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Wait, your friends in the 80s didn't believe the United States had automobiles?
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Jun 30, 2019 02:16
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I don't think it's that unusual for grade school kids anywhere to come to strange conclusions about other countries. I could see a combination of national pride, American stereotypes, and just students not paying full attention in history class causing the misconception that the USA is some weird backwater full of cowboys who eat nothing but hamburgers.
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Jun 30, 2019 03:04
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Epicurius posted:Wait, your friends in the 80s didn't believe the United States had automobiles? When I was in elementary school I refused to believe that NYC had shopping malls or supermarkets because “where would the parking lot be?” Kids are dumb.
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Jun 30, 2019 03:17
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Epicurius posted:Wait, your friends in the 80s didn't believe the United States had automobiles? I was actually trying to be hyperbolic... apparently not enough, ironically.
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Jun 30, 2019 04:06
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Locking the wheels worked!.png) We're in pretty serious mountain territory here. .png) So serious that we can't make this slope by just continuing as normal. We have to pick something.
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Jun 30, 2019 20:15
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I don't think we can get our wagon load much lighter. Double-team.
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Jun 30, 2019 20:31
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Double team it.
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Jun 30, 2019 21:01
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No water seems like a significant problem.
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Jun 30, 2019 21:02
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Ah, we have, uh, canteens and some water stored, right? please tell me we have some water
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Jun 30, 2019 21:12
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I missed something on this run... you started the game with gently caress-all moneys because you're a teacher and, as I can attest, they earn shite wages. You spent most of it at the start of the game as per usual, but you've stopped at a few shops along the way and you had a bunch of money again... what did I miss? Seriously not taking the piss; I'm genuinely confused. I thought that the point of the low-money professions was to spend all of the player's money at the start of the game and then have to get by with tuppence in the pocket and eating sand for nourishment. On another note, this game made me break out the original OT. I've never beaten it with the farmer who has only $400, so I started with the carpenter who has $800. Everything was grand until suddenly a thief somehow stole all four of my oxen in the middle of the night. I'm not sure if he led them away with yummy treats or somehow carried off four enormous beasts, but I quit at that point. *That*, right there, was taking the piss. I imagined the Hamburgler somehow carrying away this huge bloody bovine on his shoulders with exaggerated tippy-toe stealth.
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Jun 30, 2019 23:28
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Or perhaps your party was visited by a UFO in the 1800s? 
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Jun 30, 2019 23:40
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Destroy All Humans is really a sequel to Oregon Trail.
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Jun 30, 2019 23:45
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All caught up and only one death throughout this whole time?! Amateurs. I used to name my kids after the seven virtues, and then when one died go off hunting and murder the gently caress out of any animal I could find in a rampage of grief. DOUBLETEAM JustJeff88 posted:I missed something on this run... you started the game with gently caress-all moneys because you're a teacher and, as I can attest, they earn shite wages. You spent most of it at the start of the game as per usual, but you've stopped at a few shops along the way and you had a bunch of money again... what did I miss? Seriously not taking the piss; I'm genuinely confused. I thought that the point of the low-money professions was to spend all of the player's money at the start of the game and then have to get by with tuppence in the pocket and eating sand for nourishment. Yeah, I'm not sure how we got so much money.
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Jul 2, 2019 02:04
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Double-team.
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Jul 2, 2019 02:11
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Check the hill's conditions. Then wait, rest awhile, and check them again to get an idea of how long full erosion will take. When I was in fifth grade the school introduced quizzes you could take on the computer to prove you'd read a book on a reading list. Each were worth a certain amount of points that could be used to buy snacks, toys and items from a kiosk outside the cafeteria, or 30 minutes of free time in class. I was a fast reader and hoarded the poo poo out of those things and would spend literally half a day at a time smugly playing either Oregon Trail or Sim Ant while the other kids regarded me with hate and envy. Not sure what version it was, but it would've been in 1994 or so.
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Jul 2, 2019 02:47
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Double-teaming hasn't failed us yet!JustJeff88 posted:I missed something on this run... you started the game with gently caress-all moneys because you're a teacher and, as I can attest, they earn shite wages. You spent most of it at the start of the game as per usual, but you've stopped at a few shops along the way and you had a bunch of money again... what did I miss? Seriously not taking the piss; I'm genuinely confused. I thought that the point of the low-money professions was to spend all of the player's money at the start of the game and then have to get by with tuppence in the pocket and eating sand for nourishment.  .I didn't see anything listed in the intermediate updates explaining where the extra ~500 bucks came from.
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Jul 2, 2019 03:43
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MagusofStars posted:Double-teaming hasn't failed us yet! I honestly have no idea either! There's no way to gain money other than trading with people, which I only had to do once to get gunpowder. This is a pretty glitchy ROM though.
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Jul 2, 2019 03:47
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Found it buried under a post, obviously.
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Jul 2, 2019 04:10
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Their organs were sold on the black market
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Jul 2, 2019 04:42
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All those lost goods? Meaty Ore was selling them off on the side, desperately hoping to get medicine.
