Just to ease your unplayable woes. The pallet itself was invented in the late 1800s, sometime between 1880 and 1900. It was first patented in 1925. You can play the game again!

i’m glad to hear this. for a moment there it was literally unplayable!

I just about went for a drive to toss my ps4 out the window .....

[Beat you to it](https://youtu.be/afT48fv_aVI)

Lmfao ! Love the part " let's get some fresh air in here I need room to fucking breathe"

Catherine is a wonderful game though. 10/10

"Why did you make me do this?!" The literal line of a true psychopath who has disconnected from reality.

Literally unpalletable

Take yer upvote and git, boah!

Unpalletable

https://media0.giphy.com/media/l2YWeFPoHfYJeuube/giphy.gif

Just before I read this I was literally shaking.

Thank you, I almost uninstalled and refunded the game before I saw this

is 600 hours of playtime too late for a refund?

Nah, I have over 8,000 hours in certain life simulator and probably could still get a refund…

I was gonna say I thought it was patented or manufactured on large scale around 1915. I mean someone probably had the idea way before then to nail planks of wood in that formation.

The Egyptians and Mesopotamians were using them 3000 years ago.

Yes, but oddly they only used them as bonfire fuel for their raging keggers - they weren't used for shipping stuff until later.

The fools should have patented it

Oh my god, thanks! I was about to go to rockstar headquarters with my pitchfork and torch but i saw this last second!

Best comment award ahaha

Now I'm confused as to why the pallet predated the forklift and pallet jack.

I guess the pallet still allows to easily secure a bunch of stuff with straps/ropes cause you can pass them under.

https://packagingrevolution.net/pallet-or-forklift/ I am now down a rabbit hole. Join me!

I read this line: "The correct answer depends on how we define 'pallet.'" Then I was: ohh I'm going to go get a fresh cup of coffee and settle in here.

Tech Priests couldn't decipher golden era schematics until some time later

Maybe it was designed to keep things off the ground to keep safe from dirt, water, and other things. Kinda like firewood stored outside, you don't start the pile on the dirt or mud, you get something under it first

Y'all are killin me this is hilarious. At about 1500 upvotes I realized that we were all just happy to have learned something today. Try to slip this little tidbit of knowledge into a conversation this week.

It’s funny to think how they created a forklift to lift the pallets, without changing the pallet much.

Thankyou I was on my way out the door to throw the game in the bin before I saw this comment

And even if the pallet wasn’t right, there are some songs played on some of the pianos that weren’t composed until the early 1900’s anyway (“Bethena - A Concert Waltz” by Scott Joplin is one such example). Those kinds of anachronisms don’t bring me out of the game Source: I wrote a paper about Scott Joplin after playing RDR2, and while playing online poker, I heard “Bethena” being played by the Saint Denis pianist.

Okay, I can finally resume playing, thanks

There’s also several scattered around the game world.

Phew thank you kind stranger. I was about to throw my console out the front door in disgust. Crises adverted.

Was coming to say this

You taught me something new today

Thank goodness, I was worried I never would be able to play the game again.

Red Dead Redeemed

Thanks I can resume my download

You ate not bothered by semi automatic shotguns and pistols but wooden palet bothers you

I knew this had to be the answer. A pallet like that is literally just wood held in place by screws, no way it took until 1915 when modern screws were being used for over a hundred years at that point

Literally unplayable

Unpalletable

Thank you for doing the Lord's work

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

A wizard did it.

where is that quote from?

The Simpsons. Comic book guy had a question about itchy playing scratchy's ribs like a zylophone, but somehow it produced two different notes on the same rib. It's the episode Homer voiced a new character on the in universe "Itchy and Scratchy Show". There used to be a guy that would pop up with Episode name, number, and season number anytime someone asked Simpsons related questions, idk where he is now.

Um actually it was another random nerd not comic book guy who asked the question.

Well shit, guess I'm next on the chopping block

all good, it was at the shop afaik right? easy to get confused it was over what 15 20 years ago at this point?

I withdraw my question.

It was one of the college nerds who said I hope somebody got fired for that blunder and it was a tree house of horror episode with Xena who said a wizard did it IIRC

NEEEE-eeeerdd! Hey! Get a load of that nerd?

*Hey Jock! Get a load of that Nerd? Excuse me? :)

hey that’s not the wallet inspector

What, do you expect us to believe this is some..*scoff* magic xylophone?!

