Gang leader Dutch van der Linde spends much of the runtime of Rockstar's 2018 masterpiece Red Dead Redemption 2 fretting about money. His constant cries of "just one more score" are the driving force for much of the game's story and its less-than-optimal end. Countless players have wondered when enough would be enough, but only one has decided to test that by giving Dutch access to their real-life wallet.
As you may have guessed, this is the latest project from Blurbs, the slightly unhinged modder who's previously done things like giving each of your victims happy memories that show onscreen as you kill them or having you get hauled into court for your crimes in Grand Theft Auto. Giving the inhabitants of Red Dead Redemption 2's fictional 1899 Internet access, however, feels like a whole new level of ambition.
Every town in the West gets a free-of-charge Internet cafe tapped into a painstakingly coded simulated Internet that affects both the game world and, perhaps unwisely, the real one.
If nothing else, we can now definitively answer the question of what Arthur Morgan would order on Amazon given the chance. (It's a guide to tuberculosis, of course. How sad.)
