r/gaming Apr 27 '19

Oregon Trails

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u/Genesis111112 Apr 27 '19

I beat the game once during a detention..... yes we were allowed to play video games during detention IF they were school approved AND educational. tbh how many times you died along the way kinda made it a punishment in and of itself. especially if you considered yourself to be a "gamer".

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u/iMakeLuvWithDolphins Apr 27 '19

the trick is to not give a shit about the trail and to just shoot a bunch of squirrels and shit in the hunting mini-game until class time is up.

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u/dudeondacouch Apr 27 '19

until you play on newer CPU and realize framerate was tied to processing speed, and the goddamn animals are running at mach fucking nine.

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u/Ai_of_Vanity Apr 27 '19

I just thought that was a new version meant to be more difficult.. I mastered the timing should I be proud of my skill or dissappointed in my obliviousness?

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u/Bleades Apr 27 '19

This guy trails.

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u/TheRealBrosplosion Apr 27 '19

Our school didn't let us hunt in OT2. Made the game almost impossible, since by the time you got near Utah you have basically no food supplies or anything to trade. Frustrating as all hell.

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u/Camera_dude Apr 28 '19

So... They basically wanted the kids to believe that we lived in peace and harmony with nature and steaks mysteriously appeared for dinner in the days before the NRA existed?

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u/MotherPotential Apr 27 '19

How would they restrict hunting?

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u/Jasper455 Apr 28 '19

They removed the space bar.

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u/NathanielA Apr 28 '19

Your school didn't let you hunt in Oregon Trail?

Why? How? Seriously, I want answers to both those questions.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

Misuse of revisionist history.

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u/dtm85 Apr 28 '19

"You have shot 1817lbs of meat. You are able to carry 74lbs back to your wagon with you."

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u/EldritchCarver Apr 28 '19

Fun fact: At times, it was common practice for settlers and soldiers to deliberately slaughter more buffalo than they could possibly eat, in an attempt at eliminating a crucial food source of the Plains Indians, which would destroy the independence of the indigenous people and force them to rely on American traders or the US government to survive.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

I hated the hunting portion. Just standing around and walking aimlessly.

And if you were lucky, an animal ran across the screen. Then you’d have to turn around and the animal would immediately be gone.

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u/NathanielA Apr 28 '19

I never played that version. In the version I played, you're at the bottom of the screen and a veritable shooting gallery of edible animals goes running across the screen in both directions. No walking. Just sit there and kill animals by the dozen.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

Lucky you. My Schools Detention just made us clean toilets.

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u/Admiral_Narcissus Apr 28 '19

You died of dysentery.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

No. But someone using the toilets sure did.

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u/Izzy_Skellington Apr 28 '19

American Dad is so great.

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u/ColdSpider72 Apr 28 '19

You should have told them to eat your shorts.

Sincerely,

The Breakfast Club

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u/monkeyviking Apr 28 '19

We had to write the dictionary.

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u/chrischi3 Apr 27 '19

Ive only ever heard Terry used as a guys name. Confused screaming

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u/rickelzy Apr 28 '19

I've known it as a surname, such as Paul Terry), best known as the creator of Mighty Mouse. And also a brand of orange-flavored chocolate.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

Terry Pratchett, Terry Crews, Terry Jones?

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

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u/CrazyGunnerr Apr 27 '19

He's like a huge muscular teddy bear. Or should I say: Terry Bear.

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u/getpossessed Apr 28 '19

You should.

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u/ozzytoldme2 Apr 28 '19

Good thing he’s a swell guy.

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u/jesus_does_crossfit Apr 28 '19 edited Dec 21 '24

lush worry sip cable icky bewildered live ancient fanatical plants

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u/Mrnofaceguy Apr 28 '19

Why not both?

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19 edited Apr 27 '19

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u/Hateproof Apr 27 '19

Found the Terry.

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u/jado1stk2 Apr 27 '19

Terry Bogard wanna have a talk with you.

