering how detailed RDR2 is it feels wierd. Anybody from the midwest who has played the game want to throw in on this?

I gave up seeing as there was never an “official” map detailing correlation and/or causation on this. There have been good attempts, but I think Rockstar just took their own liberties with it for the game’s sake, since it wouldn’t really ever feel like you’re supposed to be crisscrossing the U.S. due to scaling limitations.

One of my favorites is Cumberland Falls, which I actually visited last year IRL. In the game map it’s on the Dakota River and would be based somewhere around SW Wyoming, if using Valentine as a reference point (which itself is a bit of an amalgamation of Cheyenne, WY and literally the real life Valentine, NE). But in reality these falls are in Kentucky, on the Cumberland River. They even look similar -
What’s odd is that then there’s also Cumberland Forest in the game, nearly half way across the map due east from that.


Someone in this thread kinda said it best that it’s merely meant to capture the spirit of each region rather than being truly representational.

Something else to get lost in -

 
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Listen to this one, because on brief tangent later about guilt based gaming around the 14 minute mark. Genshin Impact being one of them.