Do Red Dead Redemption 2’s Power Lines Connect to Anything?

44 thoughts on “Do Red Dead Redemption 2’s Power Lines Connect to Anything?”

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   I don’t have anything extra to say today, but I hope you are all doing alright and if you aren’t you can DM me on instagram all of your woes (I won’t see it but it’s good to get them out) I’m playing GTA Vice City now and it rules.

2. GTA 6 got delayed because they realized their infrastructure wasn’t up to any austin standards.

3. The claim about power being generated from coal – while correct in this instance – is incorrect. We actually switched from water generated power (green energy) to coal. Was it cheaper? No, the reason we did this was that power plant owners didn't want to have to negotiate with farmers over the use of water, so they went for the more expensive option that gave them more power – coal. This has obviously had disastrous effects for humanity all because capitalists didn't want to negotiate with others. I'd link a source but YouTube doesn't like that so unfortunately all I can say is do your own research

4. I recently found nv ranger and co and they are in a very similar niche, I'd highly recommend

5. Am I a time traveller? I could swear you already mapped RDR2’s power lines.

6. I know how stealing fire from the gods went for Prometheus. I'll stick with turbines

7. Is this a reupload? For some reason, I feel that I've seen this video before

8. This video could have easily been 3 times longer.. and I kinda really wish that we did have an hour long video by AnyAustin about the electrical grid in rdr2. That’s something I would pay to be able to download for flights or long car rides. Austin if you are reading please consider blessing us with a part 2!

9. Very few youtubers can force me to listen to entire sponsor segments. Thank you, Any Austin, for making underwear ads fun.

10. If these were electrical lines, would they also have to form a closed circuit? I don't think the power station could just "send" power out to remote locations, like a river flowing downhill … it would have to form a closed loop, flowing out and then back, right? But maybe that's what we're seeing with these lines. Harder to tell with wires than following flowing water!

11. Nice try Austin.

    But I knew those were telegraph wires before you said it. I became obsessed while world building a utopian alt-history for a gothic horror setting in which Christopher Columbus built something like the Suez Canal and I had to figure out how they would have communicated and came to something like a telegraph that uses different input strengths to signal characters I called a Cylinder Relay which had a big old drum, a typewriter keyboard, and a printing press which hammered a transcript.

    The biggest problem is trying to figure out how more than two of these things connect and basically it requires a ton of lines becoming a spaghetti network cascading to dozens of operators across Venice (the capital in that time).

    Ngl, I got a little hyper fixated on how cool things could have been that I forgot to leave room for the secret vampires and evil wizards.

    Spookiest part was how the Americas were covered in fog so even with moon bases nobody can tell what was happening.

12. Bro Austin, don't lie. You got this idea from my comment in your gta powerlines video when I mentioned red dead has powerlines too. Come on give me some credit, I'm not the bottom of the barrel like that

13. I love how excited this guy gets when a billion-dollar company with hundreds of employees gets these details right, when most detail-obsessed cities skylines players playing alone in their homes can also do all this without earning a single cent lmao

14. I've spent 19 days, 15 hours and 22 minutes exploring the world of RDR2 and it never even occured to me that there were powerlines (or not, as it seems) connecting the major towns.

    It scares me to consider how much more time I could feasibly spend in this game and still find new & obscure things. Or on this case — blindingly obvious.

    Now to go follow the final (not a) power line…

15. The lines were telegraphing power into the buildings, duh

16. i love rdr2, its mindbogggling that they abandoned it so quick…
    Also your video is incredibly well made, thanks!

17. 13:25 you know that audio clip of R. Lee Ermey from Full Metal Jacket?

18. I was halfway to noticing the problem, midway through the video. I was thinking "wait, wouldn't a power network like this need transformers?", but I chalked it up to the network just not moving that much power around. I didn't know that power grids didn't actually exist back in this time period. That's such a weirdly huge oversight, for a game that seems to pride itself on its historical accuracy.

19. This is what I needed to watch at 2 am. Thanks Austin, for a second, I was afraid I'd just have to go to sleep.

20. Amazing video, as usual. The amount of detail you put in these is astonishing (mirroring Rockstar's effort).
    Thanks 🙂

21. 12:01 I definitely don't see anybody else making the types of videos as you. If I want to learn about the geography of a game, this is where I come.

22. lowkey crazy timing for this vid
    I was think about this yesterday when I notice that the railroad had power lines thinking about how it probably because it's easier to build them along the tracks

23. Are you working on Odd and Unremarkable Places in Skate, yet. It's by EA, and everybody loves them, right?

24. 888th comment

25. Another cool detail is that the pollution created by the power plant is corrupting the lake right next to it. If you fish in there, the fish there are all fucked up

26. 19:15 In my town, kinda small, they have both side by side in many places for as long as I can remember, granted most of the incandescents are probably privately owned lights but I think even some of the public lighting like in parts right near my house are still incandescent but those are like alleys and stuff, the actual streets all use the typical LEDs

27. "Or we steal it from the sun"
    Don't forget stealing the sun, to heat water, to turn a turbine. 😛
    (Honestly its wild how with all our advanced, it often still comes down to spinning a turbine)

28. Most electricity was hydro for a long time, tho.

29. Engagement booster comment. I hope this is encouraging for you. Keep up the quality work, Mr. Majuyular

30. yayy

31. goood…. yes….. good

32. What an illuminating video. I don't know much about electricity, but I DO know that we call electrical sockets 'sockets' because we used to just wire things directly into the light socket itself. This was because when electricity was new, as you pointed out, it was almost exclusively used for lighting. Then once people started making other inventions, they just had to wire them to the only existing outlet in the home. It was crazy dangerous too. Multiple electric devices would be wired into one socket, hanging from the ceiling. The wires were poorly insulated, if they were at all, because we didn't really understand conductivity initially. And since was still common to have gas in the home, sometimes a stray arc would catch gas fumes and cause explosions. It was a bright yet very lethal time.

33. Dirty beep fuckin coal

34. These videos are so fascinating. I love being able to appreciate the amount of detail put into video games. Remarkable.

35. I love Ausperger's.

36. So you saying, that I had to install 120Gb game just to completely know where do that one powerline go?
    Alright! I WILL!

37. Every time Austin drops a Rockstar game video, it delays GTA6 by a couple months so they can fix something he's talking about in the video.

38. Say, Austin, do you actually play video games or do you just look at them?

39. i hope that the game designer that connected all the wires sees this video

40. Will you be able to share with us all these small details that you gathered, but keeping them in your "own Wikipedia" thing?

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42. Love your videos mate! Awesome content, this type of content is right up my alley, scratching that curious nonsense part of my mind. Thankyou for all your videos! Much appreciated ✌️❤️🙏🏼

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