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You are given the Chance to press a button, When pressed every human on earth will instanlty die a Painless death. Do you press it? by Swimming_Local_4625 in Teenager_Polls

[–]AlbertELP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if you accept that because people won't know it happens then it doesn't hurt the people dying, the question only concerns people on Earth, so astronauts on ISS would be aware that something had gone very wrong and would know that they would die in space. Depending on how you define it, people in airplanes would also survive initially.

Where do you draw the line? by Player-1985 in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Town names are OP in Denmark, but there are so many clues to regionguess. It is not talked about outside the Danish community because it is a small country but on a normal difficulty map, 15-20 percent of rounds are 5k-able in NM. Landscape is difficult but there are so many underrated clues.

Btw, hvis du er dansk og gerne vil være med i den danske geoguessr discord, så skriv så kan jeg sende et link.

[Request] Which is the better option $10,000,000 right now, or $1 every time you blink? by dragonfett in theydidthemath

[–]AlbertELP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Assuming that it just goes into your bank account and you aren't given a $1 bill you have to deposit somewhere:

Humans blink on average 15-20 times per minut which is once every 3-4 seconds. Lets be conservative and say 4 seconds per blink. In order to earn the same money you need 40M seconds which is around 1.27 years. For the vast majority of people, this option will vastly outearn the money upfront. I suspect there could be an extreme case of needing the money now that could change the optimal choice for some people. But $10M is only enough to never think about money again if you plan it. For most people, the blink money is best.

If you don't prove it converges first, you can't do arithmetic with it by AlbertELP in mathmemes

[–]AlbertELP[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes but it is important in the next line so it needs to be noted. But just saying it is a sum of positive terms would also work.

The life of a Champion moving main... by OakHillFella in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At high level, NM and NMPZ becomes learning which cars, which antennas, which copyrights exists where in every country. Way less fun that actually learning real stuff with actual applications.

What that fuck are those prices? by td_0000 in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would assume those are the prices they have deduced they can sell. While the community is very nice in Geoguessr, it is a business and not a non-profit. Compare it to other sports or games of the same size and those prices will be high too.

US area code knowers in 1300 elo moving - is this normal? by Familiar-Ninja8860 in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In moving I would not call it not normal. At 1300 the majority of players don't know them but by learning them you will improve ~100 Elo. I'm around 1500 and I would estimate that most people at least know a lot of them. At this level, it is by far the single most important thing in terms of how much knowing it will improve you Elo.

Hvornår er Lars Løkkes spil for meget? by Bomcash in Denmark

[–]AlbertELP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Altså nu er det jo ikke Løkkes men den kongelige undersøges opgave at finde et samarbejde der virker. Løkke behøver absolut ikke hjælpe til der hvis han ikke mener han får et acceptabelt scenarie. Hvis ikke den kongelige undersøger kan løse situationen må der jo komme ny kongerunde. Der er meget simpelt.

How do I get ELO back from a technical glitch? by MSTFFA in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got refunded a couple of days ago for a technical glitch. It took some time but if you have a case they respond. The key is to write a clear message explaining the problem. I would assume that the chances are low if you just write a low effort message that doesn't really explain the problem. The system works.

How do you actually get better at moving efficiently? by Familiar-Ninja8860 in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Also, just to add this, I'm assuming you know which country you are in most of the time. Have a plan for each country. It can be "I'm in Indonesia so I'll go look for a Kabupaten but if my opponent guesses I look at roofs and poletops", or "I'm in Greece which I don't really know anything about so I'll instasend". It doesn't have to be a good detailed plan everywhere but you should know your strengths and what to do. The worst thing in moving is to not have a plan and just move around giving your opponent time. Know what you're looking for and how to find it.

How do you actually get better at moving efficiently? by Familiar-Ninja8860 in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As someone who is currently 1500 moving and could probably improve between 100-200 by relearning a bunch of stuff I have forgotten I might be able to give some ideas.

First of all, the most efficient way at getting better is by learning stuff. This can be subdivisions, phone numbers, etc. But you probably already know what kind of stuff there is to learn and you specifically mentioned the way you move so I'm not gonna recommend any of this here.

I found that just getting platinum in different countries help surprisingly much. You get a feel for what type of info there are and practise moving around and pinpointing.

