Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/doom-on-a-captcha-is-the-most-frustrating-though-admittedly-raddest-way-to-prove-your-humanity-to-an-algorithm

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22 Comments

noxypaws@pawb.social · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Wolfenstein would be better. Prove you're human by shooting Nazis.

luciferofastora@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

Actually, can we do that IRL?

Zozano@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

But you only need to kill one to pass the Captcha.

Mecha Hitler on "I Am Death Incarnate" difficulty.

mvirts@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y

Lol this would have been a valid captcha until 2016

Albbi@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y (16 replies)

Yeah that ain't happening on mobile with no strafe.

Kichae@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y (11 replies)

Go on. Play like it's 1993 all over again.

sploosh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (10 replies)

You could assign keys to strafe in 1993.

Kichae@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Tell me you played with strafe in 1993 and I'll never belueve another word out of your mouth.

sploosh@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I have distinct memories of my dad teaching me to strafe on his 486-powered laptop with a laggy monochrome screen. Maybe it was a modifier key that changed left/right to strafing? It was definitely a feature in the OG Doom and Wolfenstein 3D before it.

grozzle@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

yeah, it was Alt. i don't know what's wrong with these other people.

sploosh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

They don't want to admit they never bothered looking at the control options.

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Me and my cousins absolutely used strafe back in the early 90s. And forwards. And backwards. We were so excited every time we got into a gunfight we would have moved vertically too if there was an option for it.

Klear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

There was an option for that. It was called "Descent".

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 1y

Nobody I knew in the early 90s played with strafe. That wasn’t a thing that existed. I couldn’t agree with you more.

Klear@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Alt works in the CAPTCHA.

sploosh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

How do I press Alt on my phone?

Klear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Get USB OTG and plug in any keyboard. Or you could use a bluetooth one.

VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y

Found the robot

YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I proved I was human on mobile without strafe. You just have to let them come to you. The wall protect you.

Albbi@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I ain't no pansy ass spawn camper! That ain't how you play doom!

... But yeah that works.

lud@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

I did it without camping. Only took like 4 tries.

Just run to the hole upfront that's slightly to the left and shoot while running there.

I even managed to grab a shotgun.

TastyWheat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

They've done well to get all the way through to E1M9 without killing three monsters