One of the most satisfying games of geoguessr I've ever played (BRUTALIST ARCHITECTURE #2)
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- Опубліковано 30 бер 2023
- It's a classic GeoWizard play along with a repugnant concrete twist. Join me as I perv once again at some of the most alarmingly ugly builds of the 60s and 70s. Last time I managed a respectable score of 22,957 which left me wondering whether a perfect score was even realistic on this map, however a perplexing and painfully long first round sparked one of my dogged quests for ultimate perfection...
PLAY ALONG: Play your round, put your marker down, then switch tabs back to UA-cam to watch my attempt and the result. This way you don't ruin the game or the video!
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I feel like you'll get half the amount of cheese per stroke, but double the amount of strokes for the same amount of total cheese
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Other way round. Twice as much cheese per stroke?
@@loi22 there's only half as many holes facing the same direction, so half as much cheese per full stroke across the grater, but you get stroking action both ways, so double the amount of strokes
I think what everyone is missing, is that you now will no longer end up with a lopsided block of cheese after grating both ways
@@aussieman6371 And the resistance on each stroke will be less, so you can grate a larger block of cheese before your hand gets tired. I think we're on to a winner here!
I have a fine grater that allows grating from both sides. I mainly use it for garlic & ginger, and can confirm that it is the most efficient grater I've ever used
Looks like the first building?
@@JakeKilka Looking online it seems like you have 2 main designs.
1 - Both directions use the same hole. Basically you just had a hoop that you can access from either side. Look fragile and a hard cheese of carrot might just mangle it.
2 - One set of holes pointing up, the second down. But they are aligned vertically so taht the gouge you grate out is them filled by the second pointing in the opposite direction hole below it.
the building design might not really work as the reverse direction holes would lift the cheese up like a ramp.
I’m guessing that’s a microplane?
This sounds like double sided grater propaganda!
Well I’ll be..
18:44 Hey Tom! Just thought it was funny. 1708 is the building address, not the year. Hospital buildings in America tend to have just the building number on the signs to quickly identify them.
loooooooool
lol it got me confused too. I was thinking Canada is too young to have such an old hospital lol
it wasn't until he fixated on it the 2nd time that I realized he thought it was a date lol
"what are you talking about too old... whatever"
"IT'S AN ADDRESS"
It was a good laugh
Never would’ve guessed that in a million years. Definitely thought it was a year.
I was literally having lunch at HEC Montréal while watching this video and I let out a loud laugh when the Decelles building appeared.
Was there some chance we would think you meant that figuratively?
This truly is a small world when my favorite Geo channel finds the hospital I was born at 😅
Yeah first time I see him guess 2 places I know and have lived in
Same ! 😂
Washingtonians stand up!
Me too!
sorry to inform you, but the WHO did a cross study in 2021 and found that only bitches are born in that hospital
The progressively more manic sped up versions of Safety Dance are getting more hilarious each time 😂
With I'm Blue thrown in for good measure.
Tom already arguing with himself in the first guess, love it
I just got back from a holiday in Italy, this is the first video I watch after getting home, imagine my surprise when round 4 is literally where we stayed in Florence! Amazing!
was it an airbnb on via giovanni lanza per chance? i stayed there last summer and freaked out when that intersection showed up in this video 😂
Tom: I'm not going to spend hours trying to get a perfect score.
Us: no, you will and we will watch
A couple of notes on the last round: 1708 is not a year, it's the number for the address of the hospital. Also, St. Francis is the Catholic saint of basically everything that's good, so you will find buildings named after him in every city in the US and probably Canada as well. The Fedex truck was the saving clue on that round.
the address also helps you locate the spot between numbered roads. In this case, between 17th and 18th, but close to the 17th end.
Franciscans are also an order (named of course after said St. Francis of Assisi) within the Catholic Church and they either still run or have founded that hospital. Nothing to do with San Francisco, you silly Tom.
@@TheAngelsHaveThePhoneBox Nothing to do with the name San Francisco or in English Saint Francis? It is the same person who has founded the Franciscans and in whose name the Spanish named San Francisco.
