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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Introducing a Captcha on a form on my website basically blocked bots 100% of the time. It's arguably good enough from a practical standpoint.

If someone really wants to exploit my site, then they will find a way. You can only make it harder but never truly impossible if you don't want to dispose of all convenience.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll take my mentally stable wife scrolling Instagram stuff daily over my nutcase ex that I could game with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

My point is sematics.

You can style your whole webpage with divs, but using main, nav, footer or whatever blocks is semantically more correct, because you group elements together that have a certain purpose.

A HTML Tag in the middle of a sentence is not wrong per se, but when parsing it a line break could signify two sentences where one has missing punctuation, instead of a complete sentence as your original intention was.

I don't really care how the design you want is achieved to be honest, but I don't get why the prof didn't argue against.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Oh boy.

We had a class in the first semester of uni where we had to create a static html page based on a screenshot.

There was this one textbox at the top of the site, where the only way you could recreate the screenshot was by using a <br/> in the middle of the text.

The prof was very picky about your HTML being semantically thorough and correct, so that was super weird that that was necessary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That worked quite well, haha 😄

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (5 children)

This is tragically beautiful.

Did you copy paste this from somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I think I might pay less than those 200$ backers for both games when I buy them on steam 😄

I get it's for peeps that really want those games to exist, but this article writes about it like it is completely unexpected, which is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Seems like we're in the same boat, haha.

I also have a big backlog, and there are far more interesting options than their stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't Piranha Bytes not profitable for quite some time?

Their games certainly had a community of fans, but I don't think those are enough to keep a whole studio afloat.

Just thinking out loud, I did not look at any numbers, but in my head what's done them in is not producing games that feel good to play. I loved Gothic 3 and Arcania at the time, but I'd choose any other 3rd person RPG that actually has snappy controls over the more modern stuff like Elex and I feel like that's the mainstream opinion going around.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't think it's okay to be toxic to newbies but there certainly are cases where the solution to problems was a google search and 10 minutes of reading away.

There are a lot of community heroes out there, that spend their days supporting users in forums, without having any monetary benefit from it, that in my opinion may have a reason to be upset if someone does not want to spend any effort on their own in trying to solve their problem.

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