GeoGuessr HEAD-TO-HEAD w/ Sinvicta - Episode 40

[@firedragon04]

I wish this was daily... five times a day... five times an hour - I would watch it all so much.

[@aaron9inch]

yeah dude it's my favorite series currently love this shit

[@Helromier]

Gotta love that rogue Norwegian truck at the end there to confuse things.

[@theWebWizrd]

Just a heads up, the van that you looked at in the end was Norwegian, from a Norwegian producer with Norwegian text. It just happened to be in Sweden.

[@johndumbell6077]

This series is just so mesmerizing, I just don't know why.

[@zeemod1556]

You totally see the "Rectangle with the house" character in Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese. Because it's a Chinese character and all 3 languages use Chinese characters.

[@gillesdeleuze7065]

There are minute differences between them all though (Chinese uses simplified characters, Taiwan uses traditional, and Japan has its own weird half-simplified thing) so he was kind of right to an extent.

[@MehYam2112]

Yeah, I had a feel Sin was right for completely wrong reasons

[@Ulandyw]

hands down my favorite NL series. please never stop

[@uztre6789]

In the German guess, that was not the flag of the Netherlands, that was the flag of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which Kiel, the biggest city the guess was close to, is the capital of. Also, just because a word sounds or looks close to a word you know, doesn't mean it has anything to do with that. Schwentinental is the name of the city. It has nothing to do with Schwein or Schwerin.

[@uztre6789]

Also, there are no such cacti in Turkey. I'm pretty sure about that.

[@L3GIT_PENGUIN]

I'm pretty sure cactus are almost entirely exclusive to the new world.

[@uztre6789]

***** What?

[@molexi6537]

the flag looks quite similar to the flag the german empire used

[@uztre6789]

0r4v4 No, it doesn't. The top colour is blue.

[@JonflipZoosa]

That truck on the last location definately had Norwegian text on it, despite being in the middle of Sweden.

[@MKWiiLuke4TW]

Pro tip guys, if you see an abundance of cactuses in the desert, it HAS to be Mexico or southwest USA, as those are the only places on earth with naturally grown cactuses

[@tinylittlemildred]

God yeah but lots of tropical arid countries have a huge invasive cactus problem. you wouldn't necessarily be able to tell. source: am from Kenya.

[@Antonyo079]

Australia doesnt have cactuses? :o

[@MKWiiLuke4TW]

FZ that's true, although when I play geoguessr pretty consistently i can use that to discern where I am, as Northern Africa is usually not shown, and Australia and South America tend to not have them I find

[@uztre6789]

There are lots of Cacti in South America as well.

[@adarken1]

That's incorrect. There are cacti native to South America.

[@NorthernWhisper]

That was a sudden end.

[@RobLucci3]

3:20 Praying to God NL isn't looking for "Center"

[@sillychinas]

Sinvicta got so lucky with the Taiwan guess. I'm fairly sure China, Japan, and Taiwan all have that character. I know China is barely in GeoGuessr, so as an asian person, I would have guessed Japan.

[@uztre6789]

Chinese and Japanese does not have the same characters.

[@sillychinas]

Kanji has a the same character set (or close) as Chinese.

[@uztre6789]

kevin chen Yes, but if I'm informed correctly, you won't find Kanji on street signs.

[@sillychinas]

Google brings up kanji road signs. Also considering the signs look hand-drawn in the vid, I would not be surprised if they were in any of the 3 japanese written scripts. Plus, how often do you see Taiwan in GeoGuessr? I see Japan like 1/100 times, but I have only gotten Taiwan twice, I think.

[@uztre6789]

kevin chen I remember them having Taiwan actually more often than you'd think.

[@sweetwheatsy]

A couple of scandinavian hints: Finish and Icelandic are very different from the Khalmar-languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish). Denmark and Norwegian have more in common (considering Norway used to be under danish influence), thus they both use Ø, Æ and Å. Swedish is much more prone to use Ä and Ö (umlaut). To differentiate between danish and norwegian, usually norwegian has a bigger focus on more harsh, consonant-filled pronunctiations, while Denmark has some more soft, liquid pronunctiations. It sounds a bit vague, so let me use the truck at the end for reference: It said "Biffkjøtt med mørhetsgaranti", which means "Vealmeat with a tenderness-guarantee" - it's norwegian. In danish it would be "Bøfkød med mørhedsgaranti" which, for one thing has more Ø's (we do love our weird-ass, "unique" symbols), and while there are more t's in norwegian (harsh), there are more d's on danish (soft).

