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Week 3 [16.03-22.03.2020] Geoguessr - a geographic game

Recently in my YouTube recommendations I’ve found a video about a really interesting game which is Geoguessr. The game is simple - you are taken to the random place in a street view and your task is to guess where you are. You can move like in a normal street view from Google and use a map to check your assumptions. Each game consists of 5 rounds and the closer you guess the more points you get. I’ve found the game really satisfying and addictive. As I’ve seen in various videos, people even try to guess the places with their own rules, like guessing without any moving, zooming or looking around, which makes it even more challenging. Here I have one of these videos which is a short highlights from the best guesses of a YouTuber “GeoWizard”. In the video he decided that he can only look around but can’t move or zoom. (source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIn8mD_Q6XU ) Questions: 1.  What do you think about the Geoguessr game? Would you like to t...

Week 3 [16.03-22.03.2020] Urbex - visiting abandoned places

Have you ever wondered how many abandoned buildings and places we have around the world? It seems that a lot of. So many, that there are hundreds of youtube channels about exploring such places, where people go around their country or even around the world to see abandoned places and make videos about them. (source: https://intotheshadows.pl/images/intotheshadows/page/urban-exploration.jpg ) A couple of years ago I became interested in watching this type of content on youtube. It all started from a one video of polish youtubers “Tube Raiders” where they visited Chernobyl’s exclusion zone. It was many years before the hype and before the HBO series. Since then, from time to time, I like to watch some explorations on youtube made by both polish and foreign people. (source: https://www.roughguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/pripyat-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-ukraine-shutterstock_728433472.jpg ) That kind of trips are called Urban Exploration or Urbex in short....