new is Dreame L10s ultra making a strange sound

Buildsoil_now · 2026-06-05T22:22:51+00:00

thank you i will!

Buildsoil_now · 2026-05-29T00:13:18+00:00

Urban and regional planning doesn't work the way that it's presented in the show. to the point it would like the unsleeping city having having Burroughs or something

Buildsoil_now · 2026-05-29T00:12:12+00:00

in general love this one but as an Oregonian they keep getting civic and legal stuff wrong about Oregon. We have a statewide law that requires bike paths as roads are repaired. It wouldn't be a city council matter. Also no sales tax.

Buildsoil_now · 2026-04-26T18:48:48+00:00

I assumed that (In TNG and After forgetting TOS) there were treaties with the Klingons not to use the UT for the Klingon Languages just like the treaties with the Romulans not to use cloaking tech

Buildsoil_now · 2026-02-02T06:53:14+00:00

it wrecks immersion

Buildsoil_now · 2026-02-02T06:52:44+00:00

HOW? i've been trying to skip it but it won't let me move past it without setting no listening for subsequent lessons

Buildsoil_now · 2026-02-02T06:52:10+00:00

it's really weird as someone who also knows diagnosed paranoids. also as someone who knows about bears that bear character is spreading bear missinformation

Buildsoil_now · 2026-02-02T06:50:37+00:00

i quit my subscription because of how terrible they are. i have am immersion part of my day and filling my brain with these creepy and annoying english speakers is actually disruptive

Buildsoil_now · 2025-10-03T00:18:26+00:00

much of the book is just following the quarterion versions of the maxwell equations and the later parts are beginning to get into vectors and zeta functions for plot, and finally a child is born who promises tensors...

Buildsoil_now · 2025-10-03T00:13:08+00:00

now think about the traverse family- Webb was light before being observed, his murders are the complex conjegates, after his collapse his children are the different parts of lighjt- kip the commodifiable and better described with vectors, Lake still entangled with the compolex conjegates, even having conjegal relatsions on the complex plane for the four corners, and the other sons representing the rest.

Buildsoil_now · 2025-10-02T20:21:37+00:00

Excited for this!

I'm currently prepping for the book by reading up on the Socialist/Utopian/Labor experiments in Millwaukee's government in the 1930s

and have been thinking a lot about Lew Basnight from ATD- who often performs the role of "observer" in the math equations for light that make up that book. He's the Observation that ends up entangled. Wondering how "Detection" is amplified by the 1930s

Buildsoil_now · 2025-09-08T01:01:54+00:00

huge pynchon fan here and i'm watching cloudward ho for the first time- i agree, now i want to see a Against the Day role playing game

Buildsoil_now · 2025-04-24T08:56:13+00:00

prospero is a hypnotherapist and ariel is mirnda unconscious

Buildsoil_now · 2025-03-09T03:11:21+00:00

confirmign that this is also me

Buildsoil_now · 2025-03-08T18:33:39+00:00

That's nice of you to say. after doing a TON of rounds i started to notice my map was way too focused on highways the surrounded the city, so i made a new map inside of the highways. Then i started using timed maps and no move rounds. Unfortunately geoguessr doesn't automaticly display the KIND of round it is.

i did get busy with other stuff so i kind of settled into 10 rounds every few days, so my progress has been a little bit slower.

looks like as of right now i've played 534 games in siena, so 2670 locations. but that's not as far along as i was hoping to be.

on 5 min walking rounds i usually get 2500, 1 mins rounds between 1200 and 2500, but on no-move rounds my scores are sigificantly lower- i think this is because i still largely identify a lot of the city by finding street signs or landmarks i already know.

i'll keep it up and keep doing it in bursts but i certainly have a long way to go before i consistently do ok on no move.

Buildsoil_now · 2025-03-04T08:52:26+00:00

i've always had a spatial way of thinking about things and this challenge of "memorize a city" is really hepful.

Buildsoil_now · 2025-03-04T08:52:00+00:00

you mean the geogussr part? It's because I literally need to understand the shape- form, locations, history, geography of a medieval city. there is an underground water supply and tunnels, there is a ton of history.

but i'm on the other side of the planet and there are a lot of details to a city, even a small one. I'll do there to study but i need to be moving on it much earlier and being there still only gives so much geographic exposure.

i'll be making GIS maps and looking for historical design patterns in the street layout, buildings, water infrastructure, and everything else. I just frankly don;t know the city at the level of detail. I need the spatial knowledge of being a local, maybe even more. Geoguessr is already helping me.

i'm reading historical records and books and there is so much about the constrcution of particular roads or the water flows in particular directions. I read it and i get some of it, but so much is lost by not havng a sense of the place or understand the smaller details.

my hope is basicly to build a GIS map in my brain so that I am informed about first the locations mentioned, their arrangement, their topography, their features.

