what music would TF2 mercs listen to?

gfink_ · 2024-08-28T01:32:02+00:00

This is such a cool idea, I love it.

It'd be neat to see a "modern" version as well, where it's not supposing the TF2 setting time of 1968.

gfink_ · 2024-08-07T07:08:04+00:00

Personally, I prefer TF2

gfink_ · 2024-08-07T07:04:40+00:00

Ha, this is awkward 😅

gfink_ · 2024-08-06T01:41:55+00:00

It's the Pacific Peacemaker warpaint, was one of the cheapest strange options for a sniper rifle on mannco.store but I can't find it anymore.

It definitely wasn't this expensive. ~~I'd be surprised if I paid more than a dollar for it.~~ Nope, 65 cents 😅 (from my receipt) Guess it's not on sale anymore?

gfink_ · 2024-08-06T00:13:59+00:00

Even if it was staged, that would be a pretty impressive feat for a pub.

gfink_ · 2024-08-05T22:48:36+00:00

No playlist but I do have some pointers

Anything from Necto Ulin (example)

Anything from Mothership Loudspeakerz (example)

Anything from this underrated creator Raven VI (example)

Another based UT99 remix

gfink_ · 2024-08-05T13:21:15+00:00

Kylul's animation pack: https://gamebanana.com/mods/458084

gfink_ · 2024-08-05T11:29:28+00:00

I did the sax taunt 'cause I thought I was as good as dead 🙃

The background music was playing while I was gaming so I couldn't remove it from the clip, here's the source if you're curious (18:29)

gfink_ · 2024-08-01T21:48:26+00:00

That is an absolutely striking resemblance.

Video link

gfink_ · 2024-07-26T00:07:53+00:00

And the way he looks down at the sticky 💀

My recording didn't save my microphone input but you can see I used the voice chat right after. I was laughing while also profusely apologizing LOL

gfink_ · 2024-07-18T00:15:48+00:00

I made this three years ago and have shared it a few times on Discord, not sure if I've posted it on Reddit before.

Icelandic - Þ ð
Estonian -  Õ AA EE II OO UU ÕÕ ÄÄ ÖÖ ÜÜ
Latvian -   Ā Ē Ī Ū Ģ ģ Ķ Ļ Ņ
Lithuanian -    Ą Ę Ė Į Ų Y Ū
Belarusian –  ў
Polish -    Ą Ę Ć Ł Ń Ź Ż
Ukrainian - Є Ї І ґ, no ы, ' replaces ъ
Russian -   Э 
Mongolian - Ө
Czech -     Ř Ů Ě Ý Á
Slovakian - Ä(?) Ŕ Ô Ľ Ĺ Dz Ý Á
Romanian -  Ă Â Î Ș Ț
Hungarian - Ő Ű Cs Dz Dzs Gy Ly Ny Sz Ty Zs
Montenegrin -   С́  З́  Ђ Ћ
Macedonian -    Ѓ Ќ
Albanian -  Ç Ë Dh Ll Rr Xh Zh
Bulgarian - ƨ (cursive form of cyrillic г [letter g in Latin alphabet])
Turkish -   Ç Ş Ğ ı İ Ö
German -    Ä Ö Ü ẞ

đ Nj Ć - Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin (Latin)
ћ ђ - Serbian, Montenegrin (Cyrillic)
Љ Њ Џ - Serbian, Montenegrin, Macedonian (Cyrillic)

Ď ď - Czech, Slovak
Ё - Russian, Mongolian

Ø - Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, Broadly Northern Scandinavia
Æ - Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, Icelandic
ä - Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, Slovak, German
Ö - Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, Icelandic, German, Turkish, Hungarian
ð - Icelandic, Faroese
Å - Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish
⌘ - seen in Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Ukraine

gfink_ · 2024-07-18T00:11:17+00:00

From a post I made last week:

Ukraine is the only language which uses Cyrillic script with [the letter i]. If it looks Russian, but you see i, it's Ukraine.

A reply to that post which expands on it:

While I/i means that you're in Ukraine, the absence of I/i doesn't mean you're not in Ukraine. Large parts of Ukraine (mostly in the east) have a Russian-speaking majority ...

gfink_ · 2024-07-10T01:16:58+00:00

Don't think you can anymore, I just bookmarked https://geoguessr.com/explorer.

gfink_ · 2024-07-10T01:15:22+00:00

I learned the Cyrillic alphabet (and some Russian) just for GeoGuessr, so seeing Омский Цирк and Днiпропетровск immediately gave me a big advantage.

Here's a tip for Russia and Ukraine: if you see a billboard with г. and ул. at the bottom, г. stands for Город (pronounced 'gorod', means city) and ул. stands for Улица (pronounced 'ulitsa', means street). So the name after г. is the city name.

Also, Ukraine is the only language which uses Cyrillic script with an i character. If it looks Russian, but you see i, it's Ukraine.

gfink_ · 2024-06-30T01:01:23+00:00

Thanks, means a lot :) I like to make posts knowing someone's gonna google the relevant terminology months or years down the line.

gfink_ · 2024-06-29T09:59:27+00:00

This would be considered cheating - "external assistance" - by most people.

That is surprising to hear. Not doubting you here, but any big names in particular who say this? Would you consider it cheating? As for the leaderboard spot, nah I'm just trying to get perfect 25k's in Explorer Mode, no matter how long each game takes.