That last round reminds me of the shot from The Dark Knight where the Joker walks away from the hospital when he has issues with the detonator before setting off his bomb. Pretty sure its not it, but the bridge/building across the road gave me those same vibes.
You are not only one
Instantly
Can't be. The "hospital" was a real building already scheduled for demolition. In the wide shot, you can see that the building has already been completely gutted, and windows and signs have been added back on to a few walls, but not all of them.
The vibe in the first picture was just screaming Belgium for me right from the start I don't even know exactly why it was so obvious for me I've never been there in my life haha
You can always recognize belgium from the wild architecture in row houses. Every single house can have it own design so you will see streets full of houses who dont fit together at all.
Screamed Belgium at me too, though I have been there a few times. So I plonked Antwep 😒
My mom worked in that building, so I knew it right from the beginning lmao
@@tomdepaepe5406 what is the building
@@Milian89 It's just a building full of working spaces
I have a cheesegrater that goes both ways because it looked like a good idea. The problem is you can't wash it with a sponge because it just grates the sponge either way. I don't have a dishwasher.
Wash it perpendicularly to the holes
@@gangstreG123 With a brush instead of a sponge, you're golden.
Finding out that Tom is a Limmy fan had sent already sky high approval ratings stratospheric
The crossover nobody wanted...
@@_Shadbolt_ Geowizard vs Limmy battle on a Glasgow map would do numbers
@@sharkdom I'd love it! Huge fan of both.
@@sharkdom that is actually an incredible idea
@@GeoWizard Yass man, make it happen!
Was laughing very hard with the first round, I've passed that building probably a thousand times. It's called the Belgacom Toren and was considered as the ugliest building in Gent but they recently demolished it.
We must have had perfect score in the first second! :-D Just adding: only the parking structure and the block @ the back has been demolished. The block at the front will be redeveloped. Saving the best parts of the architecture...
@@kristoffortie5601 thank goodness for that! I nearly had a heart attack when I read that comment. This architecture may not be to everyone's taste, but such incredible examples as this should always be preserved.
I thought your comment was going to go "...but they recently built a new building that is even uglier".
It's sad they didn't demolish the whole thing, it'll still be an eye sore in the Ghent city skyline. I guess it's cheaper to renovate (6% BTW) instead of building a new residential building...
They demolished the back part of it. The tower will be stripped down and get a glass exteriour.
The canal and the locks are new. The old canals in Gent were filled to make parking for cars. Recently they started opening them again, but ten years ago there was no canal.
The references to Spain are funny. The Spaniards' Castle is located across the water where the canal starts. It is now demolished, but the Spanish periode is still very important for Gent. After a rebelion against the Spanish citizens of Gent were forced to parade with a hangman's noose. Until today the noose is still a proud symbol for citizens born in Gent. I guess some Spanish influence is still present in Gent and it shows?
"We played this a couple of weeks ago; had great fun...
(moments later)
...really they should redesign every cheese grater in the world"
- Tom Geowizard
1:35 microplane have a cheese grater like this - it actually works really well. It's shaped slightly differently so it's easier to wipe clean by sliding across, idk how to explain this.
Anyways, I'd highly recommend
Search microplane two-way grater and it should come up. I have one and it's the best grater I've ever had
FYI: "A" streets are just in one country, while "E" streets are stretching all across europe and even asia. So "A" Streets can also be "E" streets, its just the Europe-wide naming instead of national naming
For example the E35 you mentioned starts in Amsterdam and goes all the way to Rome, and it consists of several different national streets, like the German A3 and A5, the Swiss A2 and the Italian A50 and A1
sounds like the US “State Route” and “National Route” system
wow thank you this is actually very helpful. I get so confused by european roads whenver I play geoguessr
It is more than that. The UN (UNECE) had the initiative to roll out a network of continental highways. That became the E roads in Europe, but the Pan-American Higway is another example. However, there is more: some countries use the E number on the roadsigns and other don't. North-south routes have odd numbers; east-west routes have even numbers. Branches have 3 digit E numbers. There is more, but my point is that reading up on road numbers can be a tool for geoguessr.
