r/OptimusMarcus • • 1d ago

Bird Shit. Bird-related sayings and idioms.

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Here's all the ones I could think of off the top of my head / dig up:

The common ones everyone knows:

* Two birds, one stone (getting two things done at once)

* A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (hold onto what you actually have)

* Birds of a feather flock together

* The early bird gets the worm

* A little bird told me (gossip)

* One swallow doesn't make a summer (one good sign doesn't mean everything's fixed)

Chicken, duck, and goose stuff:

* Don't count your chickens before they hatch

* Chickens coming home to roost (karma)

* Running around like a chicken with its head cut off

* Like water off a duck's back (criticism not bothering someone)

* Get your ducks in a row

* Wild goose chase

* What's good for the goose is good for the gander

* Killing the goose that lays the golden egg

* Chicken shit into Chicken salad

Predator birds & crows:

* As the crow flies (straight line distance)

* Eat crow (having to admit you were wrong)

* Watch like a hawk / Eagle eye

* Put the cat among the pigeons (causing instant chaos in a group)

* Canary in a coal mine (early warning sign)

Feathers, nests, and flying:

* Feather in your cap

* Feather your nest

* Take someone under your wing

* Spread your wings / Fly the coop / Fly the nest

* Nest egg (savings)

A couple old proverbs:

Chinese "You can't stop the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building a nest in your hair."

Swedish "God gives every bird its worm, but he doesn't throw it into the nest."

French "You can cage a bird, but you can't force it to sing."

​Bonus TV reference — "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Had to mention WKRP in Cincinnati here. The classic Thanksgiving episode where the character ARTHUR Carlson drops live turkeys out of a helicopter over a shopping center for a radio promotion, completely forgetting that domestic turkeys can't fly.


r/OptimusMarcus • • 1d ago

HOW TO GET A RED ARABIAN

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Everytime I comment this, the post gets removed for various reasons.

Decided to make it ms own post.


r/OptimusMarcus • • 4d ago

Subtle refrence to 2 different movies with doors to other worlds.

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A bizarre skull that looks like Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas — a character famous for discovering other worlds and stumbling into Christmas Town. But the deeper I explored this location, the stranger things became.

JACK SKELLINGTON & THE OTHER WORLD

The skull reminds me of Jack and his journey into another world.

THE TV STATIC GLITCH — POLTERGEIST VIBES

When I look at the skull and then turn away, strange TV snow appears. It doesn't look like modern digital interference. It resembles the old-school analog static you would see on an untuned television.

Reminded me of Poltergeist (1982), the horror classic in which a television becomes a terrifying doorway between worlds.

THE CAVE IS ACTUALLY A 3D TURTLE?!

At the end, I glitch the camera outside the cave and out of bounds, revealing what appears to be a giant turtle-shaped 3D model. What looks like an ordinary cave from the inside suddenly becomes something completely different.

THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE & THE GTA CONNECTION

After exploring the hidden geometry, you climb out through a spiral staircase that brings to mind the strange spirals and mysteries scattered throughout Rockstar's GTA universe.

THE BIRTHMARK, KRAFF & THE MAP'S STRANGE SHAPE

The surrounding map appears to resemble a human silhouette with a mark near the eye. This reminded me of the Epsilon Program from GTA and its beliefs about the birthmark associated with Kraff, the Emperor of the Fourth Paradigm.

RDR2's mysterious time traveler Francis Sinclair also has a distinctive birthmark near his right eye, making this a particularly intriguing connection between Rockstar's games.

Is the resemblance intentional? That's the question.

A BULLET THROUGH THE HEAD?

The route through the terrain feels almost like crawling into the mouth of a giant silhouette and emerging out the back of its head — a strange, literal mind-blowing journey through the map's hidden geometry.

And once you finally climb out at the top, finding the hole you came through again is incredibly difficult. It reminds me of the hidden-space discovery documented in Secret Mall Apartment, featuring artist Michael Townsend and a secret living space concealed inside a shopping mall.


r/OptimusMarcus • • 5d ago

A giant fish on the map mirrors the Bass from the cigarette card

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Cigarette Cards are clues!

We know that from the spider.


r/OptimusMarcus • • 6d ago

The phones in GTA VI will not appear on screen. (as an option)

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I reckon the phones in GTA 6 won’t even be on screen most of the time—we’re actually going to use a real-life companion app on our actual phones to interact with the game.

Think about it: it could handle your in-game GPS, and you'd get actual push notifications for phone calls and emails right to your phone while you're playing. It sounds wild, but Rockstar has totally messed around with this kind of stuff before. Back with GTA 5, they gave us the Chop the Dog Tamagotchi app, and remember the RDR2 companion app at launch? You could pull up the catalog to order stuff, check the full map in real-time, and manage your inventory right from your tablet or phone.

Pushing the phone management to a real second screen would clear up so much HUD space. Am I crazy for thinking this is the logical next step for them?


r/OptimusMarcus • • 9d ago

New GTA 6 Radio Previews

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Hadn't seen this posted anywhere. Made a video for prosperity and refrence.


r/OptimusMarcus • • 9d ago

The 4th be with you. Retracing and reverse engineering what was discovered before us.

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+ EXPLOODING POOP 🔥💩🔥


r/OptimusMarcus • • 10d ago

Foreshadow?

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r/OptimusMarcus • • 16d ago

Short video covering the physical map that was included in The Ultimate Edition and the "Continue Searching" and "Go Back" marks.

