GeoGuessr vs. Microsoft Flight Simulator: Processing 2020's vicarious travel experiences

from Emotive Pixels: The Year of AAA Videogames · host Nate, Craig, Will, and sometimes Pauly

We discuss the emotional impacts of two large presences in our year of Covid, and attempt to process why the experience of playing these two games felt somehow transcendent in a year of isolation, loneliness, and a void of travel. GeoGuessr, a free to play online gamified Google Maps Street View game astronaut.io, a website that randomly serves unseen YouTube videos and somehow strikes a similar chord to GeoGuessr

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