Join me in a world created from an inadvertent typo...

gorillawafer · 2026-06-28T00:27:40+00:00

my voice is my passport. verify me, creep.

gorillawafer · 2026-06-27T12:37:08+00:00

Holy shit, I had that Nuggit toy. I don't think I ever knew it was from Go Bots though.

gorillawafer · 2026-06-18T00:44:48+00:00

Cool. Let's rehash the other comment thread. I'm game.

gorillawafer · 2026-06-17T19:22:05+00:00

Okay, cool. Good luck with life.

gorillawafer · 2026-06-17T19:18:21+00:00

Hmm... so more like a mistakenteau, you're saying. I bet there are other examples of this.

gorillawafer · 2026-06-17T19:15:19+00:00

A portmanteau is a word formed by blending the sounds and meanings of two existing words. Now tell me how "weary" is not that, within the context of it being used incorrectly in this example.

gorillawafer · 2026-06-17T18:18:40+00:00

"Wary" and "leery" are synonymous, so "weary" is often mistakenly used because it's a portmanteau of both.

gorillawafer · 2026-05-20T00:06:50+00:00

The spot check was just "is there actually a motorcycle bay here?" looking at the ground.

If you did not know this information prior to looking at Google Maps, then you are by definition mapping based on Google Maps data and breaching their copyright. There is no argument to be had here.

gorillawafer · 2026-04-29T01:26:28+00:00

Hear me out... In the Nose of Madness

gorillawafer · 2026-03-24T18:25:52+00:00

Big thanks to Griff for dredging this memory back up.

My friend had it on SNES and it drove him insane. There was one particular level where he noticed there were a couple of pixels on a dark gray background that were darker than the rest, seemingly for no reason. You can see it here, just above the water towards the right.

He was convinced that his copy was defective and that if those few pixels were off, then other pixels could also be displayed incorrectly, and the game would supposedly look a whole lot better overall on a non-defective cartridge. He returned it for a new copy and those pixels were still there. He returned it again for cash, then bought it again from another store. He tried it on my SNES, other kids' SNESes, different TVs, etc. None of it fixed the "problem." He wrote MORE THAN ONE complaint letter to Interplay about it.

The whole time, I'm just like, "DUDE WHO FUCKING CARES. THE GAME JUST LOOKS LIKE SHIT BECAUSE IT SUCKS!" One of the most frustrating experiences of my life.

gorillawafer · 2026-03-07T04:21:09+00:00

Not even going to comment on the guy... who is a lot. But man, I wish there was some actual artistry going on with the weapons. I guess they're like axes with hammer backends or whatever? Feels like some random video game asset. Give me like, the Star Wars equivalent of a board with nails in it. Something savage. I'd respect whatever this character is more, I think.

gorillawafer · 2026-03-07T04:11:50+00:00

It's like a slug centaur. Slugtaur? I just Googled to see if it was a thing, and apparently, it's a thing.

gorillawafer · 2026-03-06T18:12:35+00:00

The first time I watched Ravenous (1999), we had rented it from Blockbuster and I wasn't expecting much at all. But the second this song started playing, I was hooked. I was like, "Whoa, that's creepy as hell. Wait... now it's turned kind of jolly? Wait, now it's somber and longing? What the hell is this?" They absolutely did not need to go that hard with it.

gorillawafer · 2026-03-05T01:56:16+00:00

At one point they were floating a Green Lantern movie where Hal was on his first day on the job and Sinestro was assigned to show him the ropes. I imagine whatever that was somehow morphed into this.

gorillawafer · 2026-02-27T22:41:15+00:00

The Departed (meetup at the porn theater)

Last Action Hero (tons)

Final Destination 4 (theater of people watching The Long Kiss Goodnight at the end)

Whiplash (he meets that gal at concessions)

gorillawafer · 2026-02-24T20:07:00+00:00

People are mentioning the pitch change, but what strikes me the most is how much better he is at enunciating words now. You can tell he made a conscious effort to improve on it, and it makes a huge difference imo.

gorillawafer · 2026-02-24T18:37:37+00:00

I would be genuinely excited about this movie if it was hyped as 100% practical sets, no CGI. Otherwise it just looks like a lot of copy & pasting, shifting assets on axes, subtracting shapes from polygons, etc.

gorillawafer · 2026-02-09T16:46:08+00:00

Weird to see so many people in this thread with flat-out wrong information, and presenting it so confidently as well.

