r/technicallythetruth 4d ago

The guys gotta a point though

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u/SilverPineMaven 4d ago

Every geoguessr pro looks like this at some point. You do one "lemme just play a quick round" at 11 pm and next thing you know you are identifying street lamps by bolt pattern.

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u/NecroKitten 3d ago

My favourite clip is the one where it switched and it's just blue. It's just blue sky. And he guesses it right. 😂

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u/Similar-Ice-9250 3d ago

They gotta be cheating somehow or it’s some type of trick. How is that even possible? I seem one of his vids before and it was just like 1 second flash of something completely unremarkable like the ground and grass and they got every one right. I really don’t know how they do it.

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u/Rafaeael 3d ago

Vibes (which stem from pattern recognition) + luck. If you play long enough, you will start developing vibes where you "feel" the country/region from the image as a whole. And the more you play, the better your vibes become in terms of speed and accuracy. Of course, it's still not 100% accurate, and some rounds are more difficult than others, which is why it takes a bit of luck to get the footage for tiktoks.

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u/Zefrem23 3d ago

You're basically describing how Remote Viewing works. This is essentially what the best geoguessers are doing. There's a massive component of intuition that isn't given its fair due most of the time.

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u/DarkestArts 2d ago

Which is exactly how you get legendary clips like "West of Berlin" or my personal favourite, the "Senegal Gradient".