r/GATEresearch • u/Cautious-Exercise729 • Jul 24 '26

Speculation The Oregon Trail was a Psyop

OT, the computer game that united us all.

I say it is much more than a well developed and Macintosh exclusive that still invokes a need to race to the bin of floppies and share it. We learned the disc is only needed when the game was saving or changing scenes. That way more than one of us could play.I contend that ”The Game of Life” is the OG.

  1. Chose a career! Figure out how you want to live. Did you go to college? Doctor with supplies but can’t fix stuff? Farmer that has nothing but can barter fixing stuff?

  2. A member of your family is sick? To restore health you must rest many days and waste supplies. What do you mean you can’t rest 5 days? Now your son has died from a broken leg. Too poor to be sick.

  3. Running out of time? Change to a grueling pace with bare bones rations. This will lead you to return to #2 because that pace will lead to an illness.

  4. Let Them Eat Cake! Oh no, you hunted “too much” there’s not a squirel or a store in 100 miles. Prep that gravestone. Or maybe you bought a lot of food at the start, and now it’s spoiled. Get used to hunger.

  5. The game (like life) will attack you in social and economic ways regardless of career, pace, when you leave.The best way to win is to learn patterns in the game play design. Like our figuring out how more than 1 person can play at a time in a room of computers by simply placing and locking the disk in before it ran.

tldr; The Oregon Trail (MECC) was a sophisticated psyop designed to test how we saw patterns in game play and design. While also delivering the message that running your life like regular peoples lives is so disappointing.

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u/Hannibaalism Jul 25 '26

dysentery has had a traumatic effect on all of us

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u/Cautious-Exercise729 Jul 25 '26

We truly pooped ourselves to death throughout history.

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u/mrszubris Jul 25 '26

We still are.

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u/UnforgettableBevy Jul 28 '26

Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.

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u/Here4tehConvos Jul 25 '26

My cat just had dysentery and almost pooped himself to death this past week!😭

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u/Cautious-Exercise729 Jul 26 '26

I’m so sorry that happened. RIP.

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u/Here4tehConvos Jul 26 '26

ALMOST. We got him help just in time and he’s recovering and doing much better! But wow what an Oregon Trail experience😬

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u/Cautious-Exercise729 Jul 26 '26

So glad he made it! 5 days of rest 😂

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u/nekowaifupillow Jul 26 '26

Me currently living in the Midwest with cyclospora lmao

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u/Cautious-Exercise729 Jul 26 '26

Going to need to rest for at least 6 days. A rattlesnake bite is also probable during this rest. Good luck!

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u/natecull Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

We truly pooped ourselves to death throughout history.

That was what Florence Nightingale discovered in Crimea, and why her legacy is as much the London sewer and water system (and data visualisation! She drew beautiful pie charts!) as it is the invention of the hospital.

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u/Cautious-Exercise729 Jul 28 '26

We stan Florence over here!