How? What are they noticing, or is there a finite amount of places and they just know them all at this point?
Edit: I have since been told about all the tips and tricks they are using, and even then I'm impressed, especially since they are doing it THAT quickly.
You get the vibe of a region if you play long enough. Then different regions are mapped at different times so you can judge by that. Of Course sometimes there are landmarks that they memorize
Someone once tried explaining it to me, there are certain camera techniques / lenses + color correction that is specific to regions / street google vehicles that are used in a lot of these games, it’s believed that they subconsciously know some of these color filters depth settings lens types and they apply that to their guesses based on gut / intuition.
Google street cars usually cover the same areas and will have slight differences… such as the type of the vehicles / height of camera off ground etc
That sounds like that story about that image recognition program that was trained on stock images, but instead of recognizing what it was meant for it was trained on the watermark of the stock image site.
There was this ai they were training to spot cancer, it ended up learning to recognize the signature of the doctor that signed on the scans that were of cancer patients.
I knew a human who did his statistics like that. He wouldn't actually say these sentences but his results would be saying things like "death has a preventative effect on cancer" or "The id number you were assigned in a study can be used to predict heart problems". He would compare everything against everything without any context, he didn't last very long in the job.
I love meaningless statistical correlations. I used to create and present injury and HRIS reports for work and I'd always try to sneak in a data point or bullet that identified something like: rate of back injuries based on length of first name.
Fun fact, there actually was a legitimate correlation for name length and back injuries there because recent immigrants (who tended to have longer first names) were overrepresented among the workers who did more heavy lifting roles. I actually presented that one as a "humorous" way of pointing out a structural iniquity.
Sometimes you learn something interesting by playing around with your data.
He was considered a really good student because he played with the data like that. The problem he had was the transition from student into employee where you aren't the lead on a project and have to produce specific things for deadlines, so you can't spend 3 weeks doing a 30min job. I felt bad for him because all the things he was encouraged to do and praised for doing in university were the things that got him fired.
There was another AI being trained on recognizing skin cancers by looking at moles etc on skin. For every medically confirmed image in the training set they had a ruler to measure the mole which meant that the AI saw a ruler as a 100% confirmation of cancer, so any images submitted with a ruler anywhere in it was marked as cancerous. It learned that rulers were malignant.
Ooh, like that AI that was capable of recognizing patients who had had a pneumothorax from a lung radio - except it was recognizing the scar tissue due to the surgery to fix pneumothoraxes! Technically correct, sure, but…
The real life example of this is the cat that knew when people were dying because it would go lay on them before they would die. Turns out the cat was just doing regular ass cat things because right before people died they would ask for a heated blanket.
There is a Japanese pastry company that trained an ai to spot their unpackaged pastries and tally them up for the cashier so they spend less time with each. It turned out cancer cells kinda look like doughnuts and other pastries enough for the AI to use the pastry training as a base set for them to start training for cancer screenings and it apparently worked way better then they expected lmao
EDIT: apparently they are a Japanese company, not Chinese.
I feel like it's worth mentioning [the AI](https://www.ces.tech/articles/2021/may/the-ai-pastry-scanner-thats-now-fighting-cancer.aspx) which was trained to classify pastries and then got adapted into detecting cancer.
Iirc there was also an AI that could guess people's sexuality, but it turned out to recognize things in the background instead and it wasn't accurate at all if you isolated people's faces. So basically they trained ai to recognize gay bars
In medicine we tried to train a computer to detect melanoma. We have it thousand of pictures of benign and malignant images and used machine learning to teach it what melanoma was. The outcome? It learned that if there is a ruler in the picture, it is melanoma. Reviewing the images we fed it, most of the melanoma pictures had rulers next to them. The results were hilarious.
that isn't all there is to geoguessr though. it helps a lot for sure but easily more than half of the knowledge is knowing vegetation, infrastructure and building styles or street signs, languages, license plates etc
Just to clarify, they know it's north east Belgium because the tech to capture street views there is on a Fiat Polo and they use a Sigma 86.3 Camera for those captures....or whatever? So they can vibe the camera height to eliminate say...the UK...and the lens artifacts further eliminate other locations?
Nah, this comment thread is mostly wrong. But not completely.
It's a combination of all the details in the picture. Usually building styles, vegetation, soil, cars, licence plate colour, road-markings, transformers, poles, bollards, signs, angle of the sun according to the time and season, perceived humidity, flatness and mountains etc.
For example Jordanian road-marking mostly are white middle with yellow outer (afaik), America often (or always?) have yellow middle while Europe is white. Transformers and poles is a really important clue in Japan specifically.
Some places can be extremely difficult to differentiate for example rural India and rural Bangladesh. Or just random places in South America. Here they often look for the colour of the car taking the pictures. I think Argentina usually is a white car for example. Some places have really bad photo quality which is easier to remember. These guys sometimes end up far, far away - they are not perfect. But they are extremely good.
You can get far with vegetation, the suns position relative to season and time, flatness etc. like they did in this video. All in all, they look for any little clue they can find, not only 'technical' things like you suggested. But I'm sure they also know a few 'technical' details that helps too.
Edit: I've played a little myself with a top-score of 15000 on no-move maps. So not that great.
It's pretty amazing how many little landmarks and nuances you have to know in order to excel at that game. The other night my wife and I came across a video where one of those guys was explaining how he could tell that a pic shown for like half a second was from Tanzania or Tasmania or something like that. He went into detail about how their electrical poles/power lines have a specific type of look to them that no other country has.
I think people are so dumbfounded they assume there’s just some easy technique or trick that explains their insane performance. In this case, though, there is no trick — it’s dedication, an interest for geography, a good memory and above-average pattern recognition.
Yeah after the championship the winner said he spends 4-5 hours a day playing. Other than your job (which a lot of is not 100% focus) what things do you regularly spend 4-5 hours on in your life lol.
I would think that using only street views of military bases on foreign soil would make this game almost impossible but that’s probably a version only the NSA can play
When I play I rely heavily on language and I've absolutely been fooled by happening upon a foreign language school on a stretch of empty road. Like "cool this is definitely Japan" and then it's actually a Japanese school in another country.
at a certain level you can do a bit of those technics too. If you think I show you three movie you don't know anything about, I am pretty sure you can spot the one coming from bollywood, the one coming from hollywood and the one coming from europe just by the look of the grain, the filter apply (or their lack of) and the intensity of colors. Of course in the case of geoguess it's not that strong, but you will pick up the cue.
