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Critical analysis of the ways in which Red Dead Redemption 2 uses literary and historical sources, over at readdead.com. Octavia, she/her.

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Reader @readdead.com · 17/03/2026

I got beef with Rockstar, but one thing I'll say is I didn't have to hunt around to show that an RDR2 character looks like a historical figure.

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Reader @readdead.com · 17/03/2026

I didn't use this shot in the essay bc of Dutch's hat, but several of RDR2's cutscenes nod to the portraits Rockstar drew on when designing characters.

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Reader @readdead.com · 05/12/2025

no bc it is actually GENUINELY amazing how bad AI is. gobsmacked

An extremely erroneous summary of early dialog in the play Hamlet from Google's AI search results

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Reader @readdead.com · 03/09/2025

when I posted the red string always sunny meme last week, it was when I was working on explaining this set of relationships lol

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Reader @readdead.com · 26/08/2025

Explaining some of these connections this week has me feeling like this (except I am, of course, right)

Meme of the guy from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the red string wall

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Reader @readdead.com · 09/06/2025

Had to check something on the Red Dead Wiki and I'm –

Screencap of text that's supposed to say "The Scourge of Crossbreeding" and in fact says "The Scourge of Crossbreading."

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Reader @readdead.com · 27/03/2025

idk what this man did during his time at oxford, but whoever chose this photo really said, "hey, we got beef"

An incredibly unflattering photo of Dan Houser doing a weird thing with his lips.

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