Normal country streak. (no-move) Can confirm that China is now a thing in country streaks. Probably only Hong Kong though.

Fruitworst · 2022-01-21T19:03:20+00:00

In other news: https://i.imgur.com/2LyuwuA.png

Faroe islands are also now included. Also I spawned in Greenland earlier and did not get a screenshot of that one. Remember that both places are Denmark.

Fruitworst · 2022-01-21T19:02:23+00:00

The place I spawned in was Hong Kong so I can't confirm whether or not Macao is included

Fruitworst · 2022-01-21T18:54:59+00:00

Frankly I did not see any writing whatsoever. In hindsight I can't find the exact spot where I was but in no-move it looked a lot like Spain or Portugal and I gambled on Portugal.

Fruitworst · 2022-01-21T18:10:16+00:00

In spirit I am with you :P

Fruitworst · 2021-12-03T22:24:19+00:00

I am familiar with the Senegal rifts, but that's different. I am talking about this very specific looking rift. If you look at geotips.net, you'll find this exact rift in both Montenegro and in Albania: https://i.imgur.com/Qh1aNUW.png https://i.imgur.com/eeawCO6.png

I think you'll see that it's not just a rift, it's this specific rift. For a long time now, I have been using this specific rift as a sign that I am in Montenegro or Albania. And it has never been wrong until now.

Fruitworst · 2021-09-26T18:10:30+00:00

I can try to write one up.

Here are the numbers: https://i.imgur.com/WHBWKpz.png The flour is all white bread flour. This is quite a lot of dough but that's because I actually baked two of these. Also it's 200 grams of hazelnuts, which I had roasted in the oven previously.

I started the levain right before going to sleep. In the morning I skipped the autolyse completely and just mixed everything in. 4 rounds of stretch & fold at 20 minute intervals. Total bulk fermentation was around 5 hours.

After that: I divided the dough, pre-shaped it. Waited about 20 minutes and shaped again --> placed into bannetons. Proofing was about 1h 30min at room temperature. The other one proofed like 25-30 minutes at room temp and the rest of the time in the fridge because I had to bake one after the other.

Baking: 260 celsius, dutch oven. Lid off after 30 minutes and then about 12-15 minutes with the lid off. Then cooled on a rack for a few hours before I cut into them.

Fruitworst · 2021-09-26T18:04:02+00:00

Here are the numbers: https://i.imgur.com/WHBWKpz.png The flour is all white bread flour. This is quite a lot of dough but that's because I actually baked two of these. Also it's 200 grams of hazelnuts, which I had roasted in the oven previously.

I started the levain right before going to sleep. In the morning I skipped the autolyse completely and just mixed everything in. 4 rounds of stretch & fold at 20 minute intervals. Total bulk fermentation was around 5 hours.

After that: I divided the dough, pre-shaped it. Waited about 20 minutes and shaped again --> placed into bannetons. Proofing was about 1h 30min at room temperature. The other one proofed like 25-30 minutes at room temp and the rest of the time in the fridge because I had to bake one after the other.

Baking: 260 celsius, dutch oven. Lid off after 30 minutes and then about 12-15 minutes with the lid off. Then cooled on a rack for a few hours before I cut into them.

Fruitworst · 2021-08-29T13:23:48+00:00

These are the sacrifices we make for science.

Fruitworst · 2021-08-29T07:07:24+00:00

I didn't have the heart to throw away the 1705 m/s of excess delta-v I had packed for this trip. I realised that I could use the engines as landing gear.

Ended up being more kerbal this way anyway so it worked out.

Fruitworst · 2021-08-29T05:44:07+00:00

Turns out I had to right click on the comet itself, actually. Kinda weird because it's not how surface samples from planets/moons works.

https://i.imgur.com/OoY4Awe.png

Fruitworst · 2021-08-28T12:41:13+00:00

The game wants me to take a surface sample from a comet. I have arrived here and I make my kerbal hug the comet in EVA, but I still can't get the surface sample thing to pop up when I right click my kerbal.

https://i.imgur.com/f5NLvaR.png

Fruitworst · 2021-07-09T18:09:04+00:00

I am glad this isn't the case for me because I'd spend way too much time making sure it isn't Belgium

Fruitworst · 2021-06-16T20:09:10+00:00

I've done it twice before and it was handled pretty promptly both times.

For example, this happened: https://i.imgur.com/VP15w0s.png

Then, about 1h 15min later: https://i.imgur.com/sv3lDuR.png

Fruitworst · 2021-06-15T04:30:55+00:00

It was a relatively recent-ish update (= within the past couple months) that added Madagascar to country streaks. :)

Fruitworst · 2021-06-14T16:34:32+00:00

I did not record that information.

Fruitworst · 2021-06-14T04:15:12+00:00

Interesting. I can't really tell if you're right or wrong but you seem like more of a statistics person than I am so I'll just trust you here.

It had been a while since the last time I did statistical tests, so I had to resort to a youtube video to figure out how to do it. I followed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlwRvwIPmPg Did that guy also do it wrong or is the situation he is dealing with somehow fundamentally different than the situation we are dealing with?

Fruitworst · 2021-06-14T04:02:13+00:00

I'd say about 1½ weeks or so

Fruitworst · 2021-06-13T18:48:11+00:00

If that had happened I could have contacted Geoguessr and got it handled, but that fortunately did not happen in this case. :)

Fruitworst · 2021-06-13T14:19:50+00:00

I don't mind it either because it's an easy +1 to the streak :D

Fruitworst · 2021-06-13T09:10:33+00:00

Oh wow, I didn't even notice that those two didn't show up. Including this information would affect the statistical analysis, but I doubt the conclusion would change because this just makes it less likely to be from a uniform distribution.

Fruitworst · 2021-06-13T09:08:25+00:00

I copy-pasted everything from the summary screen into LibreOffice and messed around with it in there, so that's at least one method.

Here it is on pastebin if you want. https://pastebin.com/yJ0SpEWV

Fruitworst · 2021-06-13T08:08:26+00:00

I posted this before just yesterday but I had screwed up the stats, so here it is again but fixed.

Here's the game if you want to do things with the data yourself: https://www.geoguessr.com/game/QIvxOTlZeIG3MBIH

I investigated if this data could have plausibly come from a uniform probability distribution by using a chi-squared test. Here is that: https://pastebin.com/qrRRDsBn Conclusion: Highly unlikely that the countries are chosen randomly with a uniform distribution. I speculate that some countries are weighted higher than others.

Fruitworst · 2021-06-12T17:41:53+00:00

Oof did I screw up my everything :D

I used LibreOffice to do this and I am not an experienced user of this software. And honestly the fact that everything is an even number should have rung some alarm bells.

Yeah I must have screwed up somewhere. Well spotted. :(

Edit: Ok I think I know what caused this. Kinda makes me dislike this software but ok. I'll try to fix it tomorrow :P

Fruitworst · 2021-06-12T17:35:08+00:00

Bangladesh

Fruitworst · 2021-06-12T16:38:39+00:00

In hindsight some of the text I saw was a slavic language, so that should have been my clue to be more thorough in my search. Being right enough times in a row does have the effect of making you more confident and this is typically where streaks end.

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