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For non-Americans, Fort Wayne is very, very far from the ocean. Like a long distance, then over a huge mountain range and then another long distance.
If it is a package from China it wouldnt change anything right?
I would think that no matter where it's coming from, falling into the ocean in Fort Wayne would be a neat trick.
clipped through the terrain and fell to the bottom of the map where the global water level is set at
Thats what happens when you cheap out on map designers and have one old guy do everything that grew up in a time before computers were a thing even. Oh and of course he is also the only guy programming and maintaining the engine, has to do all the character conception and management demands some immersive sandbox experience with particle physics down to quantum level.
No wonder the updates just get shittier and shittier.
Nah, they didn't grow up before computers: they were programing mainframes in the 60s. Those programmers can write you an absolute masterpiece of software ... in COBOL. Also, they don't bother with documentation because they're intimately familiar with every line of code considering they created the whole system from scratch 40 years ago.
The point at when you're "screwed" is when they retire and some poor bastard inherits an inscrutably complex system, written in a 60 year old language no one uses anymore, and with zero documentation.
https://xkcd.com/505/
But does Fort Wayne just mean it’s the next checkpoint on the way to the destination?
So could easily be some port on the west coast where the container fell off a ship?
Most likely but it's funnier if you don't think about that.
I’m no fun at parties.
me neither, probs why I didnt get the joke in the first place
Trebuchet. Really powerful trebuchet
Maybe they’re testing out hypersonic mail planes. You lose a box somewhere over Fort Wayne and you’re just goin so goddamn fast it doesn’t land till it hits the gulf
Maybe someone can do the math how fast you would have to be going?
Fort Wayne would be the last place it was checked before falling into the ocean
Thanks. This was useful context.
What mountains? There aren't any mountains between Fort Wayne and Mobile, AL. (Or between it and Fort Albany, ON, for that matter)
Congratulations, you got me. The Appalachians don't go all the way across the entire North American continent. I apologize for daring to make such a suggestion.
To be fair, I initially wanted to comment about how clever you were because even most Americans would forget about the Ozarks being in the way, but then I checked a map and realized they were too far west.
I only see one location in OPs screenshot. How do we know where this is coming from or going to?
There are two locations: Fort Wayne, IN and an unspecified point in the ocean. Of the paths between Fort Wayne and an ocean, the ones people are most likely to think of (e.g. from the Atlantic or the Pacific) involve crossing mountains, but others (e.g. from the Gulf of Mexico or Hudson Bay) do not.
I guess I was not thinking of Hudson Bay as “the ocean” lol
But if it's going to the ocean from Fort Wayne, it'll have to go East.
The Maumee River meets up with Lake Erie which eventually goes towards the Hudson Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Although I suppose that still doesn't have to cross the mountain.