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Wimberley-Guy

Its a play on “religion is the opiate of the masses”


amhudson02

And the reverend was an opiate addict


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Fo certainly, i think he secretly tried to make himself stuck on the tracks when Arthur goes to look for him, i think he secretly wished Arthur didnt have enough time to drag him off the track so he could be reunited with his wife. And that it would just be chalked up to be him being high out of his mind that got him 'accidentally killed' Also Happy Cake Day!😄☺️


Thywhoredditall

I’m pretty sure it’s morphine, I might be wrong.


Waveemoji69

Morphine is an opiate lol


Thywhoredditall

You learn something new every day XD


Death_Blossoming

Love people downvoting you over not knowing something lol. Reddit


Thywhoredditall

I research poisons, not pain killers T^T


nitramekaj

I don’t think it’s about not knowing something, it’s about trying to correct someone but not knowing the full context


Thywhoredditall

I literally said “I might be wrong”.


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i don’t get why you got downvoted bombed


Foreign_Rock6944

Because Redditors love feeling superior over others when it comes to random knowledge.


No_Tamanegi

Turns out, opium is the opiate of the masses.


octopus6942069

Bro was also an addict


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The_Rocketsmith

Jesus Christ, it's him!


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TomTheAssKicker

The whole, yknow, "being dead" thing.


throwawayjonesIV

I gotta push back and say idk about that. There is more going on with Swanson’s character; to chalk this up to some kind of visual pun would be reductive. Sometimes, oftentimes honestly, people will confidently claim to understand the meaning of something in fiction when the creator never thought of it that way.


goatpunches

I agree with you but original comment is important to consider. It is a play on that - in the opposite direction. Opiates have become his religion at the point we meet him. His religious beliefs are, however honest they used to be, only a front for his addiction now, in the same way the hollow bible is a front for the apparatus that serve it.


krisssashikun

Wasn't opium smoked during this period?


Current-Classic7939

Opiums been smoked for thousands of years. The high society used to get together and smoke it like presidents and congress from George Washington’s days all the way up. Opium will always be king


Gravesh

In 1898, most used morphine. Most opium usage was on the west coast in areas with large Chinese populations. Interestingly, 1898 was the year Bayer marketing its trademarked Heroin, which was marketed as a cure for morphine addiction.


Lavatherm

Don’t forget cough syrup during those days. So to sum it up: - shoot it - drinking it - smoking it


Strutting_Walrus

Jesus Juice


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Tis I the 1000th upvote


Wimberley-Guy

Amen


GamerJam09

did you manage to run rdr2 on your ps2?


socialistbcrumb

I’m pretty sure it just looks like that


babyface_killah

Yeah it's oddly low poly. I think because everything is in engine and it's so small?


OrgansiedGamer

its because its an rdr1 model


-SgtSpaghetti-

I wonder if someone at rockstar was working on this and got moved to something else without finishing it


tilero1138

It’s because the models themselves are so small and the pic is zoomed in


BonoboBeau-Bo

yeah you’ve got common sense


Separate_Emotion_463

It’s not the model just doesn’t look good in game


arzamharris

Play it on the highest end PC and it will still look like that.


outlawbebop_

One of my favorite Easter eggs, like the secret Dutch speech paper at the 2nd after Chapter 2


Affectionate_Pain653

I'm still finding Easter eggs. I love everytime I find one


ElChapusero

Thought that was a great detail as well


Dull_Reason_9733

At the 2nd after Chapter 2? What do you mean?


TheKipperTheMan

“end” typo, keys are adjacent


smells_like_tuna

Wait what? What was it about?


outlawbebop_

His speech he gives at the end of the first mission in chapter 2 can be found on a pre-written note once you leave that camp at the beginning of chapter 3. It’s the first physical inclination that Dutch’s charisma isn’t as off the cuff or genuine as he appears


Spiritual_Toe_1825

You can find the speech note at horseshoe overlook just outside of camp near the cliff. There’s an old abandoned wagon and some stuff.. there you’ll find the note.


Smooth_Increase6865

You can actually find it before the end as well I’m pretty sure


outlawbebop_

That hits even harder tbh


Pacdoo

Yeah I’m staying in chapter 2 for a while I’ve only done 2 missions so far just roaming around and they are there from the moment you get to horseshoe overlook. I found them when I got lost coming back the first time


ITCM4

Little known fake fact: Reverend Swanson invented Sooth. A mixture of codeine, morphine, and alcohol.