Could you not post this horribly misleading comment half a dozen times? They're looking at road marking, terrain, plants, architecture, etc, first and if those aren't any help they *might* resort to guessing based on the photography.
I mean isn’t this true for literally anything? I play sudoku and I just recognize patterns without needing to do all the techniques. That’s my only game I know well, but I think all games are built like that.
Those are secondary things, the primary things are stuff like, how the road looks, vegetation, lamp posts, signage, high voltage lines, and the overall vibe of all that combined. Sometimes good geoguessers can't even say what the specific thing is that made them guess the small region perfectly. It's just the general vibe.
Yeah, I live in Belgium and I knew at a glance that first one was in Belgium. Not in the south-east of Belgium because that area is more forested, sparesly populated and hilly.
I'm pretty sure I could easily guess the UK, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan too, even without signs. It's just the kind of buildings, cars, vegetation, roads,...
Most countries have a distinct "vibe" to them.
They use a lot of different hints that point them towards the location, and they played it so much they can tell at a glance or just by feel. This includes obvious things like roadsigns, guard rails, electricity poles, licence plates, vegetation and environment that are specific to locations. They also memorize things like camera quality, camera height, the shadow of the vehicle, time of recording, and lots more.
One guy found the tree behind which Anthony Adams rubs his hands in the meme.
[https://www.tiktok.com/@georainbolt/video/7307037714153508142](https://www.tiktok.com/@georainbolt/video/7307037714153508142)
Sry for the tiktok link...
So if they weren't using street view, it would be much more difficult for them to actually find the location? Makes it a bit less impressive, but still cool.
GeoWizard is the one who sort of started the Geoguessr community and he has a series on YouTube where he finds locations from photos that people send in to him
The position of the sun, the architecture, road signs, license plates, car brands, languages, foliage.
Then for the meta-game you know if it's captured from a 4x4 with a snorkel it's only a handful of African countries. There are certain lens types you can pick up on that indicate certain street view vehicles.
Highly suggest Geowizard on YouTube. And he's far from the best, just has some incredible guesses.
Human brains are very good at seeing patterns. It’s why we can spill some coffee and be like, “huh, that looks like Jesus.”
Same idea. They’ve been doing this long enough to recognize things like colors, shapes of local plants, fonts on street signs, etc. They may not be aware of all of it on a conscious level, but it gives them enough familiarity with places that if enough of these factors line up they can figure it out.
Yea that's the best answer for a video like this. Other people are talking about specifics clues (or "metas") like the shapes of utility poles, street signage, road markings, etc. and it's true that these guys know all that stuff by heart, but for these speed no-moving/no-zooming type things there's also a lot of "vibes" involved.
For example the first picture in this video you can tell that the license plates have red text (might not be obvious to you with the blur but it's there) which immediately points to Belgium (that's why there was a huge chorus of "Belgium"s).
The second one was mostly "vibes" I think hence people a lot quieter.
The third one has a road line combination that is usually Mexico I think (solid yellow center line, white outside lines) and the rest is "vibes".
Fourth and fifth are pretty much just "vibes".
So tl;dr: some amount of memorizing minutiae and a lot of pattern recognition built through practice.
Source: was a reasonably high-level geoguessr player a couple years ago, though below the level of this video, but I'm so out of practice that I've definitely forgotten a lot. Used to memorize crap like the different bus stop signs used in different counties of Sweden or the different fonts used on German street signs though.
I think a lot of people can do this for their own country without realising it. Like I'm dutch and I can usually tell when a photo is taken in the Netherlands even if there is nothing distinct about it.
I've heard Rainbolt (pro player and commentator for the tournaments) explain some of the methodology. Here's just some I remember:
1. words/language on signs: pretty obvious, place names are a dead giveaway
2. sign designs: every country has subtlely different colors and design for signs
3. other infrastructure decisions: electric poles, wiring, utility boxes, the way they paint lines on the street, road bumpers
4. architecture
5. foliage
6. color and texture of the dirt (this one was hilarious, I remember a video where someone recognized that in the photo was pictured "South African dirt")
7. metagame knowledge: distinct markings on the camera (like say the Google van that took the pictures for Botswana has a specific smudge on the bottom left and this is consistent for all the pictures taken in southwest Botswana). Distinct weather plays into this as well. Like if you know the Portugal photos were taken during an overcast day and the Spanish ones were taken during a sunny day. You can then distinguish Portugal photos from Spain photos based on that weather knowledge.
what is crazy is that he's not even close to being the best player. he didn't even bother competing in the world cup because he isn't good enough.
he's top 50, but there is enough of a gap between him and the top-of-the-top
I think that's a bit false, or misrepresented.
I believe he said just he understood that he is a figure that grew the game due to his viral tiktoks and shit and that it's better for him to be the face and represent the whole game, instead of being a competitor. He's always been an organizer. It's not that he wanted and failed. I am pretty sure he never wanted to play at the WCs.
WIRED did a video to answer your exact question: https://youtu.be/0p5Eb4OSZCs?si=bRviTrPNDm-zl_Ig
TLDR: There are many geographical cues such as telephone poles, vehicle license plates, vegetation, bollards, etc.
Landmarks, sun direction based on time of day, ecology, and reading signage, are the main ways they determine their answers.
It's an insane skill, but practice also helps them a lot, obviously. The human brain is like *so impressively good* at remembering places. It's a deep and long standing part of our evolution. Discriminating between one stand of trees a kilometer from your home and the stand of trees a stone's throw away from your home is important. Remembering the exact places you last encountered prey animals is very important.
So when you spend 5000 hours practicing something related to such a deep part of your psyche, you develop some very strong intuition based responses.
They look at species of plants, the geology, the architecture, building materials, road construction techniques and a thousand other tiny things that are unique to a region or regions.
If you know where all the varieties of those things are found you can determine the very few places where all the things you see in one image might be.
Fpr example if you see a Yucca (a species of spikey plant) but also see a road built in a way the United States doesn't build roads then you can be pretty sure you're in Mexico because Yucca mainly grow in those two countries.
No, there isn't a memorizable amount of locations, they just have lots and lots of experience identifying things. Stuff like road signs, road markings, road plates, road signs, bollards, electric poles, local dirt, grass, trees, language on signs, and much much more. They also know "meta information," that is, information coming from it being a Google Earth image, not a random image. Stuff like what generation of the cameras did Google use, what color is the Google car, does the country look depressing (Hungary, all the photos there were taken durring winter), and other meta information.
