VN Ren'Py Long Road Home [v10.1 Part 3] [OBDGames]

[ThorinKing]

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Okie is a term, iirc, for someone from Oklahoma. Lots of farmer type jokes attached.

The wind never stops blowing in Oklahoma because Texas sucks, and Kansas blows...

"Okie" was already explained. Pick-ups/trucks are a way of life in some parts of the US (especially in places like Texas, Oklahoma and throughout much of the Southern US and lower Midwest), and with what they cost today, paying one off can put a good grand or more back in your pocket each month to do other things with like support AVN developers.

And Texas doesn't float away into the Gulf of Mexico because Oklahoma sucks.

 

[Dimitri57]

"Okie" was already explained. Pick-ups/trucks are a way of life in some parts of the US (especially in places like Texas, Oklahoma and throughout much of the Southern US and lower Midwest), and with what they cost today, paying one off can put a good grand or more back in your pocket each month to do other things with like support AVN developers.

And Texas doesn't float away into the Gulf of Mexico because Oklahoma sucks.

You should appreciate that Oklahoma provided an appendage for Texas to latch on to! Just watch the teeth...

 

[ThorinKing]

You should appreciate that Oklahoma provided an appendage for Texas to latch on to! Just watch the teeth...

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[EfontMan]

Germany might the closest regional equivalent (Archer refers to it as the Alabama of Europe).

 

[HiHaHo]

Germany might the closest regional equivalent (Archer refers to it as the Alabama of Europe).

well in the end each country has these things for certain places , i myself was born and raised in the part that fellow countrymen consider the rural farming area hahaha so yeah i know

 

[Aristos]

Quick cultural note that probably no one will be interested in: I first bumped into the term "Okie" reading John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
The novel was set in the Great Depression so the term has been around for quite a long time, it seems.
I'm European too, btw.

 

[e6mill]

Quick cultural note that probably no one will be interested in: I first bumped into the term "Okie" reading John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."

I successfully got all the way through school without having to read any Steinbeck or Shakespeare. What a relief!
But I know what okies are.

 

[divingmedic]

I successfully got all the way through school without having to read any Steinbeck or Shakespeare. What a relief!
But I know what okies are.

No Shakespeare for me, luckily I had a pretty cool younger Enlish Lit teacher and we studied (then) modern rock song lyrics. I didn't luck out on Steinbeck the second year of English Lit though.

 

[Dimitri57]

Quick cultural note that probably no one will be interested in: I first bumped into the term "Okie" reading John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
The novel was set in the Great Depression so the term has been around for quite a long time, it seems.
I'm European too, btw.

Yes, it has. I didn't know it was originally a pejorative until I transferred to Bakersfield, California. The local paper put out a special edition chronicling what Bakersfield was like during the height of the migration of Oklahomans to California escaping the dustbowl. They weren't welcomed with open arms. I remember one photo from the downtown movie theater had a sign posted stating that "N-words and Okies had to sit in the balcony".

I worked there for eight years and made many friends. Almost everyone one of them were native Californians but had distant relatives from one side of the family or both that were from Oklahoma. One of our favorite weekend activities was to go the 1/8-mile dirt track to watch motorcycle and stockcar races. The nickname for the track was the "Okie Bowl".

 

[motseer]

Yes, it has. I didn't know it was originally a pejorative until I transferred to Bakersfield, California. The local paper put out a special edition chronicling what Bakersfield was like during the height of the migration of Oklahomans to California escaping the dustbowl. They weren't welcomed with open arms. I remember one photo from the downtown movie theater had a sign posted stating that "N-words and Okies had to sit in the balcony".

I worked there for eight years and made many friends. Almost everyone one of them were native Californians but had distant relatives from one side of the family or both that were from Oklahoma. One of our favorite weekend activities was to go the 1/8-mile dirt track to watch motorcycle and stockcar races. The nickname for the track was the "Okie Bowl".

I've spent some time in Oklahoma and a lot more time in SoCal. I'm not one to stereotype... but, I'd sooner share a foxhole with an Okie than any surfer boy I ever met; though some o' da bois outta Compton and Englewood ain't bad if you can get 'em outta da hood. Jus' Sayin'

 

[FatGiant]

Quick cultural note that probably no one will be interested in: I first bumped into the term "Okie" reading John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
The novel was set in the Great Depression so the term has been around for quite a long time, it seems.
I'm European too, btw.