I was hoping that you'd get Florence in one of these brutalist architecture episodes! We have some pretty weird stuff over here 😁
DHN
@@brnlsn missile (tanto per citare un'altra meraviglia brutalista)
i was hoping that Brazil would show up. Niemeyer is well known for his monstrosities.
E DHN SIA
@@stanvanillo9831 Amsterdam only has maybe 2 buildings that classify as brutalist.
I was hoping for a Quebec round, because there is a lot of Brutalism architecture around here. Very surprised to get 2 in the same game!
The province had a large building boom in the 60's when Brutalism was popular. See: Habitat 67
J'espère qu'il tombera sur l'habitat ou le casino lol
Southern Ontario has a lot as well. all the universities have buildings that look like that
That eight-bit version of Focus' Hocus Pocus was unreal.
Right! that made me beam haha
FInally! Montreal HAD to pop-up at some point, the entire subway system is brutalist architecture, there was a lot of development happening during that period in Montreal. Also, there is something quite fitting about a brutalist building being a business school.
If he continues the brutalist videos, I hope he'll get more of Montreal building hehe
I went to Jeanne-Mance school as a highschooler, the whole school looks like a concrete bunker 😂...
I was so happy to see to QC rounds!!
Habitat 67 is bound to pop up
Plenty of brutal architecture in the whole province of Quebec let’s be honest. Our past love for concrete is not playing in our favor nowadays.
I cannot believe you found that first one. That was amazing detective work!
I agree, especially how he just got the location immediately on the zoom in
I can't believe how lucky it was to have Tacoma written on that FedEx truck next to you. Other than that you really made a lot out of some hard rounds. Well done!
So funny, I saw the Seahawks sun visor and didn’t see the tacoma on the truck
I was thoroughly expecting that location to not be in Tacoma, but very glad it was there for Tom's 25k.
Well, it did say "Northwest", and it was pretty clear it was the US otherwise. I even saw the Takoma, Washington, but somehow totally ignored the Takoma part and started looking in Seattle first, like a goof. But there aren't that many hospitals in Seattle, so I got to Takoma pretty quickly. When I watched Tom say "Takoma" I laughed at how I somehow entirely ignored it when I saw it.
Im having a hard time right now, this makes me forget it all and chill for small bit. Keep it up
Had the shittest week ever this week if you asked me last night. Today at work I went out to put something in the bin and the wind blew the door shut behind me with my keys sand phone and everything inside. I almost killed myself
Hang in there bud.
Same here. GeoWizard is my go-to when things are rough. Wishing you the best!
Lol I'm from Ghent and I recognized that first monstrosity of a building immediately. It's the prior Belgacom building. Fun fact is that it has been taken down recently and is to be replaced by a very modern piece of architecture!
I am from the ghent too!
5:33 is the chiptune Hocus Pocus cover a reference to your misled searches in the Netherlands? (Focus being a Dutch band) 🇳🇱 😊
Wow 2 Québec rounds in a row! I feel like it's even more interesting when we get ahead of you when we know the place from the start. Like I recognized the street lights from Montréal staight away and I felt so smart hahaha! Thanks for the content man!
your dedication to searching it out is so fun to watch, i love your channel
As someone from Ghent, I can tell you that the concrete monster in the first location is currently being taken down. Truly amazing to see you find a place I pass every day to go to school...
It's been updated now on street view
So basically Tom, Brutalist Architecture is your Guilty Pleasure
I can think of a couple of reasons not to make a cheese grater like that, Tom. Namely, it's the same amount grated, but more total effort, since each stroke is a grating stroke, rather than a grating stroke followed by rest stroke. Also, I figure it's easier to manufacture a grater where they all face the same way. But what do I know, I guess a double grater might be slightly faster, and if you don't need to grate much, it might be good.