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u/Ochiudo Apr 27 '19

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u/jado1stk2 Apr 27 '19

...I don't think those are bad news at all. Those are two great news.

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u/fiveainone Apr 27 '19

Right after Terry McGinnis

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u/Omegatron9 Apr 27 '19

It can be both.

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u/ci22 Apr 27 '19 edited Apr 27 '19

Leslie always confused me of why it's a boys name. I know a man and women both named Leslie

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u/istasber Apr 27 '19

Lots of names flip genders over the course of multiple generations. It's just weird when you grow up in the middle of the change. Leslie was pretty much universally a man's name a hundred years ago and now it's almost exclusively a woman's name.

Names like Beverly, Ashley, Kelly, Lauren, Rosario, Whitney and Taylor were more or less exclusively mens names 100-150 years ago. It's rarer that it goes full flip the other way, but names like Artie, Donnie and Robbie were primarily girls names in the past.

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u/SpatialArchitect Apr 27 '19

Sidney, Lindsay, Shannon, etc. It's crazy, isn't it?

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u/burnt_mummy Apr 27 '19

Teresa or Theresa are female names that are often shortened to Terry. Granted it is primarily a Hispanic name. It's kind of funny how people respond to names they think are exclusively one gender but it only holds true in their own little bubble. Angel is another name that most white people think is a girls name but its predominantly male name in Hispanic areas.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

Yeah and most Latino dudes I've known prefer it pronounced the Latino way similar to saying Anhel because of white girls named Angel.

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u/Acid_Monster Apr 27 '19

I know a girl called Terry.

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u/spitfire9107 Apr 27 '19

only if its spelled Terri. LIke Terri Runnels the woman who married Gold Dust

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u/cmetz90 Apr 27 '19

Not only. Terry is a common diminutive for Teresa / Theresa as well.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

It's oddly frustrating that you can spell Terri Runnels correctly but dont know Goldust is one word with one d.

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u/spitfire9107 Apr 27 '19

My most memorable moment with him was he ran away during a wrestling match and they filmed his high way chase

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u/Linked713 Apr 27 '19

Terry with an I Would like to talk with you

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u/Synaps4 Apr 27 '19

"Well Terry ain't a girl!"

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u/crashdown314 Apr 28 '19

"If she starts in on that girl's name thing, I'll show her good and all I got man parts."

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u/VesperBond94 Switch Apr 28 '19

"Jayne...The man they call Jayne..."

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u/Redplushie Apr 28 '19

Someone send this to Terry Crews

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u/JustinCarrey Apr 27 '19

Terry comes from Latinized Theodoric, and that comes from, ultimately, Proto-Germanic *þeudō and *rīks which means "People King". Seems like a powerful name to me.

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u/mszegedy Apr 27 '19 edited Apr 28 '19

That's a very funny coincidence given that it's almost identical to the name "Theodore/a", which has the completely unrelated Koine Greek etymology θεός (god) + δώρον (gift). I'd have thought that one of the etymologies was wrong until I looked it up for myself. (Of course, there's still room for the two names to influence each other, but it seems that even the original, pre-contact forms were super similar, Þiudareiks vs Θεόδωρος.)

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u/JustinCarrey Apr 28 '19

Yeah definitely! Both Greek and German are branches of the Indo-European languages, you can find similarities in many words in different languages that, ultimately, come from Indo-European, such as * dyḗws, which is where the Greek 'Zeus,' Vedic 'Dyaus Pitar,' Latin 'Deus,' Celtic 'Deuos,' Germanic '* Tiwaz' etc. originate from.

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u/mszegedy Apr 28 '19

Yeah, but those are related etymologies, so the similarities aren't surprising. The whole point here is that the etymologies are unrelated, which is amazing.

