Comment by egorfine

Comment by egorfine 2 days ago

7 replies

This is ingenious and actually useful. I'm looking for a new apartment and I always wanted to know how do these places look in a bad weather, because that's when I need beautiful surroundings the most.

wizzwizz4 2 days ago

Unfortunately, it doesn't actually tell you that information: it just turns a dial. What you want is to know how much that dial would be turned by bad weather.

  • Retr0id 2 days ago

    As long as it's not changing the form of the buildings, it seems valid. Although, the first two examples both add random telecom cabinets in places that don't make much sense.

    • jayd16 2 days ago

      Its not valid because it adds things like cracks, dead plants, patchwork repairs, rust, random utility boxes, loose cables, etc. Its won't tell whether a place will be maintained well. It gives you more of a worst case.

    • Jolter 2 days ago

      I figure that’s an architectural in-joke. The engineers will add ugly stuff because you didn’t consider stuff like HVAC or electricity.

  • coffeebeqn 2 days ago

    Depends where you live I guess. For me that looks exactly like November here

  • egorfine 2 days ago

    It's infinitely better than nothing.

    • wizzwizz4 2 days ago

      Fortunately, you have one of the world's most powerful supercomputers sitting between your ears, so we don't need to compare this to nothing.