People Are Playing a New DOOM-Themed CAPTCHA 63
An anonymous reader writes: Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, a frontend-as-a-service product, just used the company's AI site builder to come up with a new twist on CAPTCHAs, one that invites users to play the classic single-player game DOOM and killing at least three monsters. You can check it out here.
I'm definitely a robot it seems (Score:4, Interesting)
Without any strafing and covering the image with my fingers (I'm on mobile), I am unable to kill any.
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Without any strafing and covering the image with my fingers (I'm on mobile), I am unable to kill any.
Strafing works on PC using the alt key. but shooting is not control, but space. did not chech if shift is still run
Re:I'm definitely a robot it seems (Score:4, Informative)
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Woohoo, I'm not a robot anymore!
(It was close though).
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Ironically that's the kind of strategy a poorly trained AI would follow rather than a human playing a game.
Re:I'm definitely a robot it seems (Score:5, Funny)
My aiming mod doesn't work and I can't see through the walls.
Yeah, so I cheat at Doom. What more proof do you need? l33t sp3@k?
I'm sure (Score:4, Informative)
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she may have played the game back then.
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I had problems with this, and I've finished doom on one of the hardest difficulties! 34" screen here and the game looks smaller than my mobile screen.
so we are not teaching an AI... (Score:4, Interesting)
First thing that came to my mind was that we were training AI's on how to shoot at a moving target.
Of course. (Score:1, Troll)
There are WAY too many people on this planet and they are WAY too hard to control.
The practical value of an automated kill bot cannot be overstated.
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There are WAY too many people on this planet and they are WAY too hard to control.
You have never been to Russia or North Korea.
Re: Of course. (Score:1)
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There are WAY too many people on this planet and they are WAY too hard to control.
You have never been to Russia or North Korea.
Where they then send you to Ukraine...
So what you're saying is... (Score:2)
There are WAY too many people on this planet and they are WAY too hard to control.
So what your saying is... Thanos was right?
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I dunno, there's probably less than 1,000 people (mostly CEO/CxOs, bankers, politicians and military leaders) that we could program a robot to kill and the world would be a substantially better place
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I don't think you are right about that. There needs to be change, small changes that have big effects.
First limit awards in litigation. That should solve a big part of frustration.
There is a need for evil, because evil cause good people to innovate against evil and improve the world usually.
Now remove most political leaders from receiving any sort of funding, forcing them to be in the job to help society not to hinder. think Jimmy Carter - ish ... now you solved many problems that were costing society.
Bring
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really?
I'm guessing sarcasm.
mouse movement delays to visual input delays, this covers lag and keeps to target.
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If any cacodemons visit Earth, weaponized AIs will save us.
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The contros scheme is shite (Score:4, Informative)
Arrows to move (like in OG DOOM)?
SPACEBAR TO SHOOT?!
Give me a break! I made more errors because of the weird control scheme (either go gor OG doom, or for modern day shooters) than from the extra speed of the Imps' missiles...
BTW, the map is E1M9, the secret level, military base.
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The classical cheat codes work (iddqd, idfa, idclip), which is about the only way for me to kill any monster on this version.
BTW the only game I ever play is freedoom, about every day.
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On the bright side, the IDDQD and IDKFA cheat codes still work, so I was able to mow down the monsters with the rocket launcher pretty quickly.
Bummer that there is no full screen option that I could find.
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> no full screen
that's what's so great about it, it's just like originally playing on my 486sx 25MHz
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Longer CAPTCHAS (Score:5, Funny)
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CAPTCHAs are useless and have been for a long time. It's bad enough that they cut the images up in illogical sectors that overlap each other and you have to go through them multiple times. "Choose the traffic lights." Well, does that include the sectors where part of the light is included, or what? Same thing with the stupid fire hydrant and crosswalk crap. This just makes it even more annoying. And then we have Clownflare.
Re: Longer CAPTCHAS (Score:2)
wrong only 90% of the time (Score:2)
you're too predictable.
Answer wrong only 90% of the time
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Can someone please tell me?