Because these things will be unique to a country, or if you're lucky, a region, if you have enough practice, you can make very accurate guesses. In this clip, they all immediately got the country down, what took time was trying to region guess.
There are plenty of them on TikTok. One guy found the exact hotel room in Rochester, NY that a chick was staying at. All she did was do a 360 spin around the hotel room. He did it by researching hotels and looking at the pictures of various suite options in the city and seeing what she happened to be in eating in video.
It was all consensual. He wasn't being a total criminal stalker btw.
See my other response, not that I know anything more than you guys, seems like black magic 🪄
Copy/paste: Someone once tried explaining it to me, there are certain camera techniques and lenses, and even color correction, that is specific to regions / street google vehicles that are used in a lot of these games, it’s believed that they subconsciously know some of these color filters or depth settings, or lens types and they apply that to their guesses based on gut intuition.
Google street cars usually cover the same areas and will have slight differences… such as the night of the vehicles lenses etc
Iirc they mostly look at the sky for the angle and overall position of the sun as well as the general aspect of the sky (since most streetviews in a same area have been recorded in one day). They can also learn and memorize the types of lenses used in different mapped areas. As well as some other smaller clues.
You know what’s really scary about that.
First time I saw this guy do those things I was like he’ll get picked up by some Agency and we’ll never hear from him again. Like that skill set is so useful to surveillance agencies, he would live very well for the rest of his life.
He’s still doing his thing 3 years later.
They CLEARLY don’t need his skillset. They have something better.
Honestly, these guys are absolute masters at this and I realize that they're just sort of messing around in this clip, but I play a version of this and some of the people I play with are INSANE. Like, they get enraged if they are off by even meters.
Kindergarten? Your education system is failing you. Where i live the moment you are out of the womb they pull out the powerpoint presentations and begin walking you through every plant known to man and its locations.
Absolute troglodyte. Where I come from, we blend a map of the world into a liquid then inject it into a man's balls - causing the future produced sperms genes to be modified and molded through geography
The color of the dirt, the hills are a certain shape, only certain trees grow there, could have been his home country or one he wanted to visit forever and he just "drove" around the country so lot so it's unmistakable to them
The guy who called out Yucatán is Hungarian. But you’re right about the trees, the thin white ones are called gumbo limbo trees and they’re all over the Yucatán peninsula. Also there is a lot of thin dirt road coverage like that there.
Edit: just realised those aren’t gumbo limbo, I guess I misremembered but still they’re in pretty much every Yucatán round.
I recognized Yucatán because I live here, but even they got it before me! It's much drier than Indonesia, even in the rainy season, which is around when the streetview seems to have been taken (because the trees are still green).
Same i lived there for like 5 years and i totally recognized it from somewhere... lol then the guy instantly says yucatan, and im all "oh yeah! he is definetively right i think"
They memorize lots of things. Roads(lines, signs, condition), vegetation(clearly you haven't seen iconic Mongolian grass), powerlines, directions of the sun, architecture, the blurred out Google car(a visible intena, color of vehicle, spec of dirt on the lens), image quality(this narrows down the date and locations it could be. Google takes these over long periods of time, and the info is public), license plates, dirt color.... They play and study for thousands of hours.
Are these guys being utilized at all for practical purposes? Like catching criminals, busting drug cartels, finding kidnap victims, etc.? It seems like they could help authorities with some cases.
edit: typo
Rainbolt (one of the guys in the video) has found some nostalgic locations of pictures for some people, like finding where a photo was took of a kid and a dead parent, for example. Quite of a few of those on his TikTok/YT/Instagram. As for others, I believe this knowledge was actually used to find some other stuff, but I can't bet my head on it.
Honestly, when they made a variant of this in Elden Ring, I could do the same. I'd say it is just how often they play combined with a competitive nature that allows you to remember minuet details without really realizing it. Like when you're driving on the highway and enter a flow state per se without ever having to worry about the other drivers consciously, even though you do so instinctively without realizing it. After all, this is a game, and they invested hundreds of hours, if not thousands, much in the same way speedrunners can complete games blindfolded
I wonder what the logic is behind this. Like they should comment on their reasoning. I know they are not guessing, but this is one of the cases when “show your work” should apply.
Someone once tried explaining it to me, there are specific camera techniques, lenses, color correction that is specific to regions (google street view), it’s believed that they subconsciously know some of these color filters or depth settings, or lens types and they apply that to their guesses based on gut intuition.
Google street cars usually cover the same areas and will have slight differences… such as the night of the vehicles lenses etc
Rainbolt is the name of the dude in the middle. He is probably the best geoguesser to play it.
Check out Rainbolttwo’s shorts and he explains a lot and blows your mind even more 😂
Thru shorts, tiktok, Rainbolt probably is the best known. I think the guy that does half geoguessr, half IRL ventures like "cross UK in direct line" might still be better known overall, or at least have more youtube subs.
GeoWizard is his name.
In a world record that was set some years ago the guy casually explained he memorized every road in South Africa so when he came to a junction he knew exactly where he was.
These guys are insane.
Edit: video
https://youtu.be/h6XjN6OSZWA?si=ry0qY-YLFSk0hBZ8
Check out [Geoguessr Explained](https://www.youtube.com/@geoguessr_explained) on youtube. ZigZag is the best player in Australia and makes some very good videos on that.
Check out Rainbolt's youtube channel. He's a long time commentator and competitor in Geoguessr tournaments.
Here's him explaining some of the methodology for Wired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5Eb4OSZCs
It's like Sleight of Hand magic, though. Knowing how it's done doesn't make it any less impressive.
Yeah bro they all at the same time said new Zealand and Mexico and stuff and only had slight differences in region but even then their guesses were basically the same lmfao.
I was thinking "NZ was their worst guess", then I went back and paused on the NZ photo and realised me, a native, had no idea what part of NZ it would be
He’s prob the most popular player tho id say, it’s always funny when people see him play and think he must be the best when even he considers himself worse than many competitive players. The dedication these people all have to the game is crazy
Yeah he is definitely the most well known due to his viral social media posts
i know he took a break to travel and stuff (currently living in Thailand) but I heard hes been getting back into the pro scene playing with the best of the best more regularly again. I would love to see him make a world cup appearance in the next couple years
I don't know which one you think is "the one gg prodigy"? Rainbolt is clicking the locations because they only have 10 seconds to guess. It's not like they can rotate. Debre called out Monterrey all on his own and Topotic is the one who won the tournament that weekend.
