• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    Some Indian scammer sent me a picture like this with no context and I was so confused, but I guess now it makes sense. Also it wasn’t my house, I don’t know where it was, but it was definitely not where I lived so I’m not sure what that was supposed to achieve.

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    I haven’t played a Microsoft Flight Simulator game in a really long time, so excuse me if this is a dumb question. Does the game use actual map data? Does it have entire countries?! That’s kind of wild and makes me want to check the new one out on GamePass.

    I also want to crash into my own house.

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      FS2020 does. It uses bing maps satellite imagery, interprets the map and procrdurally generates buildings. It’s impressive, but up close the buildings look generic and rarely accurate. Google Earth looks better.

      However they do have hand made maps of big cities, these are very realistic.

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        7 months ago

        My hometown which is tiny is accurately represented in Microsoft flight simulator, I have no idea who took the effort to do that.

        The only reason I can think of is that due to some stupid local political reasons it has a major train station despite being a small town, so perhaps they just modelled everything with extensive public infrastructure.

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    I’ve done that to my wife (and really myself).

    I just love crashing into real stuff.

    I used to crash into the Sears (now Willis) Tower and other tall buildings across the USA in FS99. It became a very not cool thing to do for a few years. No idea why…

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      7 months ago

      I feel bad for laughing at this, but I remember feeling really bad about myself after crashing a plane in that large GTA:San Andreas tower and as a kid, I immediately started thinking the feds are now watching me.