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by kyrylo

15 days ago

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egypturnash

15 days ago

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This is as if you handed a vibe coder a transcript of a text adventure you bought on tape for £2 back in 1983 and told it to make something vaguely like it.

Does anyone involved in creating this speak English? The first room I go to is the "Engineering Putrid Pyramid". I'm visiting places with names like "Iridescent Event horizon" or "Storage Dim Study" or "Maintenance unsettling Lobby". Title case doesn't work like that. Implicit order of adjectives doesn't work like that.

Arrrgh. I need to go play a real text adventure to clean my head out now.

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kyrylo

15 days ago

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The descriptions and titles are generated by a script. They have nothing to do with vibe coding.

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mardef

15 days ago

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Same feeling. After scratching my head at some of the descriptions I decided to just head as far southeast as I could. I was met with a bunch of edgy comments and a penis drawn on the screen.

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arcfour

15 days ago

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AI also doesn't work like that unless it's extremely bad, but you're free to rant about nothing, nonetheless.

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imzadi

15 days ago

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You might want to add even the most basic input filtering

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Trung0246

15 days ago

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I like to ruin the fun :(

Floor 1: 0691eda5-6d12-46af-997b-7c7137ecfc53 (E E E S E E S)

Floor 2: 47857e86-d1c4-47e5-b72b-10887d4065ea (E E E N W W W N E E E E S)

Floor 3: 6b8dcc36-fedb-4480-9419-4c258de5d51f (N W S W S S E S W W W W S S E E S)

Floor 4: d23ee5f7-2a4e-466d-a1a2-6c97e8d9ed51 (N W N N W N N W W S E S W S W N W N N N N E E E S E N E E E S S E N N E)

End: 6dad5397-df78-40b5-872d-7f4aeaa625b8 (S S S S W N N N W S S S S E S E S S W W N W S W N N)

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dylanhouli

5 days ago

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No clue what this is actually about but the drawing collaboration is cool

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alienbaby

15 days ago

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That was unexpectedly fun. After realizing you might need to go down to keep going up, I gave up.

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kyrylo

15 days ago

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Haha, I actually struggled to find the way out myself. I thought it was unbeatable, but luckily, someone managed to beat it pretty quickly.

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verelo

13 days ago

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the layout shift due to the inconsistent size of the text makes clicking NSEW super annoying. Id love to see that fixed!

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kyrylo

12 days ago

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How would you fix it?

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eddd-ddde

11 days ago

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You could place the buttons first then the text.

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kyrylo

10 days ago

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Yeah that solves the issue but imo it breaks the flow

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arm32

15 days ago

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Whoever's writing racist shit, I hope you step on a lego.

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jihadjihad

15 days ago

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A 2x2 brick on its side, right in the middle of the arch of the foot.

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Surac

15 days ago

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Trump Background. Drove me away

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kyrylo

15 days ago

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Someone hacked it. People go to great lengths to vandalize

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pona-a

12 days ago

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It seems you are letting any client with a session token update the entire wall. The endpoint simply takes the base64 PNG and sets it as the wall.

I was thinking maybe taking a diff, limiting its maximum area, and rate-limiting might at least discourage that.

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kyrylo

12 days ago

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Thanks for the heads-up. You’re absolutely right! Rate-limiting could help, but it would make quick strokes difficult, so I decided against it.

I’ve already implemented a few measures, but I’d rather not share the details publicly.

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kyrylo

15 days ago

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No more Trump

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trallnag

15 days ago

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I had my fun with this page lol

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jamsey

13 days ago

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omg I love this! I spent ages playing with it lol