[@dan_tr4pd00r]

21:54 SAABS ONLY

[@MERTZY]

Alright egg listen. We don't have cacti in turkey; In fact, the only places on earth that have cacti are Mexico and Arizona!

[@crisco753]

Actually cacti are widely distributed throughout north and south america as far north as B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan all the way to patagonia.

[@caeboy151097]

Mertzy Cacti are also found in abundance in the Australian desert. They are introduced though not Native

[@VivaChandles]

we have cacti in texas

[@Zipo214]

Mertzy Colorado, California , Utah, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada all have cacti.

[@AliceInBlunderland666]

I know this is years later but you were obviously thinking of the Giant Saguaro cacti which are unique to the Sonoran Desert (so in the South Western part of Arizona, South Eastern California, as well as the Mexican states of Sonora [Western half] Baja California and Baja California Sur).

[@asdewrt]

That 'flag that has the colours of the French flag' is actually just the flag of the federal state of Schleswig Holstein

[@Lauchschreck]

i had to google that and you are 100% right and i didn t know it but i lived there for over 20 years of my youth, i am very embarressed :(

[@jedilboomkin9082]

Is it just me or does it seem like Russia is just one giant national park

[@Charsept]

NL cactus are not a worldwide plant. That was a huge clue.

[@mathlover4994]

What? But a lot of dry areas around the world have cactus. Turkey has cactus.

[@DerSchnaiter]

cacti, not cactus...

[@RussetMan]

It's basically a defining feature, like a mustache in guess who. Sure a lot of guys can have them, but not all of them. It narrows down the dry areas, that's for sure.

[@Charsept]

DerSchnaiter yeah, I realized that later, ha

[@valtariarc4931]

Actually Opuntia ficus-indica is the only naturally growing cactus type in Turkey. And it is very rare.

[@andy19931002]

Glad to see Taiwan in the game :) Sinvicta said the symbol look like house is a good way to represent "台".

[@CTGZealot]

it was the flag of Schlesweig-Holstein, a state in Northern Germany. I only got that post-fact, I had no idea they had kept that flag.

[@nik_narcotic]

The third flag in the german guess was the flag of Schleswig-Holstein NL. It's the state that city was in.

[@clem-1917]

I love how you started talking about cars on the last one but couldn't figure out that the old ford pickups would never be in turkey.

[@yaksher]

The most insulting message: You got a point.

[@WhyName]

yaksher the margin for getting a single point has to be huge, I've gotten it a couple times myself.

[@deluxeloy]

I'm a Dutchman and I thought it was the Dutch flag, but Sinvicta was right; the colours were indeed reversed (and the blue seemed oddly dark?)

[@liangh20]

I agree, it looked oddly like the Imperial german flag to me, because of the dark blue, but it seems to be the flag of Schleswig-Holstein.

[@onkengiggen6230]

The blue is too dark for the Dutch flag because it is in fact the flag of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

[@zy0_]

Yeah it's the Schleswig-Holstein flag, I've seen it at the 1864 museum in Denmark and I just googled it heh

[@AwesomeRash]

It's really weird how I first learned of Sinvicta's existence when he was just a guy sorting through replays for Bronze League Heroes for Husky. And now I watch his content.

[@DrBob66]

Alright, we're back on track! The score so far: NL 19 - 20 Sinvicta (As of Episode 39)

[@TheCursedJudge]

Thank you very much!

[@mikab631]

"What makes a horse pretty?" Does it have a rainbow tail and mane?

[@dakotatucker1082]

gotta get that geogeussr shit

[@yetanothertubeuser]

In the German guess, the license plates are your keys to the kingdom: SL for Schleswig-Flensburg, HH for Hamburg and RD for Rendsburg. Edit: I didn't spot a KI though, surprisingly.

[@uztre6789]

Most people in Germany wouldn't even know SL and RD.

[@Meteorlink]

can confirm that, i know neither.

[@rv186rs]

Honestly it would be weird if the car brand originally named the "Swedish Aeroplane Company" wasn't popular in Sweden.