I must be an exception here then, because I read Steinbeck at an age I really shouldn't have, because... yeah just because... I swear the book started it... not my fault. I credit GoW has the reason I'm a leftist. It is still one of the best books I've read and re-read a few times.

 

[motseer]

I swear the book started it... not my fault. I credit GoW has the reason I'm a leftist.

Well... I guess we can't all be right. 'ave a cuppa on me, m8.

 

[zp560]

anny chance of new update before xmas

 

[muschi26]

I successfully got all the way through school without having to read any Steinbeck or Shakespeare. What a relief!

You might want to give them a shot. Classic literature gets a lot better when a) you’re an adult with more life experience, and b) you aren’t being forced into it for school.

 

[Dimitri57]

anny chance of new update before xmas

I'm working on it every day, but it's the holidays and family commitments determine how much. Plus, bringing the first chapter to an end, makes for complicated scenes. Both in rendering and writing the script. In addition to ending Chapter One, I'm also setting the stage for Chapter Two. I wasn't happy with the flow of the episode based on the sequence of events that must happen to end Chapter One. I'm shifting things around and moving one major event to Chapter Two. I want the player to come away with the feeling of reaching a logical closure to the first phase of the story.

That's a long-winded explanation/excuse to say, I hate to be a Grinch, but there's a better chance of World peace...

 

[HornyyPussy]

I'm working on it every day, but it's the holidays and family commitments determine how much. Plus, bringing the first chapter to an end, makes for complicated scenes. Both in rendering and writing the script. In addition to ending Chapter One, I'm also setting the stage for Chapter Two. I wasn't happy with the flow of the episode based on the sequence of events that must happen to end Chapter One. I'm shifting things around and moving one major event to Chapter Two. I want the player to come away with the feeling of reaching a logical closure to the first phase of the story.

That's a long-winded explanation/excuse to say, I hate to be a Grinch, but there's a better chance of World peace...[i/SPOILER]

Just work at your own pace, celebrate the holidays with your family!

We'll still be here when you get back

 

[wildride69]

You might want to give them a shot. Classic literature gets a lot better when a) you’re an adult with more life experience, and b) you aren’t being forced into it for school.

It's always a bit amazing to me when people admit they are happy in ignorance. Learning should be something people strive for everyday and not just while in school. You are 100% correct classics get way better when you are an adult an can apply critical thinking to stories and life.

 

[e6mill]

It's always a bit amazing to me when people admit they are happy in ignorance. Learning should be something people strive for everyday and not just while in school. You are 100% correct classics get way better when you are an adult an can apply critical thinking to stories and life.

I'm probs better read than you, just not that stuff. I read for enjoyment, not to punish myself. A lot of SF mostly. Back in my school days I could burn through paperbacks in under a minute per page. I can go as far back as Mark Twain with no issues, but those two are barely even English. Might as well read Chaucer (which I have).
So I got your "ignorance" hanging. Exactly which relevant life skills did you learn from Shakespeare? Is it a crime now to know what I like?

 

[wildride69]

I never called you out, quoted you or even referenced your name. You can choose to read or not to read whatever you like.

A good number of people in my opinion choose to be ignorant and choose to avoid critical thinking. I see it I responded to his comment about it, not to you personally. Yes I have read Mark Twain, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Homer, I read to learn and apply critical thinking.

I hope you didn't take it personally as I didn't call you out.

 

[Dimitri57]

I must be an exception here then, because I read Steinbeck at an age I really shouldn't have, because... yeah just because... I swear the book started it... not my fault. I credit GoW has the reason I'm a leftist. It is still one of the best books I've read and re-read a few times.

I rarely agree with but can peacefully co-exist with classic liberals. (Many in my family) The shame is, there doesn't seem to be many left these days.

Leftist Okie trivia, American folk singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. He went to California during the dustbowl. He later wrote the folk classic "This land is your land." which became the anthem of the American Socialist movement in the forties.

Elizabeth Warren is from Oklahoma as well.
Her leaving Oklahoma and moving to Massachusetts raised the I.Q. in both states...

So, we're not all meat eating, knuckle dragging right wingers in Oklahoma...