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merodm

The Skinners. Whilst the Murfees are skin-crawling, inbred nutjobs, they're not as bad for two reasons... 1) They're arguably victims of circumstance (incest and inbreeding) whereas the Skinners actively chose to be the way they are. Essentially it's dumb violence vs. calculating violence. 2) The Murfees are horrible in what they do to people, but the Skinners are just more sadistic. From flaying and scalping through to burning and disembowling, they're another level.


Professional-Draft77

I agree with you based on my own experiences beating the game going on four times now. The Murfrees, of the dialogues they had (and I ran into the Murfrees many times in chapter 2 because i'm trying to 100% the game and nearly have all of the trapper stuff with Arthur) they are goofing around looking for good stuff to take and one of them takes perfume and does a feminine pose mocking the other (this was before I ended both of them lol). They don't really get worse till Arthur and Charles clear out Beaver Hollow and they give Arthur or John a clear warning if you intrude upon their area (around brandywine drop for me) so at while they are brutal they at least know who and what to pick fights with. I'd argue the closest thing to the Skinner Brothers are the Night Folk from Legras as they don't pussy-foot around with bum rushing to gut you with a machete and they even kill and hang people and wait around for someone to snoop around before they rush and attack you. Plus their brutality is on the same level as the Skinners and Edmund Lowry Jr. So for me Skinners are the worst followed secondly by the Nightfolk as the two worst enemy groups to encounter out in the open field (excluding the law for obvious reasons).


Jack1715

Skinners will also sneak up on your camp


thatwolfieguy

The Murfrees will too.


Professional-Draft77

Yeah both Skinners and Murfree will sneak up on warm themselves by the fire and warn Arthur/John that it's their territory. John and Charles drove the Skinners out of West Elizabeth though in the end and I think the Murfrees and the other groups (save for the o'driscolls) also still wander about. But sheer brutality and effectiveness the gold and silver medals go to Skinners and Night Folk.


Jack1715

There still there but I think much less numbers


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Professional-Draft77

You're being rude for one and two you don't control society or have a say in who does what or how things should go, so maybe you need to go outside and stop worrying soo much about what other people do. Because you got alot of pent up aggression for one online comment...


Dramatic-County-1284

Definitely a cry for attention pay it no mind


SwiftyDownBad

u/AtheistAniml got cooked so hard in the comments lmao


AtheistAniml

I really don't feel like I did (assuming I understand properly what you mean by that bit of slang), so unless you can justify that statement with an objective example... Otherwise, by all means, continue to gaslight away...


stickmidman

What do you mean "assuming I understand properly from that bit of slang?" You sound like you're 56 years old. I don't know if you should be on Reddit, to be honest.


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☝️🤓


AtheistAniml

Like this, the rdr2 group, is where someone would turn to.. lol.. ok there Dr Pepper


Dramatic-County-1284

It’s ok we’re here for you bud


Hoff-berson

what did you say originally


FohTImez

Don’t worry bro anyone who feels they need the word “atheist” in their username is already too far gone. Keep having fun and enjoying the game🦾


Professional-Draft77

Thanks, I appreciate communities in sharing thoughts and love for media and games. I guess not everyone feels the same way but it's nice to know that people are supportive.


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FohTImez

Nah actually it’s just really cringe


AtheistAniml

Tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are by using "cringe" as an adjective. It'd be one thing if you started talking that way independently, but in reality you're just an approval seeking teeny bopper


FohTImez

Cool extra cringe meltdown bro!


AtheistAniml

I'm not your bro pal. Me trolling you is not a meltdown.. I hope you're better at gaslighting your bf.


AtheistAniml

https://youtu.be/JF2Mf6HxIi0?si=qgjlHdriMmy9gDyH 🤣🤣🤣🤣


AtheistAniml

Based on your posts, you over-use the word "bro", bro


AtheistAniml

C'mon kiddo, you're not repping GenZ really well at all.


Nerevarine91

Is that even something teens say anymore? I remember cringe being a thing years and years back


AtheistAniml

Using "cringe" as an adjective is cringe.


Windronin

What fairy tale?


AtheistAniml

You're being verbose.


ClassyJoes

I do have friends! Charles, LennY, Javier, Hosea!


monkey8satan

Everyone hates you


AtheistAniml

Thank you! I'll take that as a compliment from you!


Better-Situation-857

Well, aren't you a real grumbletonian?


AtheistAniml

Is that from Fallout?


kermitkanabis

Dude gtfo of here, with all those downvotes you got you should get the message. Stop embarrassing yourself. You're not trolling anyone you're just a cunt whose life is so sad and meaningless you have to be an anonymous asshole on the internet so you can feel good about yourself.


