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[-] [email protected] 145 points 7 months ago

I tried to sign up for a Blizzard account and they were giving me long-ass math problems and I had to do fucking 16 of them. So I gave up.

Fuck Blizzard and fuck whoever is setting up the Captchas

[-] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago

That seems so backwards. Computers almost are always better at doing math than humans, so how is that proving the visitor is a human??

[-] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago

It is entirely based on the theory that computers can't understand an array of pixels

[-] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago

Computers understand the content, but now how it's represented, so they can't solve it

Humans understand how it's represented, but not the content, so they can't solve it

Mathematicians understand how it's represented and the content

It's not to keep computers away, it's to keep non-mathematicians away!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

And everyone knows mathematicians love their kill death ratio and will grind hours into the night to get it perfect

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Not perfect, just enough that it rounds to perfect for display.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Nah..... Just kill 1 guy out the door, then hide in a corner rest of the match. Boom. 1 kill, 0 deaths, 100 percent kd

[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

1: but sir, the computers make the images with the pixels!

Boss: ...you shut your whore mouth, IT WORKS DAMMIT! THEY TOLD ME IT WORKS!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

which has not been true for a few years now

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

If they do it too fast they’re probably a bot reading text and asking AI for answers

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Thread.sleep(2863);

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Maybe the goal was to weed out all the humans and let the bots in. When they start asking TCP questions written in binary, you’ll know for sure.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Calculator: ( 10^15 + 7.2 - 10^15 ) * 100 = 0

Also calculator: fails Trig because almost every graph is wrong

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It’s training for AI, which currently is about as smart as an 8 year old with internet access. Pretty soon that AI is going to be driving, then getting married, buying a house in the AI verse, etc

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I've hated them since D3 came out with always online.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Sounds like maybe you need a math review lol

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Nah, they give you a number and you have to scroll through 8 pages of images of 5-7 dice, getting the total sum on each image to find which matches the number they give you.

And do that 16 times. So you're scrolling through doing the math on upwards of 128 images of dice. FUCK THAT.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

At what point is it just free labor lol

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

As soon as someone made recaptcha.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ya I'm jk, that sounds very excessive. Especially considering a bot could easily solve that with existing CV... gotta wonder whats the point

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Did you know: to cancel a Blizzard account you have to send them a photo copy of your ID card? I've only ever had to do that for some job applications, and government forms online. But for a video game account??

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