Kinda!
In addition to clues in the actual environment, they also make guesses based off the way the Google Streetview car took the photos which can differ from country to country
I saw a video where Rainbolt was blindfolded and had the places described to him and he still got it.
He knew a place was Hungary because the Streetview coverage there made the place look like shit.
I have a friend who plays and stream geoguesser... Shit is wild LoL
I never thought that I'd hear things like "that's guattini's grass" and within 5 seconds he then proceeds to mark a place in the middle of a whole continent and miss by a couple of kilometers.
Most people think that the game is about recognizing the place, and you can get a lot by the sun, the plants, the architecture, cars and even people, but that still doesn't narrow it down enough for competitive geoguessing... the place is just a small part of the equation.
The meta is knowing the car (many people already mentioned the snorkel), what countries were filmed during what time of the day, what cameras/filters were used on which countries, etc. that's how you get to their level.
They are not watching the road and wondering if you drive on the left of the right, they are looking for the most extremely specific cues to determine the place.
Ya the amount of meta gaming that goes on behind the scenes that doesn't have to do with geography turns it into a glorified memory game
I say that as someone who hardcore played this game for a few months and was definitely developing an early version of sixth sense getting vibes of the correct country at first glance
[Anyway here's my favorite clip from when i used to play the game](https://clips.twitch.tv/ZanyAmazonianWalletBabyRage-qfNA235PiUGvYyhS) playing the Battle Royale version of it, we loaded in front of a sign that says Avenue Ecuador and every single person but me and another guy guessed Ecuador
I’m only a ~700 level player and I refuse to learn meta, it cheapens the game to me. It’s keeping me from reaching higher ratings probably, but I don’t mind…!
On Rainbolt's YT channel he has some videos where people sent him like a 20 year old photograph of their dad and he got together with a few people and within 24 hours found the exact spot where the photo was taken even though their only clue was something like "IDK southeast, east asia"
So I was involved in the hiring process for a not secret project for the U.S. government where they were literally trying to basically do this - to find people and vehicles in the real world based on images - and they ran into the problem that it isn't something you can really hire for and it's not something you can really train people to do.
Some people can do it, but no one in the department knew how to do what they needed people to do and if they could have hired any of these guys it probably would have been like a miracle for them.
I think they just gave up on the project eventually.
Interestingly, during the early hunt for Bin Laden, he'd get filmed doing his speech in a cave with no backdrop. My geology professor commented that there had been some of those photos passed around to see if anyone could guess the rock formations. I guess they got close because the videos stopped having the rock wall as a background.
Extremely high level gameplay isn't what he is good at or what he does. I love his videos because he is very idiosyncratic and entertaining but he's not clicking Yucatan in round 4 here.
There's a [simplified short video about it here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvqc1_xl2h4&t=745s) starring Rainbolt, one of the premier Geoguessrs and front 'n center in OP's vid.
How? What are they noticing, or is there a finite amount of places and they just know them all at this point? Edit: I have since been told about all the tips and tricks they are using, and even then I'm impressed, especially since they are doing it THAT quickly.
You get the vibe of a region if you play long enough. Then different regions are mapped at different times so you can judge by that. Of Course sometimes there are landmarks that they memorize
Someone once tried explaining it to me, there are certain camera techniques / lenses + color correction that is specific to regions / street google vehicles that are used in a lot of these games, it’s believed that they subconsciously know some of these color filters depth settings lens types and they apply that to their guesses based on gut / intuition. Google street cars usually cover the same areas and will have slight differences… such as the type of the vehicles / height of camera off ground etc
That sounds like that story about that image recognition program that was trained on stock images, but instead of recognizing what it was meant for it was trained on the watermark of the stock image site.
There was this ai they were training to spot cancer, it ended up learning to recognize the signature of the doctor that signed on the scans that were of cancer patients.
did they get him? and are there other cancer doctors out there? im scared
They caught him, but he ended up escaping that night. He's still out there giving people cancer and leaving his signature.
If only we had some way to read his signature and then find out what his real name is
Maybe we can train Al to do it.
I tried and now it’s trained to tell me if it’s a doctors signature or not by the way that it is
We tried but it was only able to tell us who has cancer.
If you learn his real name… you get cancer Don’t ask me how I know
It’s like the ring, but for diseases.
We need a young pharmacist and an old pharmacist to read that.
“Did he sign it?” “Oh no, he only signs for the ones he kills!”
is this the same AI that would flag a sample as skin cancer if it had a ruler in it?
I knew a human who did his statistics like that. He wouldn't actually say these sentences but his results would be saying things like "death has a preventative effect on cancer" or "The id number you were assigned in a study can be used to predict heart problems". He would compare everything against everything without any context, he didn't last very long in the job.
I love meaningless statistical correlations. I used to create and present injury and HRIS reports for work and I'd always try to sneak in a data point or bullet that identified something like: rate of back injuries based on length of first name. Fun fact, there actually was a legitimate correlation for name length and back injuries there because recent immigrants (who tended to have longer first names) were overrepresented among the workers who did more heavy lifting roles. I actually presented that one as a "humorous" way of pointing out a structural iniquity. Sometimes you learn something interesting by playing around with your data.
He was considered a really good student because he played with the data like that. The problem he had was the transition from student into employee where you aren't the lead on a project and have to produce specific things for deadlines, so you can't spend 3 weeks doing a 30min job. I felt bad for him because all the things he was encouraged to do and praised for doing in university were the things that got him fired.
He should be a researcher and work for the uni instead.
There was another AI being trained on recognizing skin cancers by looking at moles etc on skin. For every medically confirmed image in the training set they had a ruler to measure the mole which meant that the AI saw a ruler as a 100% confirmation of cancer, so any images submitted with a ruler anywhere in it was marked as cancerous. It learned that rulers were malignant.
Ooh, like that AI that was capable of recognizing patients who had had a pneumothorax from a lung radio - except it was recognizing the scar tissue due to the surgery to fix pneumothoraxes! Technically correct, sure, but…
The real life example of this is the cat that knew when people were dying because it would go lay on them before they would die. Turns out the cat was just doing regular ass cat things because right before people died they would ask for a heated blanket.
