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About Habitat: Meanings and interpretations of the most trascendental level from TNT


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in all honesty, its not that bad. there are certainly some levels of ultimate doom that are worse. habitat is kinda fun, at least to me, just because of how goofy and niche it is. its more just fucking strange than bad. totally understand why people hate it, but like now, just because its so much of a meme, its just funny as shit. 

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15 minutes ago, Pancrasio said:

What do you think?

 

I think you have either thought about this way, way too much, or this is a trolling masterpiece. I am honestly not sure which.

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1 hour ago, Pancrasio said:

What do you think?

A lot actually

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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Habitat. The level design intricacies are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of doom map theory, most of the intricacies will go over a typical doomworlder's head. There's also Christopher Buteau's futuristic outlook, which is deftly woven into his maps- his personal design philosophy draws heavily from the Futurism movement of the 20th century, for instance. The FANS understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these design decisions, to realise that they're not just brilliant- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Habitat truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the pioneering spirit in Habitat's revolutionary tunnels, which itself is a cryptic reference to Alison and Peter Smithson and the New Brutalism as a whole. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those low IQ simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Team TNT's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, I DO have the TNT Evilution logo tattooed. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

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Habitat is okay because you can skip most of it, if you don't like it and if you know how. This compares it favorably to, for example, Administration Center or Baron's Den, which many people also don't like, but they have no choice but to play them all the way through and they're lengthy.

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1 hour ago, ObserverOfTime said:

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this image but with a revenant instead

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The nexus of misunderstood genius

 

Two stories that meander through so many fragments and snapshots of life, only to find that very few of them had any impact on the final, inevitable conclusion. Two that capture, more than anything else ever has, that life is not some grand narrative but simply a series of vignettes that we pass through on the way to the end, most (but not all) of which do not change the final outcome. 
 

Buteau <-> Wiseau

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Don't really get the overwhelming disdain for this map. Didn't think it was any uglier than any random doom II map. I thought the tunnels were pretty straightforward, it's a maze and everything looks the same yeah but it's not huge and you have an automap for a reason. As for the secrets, I guess it's a little dumb but there's multiple secrets in the official maps that are in unreachable or arbitrary spots. They're not really that important anyway, it's just a number that goes up and clearly the OG devs didn't give too much of a shit about them aanyway. It does some cool visual things with the slime and water. Idk just seems really overblown.

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I think TNT as a whole gets a lot of overblown hate, to be honest. It's a product of its time and there's stuff that could be better, for sure, but it's not bad.

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8 hours ago, Logamuffin said:

 

I think April 1st was, like, 9 days ago dude.

I belong to that enormous mass of people that celebrate it December the 28th.

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More please, I love this. One about Hell Keep? One about Unruly Evil?

Administration Center ought to come next.

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Why are there so many essays about doom? It's just an action fps game.

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2 minutes ago, Gmg said:

Why are there so many essays about doom? It's just an action fps game.

Doom itself is, Habitat, on the other hand, is a masterpiece.

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This post has inspired me to write about e2m3 because E2M3 is the best doom level ever

Sunloss? What is that, gtfo. REFINERY SWEEP BABY 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🔥🗣🗣🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

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28 minutes ago, Pancrasio said:

Doom itself is, Habitat, on the other hand, is a masterpiece.

Every map is a masterpiece if you do enough drugs

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1 hour ago, Gmg said:

Why are there so many essays about doom? It's just an action fps game.

Doom is a commentary on the arbitrary metaphysics of existence,

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Reminds me of that one time when I accidentally licked a stamp and realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. 

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3 minutes ago, Kristian Nebula said:

Reminds me of that one time when I accidentally licked a stamp and realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. 

Now here's Tom with the weather.

 

PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE!

PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE!

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