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Jul 2, 2019 04:47
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chitoryu12 posted:I honestly have no idea either! There's no way to gain money other than trading with people, which I only had to do once to get gunpowder. This is a pretty glitchy ROM though. I usually assume that I'm the one in error, but it's comforting to know that I'm not entirely mad. If you're keen, I can probably find you another ROM of the game. This one is so loopy that I'm not sure if you're loving with us or if the game is. Edit: I just remembered that this is OT5 and not II; the two look very similar. Still, the offer stands. I've had a lot of practice bending old games into line. JustJeff88 fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Jul 2, 2019 |
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Jul 2, 2019 04:53
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.png) Double-teaming does not work. .png) With ropes and chains, we finally make it out of some of the mountains. But we're not doing good. .png) This is all the food we have left. .png) After finding that we lost our rifle and can't go hunting, we trade a set of clothing for some salt pork. Fight over who will be naked. .png) We need to gather some more food. We've already identified #3 as chokecherries, so you have the rest to pick from.
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Jul 2, 2019 06:03
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Can't believe I missed this thread for so long. It's slightly weird since OT5 is apparently OT2, but with bad cutscenes and the ability to forage for poo poo that will kill you(as opposed to getting generic 'you found some wild fruits/vegetables!' events). On that note, harvest and eat everything.
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Jul 2, 2019 08:06
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Toss, Eat, Eat, Toss I can't believe double-teaming failed us, and I can't believe we lost our rifle!!!
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Jul 2, 2019 12:19
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Pick them all
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Jul 2, 2019 12:28
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Kangxi posted:Pick them all Sounds good to me. Also, hopefully we can trade/buy a new rifle soon, guess the wagon flat out crushed it flat?
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Jul 2, 2019 12:40
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habeasdorkus posted:Toss, Eat, Eat, Toss From my hazy memories of Oregon Trail 3, which also had this mechanic, I think I recognize those pics and would second this. Know 2 is fine, forget what 3 is but almost certain is fine, 1 am pretty sure is poisonous.
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Jul 2, 2019 14:34
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habeasdorkus posted:Toss, Eat, Eat, Toss
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Jul 2, 2019 15:44
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Pick them all and let God sort us out.
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Jul 2, 2019 17:11
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PetraCore posted:Pick them all and let God sort us out.
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Jul 2, 2019 17:30
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PetraCore posted:Pick them all and let God sort us out.
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Jul 2, 2019 17:33
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I did some research and it turns out that 5 is even more similar to II than I thought, so I feel less bad about mistaking the latter for the former. What would be the ultimate difficulty settings to maximise points in this game? I'm only interested in the best possible points at the end without doing metagame challenge things like buying no food to start or loading up on clocks. I know that teacher is the profession with the least money but a 5x score multiplier and that the player doesn't want anyone to die, but apart from that I'm a bit muddy on what influences score.
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Jul 2, 2019 17:37
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habeasdorkus posted:Toss, Eat, Eat, Toss #2 looks like cherry tomatoes, but Europeans thought tomatoes were poisonous because they look similar to actually poisonous plants. So I second this under the assumption that these are sneaky not-tomatoes.
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Jul 2, 2019 18:15
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JustJeff88 posted:What would be the ultimate difficulty settings to maximise points in this game? I'm only interested in the best possible points at the end without doing metagame challenge things like buying no food to start or loading up on clocks. I know that teacher is the profession with the least money but a 5x score multiplier and that the player doesn't want anyone to die, but apart from that I'm a bit muddy on what influences score. If you can accomplish all of those things at once you've probably played way too much OTII/5 for one lifetime.
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Jul 2, 2019 19:10
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Haifisch posted:You want to be a teacher going the longest route possible(as in distance from start city to endpoint) in the earliest year possible, going as fast as possible, while spending as little money as possible and keeping everyone alive and in good health. Also don't use any skill points & keep wagon train morale high. And supplies affect score in some nebulous way. This game is as much luck as skill, though, so if some player is getting that fortunate to pull all of that off in one run then I suggest that he get himself to a casino.
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Jul 2, 2019 21:30
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habeasdorkus posted:Toss, Eat, Eat, Toss
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Jul 2, 2019 21:33
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Current votes: Keep 1: 6 2: 11 3: Confirmed edible 4: 6 Throw out 1: 5 2: 0 3: Confirmed edible 4: 5 Once again, we eat them all!  Should have listened to habeasdorkus: this is black nightshade! Fortunately the poisoning is rarely fatal....except to children. The yellow leaves were black mustard, which is still used today as a spice. This weird thing was actually wild onion!.png) As expected.
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Jul 2, 2019 23:06
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As tempted as I am to be a poo poo and shove more poisonous plants down his throat, we should just continue as usual.
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Jul 2, 2019 23:22
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Continue as usual
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Jul 2, 2019 23:27
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I should point out that he's our 5-year-old, the age most vulnerable to these berries. Meaty Ore was 65 so his time was coming.
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Jul 2, 2019 23:47
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