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Re: Metal Captcha

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Post by venomsnake » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 4:29 PM UTC

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #33

linuxlizard wrote: post #24

Earlier 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

I would say 1990. Because Painkiller is the most metal album ever ...

Re: Metal Captcha

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Post by venomsnake » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 4:30 PM UTC

I think that "Dying Fetus" on a anti abortion website will be fun :)

Re: Metal Captcha

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Post by Lingster » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 4:37 PM UTC

Isn't that like gazillion years old? But k cool anyway..

Re: Metal Captcha

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Post by pablovidal85 » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC

kpcyrd wrote: post #60

ajanuary wrote: post #3

In 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.

It's 2015, bots use headless browsers.

Re: Metal Captcha

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Post by gameguy43 » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 4:54 PM UTC

"buy a t-shirt!"

"I buy a t-shirt >>"

This is my new favorite web copy trope.

Re: Metal Captcha

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Post by david-given » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 4:56 PM UTC

harpastum wrote: post #53

david-given wrote: post #34

See 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.

I honestly didn't know --- never visited there on a machine with speakers (or with my headphones on).

Re: Metal Captcha

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Post by gknoy » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 5:06 PM UTC

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #52

v4n4d1s wrote: post #38

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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.

I first read this as satire of the complexity of musical sub-genres ("How do I find things like this song I like? Is there a name for it? ... wait, it's really just five people posting things on youtube?"). Then I realized that it might not be satire. Brilliantly played, if the former, and also if the latter. ;)

Re: Metal Captcha

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Post by primigenus » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 5:17 PM UTC

pornel wrote: post #23

// 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…

If you had just posted the comment without "Sorry, but" at the beginning it would have been a great additional insight rather than disparaging to the OP :)

Re: Metal Captcha

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 5:18 PM UTC

gknoy wrote: post #67

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More accurately called Gothenburg metal to differentiate it from old school melodeath, which is a somewhat murkily defined and now lost genre.

I first read this as satire of the complexity of musical sub-genres ("How do I find things like this song I like? Is there a name for it? ... wait, it's really just five people posting things on youtube?"). Then I realized that it might not be satire. Brilliantly played, if the former, and also if the latter. ;)

I'm entirely serious. It's much like metalcore. People associate it with melodic stuff like Killswitch Engage, but in reality the first generation of metalcore bands were more like crossover thrash, bands like Cro-Mags and Agnostic Front. This subgenre has since been posthumously renamed to "metallic metalcore" (seriously) in order to differentiate it from the melodic metalcore everyone now associates with the term.

Same is with Gothenburg and melodeath, but that one is much less known.

Re: Metal Captcha

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Post by self_awareness » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 5:22 PM UTC

r3bl wrote: post #59

v4n4d1s wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I actually like sub-genres, especially metal sub-genres.

Death metal, melodic death metal, math metal, black metal, doom metal, death suicidal black metal, funeral metal, funeral doom, drone, heavy metal, power metal, viking metal, pagan metal, folk metal, vampire metal, gothic metal, catholic metal, brutal death metal, technical death metal, trash metal, sludge metal, all of them have more than 10 bands, can you imagine? :)