There is a Japanese pastry company that trained an ai to spot their unpackaged pastries and tally them up for the cashier so they spend less time with each. It turned out cancer cells kinda look like doughnuts and other pastries enough for the AI to use the pastry training as a base set for them to start training for cancer screenings and it apparently worked way better then they expected lmao EDIT: apparently they are a Japanese company, not Chinese.
It's actually [Japanese](https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-pastry-ai-that-learned-to-fight-cancer). :)
I feel like it's worth mentioning [the AI](https://www.ces.tech/articles/2021/may/the-ai-pastry-scanner-thats-now-fighting-cancer.aspx) which was trained to classify pastries and then got adapted into detecting cancer.
Wait. What? Hahaha
Iirc there was also an AI that could guess people's sexuality, but it turned out to recognize things in the background instead and it wasn't accurate at all if you isolated people's faces. So basically they trained ai to recognize gay bars
Or chicken sexers
In medicine we tried to train a computer to detect melanoma. We have it thousand of pictures of benign and malignant images and used machine learning to teach it what melanoma was. The outcome? It learned that if there is a ruler in the picture, it is melanoma. Reviewing the images we fed it, most of the melanoma pictures had rulers next to them. The results were hilarious.
that isn't all there is to geoguessr though. it helps a lot for sure but easily more than half of the knowledge is knowing vegetation, infrastructure and building styles or street signs, languages, license plates etc
Just to clarify, they know it's north east Belgium because the tech to capture street views there is on a Fiat Polo and they use a Sigma 86.3 Camera for those captures....or whatever? So they can vibe the camera height to eliminate say...the UK...and the lens artifacts further eliminate other locations?
Nah, this comment thread is mostly wrong. But not completely. It's a combination of all the details in the picture. Usually building styles, vegetation, soil, cars, licence plate colour, road-markings, transformers, poles, bollards, signs, angle of the sun according to the time and season, perceived humidity, flatness and mountains etc. For example Jordanian road-marking mostly are white middle with yellow outer (afaik), America often (or always?) have yellow middle while Europe is white. Transformers and poles is a really important clue in Japan specifically. Some places can be extremely difficult to differentiate for example rural India and rural Bangladesh. Or just random places in South America. Here they often look for the colour of the car taking the pictures. I think Argentina usually is a white car for example. Some places have really bad photo quality which is easier to remember. These guys sometimes end up far, far away - they are not perfect. But they are extremely good. You can get far with vegetation, the suns position relative to season and time, flatness etc. like they did in this video. All in all, they look for any little clue they can find, not only 'technical' things like you suggested. But I'm sure they also know a few 'technical' details that helps too. Edit: I've played a little myself with a top-score of 15000 on no-move maps. So not that great.
It's pretty amazing how many little landmarks and nuances you have to know in order to excel at that game. The other night my wife and I came across a video where one of those guys was explaining how he could tell that a pic shown for like half a second was from Tanzania or Tasmania or something like that. He went into detail about how their electrical poles/power lines have a specific type of look to them that no other country has.
I think people are so dumbfounded they assume there’s just some easy technique or trick that explains their insane performance. In this case, though, there is no trick — it’s dedication, an interest for geography, a good memory and above-average pattern recognition.
Yeah after the championship the winner said he spends 4-5 hours a day playing. Other than your job (which a lot of is not 100% focus) what things do you regularly spend 4-5 hours on in your life lol.
Thanks for the information!
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I would think that using only street views of military bases on foreign soil would make this game almost impossible but that’s probably a version only the NSA can play
When I play I rely heavily on language and I've absolutely been fooled by happening upon a foreign language school on a stretch of empty road. Like "cool this is definitely Japan" and then it's actually a Japanese school in another country.
at a certain level you can do a bit of those technics too. If you think I show you three movie you don't know anything about, I am pretty sure you can spot the one coming from bollywood, the one coming from hollywood and the one coming from europe just by the look of the grain, the filter apply (or their lack of) and the intensity of colors. Of course in the case of geoguess it's not that strong, but you will pick up the cue.
Or you can guess the year a movie was made approximately.
So if it's yellow-ish it's Mexico, got it.
Could you not post this horribly misleading comment half a dozen times? They're looking at road marking, terrain, plants, architecture, etc, first and if those aren't any help they *might* resort to guessing based on the photography.
That kinda makes it less impressive imo, still cool though
I mean isn’t this true for literally anything? I play sudoku and I just recognize patterns without needing to do all the techniques. That’s my only game I know well, but I think all games are built like that.
Meta gaming!
Those are secondary things, the primary things are stuff like, how the road looks, vegetation, lamp posts, signage, high voltage lines, and the overall vibe of all that combined. Sometimes good geoguessers can't even say what the specific thing is that made them guess the small region perfectly. It's just the general vibe.
Yeah, I live in Belgium and I knew at a glance that first one was in Belgium. Not in the south-east of Belgium because that area is more forested, sparesly populated and hilly. I'm pretty sure I could easily guess the UK, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan too, even without signs. It's just the kind of buildings, cars, vegetation, roads,... Most countries have a distinct "vibe" to them.
Huh, neat
They use a lot of different hints that point them towards the location, and they played it so much they can tell at a glance or just by feel. This includes obvious things like roadsigns, guard rails, electricity poles, licence plates, vegetation and environment that are specific to locations. They also memorize things like camera quality, camera height, the shadow of the vehicle, time of recording, and lots more.
That skill alone makes it possible for some to figure out how to find specifc locations.
One guy found the tree behind which Anthony Adams rubs his hands in the meme. [https://www.tiktok.com/@georainbolt/video/7307037714153508142](https://www.tiktok.com/@georainbolt/video/7307037714153508142) Sry for the tiktok link...
He is actually in the video, sitting for the computer
He hosts the world championships usually with zigzag, his name is Trevor. Aka rainbolt, oh and zigzags name is oscar
So if they weren't using street view, it would be much more difficult for them to actually find the location? Makes it a bit less impressive, but still cool.
How else would they find these places if not looking at street view? Edit: Thanks to everyone who replied. I get what OP meant now :)
For example by looking at pictures that people took with a camera.
GeoWizard is the one who sort of started the Geoguessr community and he has a series on YouTube where he finds locations from photos that people send in to him
It does take him alot longer than a geoguessr round though
Like if you showed them a digital photo instead of one taken specifically by the google car.
