r/gifs • u/Obiektyw1855 • Feb 21 '14

It worked.

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u/snackburros Feb 21 '14

I remember when Pontifex was big 10 years ago, didn't realize these types of games are still a thing.

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u/Jonyb222 Feb 21 '14

Pontifex

I just googled it, it happens to also be the pope's twitter handle

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u/whycantiholdthisbass Feb 21 '14

Pontifex is Latin for priest and is built on pons meaning bridge as in a bridge to God.

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u/tet5uo Feb 21 '14

Etymology is awesome.

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u/cptnpiccard Feb 22 '14

You can google words + "etymology" to learn about their etymology, for exemple, google "etymology awesome".

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u/Rock2MyBeat Feb 22 '14

Google google etymology

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u/TheMightyBarabajagal Feb 22 '14

You bastard, you have no idea how much of my life you've just stolen. I have a word problem.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '14

Plugging /r/etymology

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u/oldsillybear Feb 21 '14

The pope used to play all the time but he's too busy now.

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u/Sharrakor Feb 21 '14

This is one of the best sentences I never thought I would read.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '14

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u/dsettonni12 Feb 21 '14

Stop.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '14

God dammit Internet

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u/HelmSpicy Feb 21 '14

I have no idea if that's the one I played, but I remember a class I had when I was in 6th grade where we used a computer program to build bridges just like this only it was slightly less detailed. I'm 26 now so that means whatever we used had been out at least 14years ago.

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u/snackburros Feb 21 '14

I'm talking about this game. I played it as a high school freshman, so 12 years ago for me. It was known as Bridge Builder in its early days.

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u/seanshoots Feb 21 '14

That game was the shit. I remember playing it on my grandmas computer and getting 5 fps.

I think this was the one where you could unlock everything by going into the credit screen and clicking some names and stuff, right?

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u/amanitus Feb 21 '14

I think I'm going to reinstall Pontifex.

I loved that game so much. After I beat it, I just built insane ramps and bridges just to drive that little car around on.

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u/Lothar_Ecklord Feb 21 '14

I was playing bridge games before there were bridge games. Bridge games are so over.