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It'd probably be valuable to add settings that consider allergies. Vegetarian and gluten free too. Looks interesting, though!
by Jetroid 9y ago
It'd probably be valuable to add settings that consider allergies. Vegetarian and gluten free too. Looks interesting, though!
- dcwca 9y agoThat’s the roulette part. Not everyone wins!
- ianai 9y agoAye hardly seems good spirited when not taking either of those into account would result in unpalatable food a high percentage of time.
- chrisseaton 9y ago> would result in unpalatable food a high percentage of time That's the point. Do you understand what 'roulette' means in this context? When you play roulette you more often than not lose all your money and have nothing to show for it. Like an inedible pizza. If you made it so you always got something nice to eat... it wouldn't be roulette, would it?
- oneeyedpigeon 9y agoYou understand the difference between something that's not very nice and something which someone cannot possibly eat at all, right? As a vegetarian, I can imagine some pretty gross combinations of pizza that I still can eat, but I'm at a massive disadvantage if I get something I cannot eat at all.
- chrisseaton 9y ago> I'm at a massive disadvantage if I get something I cannot eat at all Yes.... like a game of roulette where you sometimes lose it all and get nothing out of it at all.
- Fnoord 9y agoYour definition of success is just an excuse for bad software, with the reasoning being "cause RL roulette works like this as well". Reminds me of car analogies. What you desire is a very basic, boring version of roulette which you can easily make with a few lines of Python code. random.randrange(0, 4) # number of toppings random.randrange(1, 100) # this in a loop iterating with result of previous amount, and this from a database where each number representing a topping. Its much more fun to do some advanced stuff with randomisation such as adding weights, blacklists, whitelists, edible combinations, etc. When you get edible results based on randomisation is when I call it a success. Second, you're excluding a significant amount of people [1] by not catering to vegetarians. Regardless of your dietary preference this is not done in 2017. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country
- reaperducer 9y ago> this is not done in 2017 If you can choose not to eat certain things, the rest of the world can choose not to be bound by your artificial social constructs. / "Not done in 2017"... SMH.
- Fnoord 9y agoMy link proves that vegetarianism is a significant group which you can cater to. The system I proposed does not force you to be bound by my artificial social constructs (with which you assume I am a vegetarian which you are wrong about, btw). The system I proposed takes into account the option of vegetarianism, and allows a vegetarian to also partake in the overall system without damaging your fun in any way except the mention of a diet you apparently do not agree with. At the very least, a bunch of disclaimers that the outcome might not be according to certain diets (ie. "the random outcome is unlikely to be kosher, halal, vegetarian, etc").
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- always_good 9y agoComing to terms with missing out is part of abstinence. If you're going to entitle yourself to the accommodation of others every step of the way, then maybe you aren't cut out for it.
- oneeyedpigeon 9y agoI've managed ok for 20 years, thanks. I'm asking for one checkbox, just one, it's hardly asking others to bend over backwards.
- ianai 9y agoI don’t see this as a restriction so much as a category. Having an option to exclude foods based on allergies and other similar reasons keeps the original idea. I’m assuming, of course, the original idea was to entertain and maybe find new, interesting taste combinations.
- hartator 9y agoMake vegetarianpizzaroulette.com
- keerthiko 9y agoAhem, surely you don't honestly believe your request will be fulfilled with just "one checkbox, just one". It's not the matter of adding <input type="checkbox" id="justonecheckbox" value="vegetarian"> to the front-end...
- ianai 9y agoRealistically, not honoring this request would just make those with allergies not participate. That’s a loss of revenue. If OP doesn’t want it, fine, but opportunities are being missed.
- reaperducer 9y agoOP doesn't get any revenue from it. He's not Dominos Pizza.
- reaperducer 9y agoYour use of "vegetarian" and "cannot eat" is incongruous. It would be more correct to say "choose not to eat." Being a vegetarian isn't like being afflicted by a disease. It's a lifestyle choice.
- ianai 9y agoVegetarians may not eat meat products anymore. They have a severe, painful reaction to eating meat. You’re essentially revisiting a decision made in the distant past. You might as well be asking people to change who they married.
- mcny 9y agoAnd you're essentially shaming people who do try to change who they're married to. It is difficult enough to be divorced with parents and relatives chiming in with "I told you so" and "how could you not see..." In a question about national ID I said I don't have to be open-minded and consider every single proposal. The community here was loud and clear: me not wanting to consider an alternative solution is a bad™ thing. Well, I say a vegetarian wanting to never see a menu with meat on it (which is what this essentially is) is similarly l closed minded. I mean if you're allergic to something, I think you have a right to ask "does this food contain x? I am allergic to x" but everyone else can shove it with their special diet.
- saint_fiasco 9y agoIt would be a pizza-loot-box. That actually sounds like a nice product.
- fian 9y agoThe whole idea of potentially unpleasant or not consumable (due to allergies) output is a problem for me. The waste in time, work and resources to output something that has a high likelihood to be discarded (pizza is perishable) isn't something that should be encouraged. Especially when there are steps the service provider could take with minimal effort to avoid that outcome. Typically with roulette there is a substantial upside to winning as well (large payout at casino for example). What is great thing you get by winning pizza roulette? A pizza that you could simply have ordered at no risk?
- ianai 9y agoIf anything this has a severely negative downside for dominos/the pizza vendor with “business as usual” as an upside. Doesn’t seem like something they’d like.
- IvyMike 9y agoYou think this roulette is mean spirited you should see the Russian version.
- muzani 9y agoIt's like Truth or Dare. Sometimes you just have to accept defeat.
- vortico 9y agoYou don't get to remove numbers from the game roulette. If you need to be picky for whatever reason (even if completely justified), don't play the game. Adding those features would make the website just be another pizza ordering website and would lose its gimmick.
- nasmorn 9y agoLike these audiences would appreciate uncertainty in their food ordering. That must be a very small overlap in the Venn diagram
- camtarn 9y agoPossibly, but to be honest Domino's doesn't have a great selection for vegetarians anyway, at least in the UK, so there wouldn't be a lot of ingredients to choose from.