Go ahead. Give it a try.<\/p>\n
I’m awesome at it. I think my highest score was up over 28,000. I often get over 25,000 anyway and seldom lower than 20,000. I’ve mastered the art of pinpointing the exact spot to within meters. I very rarely check Wikipedia or the like, and when I do, usually it’s a matter of “okay, I know the name of the town and what country it’s in, I’ve just been panning all over the country’s map looking for it and am getting impatient.”<\/p>\n
And oh dear God, the constant panning! Dear Lord at the long barren usually-Australian roads. Yeah, I can pinpoint exact locations within meters after a LOT of panning and clicking down a road, hoping that there will be a sign showing the name of a nearby city or at least telling me what language is spoken in this place. Or the number of the road.<\/p>\n
Only twice have I screwed up so badly that I didn’t even pick the right continent<\/i>. Once wasn’t too long ago. A lot of locations in the game are in Brazil, and usually a sign or something in Portuguese can be spotted before too long telling this, along with rather obviously tropical scenery. Well, sure enough, at one point when I couldn’t identify any town names, was on some endless forest road, and saw some signs in Portuguese and finally guessed a random spot in Brazil and hoped it was close… it was in Portugal! :irked:
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\nGranted, I had checked Portugal, it’s nice and small, but I didn’t have much specific location, nor anything that might indicate Europe instead of South America, so didn’t see anything special and figured Brazil because it’s a lot bigger and every other Portuguese language location in this thing had been Brazilian.<\/p>\n
The other time was just earlier this evening. ![](\"\/smilies\/bored.gif\" "\\"Bleh\\"\/")
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You see, the game drops you in Street View and you can pan around until you find a clue or want to kill yourself because tedium. You can follow the road you’re on and find stuff and explore the area.<\/p>\n
That is, except for the occasions where you can’t actually move anywhere. You have a 360 view of where you are but that’s all you get. Usually there’s a sign visible or a landmark or something to still indicate where this is. Some of these have been some fancy German building, a snowy road in the northern Yukon, and a snowy Russian neighborhood, none of which I came anywhere close to.<\/p>\n
Today? It was a beach. It wasn’t even Street View. It was some guy standing in the water (I could see the shadow) just a little ways from the beach. You could see sand, short trees, and sea to the west. That’s it. No signs. No buildings. Nothing whatsoever.<\/p>\n
That could be fucking anywhere!<\/p>\n
Only sort-of clue I thought I had was that the sun was to the north, which indicated to me southern hemisphere. So I figured Australia like so many other locations on this thing. Picked random Australian location and hoped I’d get amazingly lucky.<\/p>\n
It was Mexico. ![](\"\/smilies\/banghead.gif\" "\\"Argh!\\"\/")
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When I get almost exact locations, my score is something like 6477. Even when at least in the same country it could be in the 4000 range.<\/p>\n
This got me… 32. Just 32.<\/p>\n
Which, you know, why was this picture in this to begin with?<\/p>\n
The other four in the set I got pretty close, over 6,000 on all I think. Had this one given me anything to work with, could have gone over 30,000 total. Sigh.<\/p>\n
I hate this fucking game.<\/p>\n
And yet I can’t stop playing it. Get that final score after all five locations, and decide, “Hey, let’s see if I can do better!” And then start a new game. And I’m right back in the middle of some flat desert road with no signs or civilization anywhere… FFFFFUUUUUUUU!!!!!!<\/p>\n
This has been Day 63<\/b> of the 100 Days of Summer, Round 13<\/b>.<\/i> ![](\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" "\\"Summertime!\\"\/")
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