Why does a silly little online game need my email to send a one-time login code? What a strange experience
Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?
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#12Why does a silly little online game need my email to send a one-time login code? What a strange experience
because it doesn't? practice mode requires no login. if you want to play a ranked match then you'll need an account, how else could it work?
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#13Woah, neat. Is this like, a Markov chain?
a variation of Aaronson Oracle
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#14How many pixels wide is the hit zone?
you don't have to aim
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#15Bam! 50 on the first try. Fun.
nice! try playing it the first thing every morning, it really wakes up your brain
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#16Why does a silly little online game need my email to send a one-time login code? What a strange experience
because it doesn't? practice mode requires no login. if you want to play a ranked match then you'll need an account, how else could it work?
Practice mode also has a popup telling you what to do which seems to negate the point of the game?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
because it doesn't? practice mode requires no login. if you want to play a ranked match then you'll need an account, how else could it work?
Practice mode also has a popup telling you what to do which seems to negate the point of the game?
it's the coach mode telling you which biases you have so you can fix them in a ranked match
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#18I got 50 hits in 100 tries. That being said, I did not particularly like hitting that poor frog :'( Yes, I am the kind of player who would never choose the rude option when talking to an NPC.
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#19Why does a silly little online game need my email to send a one-time login code? What a strange experience
because it doesn't? practice mode requires no login. if you want to play a ranked match then you'll need an account, how else could it work?
> how else could it work?
Username+password. There is zero reason to require e-mail for account creation.
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#20I am briefly in the top ten after completely misunderstanding the rules nicee