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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: ToxicAdam on March 06, 2009, 12:47:37 AM

Title: Geography fegs ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 06, 2009, 12:47:37 AM
(http://i42.tinypic.com/vsj721.jpg)


http://www.digyourowngrave.com/globetrotter-xl/
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: TVC15 on March 06, 2009, 01:06:31 AM
Level 5, 4270

It's kinda funny how everything falls apart if you get more than 1 sub-saharan Africa question per round. 

I'm going to play a bit more.  This is actually pretty fun.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: thekavorka on March 06, 2009, 01:13:58 AM
thats like geosense. there used to be (maybe there still is) an online multiplayer game where you go head to head.

and any city in russia suuucks
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Mandark on March 06, 2009, 01:17:19 AM
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3474/geographyscore.png)

Small countries (until level 7 when they stop showing borders) and American cities pad stats.  I think the Netherlands saved me twice.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: thekavorka on March 06, 2009, 01:18:31 AM
damnit mandark

(http://i41.tinypic.com/sqlatt.jpg)
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: TVC15 on March 06, 2009, 01:19:56 AM
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3474/geographyscore.png)

Small countries (until level 7 when they stop showing borders) and American cities pad stats.  I think the Netherlands saved me twice.

I just got 8319.  I knew I was done when the borders disappeared, but I still managed to get close to level 8.  Again, good game, but I keep getting Africa-fucked.  I swear they are just making up countries in Africa.  Who the fuck ever heard of South Africa?
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Mandark on March 06, 2009, 01:23:03 AM
I just got 8319.  I knew I was done when the borders disappeared, but I still managed to get close to level 8.  Again, good game, but I keep getting Africa-fucked.  I swear they are just making up countries in Africa.  Who the fuck ever heard of South Africa?

See, this is the real tragic legacy of colonial partitioning.  I've got the north African countries down, and a general idea of which ones are on the west and east, but the middle and south just murder me.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: thekavorka on March 06, 2009, 01:23:11 AM
better question should be why the fuck did i get bakersfield california twice
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Mandark on March 06, 2009, 01:32:45 AM
damnit mandark

And it was Krakow that got me through Round 6, bwa ha ha ha ha.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Fragamemnon on March 06, 2009, 01:49:40 AM
I got to level 11, thank you Paradox Interactive for making me a complete geografag.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Bildi on March 06, 2009, 01:53:23 AM
Level 4 3005

Seems I have no idea where anything in the US is.  I generally picked the wrong coast. :lol
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 06, 2009, 02:21:30 AM
Level 4 3005

Seems I have no idea where anything in the US is.  I generally picked the wrong coast. :lol

I was just thinking about how impossible USA must be to foreigners. As a cruel trick, they should make "Springfield, USA" as one of the selections.


Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: TVC15 on March 06, 2009, 02:32:25 AM
I got to level 11, thank you Paradox Interactive for making me a complete geografag.

Catassing all those grognard strategy games has given you a few points on at least one of your skill trees, I see.

Level 4 3005

Seems I have no idea where anything in the US is.  I generally picked the wrong coast. :lol

I was just thinking about how impossible USA must be to foreigners. As a cruel trick, they should make "Springfield, USA" as one of the selections.

It's probably similar to me dealing with Australia.  I know there are like 4 major cities, and I know 3 of them are basically on the eastern coast, but beyond that, I am just blindly stabbin'.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 06, 2009, 02:35:33 AM
For me it's China. Such a huge glob of nothingness and no idea where their ridiculously named cities are. With Russia, at least, most of their cities are in the western part.


Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: TVC15 on March 06, 2009, 02:41:20 AM
For me it's China. Such a huge glob of nothingness and no idea where their ridiculously named cities are. With Russia, at least, most of their cities are in the western part.