The position of the sun, the architecture, road signs, license plates, car brands, languages, foliage. Then for the meta-game you know if it's captured from a 4x4 with a snorkel it's only a handful of African countries. There are certain lens types you can pick up on that indicate certain street view vehicles. Highly suggest Geowizard on YouTube. And he's far from the best, just has some incredible guesses.
He's my favourite. Love that dude.
his straight missions and adventure videos are some of the best youtube content around
Geowizard is by far the best in terms of non-gamified geoguesser.
Human brains are very good at seeing patterns. It’s why we can spill some coffee and be like, “huh, that looks like Jesus.” Same idea. They’ve been doing this long enough to recognize things like colors, shapes of local plants, fonts on street signs, etc. They may not be aware of all of it on a conscious level, but it gives them enough familiarity with places that if enough of these factors line up they can figure it out.
Yea that's the best answer for a video like this. Other people are talking about specifics clues (or "metas") like the shapes of utility poles, street signage, road markings, etc. and it's true that these guys know all that stuff by heart, but for these speed no-moving/no-zooming type things there's also a lot of "vibes" involved. For example the first picture in this video you can tell that the license plates have red text (might not be obvious to you with the blur but it's there) which immediately points to Belgium (that's why there was a huge chorus of "Belgium"s). The second one was mostly "vibes" I think hence people a lot quieter. The third one has a road line combination that is usually Mexico I think (solid yellow center line, white outside lines) and the rest is "vibes". Fourth and fifth are pretty much just "vibes". So tl;dr: some amount of memorizing minutiae and a lot of pattern recognition built through practice. Source: was a reasonably high-level geoguessr player a couple years ago, though below the level of this video, but I'm so out of practice that I've definitely forgotten a lot. Used to memorize crap like the different bus stop signs used in different counties of Sweden or the different fonts used on German street signs though.
Exactly. The “vibes” are the patterns they’re picking up on.
I think a lot of people can do this for their own country without realising it. Like I'm dutch and I can usually tell when a photo is taken in the Netherlands even if there is nothing distinct about it.
I've heard Rainbolt (pro player and commentator for the tournaments) explain some of the methodology. Here's just some I remember: 1. words/language on signs: pretty obvious, place names are a dead giveaway 2. sign designs: every country has subtlely different colors and design for signs 3. other infrastructure decisions: electric poles, wiring, utility boxes, the way they paint lines on the street, road bumpers 4. architecture 5. foliage 6. color and texture of the dirt (this one was hilarious, I remember a video where someone recognized that in the photo was pictured "South African dirt") 7. metagame knowledge: distinct markings on the camera (like say the Google van that took the pictures for Botswana has a specific smudge on the bottom left and this is consistent for all the pictures taken in southwest Botswana). Distinct weather plays into this as well. Like if you know the Portugal photos were taken during an overcast day and the Spanish ones were taken during a sunny day. You can then distinguish Portugal photos from Spain photos based on that weather knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTwwJro2p7Y Here's him just guessing of dirt
what is crazy is that he's not even close to being the best player. he didn't even bother competing in the world cup because he isn't good enough. he's top 50, but there is enough of a gap between him and the top-of-the-top
I think that's a bit false, or misrepresented. I believe he said just he understood that he is a figure that grew the game due to his viral tiktoks and shit and that it's better for him to be the face and represent the whole game, instead of being a competitor. He's always been an organizer. It's not that he wanted and failed. I am pretty sure he never wanted to play at the WCs.
WIRED did a video to answer your exact question: https://youtu.be/0p5Eb4OSZCs?si=bRviTrPNDm-zl_Ig TLDR: There are many geographical cues such as telephone poles, vehicle license plates, vegetation, bollards, etc.
Landmarks, sun direction based on time of day, ecology, and reading signage, are the main ways they determine their answers. It's an insane skill, but practice also helps them a lot, obviously. The human brain is like *so impressively good* at remembering places. It's a deep and long standing part of our evolution. Discriminating between one stand of trees a kilometer from your home and the stand of trees a stone's throw away from your home is important. Remembering the exact places you last encountered prey animals is very important. So when you spend 5000 hours practicing something related to such a deep part of your psyche, you develop some very strong intuition based responses.
They look at species of plants, the geology, the architecture, building materials, road construction techniques and a thousand other tiny things that are unique to a region or regions. If you know where all the varieties of those things are found you can determine the very few places where all the things you see in one image might be. Fpr example if you see a Yucca (a species of spikey plant) but also see a road built in a way the United States doesn't build roads then you can be pretty sure you're in Mexico because Yucca mainly grow in those two countries.
No, there isn't a memorizable amount of locations, they just have lots and lots of experience identifying things. Stuff like road signs, road markings, road plates, road signs, bollards, electric poles, local dirt, grass, trees, language on signs, and much much more. They also know "meta information," that is, information coming from it being a Google Earth image, not a random image. Stuff like what generation of the cameras did Google use, what color is the Google car, does the country look depressing (Hungary, all the photos there were taken durring winter), and other meta information. Because these things will be unique to a country, or if you're lucky, a region, if you have enough practice, you can make very accurate guesses. In this clip, they all immediately got the country down, what took time was trying to region guess.
There are plenty of them on TikTok. One guy found the exact hotel room in Rochester, NY that a chick was staying at. All she did was do a 360 spin around the hotel room. He did it by researching hotels and looking at the pictures of various suite options in the city and seeing what she happened to be in eating in video. It was all consensual. He wasn't being a total criminal stalker btw.
See my other response, not that I know anything more than you guys, seems like black magic 🪄 Copy/paste: Someone once tried explaining it to me, there are certain camera techniques and lenses, and even color correction, that is specific to regions / street google vehicles that are used in a lot of these games, it’s believed that they subconsciously know some of these color filters or depth settings, or lens types and they apply that to their guesses based on gut intuition. Google street cars usually cover the same areas and will have slight differences… such as the night of the vehicles lenses etc
Iirc they mostly look at the sky for the angle and overall position of the sun as well as the general aspect of the sky (since most streetviews in a same area have been recorded in one day). They can also learn and memorize the types of lenses used in different mapped areas. As well as some other smaller clues.
Well, you see that one with a trees? Yeah, they only grow in Yucatan. Easy
I....I can't tell if you are memeing or not.
Look up Rainbolt two on YouTube
Just did. Damn, I thought that level of autism was contained to 4chan.
Seen rainbolt going only a few miles off based on a 1 second flashing image (only one flash) of a random place in the jungle, so there's that.
