The Warring States of NPF - View Single Post - Stupid Bot-Checking Is Stupid

Seil · 11-03-2010, 12:59 AM

So today I wanted to get free tokens for a Facebook app, but I had to sign up for some crummy survey service. So I thought "Why not? I'll just setup a dummy account somewhere." S I went to GMail, and tried to register, and guess what. The bot check thing sucks.

You know the thing I'm talking about - the "Type the word you see in this box." It's not rocket science, but come on! They never simply just show you the word. It's always some weird wavy thing with blocky font that makes you work for your account. I just want free tokens for my FB app, dammit! I don't wanna have to Holmes my way through your twisted, sadistic, Machiavellian email system!

You know who you are, you Google bastards. You and your ads and your search engines and your maps. You're slowly taking over the internet and we're just expected to sit here, hypnotized at the "simplistic" and "time saving" mechanics of your machinations.

Well, not I! I will not stand for this! I will rise off my couch, venture outside and take a walk! ...To an internet cafe. That's right! I will sit in relative comfort, waited on like the big, macho, incredibly handsome and rugged man I am, and with a large, fair-trade coffee and a fresh multigrain bagel, I will tear down your virtual castle, brick by brick and free the internets from your tyrannical reign! I will not rest, I will not sleep for an instant, I won't even get up to use the washroom, until I am given what's mine by right!

Forums everywhere will sound with cries of revolution! I will fashion myself an internet Che Guevara and fight against your oppressive regime! I will don the visage of Guy Fawkes and blow your tyranny off of the web! I will eat less that Mahatma Gandhi as I try to....

Ah screw it. Can we all just agree that these people need to write that damn word clearly?

11-03-2010, 12:59 AM	#1
Seil Super stressed! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: British Columbia Posts: 8,081	Stupid Bot-Checking Is Stupid So today I wanted to get free tokens for a Facebook app, but I had to sign up for some crummy survey service. So I thought "Why not? I'll just setup a dummy account somewhere." S I went to GMail, and tried to register, and guess what. The bot check thing sucks. You know the thing I'm talking about - the "Type the word you see in this box." It's not rocket science, but come on! They never simply just show you the word. It's always some weird wavy thing with blocky font that makes you work for your account. I just want free tokens for my FB app, dammit! I don't wanna have to Holmes my way through your twisted, sadistic, Machiavellian email system! You know who you are, you Google bastards. You and your ads and your search engines and your maps. You're slowly taking over the internet and we're just expected to sit here, hypnotized at the "simplistic" and "time saving" mechanics of your machinations. Well, not I! I will not stand for this! I will rise off my couch, venture outside and take a walk! ...To an internet cafe. That's right! I will sit in relative comfort, waited on like the big, macho, incredibly handsome and rugged man I am, and with a large, fair-trade coffee and a fresh multigrain bagel, I will tear down your virtual castle, brick by brick and free the internets from your tyrannical reign! I will not rest, I will not sleep for an instant, I won't even get up to use the washroom, until I am given what's mine by right! Forums everywhere will sound with cries of revolution! I will fashion myself an internet Che Guevara and fight against your oppressive regime! I will don the visage of Guy Fawkes and blow your tyranny off of the web! I will eat less that Mahatma Gandhi as I try to.... Ah screw it. Can we all just agree that these people need to write that damn word clearly?