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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a someone who frequently argues with IT teams over ridiculous hidden password rules that drive crappy user experience I feel triggered by this game.

This is fantasticll

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

My company finally went to a non expiring multi-word based policy. Took them a major breach but finally some sanity.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I hate Paul...

I made it up to rule 25 and then Paul starved because I was thinking too long about which characters to ban.

To make it over Rule 24 (Paste the URL of a Youtube video with a certain random length), I even created a video with the correct length and kept uploading it to Youtube to get a URL without roman numerals and decently usable atomic weights.

When I tried it again after that dumb chicken starved, I hit Youtube's maximum daily upload limit. Now Youtube thinks I am a spambot or something.

Btw, there are 35 rules total, in case anyone else makes it over 24. And spoiler, the one that got me doesn't matter at all. It's one of the easiest of all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That's a heroic effort! I laughed so hard.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Your password must include the URL of a 23 minute 42 second long YouTube video."

lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Careful with Paul. He may starve.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I quit after I got that...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I did the exact same! 😂

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I will quit at this point.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

OK, I may have hit a wall with this one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im on the same bit atm and put the match into a chess bot but it tells me illegal move everytime i try

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Who is Paul? Why is he killed? So many questions. And I'm still stuck at the chess board...

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I gave up around the roman numbers because I chose to include May...

Think I should try again.

edit: okay, I'm going to call it on the Wordle rule.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some useful resources:

Emoji Moon Phases, you'll need Waxing Gibbous right now (🌔)

https://starinastar.com/moon-phase-emojis-a-review/

Today's Wordle Answer:

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/what-is-todays-wordle-answer

The Elements sorted by Atomic Number:

https://www.angelo.edu/faculty/kboudrea/periodic/structure_numbers.htm

Chess Move Solver:

https://nextchessmove.com/

What killed me was trying to feed the chicken while hunting for a YouTube video of a certain length. I did get past that once when I was lucky enough to be asked for a 9 minute 0 second video. Because people upload "timer" videos of exactly X minutes, that was possible. The "26 minute 59 second" video resulted in a dead chicken.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This whole website is great, thanks for sharing! Currently hooked on drawing a perfect circle

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the best I could do

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LMAO this game is amazing. I got to rule 25 with this bad boy

Semplice1!2711shellJanuaryV🥚Sixngxctract🌔norway2004Qxb7+🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♂️VIIamloved🐛🐛🐛🐛https://youtu.be/QfUYWkPNDqU

but fucking Paul starved as I was converting all the vowels to bold. If anyone's wondering why there's a link in there, rule 24 required you to put the URL of a YT video with a duration of exactly 11 minutes and four seconds. Will probably be different for you, if you try it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just select all and make it bold! 😉

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I did 32nd Rule but I broke Rule 5. I wasn't going to juggle the hex colour, the length of the password, the captcha, and the youtube url, so that the numbers add to 25... Don't know if it's possible even...

https://imgur.com/a/t8L6J1c

edit: 31 to 32 was hard, I added a before pic as well, had to change strategy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Impressive. I never got past the YouTube URL. But I refresh the captcha until it doesn't contain any numbers so that it doesn't mess with the "25". Still, it the YouTube video contains too many numbers, then it's difficult.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Did you make it to rule 34? If it is not releated to "Rule 34", I'd be disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Let me just say: screw Paul and his inability to pace himself when eating. I just gave him a bunch of food to satiate him and he decided to eat it all at once and die from overeating...

Cool concept though!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Playing this game was infuriating when the egg hatched.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I hate this. Also, I love it. Fuck Paul.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh this is hilarious! I could accept each absurd rule up until I had to play Wordle, then I called it quits. But I kinda want to continue and see how high it goes.

Edit: Now stuck on chess

Edit 2: Oh no! I panic deleted during the fire.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

PAUL HAS STARVED is the most evil thing :P

Also I got Madagascar, which was kind of hard...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I accidentally overfed him, which I guess is just as bad due to the Dark Souls themed overlay lol.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was fun! I couldn’t put out the fire on mobile, I couldn’t move the cursor around fast enough, and then Paul starved 🙀

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That was fun! Kinda hit the wall at the youtube link rule. Couldn't find a way to search YT videos by exact length, so you either need to get super lucky and find one randomly or upload such a video yourself. Then you better hope the video URL does not contain any roman numerals... All while keeping Paul fed (but not overfed!)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] LemmyFeed 7 points 1 year ago

This is hilariously difficult

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

hi, i'm stuck on rules 9 and 11, because i cannot both have today's wordle answer, and also have it multiply to equal 35 in roman numerals. what do i do?

[–] owenfromcanada 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It only counts in Roman numerals if they're capitalized. Give the wordle answer in lower case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

oh perfect, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I thought I was so smart spamming the caterpillars into the password. I overfed Paul.

The funniest moment has to have been when I Googled "9 minute 34 second Youtube video" and there was at least one video literally titled "9 MINUTES AND 34 SECONDS TIMER COUNTDOWN [574 seconds - 9:34]" and the video was 9 minutes 49 seconds long. I proceeded to Google different numbers of seconds looking for one that hit the perfect number and literally none of the videos, despite seemingly hundreds of videos of very specific times happened to fall on the 9 minute 34 second mark. Like, what insane world is happening in the great depths of Youtube where people spend hours posting completely arbitrary timers on Youtube, but specifically avoid ones that are 9 minutes, 34 seconds in length. I felt set up. I was rolling in laughter. 10/10 would spend my night Googling Youtube timers and overfeeding an emoji chicken again.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

thanks I hate it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Paul info within

spoilerTo keep Paul alive for a long time you can put newlines in front and the newlines get removed before the food does, but it doesn't overfeed.

even with the above I couldn't ever find a video of length 24:45. the youtube timers are all a second or two off. I wasn't gonna upload one, so my final solution was (youtube url was incorrect)

96mm3nnn5pfebruarypepsitractlXXXV🌖 malaysia 0 Ne2+ 🐔🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♂️ I am loved FmSi

🐛

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wMHUgyaY4I
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

i gave up in the google maps lmao

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