[@Lyvcan]

Dang! that second one is basically around the corner for me :D

[@Updrift76]

YES AN NEW EPISODE!

[@Sianistic]

Denmark and Norway uses Ææ instead of Ää

[@schuldigberliner]

China uses mainly simplified Chinese but also sometimes traditional Chinese, while Taiwan uses exclusively traditional Chinese. The square house character is the same in both and is read "tai." Since Taiwan is called "tai"wan and its biggest city is "tai"pei, the "tai" character appears fairly often, especially in reference to a location. The character "tai" is used in China as well. "Tai" means an elevated structure or platform and is used in words like podium or terrace, also tv and radio stations

[@codypin1240]

Japanese have a type of characters call漢字，which is just Chinese characters, but it is in simplify Chinese, only Hong Kong and Taiwan uses traditional Chinese, which on the sign"司馬言斯"the "馬"is in traditional Chinese ("马" is the simplify Chinese version or the word, they mean the same thing, horse)

[@IL42133]

Kanji is not simplified Chinese. In fact, I believe kanji is composed entirely of traditional Chinese characters.

[@kookoo6014]

Simplified Chinese was introduced in China and Macao around 1960. Singapur, Taiwan, Hong Kong etc still use traditional Chinese because of that. Japanese imported its Chinese character much, much earlier (around 600-700 a.c. I believe) so they are derived from Traditional Chinese. You are completely right with what you said about 馬 and 马 though.

[@Flamindrake]

CACTUS = NEW WORLD, NO CACTUS = OLD WORLD

[@Hmmrsmshdfce]

About time! In geoguesser withdrawals!

[@RazorThyOwn]

Oh thank god its back

[@devincombs4509]

this was a spoopy seed

[@linkerbm]

There are Chinese characters that look like a square with a roof above them, if that's what Sinvicta meant by a "house" (By which I mean Mandarin Chinese characters, though I don't know if they change between Mandarin and Cantonese). Also, Japanese that looks like Chinese is literally Chinese; Japan used China's characters for a while before they developed their own style, so it's very difficult to distinguish the two if you're looking at old characters alone.

[@Odrox]

If sinvicta meant this symbol 台. It's meaning could be Taiwan.

[@zy0_]

Pro tip Danish and Norwegian alphabet has Ææ Øø Åå and the Swedish alphabet has Åå Ää Öö Source: I'm a Dane

[@shanadir]

i think it's slightly confusing that you put them in different orders though:p

[@zy0_]

Different order? It's - - - V W X Y Z Æ Ø Å in the Danish alphabet, or did I get the Swedish order wrong?

[@Agelbashere]

Yeah, they have Ø last compared to Norwegian/Danish. Not sure why.

[@zy0_]

No they don't, I just asked my Swedish friend, he said it's å ä ö, the Swedes don't have ø. If you see umlaut (ä & ö) in Scandinavia it's Sweden, if you see ø and æ it's Norway or Denmark, if you see å it's Denmark, Norway or Sweden.

[@Agelbashere]

CaptainZyber Norwegian myself. I don't know to make the Swedish versions on a phone, is the reason. But we have æ ø å in the alphabet, while they have å first.

[@kingof7s894]

This is like the first German guess you guys were able to move around in...

[@sue8412]

"I can tell the difference between the Chinese and Japanese language" - sometimes yes, but kanji is basically inherited Chinese characters. The characters you saw 'could' have been Japanese kanji but usually it's mixed with hiragana/katakana which are squiggly lol. There are no squiggly or loopy Chinese characters. Also Taiwanese is a different spoken language, but in Taiwan they uses traditional Chinese characters. Mainland China uses simplified Chinese characters, which Mao replaced traditional characters with during the Cultural Revolution in order to increase literacy.

[@ktktktktktktkt]

NL that was actually just straight chinese. Normally in japanese you'll see a mixture of chinese characters and hiragana, katakana and there weren't any kana on that sign which would imply it's not japanese.

[@Toffypot91]

Anyone else notice that of three arrows NL will sap between the same two again and again?

[@stgork]

In Russian guesses closer city = closer zooming. Look for a city which is far enough (about 200-300 km).

[@AJ-kj1go]

I didn't think the out of order uploads were a big deal. Apparently, Sinvicta doesn't agree.

