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once again nobody cares about laptop users :/
I'm a big GeoGuessr fan, and had heard of TimeGuessr occasionally in those circles. I'd assumed it would be mostly pictures from the USA and so wasn't massively interested, and from trying it out now, I wasn't too far off: most of the images were from the US and Western Europe, and every single picture so far has been from a rich country. There are obvious reasons for that, and it's not a bad thing in some absolute terms, but it makes it kinda boring for me - the big appeal of GeoGuessr for me is that you routinely get dropped off in a country that you don't often think of, and momentarily get to see and imagine life through their eyes.
Maybe over time, TimeGuessr will also accumulate images from more varied places - or maybe one of the alternatives mentioned in this thread (whentaken and whichyr) already do better in that regard?
I have been playing TimeGuessr for 11 months, I do it before bed.
I have been all over, I personally really struggle between Vietnam and Thailand and got even that wrong with Cambodia. I am simply ignorant but it's not just rich countries.
The killer was the iphone not being powerful enough/having enough ram to run the plugin, and adobe refusing to make concessions.
What it got right:
Design once, looks the same anywhere
reasonably powerful scripting language
Vectors as a first party drawing primitive
abstracted OS hooks
This was it's downfall, because it was for the time heavy to run. Combined with advertisers wanting rich flashy adverts, meant it became the bane of people's life.
There is still no replacement that is easy to author, and works pretty much anywhere. Sure there are loads of JS frameworks that sorta do one part of what flash did, but none of them have the rich editor that allowed you to have such creative freedom.
The closest thing to it now is unity.
Flash was my route out of garbage and I miss it on behalf of younger people. I remember making a circle and keyframes. Attaching bits of code to frames to make it do what I want. Remember living at my moms house in the bath reading Flash Math Creativity or Colin Moock's books. I spent so so long understanding the concept of an Object or a Class or functions that call functions.
I feel that if I went back today, I'd be assaulted by package managers, dependencies, build systems, frameworks. No easy and beautiful way to draw a circle that weekend and animate it to an oval.
It is a real loss.
Stuff moves on and I am a developer, but my interest in motion (Penner! Keith Peters!) gave me a real solid feeling of what feels good with interactivity and motion and sometimes I open that ticket but it is rare. Everything is just the same now and I solve the same problems many of you do over and over again. It's boring. No creativity, no inspiration.
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Sovereign power is scary af, but in theory also kept in check by voters. The problem is that no matter what form of government you have, it is still downstream from culture, and if this kind of policy is what UK voters want or can be talked into wanting, then this is what the King’s subjects shall get.