Agreed on both.  Other bad ones that comes up frequently are cities in Brazil, but that largely seems to be a case of pick a spot on the coast and pray.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: T-Short on March 06, 2009, 10:48:12 AM
(http://www.capitaltrachea.se/misc/geo.jpg)

 :-\

I got Tokyo, Japan twice during this round, that's a bit weird. Got hard when the borders were removed.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: fistfulofmetal on March 06, 2009, 12:28:51 PM
failed on level 2

i read Austria as Australia :(
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 06, 2009, 02:36:12 PM
Level 7
9057

The lack of borders threw me off badly at level 7.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Crushed on March 06, 2009, 02:42:07 PM
(http://i43.tinypic.com/avrjvo.jpg)

bah, i've totally forgotten a bunch of countries i knew.  :-\
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Bacchus7 on March 06, 2009, 02:57:44 PM
5439. Not too spectacular, but it did make me happy when I got Hamburg, Germany with 0 distance in tolerance.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Dickie Dee on March 06, 2009, 03:15:20 PM
2315  :'(

I'll got a couple curveballs though

Edit: Fuckit, try number two first question "Malta: Republic of Malta" FUCK YOU
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: pollo on March 06, 2009, 03:19:49 PM
having an African Studies minor helps.

Looks like the game was designed by someone Belgian huh
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Fragamemnon on March 06, 2009, 03:22:08 PM
Looks like the game was designed by someone Belgian huh

I got that vibe as well, if only to make everyone mad that the true price of colonialism is making Africa a quiz game nightmare.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Dickie Dee on March 06, 2009, 03:22:12 PM
OMG I'm geographically distinguished mentally-challenged...I never had any idea. I even used to love spinning the family globe and seeing where I'd land.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Bildi on March 06, 2009, 07:15:52 PM
having an African Studies minor helps.

Looks like the game was designed by someone Belgian huh

Yeah, I sucked hard at Africa unless it was Egypt, South Africa or Madagascar.  That's about all I know.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Akala on March 06, 2009, 08:15:01 PM
Level 5 -4707 after a warm-up.  :'(

Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 06, 2009, 08:54:39 PM
Cities in sub-Saharan Africa, Chile (look at that mother fuckin' country), China, and Australia keep fucking me up.

Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: pollo on March 06, 2009, 10:04:20 PM
I only say that cause they call it "Congo" and not DRC, just weird.. I don't think anyone really calls it Congo
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: xnikki118x on March 07, 2009, 12:50:51 AM
Level 5, 4989.

Reminds me of http://www.sporcle.com/games/
Things like this are awesome. :)



I can't get past level 7. I wanna keep playing this all night!
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: pollo on March 07, 2009, 09:58:09 PM
(http://x65.xanga.com/a5ff220369232235740757/b186207940.jpg)

Africa saves my butt, South America kills me. You memorize the places after awhile
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: trh on March 08, 2009, 07:43:17 PM
Gotland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland) is not a country, wtf.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: xnikki118x on March 09, 2009, 04:35:32 PM
Yeah I can rarely get past level 6 and have only been able to get to level 8 like twice. Epic fail. :( :(
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 09, 2009, 05:55:47 PM
Level 6
Score 6651

Not too bad.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: pollo on March 09, 2009, 07:10:19 PM
Level 10 is the last level
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: xnikki118x on March 10, 2009, 01:49:03 AM
Level 10 is the last level

That's good to know. So in getting to level 8 a few times I guess I'm not too bad! A lot of it is guessing, though.

When I was young I had a huge map of the world hanging in my bedroom. Maybe I need one of those again.
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Bildi on March 10, 2009, 03:11:55 AM
I thought I'd have another go for fun.

Level 1

303

FML
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: Ganhyun on March 10, 2009, 09:44:15 AM
(http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb127/ganhyun/gamescore.jpg)

:rock
Title: Re: Geography distinguished effete fellows ... can you beat my puny score?
Post by: trh on March 10, 2009, 02:13:53 PM
(http://i42.tinypic.com/wup4ir.png)

 8)

level 7/8129 is my best yet, after a pathetic amount of tries. Nailing it just right for the multiplier is so ridiculously important, not really liking that.