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My town's mall got a Spencers a few months later and they weren't selling them anymore, and the ones they have on the website look like ass. Shit sucks.

I haven't got any Doom related nerd memorabilia :(

I have a Doom movie poster...one of the ones they actually put up at the theater(made to be put in front of a light board). Movie wasn't that great, but the poster is awesome. I also still have my poster from The Ultimate Doom, though it's in pretty terrible condition.

Meh, even though I have had an Xfire account I haven't really been using it for years so this doesn't really affect me much, but I won't be using them any further than I have for sure now.

I still have a Raptr account so I'm good for now. If they pull the same crap, they are gone as well.

Well, it isn't an Oreo cake...

May need some tweaking considering the build time. Let me know what you think. :)

Obligatory.

So how was the birthday?

Oops, fixed link in OP.

Yea, that's the song. I love it.

I swear I've heard this style of dramatic suspense music elsewhere (and I mean not just Doom). Same I can say about the Doom 2 victory music, it sounds kinda symbolic somehow.

I wouldn't be surprised if Prince himself did that track, it's too similar not to be a coincidence. He did work on Blake and even used a finished version of one of Doom's unused songs. If only I could have the original midis of it! Unfortunately, Prince doesn't seem to answer fan mail, much (he might not even be at liberty to release more than he has, given that it was contract work). IMF conversions suck.

Alright, last post for now, busy with other things for a few weeks.

Both the /idgames page and the /newstuff review center list 1.5. Why did you think this reminder was necessary?

Just in case someone wanted to choose the older 1.2 instead.

My Condolences Chris. I just lost my grandparents a few months ago and life is just not the same without them.

Sorry for your loss of a family member.

I've lost both my grandfathers in the past and now only my grandmothers remain.

Very sorry for your loss. My grandmother was diagnosed with lung cancer and given 6 months to live, and she only lasted 4 days. Quick ones are the most painful.

All my grandparents are gone now but it is good to know they are not in pain anymore.

I think Glaice was talking about ModDB, there's no post ratings on ZDoom forums that I can see.

The problem with ModDB is that you get voted down even for constructive criticism, most likely by idiotic fanboys of whatever game the page is for.

Glaice said:

Yea, you guessed right. I put down the very same complaints I wrote down on the ZDoom forum for and overnight it got voted down to -12. lol

Just like whenever I write a not recommended review on Steam. No matter how valid the points are or even if its a glowing review that I throw in the not recommended section for the laughs, it'll get down voted to oblivion. Then for laughs I flip the not recommended to recommended and watch it skyrocket.

Jimmy said:

You'll find most of his stuff here: http://www.mediafire.com/?cjmgmuu2gx2lm

For info, he gave titles to 94 and 95, they are "Depth Charge" and "Neighbouring Tribes":
http://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Back_to_Saturn_X&curid=16262&diff=98095&oldid=94904

I should check /blogs more often! Also it seems I should probably start putting in some identification info in the track names. I just tend to leave them all as 'piano'.
Where did you get the midi from? I wasn't aware of any projects that used it. Not that there's any problem with using it, but I'm curious.

Memfis: Thanks! <3

stewboy said:

Also it seems I should probably start putting in some identification info in the track names. I just tend to leave them all as 'piano'.

Definitely! Especially since I've made SLADE 3 display that information according to the MIDI standard.

(Which allowed me to find out that most MIDI composers don't seem to care about these standards. There are seven different standard text "events" in MIDI, which are, from 1 to 7, "generic text", "copyright", "track title", "lyrics", "marker", and "cue point". Generally I find everything is declared as "track title". Sometimes I've seen a copyright field used for the track title, and a track title field used for the author's name.)

I can careless about the controversies about some of SGTMarkIV's actions. I'm not really that crazy over Brutal Doom anymore. He should have just stopped at version .17 in my opinion. In regard to your youtube channel, I think you made the right decision to deviate away from Brutal Doom. There are plenty of other mods on the internet that have smooth weapon animations and other neat modifications to the gameplay.