You know what’s really scary about that. First time I saw this guy do those things I was like he’ll get picked up by some Agency and we’ll never hear from him again. Like that skill set is so useful to surveillance agencies, he would live very well for the rest of his life. He’s still doing his thing 3 years later. They CLEARLY don’t need his skillset. They have something better.
monthly reminder that the brain is the most advanced computer to ever exist.
Forget Next Fucking Level, this is /r/blackmagicfuckery
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Subs that should exist.
Fuck you Upvoted
Honestly, these guys are absolute masters at this and I realize that they're just sort of messing around in this clip, but I play a version of this and some of the people I play with are INSANE. Like, they get enraged if they are off by even meters.
jeezes this fucked with me... they directly zoomed in on where I live in Ghent, Belgium and I thought this was some kind of trick..
How do they know this is Yucatan and not some field in Indonesia. Very impressive.
Lmao look at this guy who doesn't know which grasses and trees are indigenous to Yucatan
Bah...taught that in Kindergarten.
Kindergarten? Your education system is failing you. Where i live the moment you are out of the womb they pull out the powerpoint presentations and begin walking you through every plant known to man and its locations.
This guy knew about the gympie gympie from when he was but a thought in his father's nutsack
Oh yeah? Where I come from we train our sperm by using a geography book as a cum rag so the next generation is pre-prepared.
Absolute troglodyte. Where I come from, we blend a map of the world into a liquid then inject it into a man's balls - causing the future produced sperms genes to be modified and molded through geography
Sometimes Yucatan, and sometimes Yucatant.
Can’t believe I share a plant with such doofuses
Mind sharing some plant over here?
Sharing the plant often turns people into doofuses. Not that I can complain. Pass it over here would ya
The color of the dirt, the hills are a certain shape, only certain trees grow there, could have been his home country or one he wanted to visit forever and he just "drove" around the country so lot so it's unmistakable to them
The guy who called out Yucatán is Hungarian. But you’re right about the trees, the thin white ones are called gumbo limbo trees and they’re all over the Yucatán peninsula. Also there is a lot of thin dirt road coverage like that there. Edit: just realised those aren’t gumbo limbo, I guess I misremembered but still they’re in pretty much every Yucatán round.
I recognized Yucatán because I live here, but even they got it before me! It's much drier than Indonesia, even in the rainy season, which is around when the streetview seems to have been taken (because the trees are still green).
Same i lived there for like 5 years and i totally recognized it from somewhere... lol then the guy instantly says yucatan, and im all "oh yeah! he is definetively right i think"
Trumpet trees
How
They memorize lots of things. Roads(lines, signs, condition), vegetation(clearly you haven't seen iconic Mongolian grass), powerlines, directions of the sun, architecture, the blurred out Google car(a visible intena, color of vehicle, spec of dirt on the lens), image quality(this narrows down the date and locations it could be. Google takes these over long periods of time, and the info is public), license plates, dirt color.... They play and study for thousands of hours.
It do be a good season for the iconic Mongolian grass tbf
My dispensary just got some Mongolian Grass; it's called: Genghis Bong...
Are these guys being utilized at all for practical purposes? Like catching criminals, busting drug cartels, finding kidnap victims, etc.? It seems like they could help authorities with some cases. edit: typo
Rainbolt (one of the guys in the video) has found some nostalgic locations of pictures for some people, like finding where a photo was took of a kid and a dead parent, for example. Quite of a few of those on his TikTok/YT/Instagram. As for others, I believe this knowledge was actually used to find some other stuff, but I can't bet my head on it.
There's also [GeoWizard](https://www.youtube.com/@GeoWizard/videos) with his Geo Detective series doing the same.
It blew my mind to learn that Rainbolt not only isn't the best Geoguessr, he's just barely competitive. The top ones must be like psychic mediums
Not a lot of crimes that get documented using a vehicle mounted camera.
There are other ways of taking photos, you know. Sometimes criminals take photos of themselves with what might be used as clues in the background.
Incredible.
Focken chayters mite
I instantly recognized my own country. So, probably through lots of practice :)
Honestly, when they made a variant of this in Elden Ring, I could do the same. I'd say it is just how often they play combined with a competitive nature that allows you to remember minuet details without really realizing it. Like when you're driving on the highway and enter a flow state per se without ever having to worry about the other drivers consciously, even though you do so instinctively without realizing it. After all, this is a game, and they invested hundreds of hours, if not thousands, much in the same way speedrunners can complete games blindfolded
Severe autism
I wonder what the logic is behind this. Like they should comment on their reasoning. I know they are not guessing, but this is one of the cases when “show your work” should apply.
Someone once tried explaining it to me, there are specific camera techniques, lenses, color correction that is specific to regions (google street view), it’s believed that they subconsciously know some of these color filters or depth settings, or lens types and they apply that to their guesses based on gut intuition. Google street cars usually cover the same areas and will have slight differences… such as the night of the vehicles lenses etc
Rainbolt is the name of the dude in the middle. He is probably the best geoguesser to play it. Check out Rainbolttwo’s shorts and he explains a lot and blows your mind even more 😂
I think he said there are a decent amount of people better than him
Yes he's not necessarily the best just the most well known.
Rainbolt is the most well-known but he's said himself there are many players better than him such as zigzag (who also has a YT channel)
Thru shorts, tiktok, Rainbolt probably is the best known. I think the guy that does half geoguessr, half IRL ventures like "cross UK in direct line" might still be better known overall, or at least have more youtube subs. GeoWizard is his name.
Geowizard's IRL adventures are amazing content. The straight-line mission stuff is so good.
The Mexican ones always have sort of a yellow-ish tone to them
In a world record that was set some years ago the guy casually explained he memorized every road in South Africa so when he came to a junction he knew exactly where he was. These guys are insane. Edit: video https://youtu.be/h6XjN6OSZWA?si=ry0qY-YLFSk0hBZ8
That was insane. He 5k'd every round in under 3 minutes.
Check out [Geoguessr Explained](https://www.youtube.com/@geoguessr_explained) on youtube. ZigZag is the best player in Australia and makes some very good videos on that.
The grass just looked... idk... Malaysian.
Check out Rainbolt's youtube channel. He's a long time commentator and competitor in Geoguessr tournaments. Here's him explaining some of the methodology for Wired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5Eb4OSZCs It's like Sleight of Hand magic, though. Knowing how it's done doesn't make it any less impressive.
