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Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts. Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc. edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0

Lindy.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Nice game! Good UI experience. When sharing you get 4 different scores (points, top %, avg error, total error) I think. This is a little confusing, better to share one score (maybe plus total error, maybe) so people can more easily compete. 4 scores is too confusing.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts. Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc. edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0

It's an interesting phenomenon that you can observe with other things as well like tastes in music. I think it has something to do with people having access to about sixty years of people trying out just about everything they could think off. It's all been done before at this point and it's all available in new and fresh forms. So, it's no longer about collectively picking something that is genuinely new but individu…

For me, think it's probably more your second idea, that we're not funneling media through a handful of TV channels, newspapers, etc. anymore like we used to. This creates (for better or worse) more of a "group think" mentality, since they've all seen the same tv shows and movies, and become more in sync with their views on all things, cultural, political... So people's sense of fashion is also in sync as well as the need to fit in.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy, I was off by 7 years and 427km on my first guess and I don't want to play anymore because I've surely peaked

I just got one that was off by 2 years and 24.2 meters , but it was kinda cheaty because it showed Barbara Bush on the South lawn of the White House.

Seems like they're "season photos", so a lot of Easter and Holy Week celebrations today.

I have to say I got almost perfect a Holy Week celebration in Sevilla in the 1920's (I'm Spanish, so only some hundred meters away but kinda wild guess for the year and only was two years off), and pointed Mexico instead of Guatemala for another, but nailed the year (1981) for a grand total of 902 out of 1000 points.

That was fun!

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

#170
Neat thing! I'm gonna add it to my round of daily games.

I'd suggest changing "Share results" to some variation of "Copy results". Share looks like it's gonna open some sharing menu and deter people from playing (and hence promoting your game)

WhichYear 4/20/25 4142 pts (top 22%) 7⃣ avg. years off

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