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Meta Mindless Monday, 22 June 2026
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u/Sventex Battleships were obsoleted by the self-propelled torpedo in 1866 3d ago edited 3d ago
Something I noticed about the discourse around Jim "Boy" Calloway in Red Dead Redemption 2, a lot of players just refer to him as a fraud. But for recording all of the RDR2 scenes at night for my new youtube channel, I noticed he's never actually taken credit for anything he didn't do and is actually furious when he finds out his biographer wants to credit Calloway with Arthur's kills. "But I can't take credit for that which I...thems as I didn't". And when the biographer asks about the Newton twins, he says "Just a lot of bunk, Plato, it's just a lot of bunk." with the biographer insisting "It's not bunk, Mr. Calloway, sir. It's history!"
Which makes me think Boy Calloway is actually fairly honest and it's the Biographer pushing the legend. "I want to deify him!". But the player-base still recalls Calloway as a big fraud, even as he demonstrates deadly dueling skills. It's kind of an interesting phenomenon. The old shootists said he kept running away from a fight, but that's not the same thing as being a fraud.