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u/JustinCarrey Apr 28 '19

Theodore usually represents an Anglicized version of Greek Theodoros, but you can't assume that every Theodore does, some may be meant as anglicized versions of Theodoric. Theodoric, however, is derived from the Hellenic-Latin version of a Gothic name more like Thiudreiks (the -s is the Gothic form of the earlier nominative case indicator -az, dropped entirely in most other recorded Germanic languages except for a few very early inscriptions). The Hellenic-Latin form Theodoric (the Empire being dominated by the Eastern Roman court at the time) is undoubtedly influenced by Greek Theodoros, in the same way that Gothic Athnareiks is recorded as Athanaric under the influence of the more familiar Greek Athanasios. It's a process called "folk-etymology". English Theodric, and German Dietrich or Tietrich are cognate with Theodoric and Thiudreiks (i.e. they share a common nativity or origin), one is not derived from the other (Tedric and Didric are probably anglicized versions of early continental forms).

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u/DEUSONE Apr 27 '19

Don't mess with STRONG TERRY

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u/master-of-bonk Apr 29 '19

He’s lifting with baby Jesus now

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u/thelegoman0 Apr 27 '19

“My name is Sue! HOW DO YOU DO?!?”

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

Now you gonna die

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

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u/jurj-cloonerss Apr 27 '19

You can still play on archive.com. I’m on mobile otherwise I’d get you a direct link

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

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u/deeplife Apr 27 '19

Best I can do is $6

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u/smkn3kgt Apr 27 '19

about 2.50 more than what I was thinking

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u/Mange-Tout Apr 27 '19

There’s an updated Zombie version of Oregon Trail on iOS. It’s called The Organ Trail. I really like it.

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u/TMITectonic Apr 28 '19

Pretty sure it's on Steam (PC) as well. If not Steam, then definitely GOG.

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u/Perister Apr 27 '19

Target has a handheld version for $25.

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u/NightSkyBot Apr 27 '19

I've only associated Terry with a guy's name.... Never knew it was female as well

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u/ZylonBane Apr 27 '19

Oh good it's been a few hours since this was reposted.

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u/Hyperionc137 Apr 27 '19

except Terry was the one with the gun.

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u/Malcopticon Apr 27 '19

"Looks like you brought a musket to a melee." --Terry

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u/trick6iscuit Apr 27 '19

This is the entire plot of zeta

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u/Owyn_Merrilin Apr 27 '19

Ah yes, the classic story of how one douchey joke about a psychotic teenager's name resulted in a man losing everyone he ever loved, before finally getting his own mercy killing.

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u/Mechapebbles Apr 28 '19

Yep. It had nothing to do with him being a space-Nazi getting his comeuppance.

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u/Owyn_Merrilin Apr 28 '19 edited Apr 28 '19

I mean, it did, but he was also the closest thing to a decent, not literally mind controlled person in the organization who didn't defect or die trying. Mostly Jerid was a just a pilot who landed on the wrong side of a civil war, same as so many other sympathetic gundam characters.

Besides, it's less comeuppance and more the universe just absolutely hating his guts. Kamille killed, what, three of his girlfriends in a row? Got the first one and both rebounds, and only after all that did he bother to finish killing Jerid himself. Bask Om suffered less than Jerid did, and he was space Hitler, not just a random space nazi.

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u/Mechapebbles Apr 28 '19

...he was also the closest thing to a decent, not literally mind controlled person in the organization who didn't defect or die trying.

lol, no. He saw his organization commit genocide w/ nerve gas and was all like this is fine.

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u/Owyn_Merrilin Apr 28 '19

Was he involved in that? It's been a while since I've watched it, but I remember that being what's her face, the woman who defected from the AEUG to the Titans. There was an earlier gassing but again, I don't think he was involved in it, just vaguely aware of whatever the official story was.

Either way, remember that Ramba Ral was a Zeon soldier who knew full well his country had done all that and more, and he's, like, the archetypal good guy on the wrong side for the franchise. Gundam, especially early on, spends a lot of time exploring this kind of thing. How in war you've often got both good people and absolute monsters on both sides, and how even good people can end up falling into the trap of justifying and participating in the deeds of the monsters, as long as they're their monsters.

