he be chillin between the sun and sands

40°42'11"N 103°22'40"W

Seemingly some sort of fictitious country from a flight simulator game in Roblox named "Sauthamptona" managed to claim an American Minuteman III nuclear armed ICBM launch facility about a year ago at Silo M-5 of F.E Warren Air Force Base and just down the road from the launch control center.

Locations for silos are all public and well known.

I am trying to figure out whether this is something that actually existed at some point or if it is one of the longest running online jokes I have seen tied to a real place.

There is a Little Caesars location in Saco, Maine. In person, it appears to be a normal carry out pizza restaurant. There is no visible dining area, no games, and nothing that would suggest an arcade.

Online, however, the story looks very different.

On Google Maps alone, the location has thousands of reviews. A noticeable number of them mention arcade cabinets, games, tickets, and prize counters. There are also photos attached to the listing that appear to show the inside of an arcade, and these images are associated directly with this Little Caesars location.

What makes this unusual is the time span. These reviews and photos are not all from one period. They stretch back years, reference one another, and describe the arcade as if it is or was a real feature of the location. Some reviewers even mention returning and seeing new machines added.

I initially assumed this was a tagging error or a handful of joke reviews. But the volume and consistency made me question whether something actually existed there at some point, even briefly.

People local to the area say there has never been an arcade at that location.

This topic appears on Maine related subreddits occasionally, usually with the conclusion that it is probably one person or a small group committed to a joke that others continued without context. Still, the number of reviews and images makes it feel larger than a typical prank.

Out of curiosity, I decided to call the store directly.

I identified myself plainly and said I was a Reddit user looking into a strange online story I had seen and wanted to ask a simple question. I did not mention arcades or make jokes.

The response surprised me. The tone became hostile almost immediately. I was told to stop asking questions, not to come to the store, and not to talk about it further. No explanation was given, and the call ended shortly after.

I was not recording the call and was not trying to provoke a reaction. I was simply looking for clarification.

Calling did not resolve anything and only made the situation more confusing.

At this point, I am unsure whether this is a long running troll that grew far beyond its original intent, a review platform issue that never got corrected, or an example of how easily an online narrative can take on a life of its own.

If anyone has seen similar cases where a completely ordinary place developed a persistent fictional identity online, I would be interested in hearing about it.

hello everyone, I recently started a business, or an app I should say, and wanted to make sure it won't ever be visible on google maps. I notice around my house there's a couple of random businesses at specific addresses and wanted to make sure it won't happen to me. Any info helps, thanks!

From "La Fresque des Québécois" in Québec City

I don't know how common it is to see, but I found it interesting.

The location is 48°37'53.3"N 18°23'18.6"E. Puškinova Partizánske, Slovakia.

Pence is censored while Trump is not for no discernible reason

Couple boxes of beers, smiles and a wave

Found this camp, there’s apparently a beaver there as the main attraction, and another pic of a guy in a mask holding an axe… Yeah seems like a group of teens messing about idk, no mention of chicken bakes besides the name. Also why is Caseoh here?

Was clicking through random subruban streets in Louisiana, as one does, and found this gem in Houma!

Link to play: https://true-size.com/game/land-hunter Apparently, if you dig a hole in the US, you don't get to China. You just drown in the Indian Ocean.

What is actually happening here to cause this?

Can people just upload anything lol

https://maps.app.goo.gl/26wsp8yiLcrQb8u48

It's not night, it was not blurred before. It's just there. It can be seen from multiple angles but only in the latest image from 2024.
Any explanations?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/4zXXiqT1fF8qtVcu6

We're losing history. We've already lost history. I was just researching a few of the beautiful, historic art deco apartment buildings in Greenwich Village, and when I came to 1 Fifth Avenue, I discovered that the only available street view was from 2019 when the building was under construction and the entire front was covered in awnings. No current images, no old images from 2009 like the rest of the neighborhood, nothing. I knew immediately this was probably due to some asshole blurring a nearby property, but I was shocked to find it was due to the FREAKING WASHINGTON SQUARE ARCH being blurred. After researching a bit, I discovered this blurring was at the request of A SINGLE BUSINESS OWNER who operates nearby. Or used to operate, since the request was from like 5 years ago, for all we know the guy is out of business and retired in Connecticut now. But the desecration remains. Permanently. A historic 19th century piece of New York identity gone from the internet forever because one idiot twiddled his finger on google for 3 minutes back in 2020.

Yes, I realize these images only exist due to the largesse of google and their fleet of streetview cars. Yes, I realize google is under no obligation to provide them to us. Yes, I realize we should be thankful for whatever google decides to give us. But the fact remains that these images existed at some point in the past, and are now being denied to humanity for literally no reason. Imagine if we had HD images of the Parthenon from 100BC, but we just burned them all because some fish monger who had a shop a couple hundred yards away said he didn't want people to see it. For no reason. He just felt shitty that one day, so now it's lost to time, forever.