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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
....
> >> 'Cause it's PRETTY! And it's fun to show off to others. "Hey, you
> >> wanna fly over your home-town?"
> >
> >Can you really see your own home though? I tried to do that on the 
> >airplane with the map showing where the plane is. Haha.

> Actually, yes. In fact, I can see my _car_. 

> I think it's probably the first thing everybody does in games like
> this; they fire it up and bumble around their old neighborhoods,
> trying to spot the places they lived and worked.

> It's really not much different in that regard from GoogleEarth, except
> it's visuals are a bit more interactive and the framerate is better.
> ;-)

> Which is one reason I keep it on disk; people LIKE to see their homes
> in a video game (I'm guilty of this too). I fire up the game and say,
> "So you live on Nowhere Lane in Podinkumborough? Let's go there!"
> followed shortly thereafter by their proudly exclaiming, "Oh hey,
> that's my house! That's my grocery! That's my petrol station!" As if
> our lives are only notable if they're mentioned in fiction ;-)

Hey, that's my nest! ;)
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