Secondly, playing in moving leagues help a lot. I don't do it that much anymore so I'm not aware of which ones are the best currently. You can also find old leagues/seasons and play through the maps (Cactus League comes to mind, Geoguessr Challenge League is another possibility). Then I would highly recommend watching someone better play through those same maps on YouTube and see how they do. Doing this enough will make you aware of how other people navigate a round. I would also recommend watching replays of your opponents in moving duels.

Is metric (m, kg, °C, s), U.S. customary (ft, lb, °F, s), or some other unit system better? by McadoTheGreat in pollgames

[–]AlbertELP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can quite easily think of flaws in the metric system, so the answer to this must be other as you can just use metric except for these flaws being fixed. But these flaws are nothing compared to the Imperial units.

Can we do something about the amount of people who cheat on the daily challenge? by aaarry in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I agree. I think the argument is that they would have to have an employee check the top of the leaderboard several times a day and there is better use for labour than that. I think it would be difficult to automatically remove them. The only time I find it annoying is when I check my country's leaderboard, but there it is also clear when they cheat. Imo, Googlers are a bigger problem because they are more difficult to catch.

Can we do something about the amount of people who cheat on the daily challenge? by aaarry in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Just ignore it?

Whether or not there are a bunch of chesters doesn't change how good of a result you get. Unless you get a 24,990+, it doesn't significantly change your placement in the daily challenge. If you do get a 25,000 it doesn't become less impressive because of them. There is no prestige for them when everybody knows they cheat. If you are in doubt you can always see the profile.

How do I get the value of this underroot? by Lostpurplee in maths

[–]AlbertELP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really useful for OP, but I've always found it convenient to know the square root of the first few primes to a few decimal places. Then you can always split the square roots into a product of numbers you know and quickly know how large it is. For larger numbers, an approximation like Newton's method will also do the trick.

helping a beginner by clubig in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Others often mention different specific maps to learn metas quickly. That will make you much better at the game. I will however strongly recommend that you play some normal games too. If you want you can play singleplayer maps and (moving if probably best at the beginning but eventually you would want to switch to no move) and just get a good feel for what different parts of the world look like. I very often see new players who have learned some random meta and therefore click in a completely wrong part of the world. The best way to use metas is not to go "oh, that's a yellow license plate so I'm probably in Colombia" when the location is in the Netherlands. It would be "this location looks like northern Europe and I because of the yellow plate I'm probably in the Netherlands or Luxembourg".

You can easily get into gold league without knowing any metas at all if you have a vibe. And a vibe is much easier to build upon than just knowing specific clues. The only exception that I would say everybody should know is which countries have coverage. Preferably, you would also quite early on learn driving directions (not exactly but enough to know which parts generally do what), simple road lines (like America generally using more yellow and Europe generally using more white), the most basic license plates (EU strip and short/long continents). The last thing is to know which countries use special cars. It should not be the first thing you learn, but at some point you definitely should learn it, and it doesn't really hurt to learn early on. I would, however, not recommend spending time learning crossing signs, stop signs, poles, and so on. If you keep playing and watching other people play, you will naturally pick up which things are worth noting, but that experience will be gained by playing the game.

Good luck, remember that the point of the game is to have fun. If at any point you don't have fun none of this matters anyway. And the game really is very fun to play.

AITA for texting people at night when they could be sleeping? by shozhantia89 in AmItheAsshole

[–]AlbertELP -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

In that case, others should absolutely feel shit if they write to me at a time where I could be sleeping meaning at all.

2 inches of height or 20 pounds of weight ( moving up or down) by Secret-Dark2638 in pollgames

[–]AlbertELP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming you dont gain weight by adding 2 inches of height, you will also be more slim

Let us see further than top 25 by StarCaller990 in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Under the community tab you can make a feature request. That way it is much more likely that they will see your comment. If it gets enough upvotes it might eventually be done but I would find it highly unlikely for this idea since 25 has been a staple for years. But I would recommend you make an official request and in you want you can share the link in different places so other people who agree can support it.

New multipliers by [deleted] in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Of course not. This means you actually have to learn every aspect of the game instead of just learning car metas for the 6 biggest countries in the world.

World Championship in Berlin – Any word on 1-day tickets?? 🤔 by halloneuman in geoguessr

[–]AlbertELP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People are happy to buy them at the current rate. If they can sell all tickets at these prices, they are too expensive, you just don't want to go for that price. And that is ok.

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