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Metal Captcha
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
What else would you call BDM?
Wikipedia says: Black Dahlia Murder is melodic death metal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Dahlia_Murder_%28ban... and Murderdolls are horror punk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderdolls
More accurately called Gothenburg metal to differentiate it from old school melodeath, which is a somewhat murkily defined and now lost genre.
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#53See also: IKEA OR DEATH: http://ikeaordeath.com/ Can you tell the difference between a death metal band and IKEA furniture? It's harder than it sounds.
Warning: Loud sounds on that website.
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#54// edit: sense of humour failure. I care too much about blocking spam :) Sorry, but this is harder for humans than bots. The logos are quite distinct and not randomly deformed, so it's easy for even a simple image recognition algorithms to tell them apart. And the set is very small (for this problem anything smaller than millions is very small), so it's feasible to manually tag enough images for bots to brute force i…
Actually, behind the scenes, they have a graphic designer madly making up new bands and band logos in real time. Just kidding. I wonder if something similar would be possible though? Maybe step 1 of a Captcha is to "write something sloppily" so that software can't read it (and they check). Step 2 is to read someone else's writing. Step 3 is to wait for someone else to read your Captcha from Step 1. Step 4 is to fume about the terrible user experience.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
And people above a certain age! ;-)
Considering this is an artform that peaked in '83, I'd say you're keeping out people below a certain age. edit: Really downvotes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_in_heavy_metal_music
Thrash didn't even take off until a couple of years later though :P My personal favorite era was the late 80's/early 90's when the thrash bands started getting heavier and death metal was on the rise.
Whether it peaked in '83 or not, I'd still say that most metalheads are older. That is at least consistent with what I see at all of the shows I go to.
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#56I genuinely can't read some of those. And I'm a bit of a metaller...
The first three bands that I got were Nile, Municipal Waste and Morbid Angel so those ones were pretty easy to read. Lucky me!
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#57CRAPCHA, my little project from awhile back:
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#58Darkthrone captcha is broken.
And I thought, there was another Band with quite a similiar Logo...
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
What else would you call BDM?
Wikipedia says: Black Dahlia Murder is melodic death metal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Dahlia_Murder_%28ban... and Murderdolls are horror punk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderdolls
Melodic death metal? WTF?
I'm actually more of an electronic music fan, but they both suffer from the same disease: hundreds of sub-genres with less than 10 producers/bands that can accurately represent them.
I hate sub-genres of music.
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#60In Chrome right click the CAPTCHA image, click "Search Google for this image", copy and paste the resulting text search back as the results.
If you scroll to the download section you can see that the captcha check is completly client side. The bot won't even notice there's a captcha unless they're executing js.