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[Lord Shonus]

That is The Oregon Trail, an edutainment game that was ubiquitous in American schools in the late 80s and early 90s. It involves the player attempting to survive the overland trek to Oregon in the 1880s. A possible shortcut on that trail is Donner Pass, where a party of settlers, trapped by a snowstorm, survived by eating some of their less fortunate companions. The most common death in that game was disease, most often dysentery.

[Parsely]

Hilarious game.

[mastahcheese]

Hilarious game.

The first time I ever played it, I spend literally 20 minutes nitpicking exactly what supplies I'd take. I had an extra of every single wagon part, except an axle, because I ran out of points.
Started the game. Literally 10 seconds in (The starting town was literally still frelling visible) and my axle breaks.
...
The game basically took all of my time, and gave me the finger for it.
Eventually, I beat it, though.

[Xantalos]

It was so satisfying to do.

[Bauglir]

I, too, eventually beat it. But then they explicitly banned baseball bats from the computer lab.

[Xantalos]

Watching that newish Hulk movie, and I'm kinda disappointed because of how little damage there was to the normal humans he tangoed with.

[Furtuka]

Hulk not actually squishing people much is actually one of his things. Nobody is really sure how that happens. But in the event that he actually does it tends to get retconed

[Gamerlord]

Fanfiction.net is fucking up for me. DAMNIT I HAVE TOO MUCH STUFF TO READ FOR YOU TO FUCK UP ON ME YOU BASTARD.

[Parsely]

Watching that newish Hulk movie, and I'm kinda disappointed because of how little damage there was to the normal humans he tangoed with.

Right? I know the guy he fought was supposed to be some kind of badass normal but the Hulk is a bit heavier than a tank. >.>

[Tiruin]

I can't actually write well. >__>
Yay me.

[Tack]

What happened to the 'People have given me very positive feedback about my writing'?

[Iceblaster]

Oh joy

I'm in another one of my moods and everything is terrible now. I swear everyone else is all joyful and pretty much emphasizing how down I feel for no goddamn reason other than, 'I'm not like them and that's bad because they'd get fucking mad' and I can't get out of it no matter how hard I try.

So here I am at my computer telling the world how I feel because somehow that helps

PRE-POST EDIT:

Sorry if this sounds a bit pessimistic and all the other choice words however right now I don't really care how I sound.

[Tack]

I wouldn't worry about it. We all do it, and the anonymity is good for making you feel less guilty about airing your angst.

[Yoink]

I feel down right now, too. Commiserations!

[IronTomato]

That is The Oregon Trail, an edutainment game that was ubiquitous in American schools in the late 80s and early 90s. It involves the player attempting to survive the overland trek to Oregon in the 1880s. A possible shortcut on that trail is Donner Pass, where a party of settlers, trapped by a snowstorm, survived by eating some of their less fortunate companions. The most common death in that game was disease, most often dysentery.

Ah.... Good times, good times. Though you also made me remember why I stopped playing, way back when.

The young and tiny me really liked playing the Oregon Trail on ye olde PC, but one day ye olde PC (and every other PC for some reason) decided that when you put in the Oregon Trail 4 Disk, it would install everything fine, but then not show any NPCs in the town except for shop people. This made it impossible to start, as if you embarked alone, the game promptly crapped its pants and closed itself.

So much nostalgia though... Maek me cri everytim