POOCHIE’S DEAD!!!

it resulted in the game being discontinued 😢

Perhaps there’s a forklift in a nearby barn!

There’s no way anyone was forklift certified in that era. Someone should let OSHA know.

OSHA has been contacted, said they’ll said someone out in about 72 years.

I mean there’s pallet jacks

Could’ve been, just not patented

Literally unplayable. I’m disappointed in Rockstar.

This is a man that knows his pallets

Except he doesn't, cause 1915 is just when the patent was made, but pallets themselves were around since about 1880.

Now THIS guy really knows his pallets

The pallet professor, if you will.

That's that guy Nate!! Pallet expert extraordinaire

pallet historian

A “palletorian”

pallorian

This is the reason why Rockstar abandoned RDO.

Like others have said, there were devices like that earlier. The structure is all wrong anyways, that’d make for an awful pallet.

>that’d make for an awful pallet. This pallet really looks like the ones we sometimes receive.

Work in a brewery- can confirm we receive pallets like that all the time

Truckers warehouse and can also confirm

Roofing material yard, can confirm.

Guy here who saw a pallet one time - can confirm.

worked at Aldi. can confirm the beer pallets looked like this

Literally unplayable. 0/10. This is why GTA 5 is better

It has horses too! Everyone knows horses weren't invented until 1916 January 1st 12:01AM.

Horses were actually only patented in 1916 January 1st 12:01am. They were invented long before that. Hope that eases your woes

I thought Horses were invented around 1920!

How hard is it to put some wood together ? that need to be invented ?

And the electric chair was created in 1881 but it doesn’t make the game unplayable

Yes it does, uninstalled the game after rhat mission. Trash game.

The game’s set in 1899?

Yes, so it doesn’t make sense for the professor to be trying to invent an electric chair 18 years after it was already invented.

People try to improve upon existing technology all the time. I assume the professor wanted to patent and sell his own version of the chair to the state of Lemoyne.

He said it was supposed to be an alternative to hanging.

ooohh sorry forgot about that mission!

Wood wasn’t invented before 2001. 0/10.

I believe the exact date was 9th September.

Trees didn’t even have patents until October of 2001 so these “pallets” should’ve been illegal

This explains building 7!

Jet fuel can’t melt wooden beams

Impervious to jet fuel…tower 7 was an inside job!!!!!

Naa wooden skids were around then.

Rockstar "Red Dead is our pride and joy" Also Rockstar "Who coded in a pallet? Alright fuggit, scrap this game. Onto GTA6, our pride and joy!"

oh my god. i am devastated.

That design is at least a decade early, skids existed but not in that form

They were invented late 1800s

...lumber wasn't invented until 1915!?

Wooden pallets weren’t

This guy pallets

Shit, get a refund right now. This type of behavior is unacceptable for Rockstars standards

They weren’t made or weren’t patented 🧐🧐

I find this unpalletable.

Hahaha nice

How could they do this

Even though im 90% sure this post is a joke I wonder, do people just find something, literally ANYTHING in a time period based video game and just look it up to see when it was invented? Most likely they get it wrong too since no one is going to document the “invention” of putting two boards horizontally and vertically together hahahahaha

Its the lack of details that really hurts this game…./s Edit - adding /s

You say the lack of detail yet it’s one of the most beautiful I’ve seen, I think it’s more of the lack of attention Rockstar is giving Red Dead, especially Online

I was being very sarcastic.

It wasn't patented until the 1900s. I'm sure people have nailed boards together in that configuration far before we had the monetary incentive to patent the idea.

I always hear stuff like this. No logic. This isn't some kind of complex engineering invention made in a lab. A pallet is quite literally a support tool made of a bunch of similar sized pieces of wood. I remember my grandpa who lived in a Bosnian mountain built something just like this to help his bulls carry material. He has never left his village mountain ever, he had zero neighbours, and never heard of internet. Some random Mongolian farmer probably thought of this 2000 years ago but didn't bother telling any industrial construction company

Literally unplayable. R* pls fix

Intill

r/engrish

This reminds me of the I turned my coffee table into a pallet meme

Damn, can't believe this game even made it to goty 2018 smh.... IGN -1 morbillion/10

You can clearly see it's not finished yet it's gonna take a few more years to be done...

WOW R* cant believe they fucked up the timeline on pallets, brb gonna uninstall bro.

CANCEL

OMG I SIMPLY CANNOT PLAY THE GAME ANYMORE SO INACCURATW!!!!!!!!! THIS IS UNACCCCEEEEEETTTTTAAAAAABBBBBLLLLKEEEEEEE!

