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Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter

Submitted by CmdrTaco
CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus,who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game called Fractured Veil. It's set in a post apocalyptic Hawaii with a huge world based on real map data to explore, as well as careful balance between PVP & PVE. I figured a lot of our old friends would love to help them meet their kickstarter goal and then help us build bases and murder monsters! The game is turning into something pretty great and I'm excited to see it in the wild!

Submission + - Google Scholar our of control?

Submitted by Heart44
Heart44 writes: A lot of researchers when using Google Scholar are being asked to prove they are not a robot https://productforums.google.c.... You have to find all the rivers (but not the sea or lakes) or all street numbers (but not other numbers) or all the store fronts from nine poor quality images, sometimes more than once and, surprise, you will fail more than two thirds of the time and then just get an error 400 "Malformed request, that's all we know". You are offered an audio challenge but clicking on that simply loads more pictures. Some people use VPNs but other's don't. Logging in with your name doesn't seem to help. People on the same IP address get different treatments.
Don't be evil may be too difficult but why is this happening? Are their servers overloaded? Is that the best they can do distinguishing between man and machine? It is happening to light users as well so what are they up to? Is Google Scholar on its way out? It is a great way to find out what are the most cited papers on a subject.

Comment Re:See You Rob, and thanks for the ride (Score 1) 1521

by Hemos (#37210276) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

your faithful readers are now super concerned about the future without any founders direction!

It's okay, now we can have endless discussions about whether such-and-such story submission or minor alteration in site design is in keeping with the founders' vision.

Almost like we planned it that way. Too bad we didn't!

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