He’s famous as a really good geo-guesser (a game where people get random google streetview images and try to drop a pin as close to the coordinates as possible).

People give him challenges all the time, and it’s really impressive.

Here he is finding someone’s location based on a picture taken from a plane.

They’re not mine. There’s a popular poster on IG, Reddit, and X called “IRL Loading Screens” (the watermark in the image), and they make these and a bunch of others. I reposted a couple of the states that I saw maybe a month ago here, and people seemed to like them, so I’ve been saving them for Lemmy as I see them.

I can read this as either: AI allows anyone to code their own stuff.

Or

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

It has its own Wikipedia page, so it checks out.

It’s nobody’s decision but yours, but I will point out that as humans, we are very poor predictors of how we will think or feel in the future.

When we’re depressed, our brains process thoughts of the future as if we’ll be sad forever. When we’re happy and have lots of energy, we make big plans as if we’ll always feel that way. Lottery winners feel an initial euphoria and think they’re set for life, but studies show their mood returns to baseline after about 1 year. Age and development helps you push the fog of foresight a little further, but it’s still hard.

I don’t know you, but if I were speaking to myself at age 22, I would caution making a decision like that so early. I still cringe about being tasked with picking a college major at 18 and how wrong that could’ve gone, and this is easily 100x more important.

Yeah, if you search for “IRL Loading Screens”, they’re on a bunch of socials: a dedicated subreddit, Instagram, X, etc., and their stuff seems to circulate everywhere.

I don’t know if anyone has put all the states they’ve done together yet.

I did some searching and I’m seeing 1937 and 1938, so yeah, that’s probably about right.

It looks real, and the follow-up gets weirder.

A quick search found the following panels here, if anyone is interested:

Go for it! I stole this anyway.

Ah, damn it

I’m too afraid.

Gotcha, sorry. I’ll hold off on posting reddit screenshots here.

It’s real, but it went viral and they got a ton of backlash online for it a few years ago.

I may have to one of these days.

Just did some digging, and it’s legit and from a 1994 book called “The Internet Guide for New Users” by Daniel P. Dern.

Mildly interesting side-note, I found someone’s blog about posting this image and book to a (now non-existent) fediverse server. https://doughnut.neocities.org/blag/15

It’s against the rules!

The band Green Day invited a fan up on stage to play one of their songs, but he played the song Wonderwall instead as a joke.

Guitarists playing Wonderwall for people has been a meme since the 90s. Here’s more about it if you’re interested:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wonderwall

It’s so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it’s flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos…

Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I’ve been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven’t added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.

How is Nintendo going to feed its family now?