I'm OK with people doing DOOM mods, the Vuvuzela mod is prize, but creating a CAPTCHA which requires you to play Doom on Nightmare difficulty is a bridge too far:
People have been complaining for a while that passing a CAPTCHA is too difficult, but developer and tech CEO Guillermo Rauch has made one of the hardest yet: a fully playable CAPTCHA based on the classic PC game Doom.
It's been a long-running joke that developers will make Doom run on absolutely anything, so it's not much of a surprise that it's now running inside something that resembles a CAPTCHA.
The app essentially amounts to a small Doom level that is playable with keyboard controls (arrow keys to move, space bar to shoot) within a CAPTCHA-like presentation. You must kill three enemies to pass the test.
The level reflects Doom's Nightmare difficulty, and it is much harder than needed to be an effective CAPTCHA—especially since you can't strafe to avoid enemy fire. It took me several tries to cheese a victory, and the Hacker News thread about this app is filled with people noting how difficult it is and sharing strategies.
I have a grudging admiration of this, but imagine if the effort was applied to something like remediating anthropogenic climate change.
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