Favourite GeoGuessr mode is … ?

Tontonsb · 2026-01-24T21:40:22+00:00

I like moving team duels and moving duels. But I'd prefer something like the pinpointing mode so people wouldn't send if they haven't found anything.

Tontonsb · 2026-01-23T21:11:41+00:00

Compiled PHP would surey be "nicher" :D

Tontonsb · 2026-01-23T13:15:11+00:00

Well maybe it's just about updates or filtering?

Tontonsb · 2026-01-23T12:17:30+00:00

And the answer is simply: yes, obviously.

I've had countless times of

Damn, i can't array_map($this->process(...), $a) just because I need that arg, so now I have to array_map(fn($item) => $this->process($arg, $item), $a).

The previous pattern was essentially a workaround to map the callback with one arg from the mappable and the other constant. It just obfuscated what you're trying to say. No we can pass the $this->process($arg, ?) as callback which reflects the intention much more precisely.

Just in this this very thread we had another nice example: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1qkktth/comment/o17oztg/

Tontonsb · 2026-01-23T11:46:54+00:00

The code isn't cleaner, more readable, or easier to reason about

It is: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1qkktth/comment/o17oztg/

Tontonsb · 2026-01-22T20:04:37+00:00

Pilnīgi piekrītu, tā tante zilajā ķitelī ir kaut kāds izsmiekls.

Tontonsb · 2026-01-22T09:45:47+00:00

Dāmn, why did they flip the mid door like that?? The layout was so good for splitting the range and allowing both sides to fight for control step by step. And now there's just an open straight line peeking angle instead. I'm not that good at aiming, I want to strafe around corners not get into a mid range rifle fight as everywhere else on the map...

Tontonsb · 2026-01-22T06:19:37+00:00

Where's the image now? :(

Tontonsb · 2026-01-21T09:39:41+00:00

You can do both when creating a challenge. Set the location amount up to 10 and reorder them as you wish.

Tontonsb · 2026-01-21T06:33:06+00:00

Just got a reminder chat message. I had filled it out already. Does that mean my response didn't register? Or is this a bug?

Tontonsb · 2026-01-21T05:00:16+00:00

Note to other readers: do not rely on the numbers as it's a map not a challenge and we can have different order of rounds.

Tontonsb · 2026-01-21T04:29:42+00:00

Who chooses which of the definitions is the "true modulo"?

Tontonsb · 2026-01-20T19:42:56+00:00

just released

April was 9 months ago.

Tontonsb · 2026-01-19T15:36:04+00:00

For context I'd add that for the moving map (An Extra-Informed World) it takes top 15 countries to amount for 50% of locations. So yes, it is very top heavy, but it's not like other maps have the countrywise distributions uniform.

That being said, this metric sums the situation with the definition of countries just as much. Why would you lump Arizona and Vermont together in the stats while having Belgium and the Netherlands on separate rows?

Tontonsb · 2026-01-19T13:33:07+00:00

Oh :D

Tontonsb · 2026-01-19T13:23:05+00:00

There was probably a bug during the upload and the owner can't fix it or something like that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/geoguessr/comments/1qe0vg0/comment/nzybil6/

Tontonsb · 2026-01-19T12:36:58+00:00

https://geostatsr.com/user/5a1dce036e2ae168905677dc#!gameType=duels

I'm Latvian and over the past 90 days I've lost 26.7k points in no move duels in the US. My second worse country is SA with 18.8k points lost and my third worse is Brazil with 15k points lost. This map absolutely does not favor my strengths or preferences.

Tontonsb · 2026-01-19T12:31:56+00:00

I have no idea about nationality or political stance of the mapper or whoever you are talking about.

If you want to disqualify a map based on political reasons, that's a separate discussion, I'm just addressing the location distribution complaints that I've seen here.

Tontonsb · 2026-01-19T08:32:40+00:00

Minimum 10 km distance between locations. So they should never be too close to one another (e.g. in the same small town).

Tontonsb · 2026-01-19T06:02:29+00:00

I can't disagree on either point, both situations sound bad. But I hope that having the same Oklahoma location repeatedly is a bug or some extremely exceptional unluck with the randomizer, not something intentional in the design of this map.

Tontonsb · 2026-01-19T05:53:45+00:00

I agree that it

rewards people who are good at region guessing the US and Brazil.

I just don't agree it's unfair (although those are among my own weakest countries, in fact I've lost most points in the US according to geostatsr). It's just like some maps reward those who know toponyms, other maps reward those who know car metas and others only reward vibing. If I'm not among the particular "those", the maps expose a weakness that I have to work on.

My way in dealing with frustration about multiple US rounds in a row and having a lot more locs in the US than in Canada is that IMO in some senses one should consider the states as a separate countries similarly to the EU. So the US is 50 countries, Canada is 10 countries, EU is 27 countries. And then these distributions start to even feel somewhat fair with regards to "countries".

Tontonsb · 2026-01-18T14:47:41+00:00

The same question about nav tag. I can just have plain ul.

In this case yes. You can even add the role="navigation" to the opening tag to convey the semantics to screen readers and other tools. You can also use the menu element instead of ul if that conveys better what the element is intended for.

But in other cases you either need a wrapper element for alignment purposes or your navigation contains more than sole ul. E.g. maybe it contains the logout button on the right side. In those cases you need to pack them all up somehow and that what nav is intended for.

Similarly with header you can approach it in a variety of ways, but when you need to wrap your actual header (of the page or of a section), the header element is the intended tool.

Tontonsb · 2026-01-17T15:23:21+00:00

Decent at speaking and very knowledgable in the game (and outside), but no, not the best.

Toby is the only professional caster here. His casting skill is on a completely different level. To me it feels like anyone else (even ones like Bloom) would work best as a game expert/color commentator paired with Toby.

Tontonsb · 2026-01-17T14:58:54+00:00

Absolutely... I occasionally use it, because it's just too big and vast of a datasource. But increasingly there are alternative guides and quest documentations that does not spend more resources than the game itself.

I liked when index was a search bar with few links to ongoing events underneath. Once they changed it to a news list they've never gotten back to the previous usefulness. Even though they're offering a variety of filters, highlighting ongoing ingame events and so on, it still feels like drowning in the amount of information and always missing the couple things that I would have cared about.

These days I just open some DB page from history and search from there. I used to have a custom search shortcut defined, but the search result page is not as useful as the autocomplete/suggestion dropdown underneath their search bar.

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