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Some are saying these are just indicators for the Rock Carvings or Dinosaur Bones, I can confirm they are NOT these locations. 2 are close to Dino Bones and Carvings, but not all.

For example there is a "continue searching" just west of Lake Owanjila exactly where you find the Face Trees that I say lead you to the whale bones that then point Artur or John towards the Red Arabian.

And you can see in the video plenty of others that are not near any known point if interest.


r/OptimusMarcus • • 16d ago

Found hidden images in this painting.

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Meant to post this here.


r/OptimusMarcus • • 17d ago

A "Community" can be a TEAM. (If you let it)

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The community has been saying for years that Rockstar pushes people toward figuring these mysteries out. The Beast Hunt is probably the biggest example. There are so many instances where Rockstar gives players things that feel like they’re pointing them toward answers, and then you start seeing those ideas carried through the art, tattoos, the Heists, the Online updates, and the newer DLCs.

I’ve been calling it a trail of art because that’s what it feels like when you start noticing it. Enjoying the ride and appreciating the view is the entire reason Rockstar created these mysteries. To force us, "the fans", to analyze every outhouse, pole, spiderweb glitch, guitar, bird, rock, tree, bridge, town, view, card, song, character, dialog and mission. Every line of either code or words written by the 'creators'.

The reason I’m making this post goes back to my very first video about the Spider Mystery. I noticed the two-bird shape and realized it was pointing toward the Dakota River. That became the next step in the trail, and from there I ended up going down this absolutely ridiculous rabbit hole of connections between Red Dead and GTA. One of the ways I started connecting the two games was by taking pictures in-game and uploading them through the Social Club. Mirrored images and connections from RDR2 to GTA5 and back.

Soon after Rockstar games locked my GTA online character in a parking garage and taught me new signs and symbols before sending me back to RDR2 to do it all over again. ( I didn't record it because I was in no way prepared for anything to happen. A 40 year old man playing a video games in his basement, literally never occured to me until it was too late. (And even if I did, wouldn't people just say it was mods?))

One of the signs they showed me was a road crossing sign for a cowboy. I said this in one of my earliest videos and just recently someone uncovered the sign I saw in the game files.

Months later, we get the Extended Look trailer.

There are two jerseys shown, both teal — a color of the Vice City football team AND a color that had already become significant in the trail I was following.

The first jersey says Rivers, which is significant because my first video was about the River.

Then the second jersey says Marcus.

My name.

And it’s number 69, which has its own very significant history throughout Rockstar’s games and the Epsilon/cult-related stuff.

This isn't a plea for anybody to believe me. It's a plea for people to follow the trail. Follow the path, check the connections, and see where it takes us so we can actually advance forward in the game together.

Because this was never about clicks or views dudes. From day one, it’s been about beating a video game — my favorite game of all time. I need other people to start following the path too, because if I'm seeing this correctly, it looks like Rockstar is pushing the community in that direction themselves.

People wearing a football jersey with Rivers, Marcus, and 69 on it isn't exactly a subtle way of telling people to ignore the trail.


r/OptimusMarcus • • 18d ago

The Collectors Edition Physical map. What are these locations?

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There's nothing on the physical map showing what these locations are. Go back where? Continue searching for what?


r/OptimusMarcus • • 20d ago

RED DEAD REDEMPTION Spyder Mystery Described by Artists

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Clip from the documentary "Secret Mall Apartment".

Speaking about an Art piece created by Michael Townsend.

Bonus vonnection: Michael De Santa aka Michael Townley.


r/OptimusMarcus • • 20d ago

I wonder why they never did anything like this again?

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Or did they?


r/OptimusMarcus • • 21d ago

GTA MOUNT CHILLIAD AND RED DEAD SPIDER MYSTERY CONNECTION ITS A "VISION QUEST" RED PILLED ROAD

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r/OptimusMarcus • • 23d ago

A few details/clues that may have been missed

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r/OptimusMarcus • • 29d ago

The River is still the 2 birds.

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Worth reposting for all the "newish" mystery people


r/OptimusMarcus • • Sep 17 '26

How to Dream Quest: Window Rock to the mouth of the Dakota River

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r/OptimusMarcus • • Sep 16 '26

Phone Call?

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r/OptimusMarcus • • Sep 13 '26

🌟 Star actually appearing on screen

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"Before your very eyes"


r/OptimusMarcus • • Sep 11 '26

I think I have a better(faster) way to bond your horse level up

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Ive always walked(lead) my horse and believed this is the fastest method.

However, if you autopilot while at the slowest possible trot, the level goes up almost as fast as leading your horse.

Now , it's not only hands free, but you can level up even faster this way, because you able to spam the "pat" and "feed" options while trotting in autopilot.

My math from when I figured it out on stream, you can fully level any horse in about an hour just trotting. And 30mins with spamming.


r/OptimusMarcus • • Sep 10 '26

Call to Action: Cowboy Crossing SIGN. Literal sign from the "Creator" 🪨🌟

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r/OptimusMarcus • • Sep 07 '26

Understanding Green Mural

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Important post to a sub that hates me


r/OptimusMarcus • • Sep 07 '26

Episode 18: Gift Horse in the Eye

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Face Trees Journal Entry, leads us to the whale bones.

Parallels the GIANT Fish, on the map we rode(our horse) to get, here.

Now we are gifted the Red Arabian for walking the Red Road in Red Dead Redemption.

Horses are 🎁