"Blurbs, a content creator on YouTube and Twitch who creates mods for games like Red Dead Redemption 2 , decided to take this a step further by giving every NPC in Rockstar's open-world western memories of their own that play out if you kill them. While this mod could have turned Red Dead Redemption 2 into a 50-hour guilt trip, Blurbs gave it some levity by letting his Twitch chat submit the monologues that he would hear after gunning someone down. The results are chaotic."
"A lot of games play with the idea of guilting the player for their actions. Sometimes it's choice-based games in which your decisions can potentially result in the deaths of companions, like the Mass Effect series, or it's something like Spec Ops: The Line, which makes you sit with the dire consequences of the war crime you committed."
Blurbs created a Red Dead Redemption 2 mod that gives every NPC memories that play out in the instant before they die. Twitch chat members submit monologues that are converted to text-to-speech and played over those memories. Early memories highlighted tragic, humanizing details—newborn children, marriages, companions and pets—turning killings into somber moments. Viewer submissions introduced absurd and chaotic lines that undercut seriousness and added levity. Blurbs did not pre-read submissions and relied on Twitch automated moderation to block obvious bad actors. The mod reframes routine NPC deaths into extended emotional or comedic vignettes.
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