AtheistAniml

What are down votes and why should I care about them? Reporting you for vulgarity


kermitkanabis

rEPorTiNg yOu fOr VuLgaRitY


AtheistAniml

Seriously, explain to me to me why I should care about down votes. Everyone always points those out like it's something I should be concerned about but it remains a mystery to me as to why exactly I should be.


kermitkanabis

Stfu no one cares what you say. Yall go check my profile, this dude started talking shit on old posts. I was fucking right, he is a garbage of a human being whose got nothing better to do than trash talk on people online. This is sad man lmao.


AtheistAniml

I've not used any vulgarity.


Dry_Pineapple7100

My brother in Christ. Who hurt you to cause all this crap? Honestly


metalcore4ver

So mad for no reason.


wi11epi11e

If that’s a novel to you your TikTok brain is beyond repair


Sword_Enjoyer

It's like half a page's worth of words. I understand if TikTok's ruined your attention span to anything longer than 6 seconds but there's no cause to be randomly rude like that. Having said that, fuck you.


TheStarGamer15

Seeing your dumbass being cooked in the comments section really made my day lmao


Responsible_Sense_95

You have posted 32 different posts on Reddit. In the last month, you are the one needs to go outside.


Astronimia

Geez man who hurt you? I wouldn’t be surprised if you were the one that needs to go outside and make some irl friends with that attitude


OtiseMaleModel

Bruh, the murfree are sadistic for fun. If you think its just a circumstantial result look at their victims at their camp. These people are kidnapping, enslaving, raping, torturing and mutilating people for entertainment. They're better than no one.


Ironhead985

Van Der Linde gang. Every town they touched was massacred. Blackwater, Valentine, Strawberry, Rhodes, Saint Denis..etc


Jack1715

Also the murfree just want to be left alone in there mountains. The whole reason they kill people is because people keep going in them mountains. They moved there to get away from everyone. I’m not saying it’s right but at least there is a motive to it


chernobyl-fleshlight

Are they based on Blood Meridian?


springbokkie3392

The Murfees are annoying and dumb. The Skinners are pure evil psychopaths.


Nick_nada

The Murfree brood are vicious, albeit dumb enemies. Their tactics are amateurish. While they certainly can kill you, for the most part, it seems like you have to make mistakes that put yourself in those situations. The Skinners are far worse. Their cruelty is perverse and methodical. Everything they do is with thoughtful intent, from ambushes to torture. I make a point of using a shotgun on them. Every skinner corpse gets a buckshot blast to the face to make em that much harder to identify. Why? Because fuck em all!


JesusSamuraiLapdance

Maybe too painless of a death. 


pullingteeths

I give them shotgun slugs to the shins


ADOVE4F

Nite Folk...


PotatoCannabal

Although I would love to call them scary like they should be, they are too easy to kill.


ADOVE4F

If you saw them. Usually i don't


sorinxz

They're such a trippy experience in the sp, first time in enocountered them it shocked me, they've put them in online for one single bounty mission and on hardcore they're so quiet and scary they used to scare the shit outta me. RDR 2 is something else.


vamp1yer

They both abuse horses and as such deserve the doomguy treatment


willowalloy

Doomghy treatment I like that


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Probaly the skinners all tho the brood are straight nutjobs. nothing comes close to some of the stuff that the skinners do. Whether its skinning or scalping,or straight up burning someone alive and dismembering people who just pass through there area. The skinners are hostile towards anyone but the brood really only attacked us as the player coz we massacred most of them at beaver hollow and stole there home meaning the brood want payback meanwhile the skinners want nothing but blood and death


OtiseMaleModel

The hills have eyes vs bone tomahawk


VirulentGunk

Murfrees. They killed my horse once. RIP Pickles III


No-Walk-9615

That name suggests you are careless with your horses! You'd already lost pickles 1 and 2!


VirulentGunk

Pickles 1 was the starter horse and was still alive and retired. Pickles 2 was the all white Arabian, and was also stabled. Pickles 3 was the PS4 Arabian, or preorder? The dark reddish one. I set up a camp, and it was the first time in Brood territory, so it triggered the robbery/ambush cutscene, when gameplay kicked back in one of them shot pickles who then slid down the rock face and glitched into big rock Arthur set up on. I wasn't able to revive the horse. I was pretty pissed.


Playful_Vermicelli85

This was kind of hard but they both do sort of the same thing to me. So I'm going to have to go with the murfree brood because they just look nasty and they hide away in some of the most disgusting looking places on the face of the Earth (caves full of bodies and stolen wagons)


vamp1yer

They both abuse horses and as such deserve the doomguy treatment


Substantial-Tone-576

Actually the Del Lobos throw dynamite and fire bottles and they have the Gatling guns in fort Mercer. I’ve been killed in one shot by them never by any other gang. I guess I have been killed by the Maxim gun at hanging dog ranch too. I just now through the Murfree Brood and the Skinners.