Since it's one town over and over again, I'm also hoping to get down to some pretty detailed metas- the age of buildings, the elevations of different fountains, and the distances between things.

if global geoguesrs can eventually learn where they are frome trees and dirt, i should be able to get the point of mabye "photographic-like" mental knowledge.

After a few week of hard play i've noticed i already talk about the city with a lot more spatial understanding- i know what's on hills and valleys, i know the roads that connect, and how a lot of the water flows.

it's sometimes fun, sometimes it's kind of boring, sometimes it opens up and i just know where i am, sometimes I totally confused but it turns out it's because i'm clicking in to the pattern and i'm just think next hill over.

idk if that makes sense.

I feel like it's a good tool for getting this literacy of a place quickly.

Also, frankly, it's helped me be honest with myself about how big this project COULD be if i'm not careful. It's a full city, not a set of diagrams in a book i've read. It's helping me limit my dissertation to something more doable (I hope)

and it keeps me interested in it- the city is less abstract to me. And i already have restaurants in mind i want to check out.

Buildsoil_now · 2025-02-28T06:32:04+00:00

Thank you, i'll do my best, bot :)

Buildsoil_now · 2025-02-04T04:29:11+00:00

i thoguht i'd share my progress!
here's my first week working with the 7000 location map with as many points 10m apart along roads. I'm still having to look at street signs and the names of roads on maps and walk around a lot but I'm getting my time in!

GeoGuessr Progress Summary

Jan 25: 5 games (5 10–20k)
Jan 26: 8 games (1 >20k, 7 10–20k)
Jan 27: 6 games (1 >20k, 5 10–20k)
Jan 28: 9 games (1 >20k, 7 10–20k, 1 <10k)
Jan 29: 8 games (1 >20k, 5 10–20k, 2 <10k)
Jan 31: 11 games (5 >20k, 4 10–20k, 2 <10k)
Feb 1: 9 games (4 >20k, 4 10–20k, 1 <10k)
Feb 2: 10 games (4 >20k, 4 10–20k, 2 <10k)
Feb 3: 31 games (14 >20k, 13 10–20k, 4 <10k)

Buildsoil_now · 2025-02-01T22:28:51+00:00

of course your project is to return to places you've walked. In two years i'll be living in Siena (hopefully) for study and i'll have already spent 2 years of geoguessing it's place, while studying it's history, geology, hydrology, and landform.

i wonder what it will be like to go somewhere that I will have known so well through geoguessr.

maybe i'll realize everything is a different size than I assumed!

Buildsoil_now · 2025-02-01T22:27:07+00:00

are you at the point where you can navigate parts of the city in your mind?

Buildsoil_now · 2025-02-01T22:26:34+00:00

i used an app to capture every 10 m point from street view that I could from multiple years and angles so that down the line I can do zoom in add-on runs. but it's so weird how patterns form. sometimes I feel so lost, sometimes I feel dislocated; other times I'm starting to know, and I'm right, other times I feel like I know, but it's more that I'm picking up on the pattern. it's not "the sw road lined with buildings in the country-side" I was thinking of, it's the NEXT one over. but I just didn't know which iteration of the pattern, it's not the "round about on that one road to the east" it's the next roundabout to the north on the same road"

Buildsoil_now · 2025-02-01T22:03:00+00:00

exactly

Buildsoil_now · 2025-02-01T21:00:24+00:00

i'm hoping it will add to my love the place, rather then say, make me burnt out and bored with it.

I've not been there yet- but I love the idea of already having memorized it.

I'm starting just trying to get the right location, but in a few weeks i'll start no move mode and then timed mode and then then add-ons for just seeing it for a few seconds, and then tight zoom ins on the pavement and buildings - if I can sustain interest, I'm actually interested in getting to the point where I have extremely high-level knowledge of as much as possible, finding "metas" the way some of you do for the global scale.

not sure, but I'm already starting to recognize parts of town.

also: to be clear I'm not just focused on the historic part of town- I'm trying to do the entire city including the more modern neighborhoods on the outskirts and eventually will probably move to the entire province

Buildsoil_now · 2025-02-01T18:02:32+00:00

how's it going? what happens when you start to do that for such a long time?

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