I mostly fail capchas - am I a robot?
Invite? Or force? (Score:2)
Fortunately I do not come across CAPTHAS all that often. For one or two sites I tolerate it, for the others I move on.
Based on the summary (and the article) the word "invited" is used. Does this mean you have an option to not go through it, or is it just a polite way of saying you have to do it? There's nothing that important I would need to see which would make me waste even more time trying to get to it than being forced to play a game.
Re: Invite? Or force? (Score:1)
This is entirely a flex by the developers. At no point did anyone ever intend to actually implement this on anything serious.
Fabulous (Score:3)
I'm sold. I'd have this CAPTCHA any day instead of yet more traffic light and bike identifications.
Yeah, OK, it took me about 5 goes to get through it but it was fun!
That triggers my memory of motion sickness (Score:3)
I usually have no problems with that at all, but the original Doom hit me badly back when. I guess I will solve zero of these.
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I had those issues too, back in the day. I could only handle playing Doom on a smaller monitor and sitting back a ways from it... and, even then, I couldn't play it for all that long.
This captcha thing runs in a tiny little window, though - so I didn't have any issues with nausea.
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I get a hint of motion sickness (not badly) when I see a screenshot of DOOM. I must have really overdone it back when.
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PTDD - Post Traumatic DOOM Disorder.
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I usually have no problems with that at all, but the original Doom hit me badly back when. I guess I will solve zero of these.
You'll be fine. It's hard to get motion sick on a game which pops up in a window that is barely 2" across on a 34" screen. *faceplam*. This thing is unplayable for many reasons. The only way to easily beat it is to not move and simply stand there spamming the shoot key.
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Well, one reason or another, I will not touch this.
idfa + spamfire (Score:3)
THIS.... (Score:3, Insightful)
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Yep. Ok for me.
I may be a techie, but I never played games, so I will stay TF away from such crappy sites.
IDDQD (Score:2)
I had to enter GOD mode to beat it.
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IDGAF
Didn't work for me in Firefox (Score:3)
But was able to play it in Safari. I died 5-6 times before managing to pass it, though.
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It worked fine for me in Firefox.
turn off fast monsters! (Score:2)
turn off fast monsters!
Games are an interesting idea, but AI can game... (Score:2)
right? Google's Deep Mind was playing games, even learning them from scratch at times (no help/guiding).
I know they were getting Doom running lots of places, but I don't remember a Doom playing AI yet. Doesn't seem impossible though.
I'd almost rather it invented a new game (with AI?) each time. And the person detecting quality was more about experimenting and understanding an odd situation. One that can't be hard coded or assumed somehow. Heck it could be based on bad jokes for all I care.
Almost feels
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There was some basic deathmatch/co-op bots at the time. They could play long enough to kill three monsters, but weren't smart enough to figure out how to win a level beyond flipping random switches, and often given up and just let the human do it.
Best option is the Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament bots.
Need to Add it to our work sites using captcha (Score:2)
Get paid for playing doom all day :)
Doom is single-player? (Score:2)
Tell this to the poor network admins whose LANs were struggling under the onslaught of Doom network traffic on company premises in the 1990s.
It was Doom indeed, a true doom for networks.
run in and die 100 times OR camp at spawn shooting (Score:1)
seriously though who playtested this? if i try to play doom i will die every single time, but if i dont move from spawn, and simply start shooting aimlessly, the monsters will come around the corner from the right and get gunned down with ease.
very neat concept, probably entirely pointless as bots know how to play shooters for decades,
standard controls would be much appreciated, and none of this ctrl=sprint shift=jump bullshit minecraft does please....
THIS is why I follow slashdot! (Score:2)
Other games? (Score:2)
I love the idea but not the implementation. If this were a real captcha, you should be invincible, not able to die and have to start over.
Of course people might not like the idea of killing as part of the captcha, but you could think of doing other more family-friendly games like Mario, Tetris, or Sonic. If you want to keep it less PG, I'd love to see Carmageddon!
Wtf (Score:2)