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yayyyy id is going to the star wars mines yayyyyy it means we'll have to sacrifice more members of the community to marty stratton in the hopes that the next game will be better

idc how old this post is, you should be ashamed of yourself

yeah, i stumbled across the backstory of this when i was going through your posts to try to find the name of the previous wad you had made. i wish i hadn't, because i saw your reply to me about the source of that audio, and god dammit, now i'm really, really curious about what that radio drama was :p regardless of any criticisms i may have, i really like your work! it's some of the most unique stuff coming out rn, and while it's certainly alienating, i know that there's a lot of people here (myself included) who enjoy that sorta stuff. i do have a suggestion tho - i think that modifying the behaviors of enemies, things, and weapons more heavily could go a long way in what you're trying to do.

okay, so i like how bizarre and offputting this is (similar to barbara & reggie's castle massacre, though i do prefer that one cuz it had an atmosphere that not many wads are able to replicate), but this one has some pretty major issues. first of all, i uh...don't think softcore porn is allowed here, just saying lol. it used to be, but that was ages ago; afaik most of the x-rated stuff on idgames is fairly old secondly, you really, really gotta start crediting your sources. you can't just use whatever you want and not say anything about who made it - it's frowned upon to just take stuff from sources and not give them their due credit, y'know? it can be a lot of work, but it's worth it, especially for those who see an asset they like and wanna reuse it third, it'd be appreciated if you'd remove the transphobic exit message (the chick with a dick one). a lot of us here are lgbt, so it's not tolerated here other than that tho, i do like this. i know you've gotten criticism in the past for your aesthetic and weird progression, but i actually really like it. the progression is definitely weird, but it has its own internal logic that, once you figure out, it starts to become a lot easier to get around. and honestly, the aesthetic is actually pretty charming in its own weird way :p also, despite the excessive nudity not being allowed here afaik, having the bent over girl be a teleporter is pretty funny, heh

i've always heard that zpack was redeemed almost solely by vader's maps (thunderpeak, termination, and blackrock), though i've never played it myself

god no. if i really really like a map, then sure, i'll try to get most stuff, but even then 100% of any of the three categories isn't really all that important to me. you're usually not missing out on much by wasting your time looking for a few straggler enemies or some obscure secrets, and even if you are...who cares lol the completionist mindset in general is annoying as hell cuz it can cause people to have a bad impression purely because they force themselves to spend inordinate amounts of time in a map looking for stuff that doesn't really matter that much or cleaning up in maps with larger monster counts. if you can't find a secret or a few final kills, then move on! quit ruining things for yourself, god dammit!!! i think that we as mappers should be combating this by making 100% secrets more difficult. make secrets be more puzzle-like, require difficult platforming in some of them, force players to use speedrunning tricks to get them, etc. if someone is gonna sit there deliberately making things harder for themselves because they wanna see an arbitrary number at the end of a map, then by god i'm gonna make sure they're as miserable as possible! let the fucker spend 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get a soulsphere behind some bars when the only way to actually get it is to do a glide!! and then make them have to do a zero press to access a switch that opens up a secret on the other side of the map!!!!!!! that's a joke, though i do wish there were more puzzle-based secrets, or ones that require esoteric speedrunning tricks to get. screw what 100%ers think, i wanna hide a secret fight behind a glide :p

so, there's this new thing that's popped up called "the doom awards" that seems to be ripping off the cacowards very, very poorly. the entire thing comes across as an ai-generated clusterfuck. here's an excerpt: outside of looking like it's the skinwalker version of the cacowards, there's been quite a bit of drama surrounding it (apparently the discord was full of gigaracists n shit). what do you guys think of this? also, uh, who the hell made this lmao?? information regarding the creation of this would be appreciated because it's honestly kinda hilarious

YES they WILL!!! here is an excerpt from an interview with JOHN ROMERO HIMSELF that the daily protestant did

no! NO!!! you people are the sort of sickos that the great stan kelly has been warning us about for years,,,you should be ashamed of yuorslef. this is true evil

op, we've found a filthy s*x and dr*g addict. what do we do with him?