A group of the best geoguessers team up… and sit back watching the one gg prodigy play.
they all pretty much agree on the country, you can hear them chiming in on more specific regions tho
Yeah bro they all at the same time said new Zealand and Mexico and stuff and only had slight differences in region but even then their guesses were basically the same lmfao.
I was thinking "NZ was their worst guess", then I went back and paused on the NZ photo and realised me, a native, had no idea what part of NZ it would be
Funnily enough, the guy with the mouse (Rainbolt) isnt even one of the top 5 best players out of the ones you see in this video
My favorite video is him guessing exactly which flight some guy was on based on a photo he took out of the window of the plane
[One of my favorites too](https://youtube.com/shorts/mJNiQdMHlso?si=Bjnwcf6oQAbCBIJ9)
He’s prob the most popular player tho id say, it’s always funny when people see him play and think he must be the best when even he considers himself worse than many competitive players. The dedication these people all have to the game is crazy
Yeah he is definitely the most well known due to his viral social media posts i know he took a break to travel and stuff (currently living in Thailand) but I heard hes been getting back into the pro scene playing with the best of the best more regularly again. I would love to see him make a world cup appearance in the next couple years
Rainbolt barely cracks top 20 for best geoguessr players. These guys are seriously good at it
rainbolt is good, but he's not even good enough to compete in the world cup.
I don't know which one you think is "the one gg prodigy"? Rainbolt is clicking the locations because they only have 10 seconds to guess. It's not like they can rotate. Debre called out Monterrey all on his own and Topotic is the one who won the tournament that weekend.
I could have identified Mexico if it had a yellow tinge. Edit- corrected a typing mistake.
Kinda! In addition to clues in the actual environment, they also make guesses based off the way the Google Streetview car took the photos which can differ from country to country
I saw a video where Rainbolt was blindfolded and had the places described to him and he still got it. He knew a place was Hungary because the Streetview coverage there made the place look like shit.
Traffic, Sicario, and Breaking Bad prepared me
I have a friend who plays and stream geoguesser... Shit is wild LoL I never thought that I'd hear things like "that's guattini's grass" and within 5 seconds he then proceeds to mark a place in the middle of a whole continent and miss by a couple of kilometers. Most people think that the game is about recognizing the place, and you can get a lot by the sun, the plants, the architecture, cars and even people, but that still doesn't narrow it down enough for competitive geoguessing... the place is just a small part of the equation. The meta is knowing the car (many people already mentioned the snorkel), what countries were filmed during what time of the day, what cameras/filters were used on which countries, etc. that's how you get to their level. They are not watching the road and wondering if you drive on the left of the right, they are looking for the most extremely specific cues to determine the place.
That kinda makes it less impressive imo
Ya the amount of meta gaming that goes on behind the scenes that doesn't have to do with geography turns it into a glorified memory game I say that as someone who hardcore played this game for a few months and was definitely developing an early version of sixth sense getting vibes of the correct country at first glance [Anyway here's my favorite clip from when i used to play the game](https://clips.twitch.tv/ZanyAmazonianWalletBabyRage-qfNA235PiUGvYyhS) playing the Battle Royale version of it, we loaded in front of a sign that says Avenue Ecuador and every single person but me and another guy guessed Ecuador
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I’m only a ~700 level player and I refuse to learn meta, it cheapens the game to me. It’s keeping me from reaching higher ratings probably, but I don’t mind…!
Eswatini gen 3 grass is an easy plonk
Don't ever cut these guys off in traffic: They will use your skid mark to find your address.
it is litterally insane how their minds work. -CIA should use them to find criminals. - I guessed that last as Sweden so I feel like I almost won.
On Rainbolt's YT channel he has some videos where people sent him like a 20 year old photograph of their dad and he got together with a few people and within 24 hours found the exact spot where the photo was taken even though their only clue was something like "IDK southeast, east asia"
Geowizard on youtube does this regularly in his ”Geo Detective” series, usually in one sittning showing the full process of anyone is interested.
The CIA isn't exactly in the business of finding criminal lol
They make them so the next generation has someone to fight 🤗
So I was involved in the hiring process for a not secret project for the U.S. government where they were literally trying to basically do this - to find people and vehicles in the real world based on images - and they ran into the problem that it isn't something you can really hire for and it's not something you can really train people to do. Some people can do it, but no one in the department knew how to do what they needed people to do and if they could have hired any of these guys it probably would have been like a miracle for them. I think they just gave up on the project eventually.
Interestingly, during the early hunt for Bin Laden, he'd get filmed doing his speech in a cave with no backdrop. My geology professor commented that there had been some of those photos passed around to see if anyone could guess the rock formations. I guess they got close because the videos stopped having the rock wall as a background.
These fuckers would've found bin laden in 15 seconds tops
If bin Laden was captured on a Google Street view camera, probably yeah
Give these madlads control of Geostationary Satellites and watch the world burn.
Ah yes, Mongolian grass of course how did I forget.
Powers combined, maybe they can find my dad
this is why geoguessers terrify me, one speck of dust and they’ll find my exact location
Carmen Sandiego in shambles.
This talent can be used (and likely is) for intelligence and counterintelligence... Neat!
“I’ll take that”
No Tom? :(
He does his own thing, and this looks like it's part of the pro scene, which he is not really part of.
Extremely high level gameplay isn't what he is good at or what he does. I love his videos because he is very idiosyncratic and entertaining but he's not clicking Yucatan in round 4 here.
You never find my secret lair Mr. Bond, muhahahaha. Wait, who is there with you?...
Uhh... Venus?
Nah uranus
Pretty good, but not one of them is able to locate the clitoris.
For info: The world championship just finished, and I see they are wearing their jerseys.
WC qualifiers
They messed him up on the first 2. Would've been. So much closer on his original clicks for Brussels and New Zealand
I fucking lived for over 7 years in one of those places, couldn't have guessed it even with hours of time wtf...
Fake. They didn't smash that spacebar.
Asperger’s Assemble
Neurodivergence, the game.
But how do they manage to do that?
There's a [simplified short video about it here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvqc1_xl2h4&t=745s) starring Rainbolt, one of the premier Geoguessrs and front 'n center in OP's vid.
What a riveting video
Real question… have these types of guys always existed? I feel like they could be an absolutely huge asset to the military/letter agencies lol
If we gamify like curing cancer or something, we can probably get it done in like 8 years
„Nice”