Maps from Memory
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Draw a map of a region that you’re not particularly familiar with, without referring to any reference materials that might help you. Paint.exe expertise is recommended.
If you see a map of a region that you are fairly familiar with, assign it the appropriate quantity of internet points. Within moderation! Internet points don’t grow on trees, after all.
For instance, these are more-or-less the Bri’ish Isles:
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@kazitor said in Maps from Memory:
If you see a map of a region that you are fairly familiar with
I'm not, but can I still play? Anyway...
BriishIsles.bmp
looks exactly like I remember it.
@Zecc said in Maps from Memory:
TourEiffel.bmp
I looked it up and Wikipedia claims it's a hexagon. I just don't see it. Unless you're going for concave hexagons, it clearly has 5 sides to me.
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@topspin said in Maps from Memory:
@kazitor said in Maps from Memory:
If you see a map of a region that you are fairly familiar with
I'm not, but can I still play?
There’s no rule against appraising regions you’re not familiar with. Strictly speaking there aren’t any rules at all, just a set of instructions (which are more what you’d call “guidelines”…)
With zero precedent I’m going to demand that the price for your appraisals is a critiqueable map of your own, anyway.
@Applied-Mediocrity: I think your map’s upside-down
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@kazitor said in Maps from Memory:
With zero precedent I’m going to demand that the price for your appraisals is a critiqueable map of your own, anyway.
Since my idea of what a map of cowboy land looks like has been done before, I'll go with this highly detailed recreation instead:
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e: Should've gone with my gut and put Wyoming
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@hungrier said in Maps from Memory:
e: Should've gone with my gut and put Wyoming
Garfield explains why Wyoming doesn't exist – 00:58
— rabscule
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I think this is about as best as I can do
Edit: And after checking the map... definitely got some things mixed up. Plus there's Guyana, Guinea, and Ghana, only one of which is in South America, and I always manage to put the wrong one in Africa.
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To help ensure that players don't unconsciously pick countries they're familiar with, they can use https://www.gigacalculator.com/randomizers/random-country-generator.php.
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@The_Quiet_One From memory, "??" is Lesotto. [?]
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More rule-breaking, because I'm bad enough at drawing even like this:
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of course, covered with snow
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@Applied-Mediocrity I have not seen this, but I assume I'm familiar with the argument - Wyoming is a name given to a space that the people who live in, or go to, nearby states, don't go. Even though it turns out not to be merely a cartographic gloss for mountains being hard to travel through, it hasn't got any significant own existence.
This means that Wyo from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress exists more than her namesake, for instance. And that indicates a negative value.
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@Captain Washington. Well done. But, what about the fire?
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@The_Quiet_One worst Antarctica ever.
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@hungrier Yeah, Kansas has that bite out of the NE corner.
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Paris or London?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Maps from Memory:
@hungrier said in Maps from Memory:
e: Should've gone with my gut and put Wyoming
Garfield explains why Wyoming doesn't exist – 00:58
— rabsculeRemembering this early strip from the "Surreal U." web comic (circa 2002):
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@Gribnit said in Maps from Memory:
Washington.
I think it is Oregon based on the way the river is and that bit sticking up on the west side. (It's a nice part of the world.) Though Washington's pretty similar.
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@PleegWat said in Maps from Memory:
Shouldn't that be on the other coast?
No, that's where you get cancer.
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@dkf said in Maps from Memory:
@Gribnit said in Maps from Memory:
Washington.
I think it is Oregon based on the way the river is and that bit sticking up on the west side. (It's a nice part of the world.) Though Washington's pretty similar.
Yeah, I think that feature near the bottom is supposed to be Crater Lake, which is in southern Oregon, although I think it's a little too far west on that map.
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@HardwareGeek said in Maps from Memory:
@dkf said in Maps from Memory:
@Gribnit said in Maps from Memory:
Washington.
I think it is Oregon based on the way the river is and that bit sticking up on the west side. (It's a nice part of the world.) Though Washington's pretty similar.
Yeah, I think that feature near the bottom is supposed to be Crater Lake, which is in southern Oregon, although I think it's a little too far west on that map.
I was going more by the Willamette River.
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@dkf said in Maps from Memory:
@HardwareGeek said in Maps from Memory:
@dkf said in Maps from Memory:
@Gribnit said in Maps from Memory:
Washington.
I think it is Oregon based on the way the river is and that bit sticking up on the west side. (It's a nice part of the world.) Though Washington's pretty similar.
Yeah, I think that feature near the bottom is supposed to be Crater Lake, which is in southern Oregon, although I think it's a little too far west on that map.
I was going more by the Willamette River.
And the absence of the Puget Sound, which is quite a prominent feature of the outline of Washington.
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@HardwareGeek said in Maps from Memory:
And the absence of the Puget Sound, which is quite a prominent feature of the outline of Washington.
Is this how you call a pony tail nowadays?
(I guess, since this is the only part of the outline that is really prominent)
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Though this is an awfully bad map, even if from memory, of Washington.
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@remi said in Maps from Memory:
Though this is an awfully bad map, even if from memory, of Washington.
Wdym, it's got all the major features. The location of the ears? Easy to extrapolate.
I can even distinguish it from Jefferson.
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@Gribnit said in Maps from Memory:
I can even distinguish it from Jefferson.
If you say so. Can’t say I can tell the difference myself:
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@HardwareGeek said in Maps from Memory:
@dkf said in Maps from Memory:
@Gribnit said in Maps from Memory:
Washington.
I think it is Oregon based on the way the river is and that bit sticking up on the west side. (It's a nice part of the world.) Though Washington's pretty similar.
Yeah, I think that feature near the bottom is supposed to be Crater Lake, which is in southern Oregon, although I think it's a little too far west on that map.
Bah. It's obviously Middle Earth.
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@topspin looks like the Czech have outsmarted us.
Guess I’ll have to succumb to the will of the people and
KönigsbergKrálovec.
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Nord Stream 2
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@HardwareGeek said in Maps from Memory:
@dkf said in Maps from Memory:
@HardwareGeek said in Maps from Memory:
@dkf said in Maps from Memory:
@Gribnit said in Maps from Memory:
Washington.
I think it is Oregon based on the way the river is and that bit sticking up on the west side. (It's a nice part of the world.) Though Washington's pretty similar.
Yeah, I think that feature near the bottom is supposed to be Crater Lake, which is in southern Oregon, although I think it's a little too far west on that map.
I was going more by the Willamette River.
And the absence of the Puget Sound, which is quite a prominent feature of the outline of Washington.
When I see a coastal rainforest on the West, and a firetrap on the East, my mind jumps to populated areas.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Maps from Memory:
@Gribnit said in Maps from Memory:
I can even distinguish it from Jefferson.
But Mike Patton?
Probably. Washington has an awfully slopey forehead.
until replaced by Adam Weishaupt
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: I vomited Australia.
: And I puked Cyprus.
subtitle: When geography teachers are having a party,
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@BernieTheBernie said in Maps from Memory:
subtitle: When geography teachers are having a party,
Ah, thanks, I mistook them for Britain and
Greecealso Britain.
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@Gribnit said in Maps from Memory:
@BernieTheBernie said in Maps from Memory:
subtitle: When geography teachers are having a party,
Ah, thanks, I mistook them for Britain and
Greecealso Britain.So, you're a history teacher?
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@Kamil-Podlesak I think
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states fall into:
