Captchas have been making me want to claw my eyes out for years, so kudos to Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch who just experienced Doomsday verification code Enter virtual existence (via Hakkadi).
Since being open sourced, the 1992 shooter has been earmarked as a veritable “can you run it” hardware potato and has found its way into teletext, Volume displayeven inside bad luck itself (That way you can ramble on and on at the same time).
So why no one thought of making this a CAPTCHA until now baffles me, but I’m glad it’s finally done. we have a doom-Thematic one Before, but not really Doom.
Doom Captcha is a WebAssembly application that runs low-level code in the browser, and according to my testing, it works very well.
Testing may or may not confirm that I’m a bad gamer, as I failed time and time again to kill the three enemies required to “prove I’m human.” I guess all those people calling me a bot in Counter-Strike have a point.
This is also traditional arrow and space bar operation. So if you want to see those pixels splash, be prepared to recall the muscle memory of the CRT days (if that memory still exists in your brain bank). Oh, if you want to prove you’re a human being.
The only question is whether and where to use this verification code. I personally would like to see this style of clothing on some very serious, official looking website. Maybe from the government? There are many things to do. “Tear open the online portal” and so on.