EatLard

You need to flank hanging dog ranch. Ride up around the back and snipe as many as you can, then take the barn from the door at the back.


Substantial-Tone-576

Oh I know. Now it’s only the del lobos with the dynamite that kill me because it’s a one shot regardless if you have tonics or big game meat. But that is rare


EatLard

I’ve never had one chuck dynamite at me. Usually the other way around.


Substantial-Tone-576

It’s possible


pullingteeths

They do it at Thieves Landing, often if you go towards the water between the fenced off area and the building that has one shooting from the roof


ComprehendReading

Throwing dynamite at a time when military hand grenades weren't common isn't worth much consideration.


Substantial-Tone-576

It still one shots you. Do you not see the damage Arthur cause with dynamite? What are you talking about, it’s a video game.


pullingteeths

I went into Fort Mercer all cocky thinking I've done this in RDR1 100 times and I'll just deal with these guys the same way no problem. Turned the corner into the back area and got shredded instantly lol


Substantial-Tone-576

Yes that’s how I got dynamited. I was at thieves landing using tomahawk and knife and got hit on the side with a dynamite and died.


Glovermann

2 slightly different flavors of the same kind of terrible. Neither one is better or worse because they're both so awful


Chicoyayarea

Skinners hands down


Yung_Corneliois

Murfees gave me a warning the first time at least.


mayor_banana

skinners all the way


Chloe-20

They are both equally as bad. They both seem to be doing the same things such as torturing, burning their victims etc. i think the inbreds are the only ones that rape though and that’s also so much worse.


JohnnyChopper08

Murfrees killed my beloved horse so them without a doubt. I have spent a considerable amount of time slaughtering them.


MarcosP111

The nightfolk


ConsciousBother387

Tbh skinners bc they take what the Murfrees do and amplify it. They'll load their victims with arrows, but alot of the time they'll keep them alive. Like the wagon encounter where the driver is dead but prop didnt die instantly considering he's still in a driving position, and the horse is also covered in arrows but kept alive for the shock factor I suppose.  I find that 90% of the time that if their victims have pets with them, they leave the pets alive but surrounded by their dead owners.


raventeamlead3r

Brood easily


SlightlyMildHabanero

The skinners are a really weak and incomprehensible gang of savages without a theme or ethos. They're like sicarios, but without any point. The Murfree Brood are actually plausible. The Skinners, not even close.


Lord_Khaos_04

Skinners, because at least the Brood is not nomadic.


MendozaLiner

Worse alive


sexy_bezinga

Murfrees, even Charles shit his pants at the mention of the name


enter_the_slatrix

That's hilarious because only "approval seeking teeny boppers" feel the need to constantly tell people that they don't believe in god lol


Michael_Threat

It's the brood. You guys are wild.


X-Symphonize

The skinners are like the cartel of red dead. Except they commit those atrocities for fun.


Jack1715

There both evil but the Murfree do what they do because there territorial and just want to be left alone. They murder people who try to move and build on there land because they settled there when there was no settlers so they could get away from everyone. At least they have a reason and they don’t hurt anyone outside of their area The skinners are nomads and just kill anyone where ever they are. And they worship some devil like being who tells them to kill and torture


airforcerawker

They're both pretty equal IMO. I go on murfree and Skinner hunting trips regularly. Just strolling through the woods armed to the teeth at night for fun.


Adventurous-Equal-29

🥵🥵🥵 bro, mark NSFW next time.


Cooked_Telegraph

Skinners


InitialPlantain2778

Skinner's by a long shot murfrees don't do NEARLY as much as the Skinner's scalp removing burning alive and death riding


TheCandymanCan_925

Skinners are much worse than the Murfrees but that’s why both get incendiary buckshot treatment


MorganFell23

The skinners believe in a deity which they worship, they commit so much bloodshed because of their faith, they kill to satisfy their god, the murfrees kill to get by, I get their doing it to please their god but like one of them says, how much bloodshed until he’s pleased?


ResidentWeight1189

Tbh gotta go with skinners cuz myrfry broods are just inbread hicks with RWAKLY BAD mental problems...proly cuz i shoot them in the head so many times it goes BOOM¡!!!!!


AtheistAniml

Seems like you understand normal English reasonably well. You should try using it more frequently


SwiftyDownBad

Eat this ratio


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What's this guy's deal? I mean u/AtheistAniml, not you swiftie.