[@thenodgod1735]

In this series - it's probably not. But what about a LP of a game that's heavily plot based, like an rpg for instance?

[@dunbar9finger]

Wow the seed matches the video. Nice. But man I hate the German photospheres. I saw a German and Dutch flag so I went in germany near the Netherlands border. I have no idea what thhe Netherlands flag was doing up there where the guess really was. But I'm getting disturbingly good at recognizing Russian terrain when I can't see any road names or city names: : Let's see, given that it's mostly grass but with some trees, and the grass is yellowish but not too much I'm thinking it's a bit north of Kazakhstan..."

[@uztre6789]

That is not the Dutch flag. The Dutch flag is the other way round (blue is at the bottom). That was the flag of the German state Schleswig-Holstein.

[@Bah56]

There was also a .de on the fahrt building.

[@dunbar9finger]

Bah56 I know there was. I did put it in Germany, just near the Dutch border.

[@thefeeblesheep]

Yay. It's back.

[@lonewolfM16]

Chinese vs Japanese is interesting, Japanese is mainly written in Kanji, which is the same characters as are used in Chinese (though the Chinese call it Hanzi). However, Japanese continues to use the traditional forms of these characters, while mainland China uses a simplified form of them, meanwhile Taiwan and Hong Kong continue to use Traditional characters. So if you can't actually read the language telling Japanese from Traditional Chinese...isn't really probable. Of course Japanese also has Hiragana and Katakana to write out the sounds and write foreign words.

[@whateverwhateverwhatever8102]

sinvicta, taiwanese text IS chinese. The symbol with the 'little house' is a chinese character. However, Taiwan and Hong Kong uses traditional chinese characters whereas China uses simplified. But it's still just chinese.

[@hunterxtr33mtonks42]

someone should do a points total, would be interesting right?

[@aklinadz]

How the hell do people know about NL's uploads so fast? This was uploaded like 10 seconds ago and there were already 10 views.

[@GDKsan]

well it's his schedule so they know when he uploads.

[@CLUTSYNINJA]

aklinadz they check their sub box?

[@albertwilson1295]

Well, I usually get a twitter notification on my phone, as he tweets out new videos. And also, even if you don't have twitter, you can usually rely on his upload schedule, which is usually pretty consistent. 9 am, 12pm, 3, 6, 9pm

[@Floergie1]

You've found the Flag of the german State of Schleswig-Holstein. You basically could've gone through the Order of the Flags: European - German - Schleswig-Holsteinian. It's most of the time either this order or you're at a Border between two countries withing the EU as far as my Experience goes.

[@Archphoenix1]

finally! the hearthstone garbage was way too bad.

[@CherryScent]

Not enjoying the Memesling?

[@prashant536]

@Northernlion, Can you please play Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Its an awesome tactical stealth game which came out on Dec 6. I think you will be great at it!!

[@somedude5462]

good ending

[@Pallekatt]

That Mexican guess, there was a big American car, like a old Chevy or something,should have shouted American continent. Look for more than signs

[@mountnstream]

Funny how NL claims Sweds mostly drive SAABs, since the company recently stopped making cars.

[@FinalFrantasy]

To be fair Chinese/Mandarin and Japanese written languages share a lot of the same characters.

[@hippomantube]

so does Latin, German, and English :) along with all the latin alphabet using tongues.

[@FinalFrantasy]

hippomantube correct. But in this episode Sinvicta mentioned how the mandarin alphabet doesn't use certain characters.

[@KoudPilsje]

It is actually not the Dutch flag. The Dutch flag has red-white-blue instead of blue-white-red. If I recall correctly that is the flag of the German province Schleswig-Holsteins.

[@rpraffi]

NL, If you see fucking cactuses it can only be the Americas.

[@trevorburgess8916]

Yeah so many old 80s ford trucks in Turkey.

[@RemovedNull]

How has there never been a South Korean round?

[@xmgplays7201]

it was the flag of a german state

[@xmgplays7201]

Also japanese uses chinese symbols(mostly).

[@JonflipZoosa]

Always click the last video first, and shift-click on the first.

[@Zipo214]

I cannot remember the name of the song playing in the background, what is it? Strauss written?