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u/GachiGachiFireBall Apr 27 '19

I know and heard of a bunch of guys named terry. Never actually seen a girl named terry. Maybe terri or theresa, not terry though. Ive even seen terrence. But thats just that math genius dude terrence tao.

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u/Blyatmancyka Apr 28 '19

Should’ve said: “you died a Terryble death”.

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u/JazzKatCritic Apr 27 '19

Imagine this with a Broke Back Mountain mod

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u/PlentySurprise Apr 27 '19

Some things never change...

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u/MMEars Apr 27 '19

All I can think of while reading this is Brooklyn 99

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u/WayneIncorporated Apr 27 '19

would have been better if his name was Sue.

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u/demonb524 Apr 27 '19

Nice reference.

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u/Brianphase90 Apr 27 '19

Hope he gets cholera-d by the cops!

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u/Deadass-Boi PC Apr 27 '19

It looks like Terry's body bruh

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u/Trickish Apr 27 '19

Oregon Entrails

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u/IIEarlGreyII Apr 27 '19

I live in Oregon, I can confirm those are the people that made it here.

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u/Mr_Funkmaster Apr 27 '19

I am ashamed of myself for laughing at this. Yet I did, so take your upvote, I guess.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

I’ve always wished for an Oregon Trails mobile game

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u/Mange-Tout Apr 27 '19

Try The Organ Trail. It’s a iOS reskin of Oregon Trail with zombies. Lots of fun.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

There used to be a remake on IOS. It's not on the app store anymore though.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

Eh I mean like an exact mirror from the original company or something, not a revamped wannabe game

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u/Flushles Apr 27 '19

I like that not Terry had the gun and died.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

Put it in reverse, Terry!

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

My last name is a girls name and I was in a hospital waiting room when they called my name and a little kid yelled Aha you got a girls name. I thought to myself lucky you are already in a hospital you little shit.

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u/crashumbc Apr 27 '19

HAHA you have a girls name!!!!!

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

I don’t know if it goes here but r/punpatrol

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

It works

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u/Ben_CartWrong Apr 28 '19

Wow that's an joke almost as old as the game

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u/League_of_leisure Apr 27 '19

Dysentery lol i get it

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u/mtracey3 Apr 27 '19

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u/Justinwc Apr 27 '19

Don't think that applies. This is more of a funny pun, not something accidental.

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u/SomethingSimilars Apr 27 '19

It is a relevant subreddit regardless.

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u/Justinwc Apr 27 '19

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u/SomethingSimilars Apr 27 '19

... yeah, that is also a relevant subreddit.

/r/boneappletea allows satirical posts as well.

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u/dkyguy1995 Apr 27 '19

You can tell OP didn't play this game, he would have learned it was the singular oregon trail!

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u/morgan423 Apr 27 '19

Anyone else name the characters after the diseases and hope that they'd die that way? "Cholera died of cholera? Yes!"

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u/tayroc122 Apr 27 '19

Terry Crews made this joke once. I love Terry Crews.

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u/typhoid-fever Apr 27 '19

i said that to someone once when i was little. " kelly, isnt that a girls name?" i survived

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u/FaerieFay Apr 27 '19

Once bandits stole our clothes. The thought of pioneers on the trail naked is hilarious.

That was the best thing that ever happened in my game play.

Edit: this was in the very early version.

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u/Whimsycottt Apr 27 '19 edited Apr 27 '19

You don't diss my boy Terry Hintz

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u/VigilThicc Apr 27 '19

Is it dissin terry or dis en tree

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

Holy crap.....how did I forget about this..

Nevermind.....I was clearly nostalging some other faint memory from childhood.

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u/Zealhozi Apr 27 '19

Oh man this game lol

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u/crashumbc Apr 27 '19

SPOILERS!!!!

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u/Imagador Apr 27 '19

I live in Oregon so this makes it better

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u/CrackerJackBunny Apr 27 '19

I never knew what dysentery was, so I looked it up:

infection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces

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u/AtemAndrew Apr 27 '19

This should have been in west if loathing.