makes sense that the only one who likes witchaven is a literal troglodyte

jesus that's a lot of shit. what an absolute pissbaby. i suppose that part of their goal was met, as prior to this i had never known of the existence of hakros or the bloom tc. i certainly know of them now though lol, they're getting recognition even if it's not for what they wanted it is a great idea, but the problem with that is that you cannot possibly turn the doom awards into something great when the whole thing is being done not out of passion, but out of spite, jealousy, convoluted conspiracy theories, and a need for attention. there's really only a few ways that you can go about turning this whole mess into something positive, and when those methods require either the current managers of the doom awards stepping down or completely reevaluating their mindset and worldview, then the chances of any good coming out of it are pretty slim.

what's really funny is that dbp59 only the made the staff awards, it never got enough votes to actually be a part of the main awards. so to answer your question: nope! even outside of that, dbp59 even isn't that great imo. it's technically impressive, but outside of that...eh? it's okay i guess.

alternate awards are great and all, i agree (see: the crackowards and the not-cacowards), but when the execution and purpose are this blatantly awful then it kinda deserves all the shit that gets flung at it. all i've seen regarding it is ridicule, and from what i can tell it seems to be completely deserved. it's like if i started my own awards because my own shitty wad didn't get mentioned, but was so incomprehensibly lazy and inept that i couldn't even be bothered to do a masturbatory write-up on my own work and had to get some rando with zero knowledge of doom to do it for me i had actually heard about them blocking people left and right on twitter like dynamo mentioned, i had just completely forgotten about it under the weight of a million other things lol. was there a thread on this already? sorry, i didn't even see it, rip

CHIP IS BACK YAYYYYYY!!! and your first post after being gone for so long is pretty great, heh anyways, yeah, i can very easily see how quake's enemy roster would slow down gameplay considerably. q1's enemies are fairly spongy because they obviously couldn't include as many of them in maps due to performance reasons, so the run n gun gameplay of e1 with tons of enemies simply won't work with q1 enemies without it quickly becoming annoying to play. trying to replicate the doom experience in quake certainly an interesting idea, but idk how well it could be pulled off without lowering the hp of a lot of the monsters.

while there's a lot of variety in the category, exploding enemies are actually a very common type of custom enemy and have been for a long time. two early examples of it that i can think of are the rocket troopers from obituary (who oftentimes do kill themselves by accident, they may as well be explode on contact) and the walking barrels from beyond doom. i'm sure there's other examples as well but those are the two main ones i can think of off the top of my head

this really, really deserved at least a mention in the cacowards. like maribo said, this map truly is absolutely incredible. i love creative ways of transforming geometry, neat little technical tricks, and non-linearity, and hoooly shit this map has so much of it. the amount of ways that the geometry bends, the layout twists, and the whole thing keeps turning in on itself is nothing short of miraculous; it's like a rubik's cube from the fourth dimension. it's seemingly neverending, yet because of how it continues to surprise you with how it unfurls time and time again, it never comes close to outstaying its welcome even when you're hopelessly lost in its labyrinthine halls. what you've made is a masterpiece like no other, i seriously mean that. i do wanna know though: did you have to plan the layout out, or did it just build on itself organically? it feels like it could've grown organically, yet that feels impossihle when taking into account just how elaborate the whole thing is.

heh, i wish that were true. i remember several times in the past where i or someone else called enemy behavior in games ai, and then some pedantic sack of shit came along and went "UM WELL ACKSHUALLY IT HAS 2 THINK 4 ITSELF 2 BE ARTIFISHUL INTELLIJINS" cuz they wanna feel smart by bringing up semantics i bet they felt like such a genius not knowing that words can have different meanings in different contexts

i believe it's based more on tenochtitlan than any of the mayan cities, actually :p

as someone who loves transforming geometry as well as neat little technical tricks, @Grimosaur's YOUDOVOODOO is just...amazing. it's a massive non-linear labyrinth with an incredibly dynamic layout; it's constantly opening up, changing the geometry of areas, and crossing over itself. it throws over 1000 enemies at you as well, and the map's fairly cramped geometry along with some really nasty placement makes the combat throughout feel almost reminiscent of going down at times. it's a wonderful wad, and while i will admit that it's absolutely not for everyone (getting lost is almost guaranteed, the combat can be really mean sometimes, and good god it's LONG), i feel like its technical achievements and overall design make it something that everyone needs to at least try at some point. my only real complaint about it is that i wish that it had all of de futura as the map02 midi instead of just a small section :p

it was rude, sure, but he's usually better than that. besides, if you saw the things that Certain Mods™ on here used to say to people, you'd be rightfully horrified :p

you have to manually replace the dssawup in the eviternity 2 wad with the one rfomin linked using slade

thank you uwu