You can almost triangulate from the distances without even using the pictures.
Where in the USA is this?
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#232The most interesting part of this to me is the UX feedback from the comments here. Many people, myself included, say they had no idea at first that the photos were all meant to be from the same location, even though the very first sentence of the instructions was "There are five photos from the same place." I'm pretty sure I read the instructions, I guess that just didn't register? An opportunity to reflect on how ha…
yeah i also presumed that it was different locations, like geoguessr
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#233Fun game! Thanks to the provider.
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#234Is it cheating to use Google Maps? I got to zero miles on the second guess because it was a picture of a sign, and I just looked up the church to which it referred.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get it. What's funny about the water tower? That it has the town name? Even with that, I couldn't find the name on the map reliably. Or is it a different picture?
It has an outline of Illinois, with a star right where the village is located. So I brought up the map, zoomed in on Illinois, and put my guess about where that star was.
Ah heh, I missed that. Funny indeed :)
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some old-school 80s and 90s games used manuals as form of copy protection. I distinctly remember parts of "Day of the Tentacle" where the game would ask you to enter a word or phrase from the manual...and if you didn't have it (because you copied the disk and not the manual), then you couldn't move forward. Pretty interesting idea that eschewed technological tricks to prevent copying.
DoTT copy protection involved balancing the portable battery's chemicals. Copying a word or phrase feels off brand for a LucasArts game, that was more of a Sierra thing. Which specific version do you distinctly remember?
You're right, I do remember the battery challenge now. I was possibly confusing a similar tactic from a Sierra game (which I also played my fair share of). Bear in mind, this was over thirty years ago - it's amazing how our memories can take on new shapes over time.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems to me like some of the most successful commercial software virtually requires either reading the documentation, or doing some sort of training
Such as?
Excel, SAP, AutoCAD, Photoshop, and many many others. All require quite a bit of training even if you already know similar software.
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#238Funnily I arrived only 18 miles from target, a place I never heard of and have absolutely no idea how it looks like :)
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such as?
Excel, SAP, AutoCAD, Photoshop, and many many others. All require quite a bit of training even if you already know similar software.
I learned excel and photoshop on my own, without documentation, just figuring things out as needed. Asking a coworker "do you know how to refer to the value in another cell?" is not the same as reading documentation. Both SAP and Autocad are super domain specific, and likely used by far fewer than 1% of computer users. Even then, new CAD self-learners would almost certainly start with a newer, more intuitive CAD app to get their feet wet.
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#240Is the idea that all pictures are the sane location? I got 17 miles, the pictures all had intense west virginia energy haha
My thoughts too, big WV energy (pun intended). I got 18 miles. It looks very similar to where I do a lot of camping.
I don't know why I was thinking Tennessee. Eventually I figured it out.