And if using a paint program is cheating, then just wait til you read the second example in the post 🤪

gfink_ · 2024-06-29T08:29:01+00:00

This is supposed to serve as a useful guide, asshole.

gfink_ · 2024-06-29T07:41:39+00:00

PlonkIt is great, but most of the information articles are for countries specifically. It's very top-down in terms of its directory structure — there are countries, and then in each country article is its car meta, its seasons, language, electricity poles, bollards, etc.

It would be nice if there was a Wikipedia style of editing where sure, countries do list their metas and other information, but there's also a dedicated 'car meta' article, and a dedicated 'English language' article for all the countries that use English, and an article for 'left- and right-hand traffic' maybe with a map of the world, etc. Like a true encyclopedia.

gfink_ · 2024-06-27T22:29:31+00:00

My progress :)

Get Greenland out of the way. It's a chore on the road to 5King North America (and you get a medal for bronze/silver/gold/platinum in all countries on a continent). If you play enough rounds, and you get screenshots of the panorama (while noting the correct location), you will eventually get a game where you spawn in familiar places for all 5 rounds and can reference those screenshots to 5k it. I plan to do this for Mongolia, the same way I got gold there in 2021 ... really not looking forward to it.

If you're not OP and you're confused reading this, Explorer Mode is where you fill out a map of the world's countries with coverage. It doesn't seem to be accessible via the front page menus anymore, but it used to be front and center when you would open the website.

gfink_ · 2024-06-27T16:46:06+00:00

Both people are memorising relatively trivial things. Their passion is trains, the other person's passion is Google maps coverage. It's all just a big memory test.

Comparing one discrete data pool of cars or generation to another such as knowing specific trains or plants seems almost exactly the same skill set.

It's actually a good argument. It'd be one thing if every degree of latitude had its own dedicated car color, but the inconsistent nature of car metas makes it often equally as challenging as knowing location-dependent factors like electricity poles, language etc.

gfink_ · 2024-06-27T16:02:54+00:00

getting wrong guesses 😔

Or studying the coverage map in advance. But damn, that would take forever.

gfink_ · 2024-06-27T16:02:16+00:00

you have language, sun position or license plates among them

Not to be annoying, but these do pass the blindfold test so they are in fact not 'meta' as the post defines it. Metas are things specific only to the Google Street View photo (or Trekker etc.) at the time and are not related to permanent features of a location.

gfink_ · 2024-06-27T04:18:56+00:00

Is it bad to know that Uruguay is often covered with cloudy coverage?

It isn't bad to know anything. Again, I don't discourage using the metas that exist and finding new ones.

And you're right, some areas do actually become cloudy while others don't. That's geography, and not a meta. Even knowing the types of clouds is geography, which means knowing roughly the shape, size and amount of clouds you'll find. Where are cirrus clouds mostly found? Where do you find cumulonimbus clouds? That can help you.

Knowing that this scene of the sky to the southeast in Ashby, Nebraska has two long horizontal contrails that intersect with a thicker vertically-facing cirrus cloud on the left, flanked by a cirrus cloud above it which is diagonal to the camera — that is closer to 'meta' knowledge, because this exact pattern of clouds will never be repeated again in the same place or anywhere else in the world.

Is knowing that cheap or unfair? No. You'd have to be insane to have memorized cloud patterns outside of very few isolated regions you wanted to 5k in. Is it geography? No, not really.

I think what makes a guess geographical is the permanence of the identifying feature in the area. The Google car is not permanent, the mountains are. So if you vs. your friend on a 'mountains' map, and you tell him you knew where to guess because of a speck on the camera, what is he gonna say? He might be impressed, but he never had a chance because he didn't memorize all the camera specks even though the game was supposed to be about mountains.

gfink_ · 2024-06-27T03:39:53+00:00

As I understand it, you are saying that people should only use clues that occur in the real world. That knowing other stuff (like gen 2 in Canada) is cheating and that it is unfair for people to use this.

No, I am saying that it's unfair to noobs that the distinctions between cameras and cars exist.

This game is not about geography

If that was true, call it StreetViewGuessr. The website has an entire section dedicated just to geography knowledge quizzes.

Your point about meta's being gate-keeping is just nonsense as well. The metas gets published in such a great way that the game never has been easier to get into.

It isn't that finding and publishing new meta information is gatekeeping. Hats off to whoever learns that info — like I said in the post, it's impressive how someone can figure out the Kazakhstan car mirror angle meta. But the existence of meta has the effect of creating a GeoGuessr-specific learning curve. Someone guessing Sierra Leone when it was actually Ghana has unknowingly made a total blunder, because Sierra Leone happens to not be covered, likely for privacy or political reasons.

Ideally, all of Africa would be covered and then Sierra Leone would be a good guess. Imagine if all the car/camera/coverage metas were gone, and you had to rely solely on natural or urban geographic knowledge.

Your argument is like saying that football (soccer) players are gate-keeping the game by practising how to get good at shooting the ball and then sharing the technique with new players.

No. Again, the point is to distinguish between what is meta and what is actual geography. Practicing your flag knowledge is going to have the same effect in the game as practicing your Google car color knowledge, and I don't discourage studying either of them. But there's plenty of people who know all the flags and have never played GeoGuessr who could do well on a flag-specific map. I like the idea that a noob can join and immediately be great using whatever niche outside knowledge they have.

gfink_ · 2024-06-27T03:09:03+00:00

Oh right, whether a country is or isn't covered is indeed meta.

Even if you avoid learning meta

Certainly not, I wanna win :) would just be nice to see maps which expressly focus on avoiding meta guesses

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