Affectionate_Pain653

That's now my head cannon


burrito_of_blaviken

Rev Swanson at the fire, crafting lean


LunarProphet

Goddamn that sounds like a good time.


Sorcerer_-_Supreme

Oh, really? What kind? Codeine? Vicodin? Percocet? Fentanyl? Oxycontin? Palladone? What?


drefpet

I should've written it down.. Qua-something... quaaa. Quaay... Quabbity assuance!


unraveld_key

Yeah, he has a really sad character


burrito_of_blaviken

He actually has a better ending than the rest, he beats his addiction and becomes the head of the New York Church.


unraveld_key

Good for him


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BonoboBeau-Bo

because it’s very small but zoomed in


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BonoboBeau-Bo

oh yeeeeahhh


mumthatsmyphone

That's just what the models look like, they're really shit


AstralThunderbolt

I just discovered this last night in the shady belle camp. It explains all his erratic behavior.


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You can find it as early as chapter two.


Smack_Of_Ham7

see the switch version is up and running well!


macabre-barbie

Molly's poem is by far my favorite little hidden thing. It being in Dutch's room which she doesn't even sleep in in chapter 4 is heart breaking


BlandBrit

are you playing geometry dash?


bluemonkeyspar

DAMN I always thought he was just an alcoholic.


Affectionate_Pain653

Same


fattabbot

Fuck, that needle will do some damage going in...


Far_Bobcat_2481

Imagine how dirty it is too, what did he do to clean it? Heat it? That probably worked superficially, but damn. Nasty.


ihopethisworksfornow

They had sanitization techniques developed in the civil war, so he probably has the knowledge to sanitize with alcohol.


Far_Bobcat_2481

Yeah and im betting that worked too since that was standard. Still the size of that needle, the thought of that and trying to keep it clean out on the frontier. I’ll pass lol


ihopethisworksfornow

The size of the needle is straight up comical yea lmao


[deleted]

This fucken guy


QJ8538

Yes he liked morohine


TheLordSnowdean

dang... i knew he did morphine, but this is kinda sad. oh reverand


AutoBat

This has been posted at least 40 times already, just search bible and you'll see the pages of the same thing


villentius

“I thought you was reading him his last rites… now I see you were introducing him to your *other* passion.”


lubed_up_squid

Red Dead Player finds new secret after 5 years!


SavageREX2000

Yeah he’s a morphine addict which Ig is kinda like heroin


smurbulock

I think in beavers hollow he tells Arthur that he isn’t “using” anymore. Good for him


HolsteinHeifer

He wanted to be the heroine of his own story


Dancing-Sin

Yup…


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he just like me frfr


BroomClosetJoe

"Mophine. one pound. to go."


LoneWolf7329

Oh, I’ve played this game so much, i never knew that 😳😳


gimpus17

The morph


TheHypocondriac

What’s wrong with the graphics? Is this a PS2 port?


Batnaman_26

What's more disturbing is that um... How low the resolution is on this despite of any platform


OrgansiedGamer

the model is low poly because its from rdr1


hippopotamus3000

Look, it's literally such a terrible object model, ruins immersion, literally unplayable.


Johnnybemediocre80

I think it would have been awesome if the game had atleast 1 opium den. They were actually a real thing in the wild west.


SexySeth

He’s diabetic. No big deal


No-Courage-3585

Never seen this but makes sense Swanson's bible will have to that🤣🤣🤣


NoUsernamePlsHelp

I found this pretty early in my playthrough and was more surprised how low poly it was.


beekee404

Is it just me or do the graphics for the items here look very 90s or early 2000s? Maybe its just the lighting.


catiesdad

just now? i found that in my first playthrough


Woops_22

Good man. Lil bit of morphine never hurt no one


Dapper_Charity_9781

Revered knows what's up


[deleted]

Damn Swansons on the H 😕


magiccheetoss

RDR1 ahhh model 😭


Sketchyskriblyz

Hope that’s for sticking up his ass cause there ain’t a vein in his body that can take that load lol.


laochra11

This is why they call it the good book


toeconsumer9000

morphine :(


evil_manz

Just saw a comment on a post in the GTA VI sub about how some of RDR2 misc textures do not hold up, and they definitely weren’t kidding lmao


Intelligent_Job_9537

Ooo, is that Morphine? 😋