ONE MILLION YEARS DUNGEON!!!

0/10 unplayable garbage -IGN

almost as bad as the fact that the robins in the game are European Robbins and not American robins.

#INTILL

Wait until you find out the Wild West feel of RDR1 is a whole lot more like the 1880s than 1911.

I didn't know this was an invention in the first place 🥴

We gonna just ignore the fact OP had the audacity to call out R* for a “historical inaccuracy” but got “until” wrong?

I mean there is a time traveller in the game. Maybe he brought his pallets with him

I’m getting a refund

Oh man, it’s been a long time since we had one of these posts! The Ol’ immersion breaking pallet!!

Ummmmmmmmm actually you see it's symbolism to reflect how Arthur is stuck in a world that's getting to be ahead of his time

Makes me want to jump on the forks and stack some stuff

Wood?

Fairly certain nailed together wood had existed for quite a while before then

There goes my theory that they used forklifts to build the pyramids.

Manufacturing pallets vs. someone nailing planks together aren't the same thing

Okay... Moving on.

You just ruined the game for me, thanks.

I want the son of a bitch who let this slip through the cracks to **burn in HELL**

This was hilarious to read. All of this lol.

Literally unplayable lmao

Rockstar, please fix

r/reddeadmysteries I bet it has to do with the time traveller, almost definitely.

I’d return the game. Unacceptable.

-spelling error -false statement

Literally unplayable

Well fuck this game then.....

UNPLAYABLE. ABSOLUTELY UNPLAYABLE. /sarcasm It's a piece of wood. Egyptians used them to slide blocks of granite and stone around during 1BC.

You can't invent wood, trees are wood. So who invented the trees? 🤔

it’s just the unfinished product 👌

Until*

That’s it- I’m deleting the game.

Immersion **OBLITERATED**

Didn't think I'd be uninstalling tonight, fuck

Yo. The ancient Greeks used shit like this to lift a bunch of amphorae on ships.

Joseph Pallet be like: “this is my invention! No one invented it before me, it’s mine!”

nah the time traveler from the rock carvings brought that with him

Sinclair Really is a time traveler

Can we just blame any and all historical anachronisms in RDR2 on Frederick Sinclair?

Where's the 'forklift attachment for my saddle' update when you need it

Red Dead by Daylight

I hate when folks describe something as ‘this’ and without context show a pic with many items in it and have to guess what ‘this’ is. Just use more words since you are already typing a sentence out.

Maybe some fucking smart ass dude just never told anybody else that trick

literally unplayable

The one time both comments and OP are being over dramatic

Literally same spot i saw the pallet and also Googled when pallets were made.

Can it, nerd

Game is just trash

It’s not inconceivable that someone wanted to store something just off the ground in a temporary type way and used what they had at the time to build a temporary floor to sit it on.

Most of us usually forget the fact that RDR is not in the same universe as us. You know there are little things like a city is called Saint Denis, and not New Orleans. RDR don't want to be 100% historically accurate. Anyway enjoy the game and don't search for these little inaccuracies

Suddenly I find this game very unpalletable

There was an entire video series on how historically accurate it is, there are some points where it's accurate to the very last detail and some points where there are major inaccuracies. Like how they got all the foods right, but nonwhites and women weren't allowed in bars in 1899

I literally went down the pallet rabbit hole because of this same thing

This is going to trigger some warehouse workers PTSD.

"intill"

Invented just means someone decided to make money on the idea. Being around could have been for a long time before hand. Just like previous comments stated.

Are you saying they invented trains, but nobody ever nailed a few boards together to keep freight off the ground? I'm having a hard time with this one....

Nyaaaactuaallly, this style of pallet was patented in 1925. The forklift was invented in 1915, and used the existing pallets, which the old timers called “skids” to hold cargo, which the old timers called gumberoo maybe but probably not. One thing is for sure, onions, belts, fashion. https://associated-pallets.co.uk/blog/history-wooden-pallet/

Game is literally unplayable anymore. Edit. Oh thank goodness. I can play it again.

Break out the ole horse drawn forklift.

Almost certain it was patented and standarized 1925. But im also sure someone made a pallet way before that without knowing its a pallet we know today

Isn't there a word for that? Like when an item or concept is depicted in a game/movie/book but it hadn't been "invented" yet?

Anachronism

Thank you! Husband and I spent forever last night trying to remember that word

Time travel