On the second one I just saw Montreal on the sign, zoomed straight into a random street, looked around for street signs and realized it was the exact street and block I randomly zoomed into. Sometimes you get lucky
Excellent Belgium meta tip for next time: At 5:15, whenever you see a medieval looking tower with an onion-shaped spire roof on top of it, you can be 95% confident that you're in Flanders, Belgium. That is a very typical late-medieval Flemish architectural tower roof.
That Tacoma one was awesome. I have a friend who worked for this hospital as an executive as recently as earlier this year. Very funny seeing how long it took you to nail it down (even though it wasn't really that long in context). Always fun watching your content.
With the last round, the number you found, 1708, is just the building number part of the address and had nothing to do with a date. Also, Franciscan had nothing to do with San Francisco or a bay named Francisco. It is more like the name of the Franciscan monks to go along with the name of the hospital, St. Joseph
22.311, went in Vienna in the first round, found the exact spot for the others. Now i will watch how you did it !
Not watched one of these before as I much prefer your straight line challenges, but after sticking with it I found it fascinating how you went about finding where the location is. More entertaining than I was expecting. Well done!
This is my new favorite series from you! Please do more architecture themed stuff!
My favorite part of these videos is Tom’s ability to pull the most outlandish vocabulary out of a hat to describe these buildings lmao
Repugnant..
HOLY COW! I've seen the second round building from Montreal in my dreams! I probably played this round long ago and my brain remembered it and generated a dream. Weird and fascinating
Lol my girlfriend goes to this university I've been in that building before.
@@Imsemble cap
I go to this university hahaha
@@ryanolsen294 why would a random person online that you've never met before be capping
Tom is a Limmy enjoyer of course
Those musicall transition are killing me (the I'm blue remix especially)
being from quebec, just realised most of our infrastructure was done during a certain period of time, especially close to grande-allée in quebec city where there is governement buildings (we call one the calorifere) and banks (banque nationale) and hotels (concorde) that are all made out of pure concrete. to this i might add the complexe G. anyways, interesting vid as always
Just want to say that your choice of music on the Florence round and on those Quebec rounds was excellent
Eifel 65 on the Florence location was very fitting indeed.
This was a great watch, thanks Tom! Good luck on the editing
Love the tiny bit of "Hocus Pocus" by the Dutch band Focus. Lovely song! :)
Tom reminds me so much of Mike Skinner! 😂
Both Birmingham lads as well lol
More of these no moving type of games with no preasure. I subscribed a couple of years ago for this type of content. In my opinion it's more interesting watching you play An urban world map or some Play along, than these missions and perfect scores with less mocking about which I singed up for (although, it has to be said, they take a lot more time, skill and effort).
Omg, I love you even more for that Focus reference at 5:27 :D
I missed the yodeling though :P
and even sped up. live version reference? such a banger that song is.
3/4 weeks for a new adventure, already this close after a travel video. I'm hype. I hope you continue to mix and match the "How not to travel"s with "Straight line"s or "no road"s or other hardcore adventures.
Not sure how I'm this early, but always a great time watching your videos Tom. Hopefully lots more IRL content coming up, and would be great to see some collabs with the "Pro" Geoguessr community!
Entertaining as ever GeoWizard. Proud to have you as a fellow Englishman.
Great to see you playing geoguessr again! I love that I was also looking at Amsterdam at first and then noticed the license plates 😂
Clicked on this video because I live in Tacoma and immediately recognized St. Joe's in your thumbnail. Solid work! That FedEx truck was a pretty lucky clue.
Me as a Belgian who live in Ghent seeing the first round.
🤯🤯🤯😂😂😂
Great work Tom, you are the best.
I've only been to Ghent once, but that canal and the style of the houses immediately told me it's in Ghent lol. As someone who loves traveling it feels great to get a location where you have been to and you could utilise your in real life experience to beat the game.
Tommy Davies does it again
Beautifully played tom! Twas a pleasure to watch this video this morning.
You really had to "focus" on that first round 👀
Ok I can't hide it, absolutely fangirling for those 8-bit music choices!
I really enjoy the brutalist architecture videos
Calling Ghent Antwerp is like calling Birmingham Manchester.