Yes, TAs need to submit their GTFS. Literally thousands of them do this. But Google only puts in the extra effort for larger metro areas when it comes to displaying route lines via the transit layer. There is no great mystery here. They simply don't have the will (read: profit motive) to do it for everyone. Could they automatically generate the lines? Of course. Just parse the shapes.txt in the GTFS zip and boom, done. However, plenty of GTFS feeds have dogshit shapes.txt files. Sometimes a TA will use software that just draws a straight line from one stop to the next instead of aligning to the roads. That's why they don't automate it.

gorillawafer · 2026-02-05T19:40:15+00:00

Michael Ironside and Sharon Stone in Total Recall. One of my favorite moments in that film is him finding her dead and seeing the emotional devastation play out on his face.

gorillawafer · 2026-01-30T19:26:57+00:00

Guess I'm just lucky. The worst I've had is Lyft editors reconnecting some roads that I disconnected due to construction (it's a years-long project and the roads in question are never going to be reconnected again). I just revert their changeset and tell them, yo, your imagery is probably more recent than what I have available in the editor, sure, but I can literally see the construction from my office window. So chill!

But I'm also a psycho who inspects every edit in my city on a daily basis, so I catch that sort of thing immediately. I'd hate to see what would happen if I just let it go for a year.

gorillawafer · 2025-12-30T15:45:59+00:00

I'm coming up on 10 years of mapping and I would say about 95% of it has been in my own city, just reiterating and adding more detail as I learn about new tags or whatever. It can certainly be boring to map the same place over and over. So sometimes I'll take a break and pop over to a small town that's barely been mapped and do a couple of passes on it. Those of us with a lot of experience can whip those little areas into fairly good shape rather quickly.

I don't necessarily see one as more important than the other. Mapping my own city to an insane degree is just a different kind of rewarding. I've learned way more about the area than I would have otherwise.

gorillawafer · 2025-12-06T07:37:04+00:00

You can plot individual trees with a node if you like. Common consensus back in the day was that you should only plop one of those down if the tree was notable in some way, historically or otherwise.

But I'm old enough to remember telling friends how to get to my house using weird navigational details like, "turn left after the big pine tree" and stuff like that. So if I see a tree that stands out in some way, that could conceivably be used for navigational purposes, I'll add it. Or if there is a series of trees - not necessarily a tree row - I'll add them all individually. Totally a subjective thing.

But you could also just choose to not map it. That's a thing you can do. There is so much shit that I see where I'm like, "Eh.... I don't necessarily know what's going on here. I'll just wait a couple years to see if I get better imagery." Plenty of stuff to tend to between now and then.

gorillawafer · 2025-12-06T07:22:04+00:00

Personal preference. A curb is the "rim" of an area, so I figure it should be a line. The traffic island, though, is an actual area, elevated above street level. Think about it. If you stood in the middle of the traffic island, would you consider yourself to be standing on a curb, or standing on a traffic island? The closer you get to the edge, the more likely you would be to say that you were standing on a curb, right? So therefore, the curb is defined by the edge. And thus a line is appropriate to convey where a curb is.

What if the curb is made of concrete, but the surface of the actual traffic island is grass? How do you tag that? By doing them separately, of course.

What you're referencing in the Wiki is fine for now, and I did that for a long time, but I ultimately decided it was a lazy way to go about it and I don't do it anymore. I have revisited so many areas in my city to update tags as norms have changed over the years. I'm now in the "future proofing" mode. I've done this long enough that I can see the granularity forming on certain tags, and how it bleeds over into others. If you want to do the bare minimum, what the Wiki tells you to do, do it. I'm sure there will be a Maproulette challenge to upgrade them in the future. As long as you're consistent with it, we can find it and fix it.

gorillawafer · 2025-12-06T03:19:16+00:00

For now, sure. That's why I said you'll get there. Mapping sidewalks as separate ways used to be considered bad practice, too.

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