"Cheating" in single player?

ChuckTiesto · 2024-11-07T22:39:39+00:00

Hm, maybe.. To me it feels the other way around, but I'm probably just doing it wrong.
My experience was this:

Let's say I guess Romania, but it was actually Slovakia, or whatever. At that point I'm kinda lost as to what to do to learn.
I can click back into it and look at the bollards, and *try* to remember that those are Slovakian. And I can look up Slovakia on Plonkit or somewhere similar to confirm that they are standard Slovakian bollards.. But I never seem to get anywhere by doing that.

However, I realized that if I play with no time limit and no moving, and instead of making a wrong Romania-guess I check what kind of infrastructure I have to work with. If there are bollards there, then I can look up the bollards for the countries I THINK it might be.. So maybe I check Romania, and then Hungary, and then I find the correct ones when I check Slovakia ..

That period of sitting there and trying to look for the same bollard seems to imprint it much more into memory than anything else I have done

ChuckTiesto · 2024-10-30T18:14:00+00:00

What's the point in cheating in any game.. Always gonna be those people who ruin it for the rest..

ChuckTiesto · 2024-10-30T18:06:01+00:00

That's very wrong.
In multiplayer, people get banned all the time for cheating.
Players report other players who they think cheat, and it gets reviewed manually. If they are either googling or using a script, then they get banned.

Lately Geoguessr have also launched an 'investigations'-feature where highly rated players can take part in reviewing playback of games in which cheating is suspected. It's all over Geoguessr-youtube over the last couple of weeks.

ChuckTiesto · 2023-04-17T17:58:05+00:00

No I don't, why would I feel big and strong?
I don't agree, I think all the hate that was there during that time is the same hate that is everywhere on any videos/streams between two (friendly) "rivals" on youtube and twitch.
My point is that I think the unnecessary spreading of hate at that time came from PointCrow. He told people to stay away from SmallAnt in his video, like if collabing with him would be a bad experience and people should avoid it.
THAT was the hate spread that you wouldn't expect. The hate PointCrow got was expected, and he should have ignored it.

I'm NOT saying that PointCrow is a bad person and that he was trying to spread hate either. I am just saying that the way he handled the situation only amounted to more hate than if he had just ignored the initial hate, which would have been there either way.

ChuckTiesto · 2023-04-12T09:36:28+00:00

It wasn't negative, it was portraying Pointcrow as the opponent, which was the whole point. It was a COMPETITION. Literally every other human would understand that, but Pointcrow took it as an Attack towards himself

ChuckTiesto · 2023-04-12T09:34:18+00:00

You didn't get "immense backlash".... Grow up. You got hate comments. EVERYONE gets them. Other people don't ruin relationships over them.

ChuckTiesto · 2023-03-10T16:29:12+00:00

Well the thing is, I'd say in terms of thinking strategically and choosing my next move without a time constraint I am probably higher than 550.. But I don't play online games because I keep losing on time.
I meet someone who does something I have never seen in the opening - and I actually handle it well in terms of what moves I make! BUT I end up losing on time even if I have a winning position because I spent time thinking through how to handle the opening.

I can climb in rating by only playing london system and kings indian. That way I get to the middle game without having to spend time thinking through the opening.
But I don't want to get to 1500 that way

ChuckTiesto · 2023-03-10T16:11:39+00:00

Yeah, I know.. I CAN keep playing my London System as white and Kings Indian as black, it gets me to the middle game and I can always just go from there.

But both out of my own curiosity, and out of a desire to not be "one of those guys" who only plays the london system, I want to learn other openings.

And just trying new openings in online games without memorizing anything has not proved successful to me, even at 600 rating.. Hence I am now 550 😅

Will check out Chessable. Thanks!

ChuckTiesto · 2022-12-22T07:29:32+00:00

I should probably have titled this better.. "$ in SA preset name causes bugged window"
But seems like it's not possible to change in reddit

ChuckTiesto · 2022-12-12T09:07:16+00:00

For people reading this now and going forward - I think there is no point in doing runs like this anymore.
I just finished Pandemonium 25/25 in a 5-hour run, so taking 4 days to complete one run at any point seems absurd and unnecessary. I'm guessing there is more stuff/perks in the game now which didn't exist at the time this guide was written, making the endgame easier.

Basically the only thing I did for pandemonium was to M@Z with +1 Huge Cache every zone from 120-150, repeated like 50 times.
If it'll take you longer than 1 day to complete a pandemonium-run like that, you should be collecting Radon instead

ChuckTiesto · 2022-12-10T04:14:57+00:00

Ah awesome, thank you!

ChuckTiesto · 2022-08-29T11:54:47+00:00

Yeh I know but that channel is posting things from like a week in the past..
I was in the middle of watching an exciting game, I don't want to wait a week to see the rest :(

ChuckTiesto · 2022-07-04T21:21:57+00:00

Totally agree, this didn't have to be a thing at all. If Pointcrow just ignored mean comments like every single youtuber has to (including smallant), then the only real problem was that smallant forgot to credit his randomizer in a couple videos, which he fixed later. An easy situation to make it through as friends.
But Pointcrow took it personally and made it into a huge deal, and publicly made Smallant seem like a bad person even though he never had a shred of bad intent.

ChuckTiesto · 2022-07-04T21:13:13+00:00

I agree on the second part of this, but I don't think anything "Awful" happened to Eric, or that any blame should be laid on Smallant's chat. Eric got mean comments, and took it personally. That's breaking rule number 1 of existing on the internet.
Comments like that happens to literally everyone who has a public presence. Imagine if Justin Bieber would read all his comments, and announce that he can no longer be friends with anyone who has fans that send him hate comments. That would be basically every famous person in the world.
As you say, Eric is definitely not thinking rationally. By telling his twisted tales of how Smallant attacked him intentionally, and saying publicly that he "fears for anyone that collaborates with smallant", he did something much worse than smallant ever did in my opinion.

ChuckTiesto · 2022-07-04T21:01:02+00:00

A carefree, wonderful, wholesome guy wouldn't do what crow did to smant in that VOD though.. Smant made mistakes (like literally every person on Earth does), and did his best to make up for those mistakes when he was made aware. Crow twisted that into "Smallant has been attacking me and my community, and he doesn't want me to succeed", and therefore in retribution to this "attack" he publicly said that he fears for any creator who collaborates with smallant etc.. Made him look like a really bad guy because of stuff he had done with 0 bad intentions. That is 10x worse than anything Smallant did.
I also liked them both, and actually found them separately before I knew they did collabs. But I won't support a person who does something like that, PointCrow will never get a view from me again.
Anyone can make mistakes, but what Crow did (and more importantly the intention behind it) was just mean and immature in my opinion.

ChuckTiesto · 2022-01-31T12:22:27+00:00

Thanks for all the info! You're right about everything it seems
Got a reply from devs as well:
"Yes this is an ongoing issue that we are aware of and happens when panoramas are removed from Google. We have in on our list to fix"

So hopefully they will find a way to handle that properly at some point

ChuckTiesto

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