There should be a limit on game title length.

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by damnhippie, September 2, 2014.

  1. damnhippie

    damnhippie Active Member

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    Bonus points if you guess which books they're both from.
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    kjotak109 Well-Known Member

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    50 Shades of Grey and The Hobbit.
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  3. damnhippie

    damnhippie Active Member

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    Correct!
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    websterx01 Post Master General

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    This thread beat you to reporting the first. Garat mentioned that he was looking into it and they're thinking about the character limit (though it isn't much of a priority from his tone, understandably).

    Trophy made one of these a while back about some random story somebody put in. I wonder if it's the same person o_O
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    SolitaryCheese Post Master General

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    So unlike this forum, the lobby has no character limit? Wow, I should start posting my stories in the lobby. *evil grin*
  6. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    you know if UBER leave the no character limit but make the host forcibly one line height the trolls get trolled right back.
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  7. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    if there really is no limit AT ALL it could potentially be possible to actually kill everything simple by pasting in a few megabytes or more of text. The clients try to download that text once per second while viewing the lobby.
    I like the idea of trolling tolls though.
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  8. cptconundrum

    cptconundrum Post Master General

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    I don't want to try it, but I wonder if you can do any sort of javascript injection through that field.
  9. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    Very likely not, if they properly use Knockout
  10. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    well you know what they say : you're only a good guy if you're exposing vulnerabilities.

    I say do it.
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    cptconundrum Post Master General

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    Exposing them is one thing, but don't go testing this sort of thing in the stable lobby or you move beyond testing into actually exploiting a security bug.
  12. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    I would have been very surprised to see this work. PA had some issues with this kind of thing in the past, but that past is long gone.

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    Also really, no harm done either way, I doubt anybody would even notice a console.log somewhere :p
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  13. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    yeah that's my point, you'd just do one small test script that open up a webpage or some silly thing, and then file a bug report and the security loop would be closed.

    EDIT : well done cola
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    I dunno, that is pretty amazing.
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