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u/Some-Donut-9875 — 2 months ago
▲ 29 r/RDR2
Fastest way to gain weight I've found (No train rides, no sleeping, no loading screens).
Okay here's the fastest way I've found to gain weight. Here's what I recommend you're gonna need to get Arthur/John fattened up from minimal underweight to the max overweight in just a few irl minutes:
- 20 total pieces of seasoning (Any combination of Mint, Oregano or Thyme)
- Upgraded satchel (optional but recommended)
- Any Rifle (optional, but highly recommended)
- About 10 Rifle ammo (any type, bring more if skill issue)
- Some chewing tobacco/Snake Oil (optional but recommended)
(At the very least you'll just need to have finished Colter, the seasoning and a gun with bullets.)
Alright, now travel to the Bayou or Bluewater Marsh, look for alligators (plenty esp near water) and try to headshot them with a Rifle (this guarantees an easy one-shot kill) and skin it.
If you DON'T have an upgraded satchel: set up camp immediately (do not shoot any additional gators for now) and cook the Big Game Meat with any seasoning. Stow all the peices but do eat 1 (just one, trust me). Then break down camp and Arthur/John gain +1 weight between the screen transition. Now immediately eat another piece of seasoned meat and set up camp again, this makes Arthur/John gain +1 weight again. Repeat until out of meat, then go shoot another gator. It takes about 7 alligators in total without an upgraded satchel to fully max out weight. You'll also need to scour Lemoyne for extra seasoning at least once in-between this process because you can't carry enough herb at once.
If you DO have an upgraded satchel: You can collect all 5 big game meat from alligators instead of 3 which is a big time/effort saver. You'll only need to shoot and skin 4 alligators. Cook all the Big Game Meat with any seasoning and stow all the pieces. Eat 1 seasoned big game meat before you break down the camp (John/Arthur gain +1 weight between screen transition), then immediately eat 1 meat and set up camp again. Repeat until out of meat and you'll be max weight. No train rides, no sleeping, no loading screens, no buying food items, ect.
Pro Tips: You can use pretty much any food item and do the set-up/dreak down camp trick, but you'd have to learn the entire calorie system and stock up on a lot of food items and crap. Seasoned Big Game Meat is just easiest for consistency and least wasteful since you can't overshoot calories and it's also the cheapest (only needing some bullets and seasoning).
If you do for whatever reason want to avoid the alligator hunt or the swamp (I wont blame you lol, swamp scary), you can eat 2 chocolate bars/candy, 7 canned foods of any kind, 4 cooked venison or 4 gamey bird meat between setting up/breaking down camp. Works just as well but it can be more expensive, take more time and it's easy to overshoot.
u/Some-Donut-9875 — 3 months ago
Possible hint for spider web mystery? (idk im going insane overanalying everything pls send help)
im counting 61 tally marks, 3 telephone poles (or graves who knows), a weird laughing sun bottom right and what looks like cloud marks at the bottom. Probably nothing, still posting.
Where this is? Its the bottom of the well outside the house that the bank reclaimed from the slave driver in Rhodes (if I remember correctly). It also looks like the shed the gang hides in at some point... perhaps theyre the same? Anyway if this is part of some mystery/easter egg thats already solved, I'd like to know.
u/Some-Donut-9875 — 3 months ago
▲ 124 r/Amphibians
Saw a weird toad once at a ditch in the Netherlands around 2009 (definitely didnt have the means to take a picture back then) but ive drawn it to the best of my ability. What the heck was this thing?
Some information on where I found it, what it was doing, ect and physical description.
It was sitting in grass like this when I found it, all ballooned up like this and everything. Located less than a meter from the actual ditch water.
It had absolutely no color patterns, just a monotone dark grayish brown and absolutely no bumps or lumps besides those ones I specifically drew. Its skin did look "cracked" and dry in certain places, I actually poured some water over it, hope that wasnt a bad idea in the end.
It was motionless and looked pretty convincingly disguised like a mole mound or a dog turd (it was only about 20cm away from an actual dog turd). And it mustve been there for a while because the grass it was sitting in actually had a "bald spot" beneath it. A day later I actually came back and the toad was gone but the bald spot in the grass it was sitting in remained visible for about a month.
As for its behavior, it just sat there. I wasnt even sure if it was alive whatsowever, but it also didnt look dead either (it was stiff and composed, not limp at all, absolutely no signs of decay/injury or death, its pupils were black and not cloudy or anything).
I remember it was still pretty early in the year, no warmer than probably 12 or 13C, it was among the first day little me decided to go to the water to spot frogs and fish.
Any way, in all my years at that frog ditch I saw some pretty crazy stuff I cant explain, this was just one of those cases.
u/Some-Donut-9875 — 4 months ago