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Abdhyius

if this place isn't scandinavia somewhere I'll eat my liver.

I just have no idea where. But it has to be scandinavia. The rock does not look like this many places, the foliage does not look like this anywhere else, but the landscape is confusing me.

Antinumeric

Abdhyius wrote: »

if this place isn't scandinavia somewhere I'll eat my liver.

I just have no idea where. But it has to be scandinavia. The rock does not look like this many places, the foliage does not look like this anywhere else, but the landscape is confusing me.

Australia

Casual

Antinumeric wrote: »

Abdhyius wrote: »

if this place isn't scandinavia somewhere I'll eat my liver.

I just have no idea where. But it has to be scandinavia. The rock does not look like this many places, the foliage does not look like this anywhere else, but the landscape is confusing me.

Australia

south africa

simonwolf

Well, the New Zealand flag is a giveaway in this one

but where in that antipodean zone is it

japan

I'm guessing the maximum score per round must be 6500 points?

Presumably it uses some kind of exponential curve so that you score progressively more the closer you get.

skippydumptruck

this is kinda hilarious to me

Opengate Capital Group LLC filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging that laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc sold it a Mexican plant last year without revealing that a drug cartel was operating there.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/consumer/sns-rt-us-thermofisher-lawsuit-opengatebre94a0g3-20130511,0,7394599.story

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

ok you nerds are good at geography but...

can you beat Gradius III?!?!

I. THINK. NOT.

Antinumeric

simonwolf wrote: »

Well, the New Zealand flag is a giveaway in this one

but where in that antipodean zone is it

Antinumeric wrote: »

Abdhyius wrote: »

if this place isn't scandinavia somewhere I'll eat my liver.

I just have no idea where. But it has to be scandinavia. The rock does not look like this many places, the foliage does not look like this anywhere else, but the landscape is confusing me.

Australia

bowen

So who was that Buddha73 guy? Seems he's an alt but looks like the main account got wise to "liking" what he posted and unliked it?

Antinumeric

Basically whenever I am wrong and put it somewhere else in the world. It turns out to have been Australia.

Whenever I do australia it turns out to be Alaska

Abdhyius

I don't google things I see in the signs, it takes the game out of it for me

but this time I moved down a road until I got any sign of any kind

two clues:



and sign warning of falling rocks that had red border, yellow backing.

so def. scandinavia, not norway. Not that it looked like anywhere in norway.

I guessed the northern parts of finland. It was north sweden.

Which although it is a good guess is still a guess that was a very very large amount of identical low woodlands away.

Jacobkosh

4 out of 5 I was within a single km

the brazil one got me because I foolishly googled the name of the business on the side of a truck, not thinking it could have been 1500km away

bloodyroarxx

morning folks

21stCentury

Sup, Broarx?

Elendil

i don't google, but walking around a little just makes sense to me

plus sometimes you see a UFO

simonwolf

First game completed

21425 points

Casual

Last Active: May 3

He walks among us still

Abdhyius

Oh wow this looks like it could have been anywhere in Norway actually.

were it not for the chinese/japanese lettering.

And the houses. The houses have a very un-steep angled roof. They look a lot like what I've seen of japanese houses tooling around in google street view in northern japan.

It's pretty cool that I can actually recognize a place like this without ever having been within a thousand miles of it.

simonwolf

Easiest way to tell Chinese and Japanese signs apart is to look for anything other than the complex characters thrown in the mix

if there is, you've got yourself a Japan there, mister

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

Antinumeric wrote: »

Basically whenever I am wrong and put it somewhere else in the world. It turns out to have been Australia.

Whenever I do australia it turns out to be Alaska

AustraliAlaska

skippydumptruck

like, I imagine a chubby middle manager in short sleeved button up and looney tunes tie rolling in, travel mug of coffee in hand, ready to chop some dead wood and get this plant in shape!

and he is met at the gate by a couple of guys with ak-47s

Abdhyius

simonwolf wrote: »

Easiest way to tell Chinese and Japanese signs apart is to look for anything other than the complex characters thrown in the mix

if there is, you've got yourself a Japan there, mister

I cannot recognize the difference.

But I do know japanese roofs.

Abdhyius

I don't google it because I am training myself to be abducted into any part of the world and identify my surroundings.

Elendil

i'm reasonably able to distinguish between the writing of various asian countries

i even successfully placed the crazy squiggle letters to southeast asia

21stCentury

I've been up for precisely 39 minutes.

I am bored.

simonwolf

Abdhyius wrote: »

simonwolf wrote: »

Easiest way to tell Chinese and Japanese signs apart is to look for anything other than the complex characters thrown in the mix

if there is, you've got yourself a Japan there, mister

I cannot recognize the difference.

But I do know japanese roofs.