Tom grilling these brutalist buildings is a whole another vibe
repugnant
Outstanding game! I was born and raised, and currently live just south of Tacoma so am excited to see the local flavor on your channel!
In Massachusetts we have an entire University designed with this brutalist architecture. Its called the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, not to be confused with the ivy league Dartmouth College in NH though. The art style is very polarizing
Another Tom Davies banger of a video 🍻
I laughed so loud on the train when he said ‘naming sexual body parts’ we love you Tom
Surreal seeing my old workplace in the video. I worked at Saint Joseph's in Tacoma in the lab whose window you are looking right at when you got the image. Always told people I worked in the space ship at the top of the hill. Cool vid!
Was watching some of your old Geoguessr bingo yesterday. Would love to see more of those!
Last video, Brutalist archetecture in France.
This video, Brutalist archetecture in French Canada
The hospital in Tacoma was designed by the great Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg, who designed a lot of iconic buildings in the city (Marina Towers (seen on the cover of Wilco's "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot album), River City, the now-razed Prentice Woman's Hospital). I absolutely adore his work and I recommend you check some of them out.
15:27 The reason is that E stands for Europe Road, while the A is local. The Europe Roads can extend through countries, while the A is just a road from point A to B in this specific country.
(example, A1 can go from one big city to another (easy to follow for locals), while the E can go from the capital city in one country and to the capital to the other (easy to follow for long-distance travelers))
I LOVE this series.
Qualified maths-ma-tish-on here I promise. I can confirm that if cheese graters were designed in this way you would infact double your cheese gains. So if you grated a 500g block you would infact get 1kg of grated cheddar for your efforts. You're Welcome.
Yup. The math checks up. Each 500gm yields 1 kg of cheese with this grater.
Love the soundtrack for this one and the fact that you did geographically correct artists too
another incredible video Tom, never stop being amazing!!! ❤️❤️
hey tom, im not sure if you are familiar with this, but if you want to get the angle of a road just look straight down and line up the compass north this will give the perfect road angle(the road on the map should perfectly line up)
"I'm in Antwerp btw" said Tom while being in Ghent
Love your adventure series'. Pls never stop those
It was very entertaining to see you struggle on the first one, thinking it could maybe be Amsterdam. Very impressive that you got them all!
First
No one cares
@@costa2k1 That's not true!!! 🙂
@@philipjoerglewinsilence NPC
You're not even the first bruh
@@costa2k1 you’r just mad cuz you’r bad
Love this channel. Very interesting, my nieces and nephew were born at the last location, St Joseph's in Tacoma. Congrats on the perfect score.
Absolutely love the video game music cover of Hocus Pocus when fast forwarding
As always a great video, but particularly enjoyed the music in this one, lovely stuff
14:05 "A chunk of Star Wars Lego" 😂
Oh I love Tom!
Oh man, love the fast midi Hocus Pocus
Fantastic video as always! I love seeing these Brutalist structures. They need to add to the map the Airport in Seattle (SeaTac) the parking structure it's the real deal brutalist parking structure unless you get lost.
Man, what a journey this was. Congrats Tom!
comment to remind myself that i got a perfect score in an hour and 50 minutes. great use of a friday evening. very proud of getting the ghent round. these are some of my favourite vids tom, keep it up x
Congrats man, very well done!
Needed this Tomothy, thanks
that chiptune of focus was a bop!!!
We need more of these brutalist episodes!
That was a long run, but you found everything in the end! Great show!
For like the first two notes of the 8:34 time lapse, I thought it was the safety dance that was playing, but then after like a second or so I changed my mind. Then when I heard like the last seven notes or so, the "we can leave our friends behind" part, I realized my intuition was correct.
Fantastic video :) love this series
That hospital at the end looks like a laundry basket
I like how you matched the songs to the countries. Pretty clever
Legendary video mate. Hilarious ramblings.
I live in montreal. That's was the funniest bit finding HEC lmao great video!
Best videos to relax and eat a good meal to. Big fan, Tom!