[@PaunchyRobot]

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt

[@terryluan2009]

Well, to be fair, Japanese Kanji is Chinese hanzi, except the words sound different.

[@OneSlavBoi]

AYYYYYY AYERYBODY!

[@ronansheikh8406]

We call them Vancouverites

[@PedritoInfinito]

does anyone know what this music is?

[@KaiBurley]

Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 - Franz Liszt

[@Akarinata]

It's from the Stellaris OST.

[@austindevos8359]

The second flag is the old german empire flag i think

[@goalomatic64]

in taiwan they mostly speak Chinese

[@ransomTurd]

yo wheres my classical music dawg

[@shiyuwang8904]

You guys realize that those characters are all Chinese characters....Japan has a style of writing that uses purely Chinese characters and Taiwan and China use the same characters

[@Gaschdisturbed]

I wonder if people from other countries are as amused about them trying to pronounce cities from their country as I am with German ones.

[@DecayingReverie]

I'm not from Germany but I'm taking German at my university and the way they pronounced some of those words was hilarious.

[@WhyName]

Gaschdisturbed their pronunciation is always on point, best part of the series.

[@geennaam7558]

Turkey doesn't have one single bit of desert just so you know

[@bwcbiz]

Round 3 is too tropical to be Japanese home islands. At least put it in Okinawa... ;)

[@bwcbiz]

...and another rare case where I beat you both... Though my "Mexico" round was at least as bad as yours.

[@nbarest]

AYERYBODY

[@ryanprice2641]

either someone put the Netherlands flag up upside down or that was a very old Yugoslavian flag...

[@uztre6789]

It's the flag of the German state Schleswig-Holstein.

[@Arkiasis]

I thought Germany didn't have streetview though. Which kinda sucks, I understand Germans love their privacy, but I do like looking through random countries. And it's not like I can afford to travel to Germany.

[@yetanothertubeuser]

It doesn't, but these photospheres are integrated into Streetview so they'll show up in GeoGuessr from time to time.

[@Shadowjackal]

why are the Swedish always crying? cuz they all drive saabs XD

[@kylenewman3971]

I would just like to state that there is no such thing as BC. Ther is only CE or Common Era and BCE Which is Before Common Era. No BC or AD.

[@joshuas.g.g.4951]

Wow cutting off the video so abruptly, lionSalt

[@2157AF]

the salt is real

[@Dr-Grayson]

Why do you always make your playlists backwards? I swear you do it to fuck with us. D:

[@Aesisify]

there is nowhere in Turkey that looks like that just so you know :D

[@richanvils2138]

lionThrow

[@Jograu1]

I'm pretty sure the Turkish climate and the Mexican climate is different...

[@mathlover4994]

No, Turkey has a very dry climate too.

[@statue9127]

helllllllllo

[@TheosoMop]

nucular

[@WhyName]

He rated the Taiwanese guess 4 stars. What? Why?

[@blackbeard00]

I think this was the worst round for NL so far..

[@Woody93185]

This sucks.. In 2018 you can't move in the second guess and you're left with something that looks like the Albanian flag grrrrrrr... I only saw text on the Russian guess so i only got 7,183

[@MrFantisian]

prussian flag?

[@abhishekcherath2323]

Hey that's the second reich's flag. I didn't know some provinces of Germany still kept it Edit: Apparently not.

[@uztre6789]

It's not.

[@siroakewood5936]

Abhishek cherath lol (im german)

[@abhishekcherath2323]

Sir Oakewood​ Yeaah, I thought the blue was black.

[@dahelme]

I think you won't see cows in predominantly muslim countries like egypt or turkey.

[@uztre6789]

Why would you not see cows in those countries? According to Beef2Live.com, Egypt has the 13th biggest cow population in the world.

[@dahelme]

Acutally, that was just a presumption, since the muslims I know seem to heavily prefer lamb and poultry over cattle. But after some research it seems that I was kind of wrong and some areas like egypt, turkey and sudan also eat a lot of cattle.

[@uztre6789]

dahelme It's pig meat they don't eat.

[@dahelme]

I know that pig is not 'halal', but I tought cattle was kind of unpopular.

[@firebolt3490]

Lol

[@samscholz5024]

This is fucking rigged

[@donovannunez6114]

I cringe when y'all see flags cause I play FIFA and I know all of the flags