Essentially, if you see anything written with curves (and possibly in a single stroke), it's Japanese

Jacobkosh

so it seems to me that ideally the game should let you choose a research or non-research game, and the latter would immobilize you and force you to just guess. sometimes you end up on a highway in the Yukon at dawn and that's part of the fun.

and if you're playing a research game, your score decreases as the clock ticks. do whatever you have to, move around, google everything you see, but be quick about it.

poshniallo

Jacobkosh wrote: »

desert, trailer homes, English signs, weird-looking pyramidal Christian church, okay, this is obviously the American Southw-

wait a minute

weird-looking road sign

NICE TRY SOUTH AFRICA

The vegetation is really different though. Same with Oz. And you can also guess from things like resolution, road condition, things in the distance.

Just got 13567 no moving.

http://tinyurl.com/d3nzbm5

Though in fairness it was a shitty round but one of my pics was the bridge just north of the Sydney Opera House.

No moving. Never move.

SammyF

bowen wrote: »

So who was that Buddha73 guy? Seems he's an alt but looks like the main account got wise to "liking" what he posted and unliked it?

The purpose to the alt as near as I can tell was to cheat at phalla. The sock puppeting on conservative talking points while rejecting any independently sourced fact that contradicted Fox News was simply the bridge to far that got him busted.

I don't want to say this makes him worse than Hitler, I'm just saying that it's kind of unfortunate that SurealityCheck posted a tasteful, well-done vag pic and got hit with the same penalty as the dude who was worse than Hitler.

Puns obviously intended.

Kalkino

A shade under 15k third go. Closest was about 30 k in Okinawa. I think I should stop till I finish work as it is pretty addictive!

Abdhyius

Jacobkosh wrote: »

so it seems to me that ideally the game should let you choose a research or non-research game, and the latter would immobilize you and force you to just guess. sometimes you end up on a highway in the Yukon at dawn and that's part of the fun.

and if you're playing a research game, your score decreases as the clock ticks. do whatever you have to, move around, google everything you see, but be quick about it.

I play the middle thing - I research, but don't google

so I move around until I recognize things

Antinumeric

simonwolf wrote: »

Abdhyius wrote: »

simonwolf wrote: »

Easiest way to tell Chinese and Japanese signs apart is to look for anything other than the complex characters thrown in the mix

if there is, you've got yourself a Japan there, mister

I cannot recognize the difference.

But I do know japanese roofs.

Essentially, if you see anything written with curves (and possibly in a single stroke), it's Japanese

I have wowed my co-workers with the ability to tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I secretly think they are blind. they all look radically different.

Abdhyius

or in this case, guess south africa when it was australia

FUCK YOU, SOUTH AFRICA AND AUSTRALIA

Abdhyius

Antinumeric wrote: »

simonwolf wrote: »

Abdhyius wrote: »

simonwolf wrote: »

Easiest way to tell Chinese and Japanese signs apart is to look for anything other than the complex characters thrown in the mix

if there is, you've got yourself a Japan there, mister

I cannot recognize the difference.

But I do know japanese roofs.

Essentially, if you see anything written with curves (and possibly in a single stroke), it's Japanese

I have wowed my co-workers with the ability to tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I secretly think they are blind. they all look radically different.

japanese and chinese aren't radically different

korean though is super distinctive

Antinumeric

Abdhyius wrote: »

or in this case, guess south africa when it was australia

FUCK YOU, SOUTH AFRICA AND AUSTRALIA

It's the combination of looking like anywhere in the world and being miles and miles away from any other streetview locations.

oh 68 points. Thanks Australia.

simonwolf

This truck has a Norwegian ice cream manufacturer's logo on the side

probably Alaska

Casual

SammyF wrote: »

bowen wrote: »

So who was that Buddha73 guy? Seems he's an alt but looks like the main account got wise to "liking" what he posted and unliked it?

The purpose to the alt as near as I can tell was to cheat at phalla. The sock puppeting on conservative talking points while rejecting any independently sourced fact that contradicted Fox News was simply the bridge to far that got him busted.

I don't want to say this makes him worse than Hitler, I'm just saying that it's kind of unfortunate that SurealityCheck posted a tasteful, well-done vag pic and got hit with the same penalty as the dude who was worse than Hitler.

Puns obviously intended.

right on brudda

*raises fist*

#freescheck

Deebaser

skippydumptruck wrote: »

like, I imagine a chubby middle manager in short sleeved button up and looney tunes tie rolling in, travel mug of coffee in hand, ready to chop some dead wood and get this plant in shape!

and he is met at the gate by a couple of guys with ak-47s

I would watch this show.

TL DR

Cut myself shaving, at a place where a pimple was healing. It's kind of better now? Like it looks healed over but there is a mass under the skin and it's still tender after a week.

Dying y/n

Abdhyius

wait, I recognize this location

the game has sent me back to the exact same location I was in earlier