New Video! How Red Dead Redemption 2 Makes Loss Matter (ad/sponsor-free!) (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

Just to let you know that the new video is now available, without any ads or sponsor reads of any kind! In revisiting Red Dead Redemption 2 recently, I found myself shocked at how little I was following the main plot this time around. Instead, I found myself spending hours and hours just wandering the plains of this open world—immersing myself in the most minor of side missions, the smallest of tasks, gleefully seeking out any minor encounter I could and loving every minute of it. The reason? The stakes in these scenarios was usually so much higher than anything found on the critical path—massive amounts of effort could amount to nothing—and this ended up speaking to the absurdist brutality of this world in a way that I found incredibly compelling. That is to say, in order to win, sometimes you've gotta lose.

I should say, new patrons kept flooding in as I was editing this (something I am so grateful for) and I tried to include as many $10+ patrons as I could in the shoutouts at the end but there are likely some that just missed the cut-off to make it into this video—your names should still be in the credit scroll at least! Next video the shoutouts will be completely up to date—I apologise and I hope you can understand!

This is the first video back since that update and boy, I'm suddenly feeling energised in a way I haven't felt for a long time. As I say, I'll be dedicating some time to get the channel framework more sustainable in terms of, say, working on sleep schedules and the like, but there will be another couple of videos before the month is out—one sponsored (as detailed in the last update post I made here) and one other vid. After that, I can really dig into the research on the ideas I've had for weirder pieces!

Thank you so, so much for your support once again. You are making this channel a viable thing going forward and that's not something I could have necessarily counted on coming into this year. I am humbled. You're the best!

Thanks,

Hamish

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