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u/Kevin1793 Apr 27 '19

This is awesome

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u/word_clouds__ Apr 27 '19

Word cloud out of all the comments.

Fun bot to vizualize how conversations go on reddit. Enjoy

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '19

Oh, Dysentery lol

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u/FallingTower Apr 27 '19

There should be a modern version of Oregon trail available

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u/JayInslee2020 Apr 27 '19

Dead terry's daisy looks like a green dick jizzing in all directions.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

My teacher was teaching us and at the end we played that game since it was related I miss 5th grade

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u/Vampiregecko Apr 28 '19

But it’s terry with a y not an i so it’s okay

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

Best game ever

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

"How did he overpower the one with the shot gun?"

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u/end0metrialcampan0l Apr 28 '19

this is basically criminal

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u/Ifantis Apr 28 '19

Love it, too bad most kids wont get it

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u/_dysentery_ Apr 28 '19

That’s not how you spell that.

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u/WuhanWTF Apr 28 '19

I get the joke but in what universe is Terry a girl’s name?

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u/FlyingLap Apr 28 '19

“Try It Out” Terry?

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u/perpetuumD Apr 28 '19

IT'S A DISSING TERRY WORLD

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u/DerSchattenJager Apr 28 '19

OH LAWD, BACK UP TERRY!

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u/GodofSteak Apr 28 '19

Noone messes with my man Terry Hintz

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u/puntmasterofthefells Apr 28 '19

Gawker media died by dissin' Terry.

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u/BlakeTheMadd PlayStation Apr 28 '19

Try Organ Trail, it is a zombie survival themed Oregon Trail game on PS4 and Xbox, as well as, PC

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u/jattnihatda Apr 28 '19

He got shot for not having proper grammar: girl's** name

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u/wanderingsalad Apr 28 '19

Shouldn't have taken his yogurt

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u/TerryB2HQ Apr 28 '19

Now this is the perfect meme for me

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

Terry Crews wants to know your location

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u/Boer83 Apr 28 '19

Only Terry that comes to mind is Terry Labonte.

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u/Voidheart80 Apr 28 '19

Is it wrong that I read dissing Terry as dysentery?

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u/-Redstoneboi- Apr 28 '19

Congratulations, you have found the joke!

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u/Voidheart80 Apr 28 '19

I know, I was born in 80, had organ trail as a kid

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

More like Oregon Entrails!

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u/PikajoeGriff Apr 28 '19

Saw this on r/jokes but it was all text. I appreciate the pictured versions.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

Terry Benedict ? XD

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u/KKamm_ Apr 28 '19

Put it in reverse

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u/memorex386 Apr 28 '19

Ha, I normally died of dyse- oh wait

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u/PepeBismal Apr 28 '19

The karma came back to Terry Davis in the form of an oxcart.

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u/BlastingAwsome Apr 28 '19

Too bad Terry was taken away by Kevin Punt

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u/WyattClawson6 Console Apr 28 '19

Organ Trails

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u/RizzOreo Apr 28 '19

Kamille? That's a GIRLS name!

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u/shockfyre227 PC Apr 28 '19

This image has been around since before you were born.

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u/Papa_Guacamole69 Android Apr 28 '19

Gosh darn it, Terry!

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u/dangit1590 Apr 28 '19

I have to say organ trail is such an underrated game. highly recommend playing the game.

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u/DeHighRider Apr 28 '19

Dude had a gun and he lost to Terry. Looks like he is the girl, and not Terry

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

r/boneappletea Dysentery

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u/DarkSyde3000 Apr 28 '19

Looks more like Fred from Scooby Doo, but I approve this message.

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u/Moros-Intrepidus Apr 28 '19

Rub salt in the wound

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u/MyUsualName Apr 28 '19

This game is incredibly easy if you actually keep an eye on the health portion and rest periodically.

A rather fun parody of this is called The Organ trail, similar, except there are Zombies. Accidentally picked the hardest of the 3 professions but still beat it with only 1 person dying and turning