My main problem with BD is him constantly adding more stuff to unbalance the gameplay. He's made DoomGuy basically invincible with overpowered you are. To try and counter that all he did was make enemies deal absolutely retarded levels of damange, regardless of what class they are. That doesn't really feel too great to play and doesn't even make a whole lot of sense. There are a few mods that do well to make use of the stuff he's implemented (I've seen a couple of Duke themed mods that looked fucking excellent), but on its own...its just weak.

I don't really care that he said what he said to one kid about suicide only because I'm honestly not all that surprised someone with a literal gore fetish would say some highly off the wall shit. Look at what he devoted the majority of his time to, not DooM itself, but pretty much doing everything he could to make an already bloody game bloodier than fucking hell and using actual images of gore and shit to do so. That means that he spent time scouring the internet and medical sites for pictures of really messed up injuries and stuff just to make some extra sprites, stuff that would normally...make me puke my own guts out. Obviously someone in that shape's got a few too many of their own issues so sympathy to another person's problems really isn't going to his strong point. We've all made gory maps before, not slighting anyone at all for that in and of itself (I know I've done it), but for Mark I really don't think he made BD just to make a super bloody mod...he just has always seemed the type to dwell on fucked up stuff like that and made it as somewhat of an outlet so he didn't have to constantly internalize it anymore. And there's my armchair psychology moment for the day.

The most annoying bug I encounter with the mod, which I've never seen him fix, is this bug where you're basically stuck and cannot move until you've burnt through certain ammo. Example, I started E1M2 and couldn't move right after I spawned into the map. I had to literally burn through all of my bullet ammo and the enigmatically I could move again. I seriously don't even get what would cause that, but since the first version I played of this thing (V16) its been there and its never been fixed and it just seems to happen completely at random during a level start. Shit that is annoying and seriously fuck up a gameplay session.

zap610 said:

If anything, the biggest issue for me with bd is using actual pictures of gore for his sprites. That's tasteless and disrespectful.

Didn't Kevin Cloud use a picture of his own bloody knee for one of the textures in Doom?

In fact, a huge amount of the gore in Doom also stemmed from Adrian Carmack's past working as a photo copier in an ER room, where he got to see all kinds of awful injuries.

Really, the more you think of it the more you realize that using pictures of real gore and stuff is pretty common practice when creating gore in video games. At the very least, I know for a fact that the creators of Dead Space studied photos of the victims of car crashes in detail to create all of the gore in their game. You could argue it's disrespectful if the end results of such work let anybody recognize the source material (ie you can see XYZ's bloody face that was pulled from this photo of an explosion's aftermath), but merely pulling unidentifiable wounds from photos of carnage, cropping them, downscaling them, and editing them into oblivion can hardly be considered that offensive.

But then, I don't even know what Mark pulled from or what his end product was, so I guess I can't judge in this particular instance.

Springy said:

£0.00.

I forgot to see if GoG had a winter sale. Damn.

So:

Dec 12

Strife: Veteran Edition - $7.49
Dino D-Day Last Stand DLC - $3.99

Dec 22

Alien vs Predator 2000
GTA IV Complete
Poker Night
Shadow Warrior: Special Edition
The Walking Dead Season 2 - $19.70

Dec 24

Sam and Max Seasons 1-3
Skullgirls - $15.08

Dec 25

Star Wars: KOTOR
Star Wars: Empire at War
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - $14.17

TOTAL DAMAGES - $60.43

Glaice said:

Dec 29, 2014 $3.99 Purchase
Age of Empires II

Heh, I still have an old bootlegged copy of Age of Empires II

Stupid question, but is BDL his real name? Not that I think it is, but given there was a rather BDL-ish post in the shitbook group earlier, I can't help but wonder :P

This and this predate his rise (in notoriety) in the Doom community and you know it's him. It just has to be. It's one step away from asking the guy to rate this month's weather.

dew said:

You mean like he was repeatedly "silently blocked" from this humble place of congregation and totally called it a day after realizing the folly of his ways? Just ask kmx for a few ladespotting stories, heh.

Heh, well, I'm not that familiar with Mr. Delayed. Even as dumb and persistent that this guy is, are you certain he'd want to go through the trouble of setting up new YouTube accounts (a far more intensive procedure than in years past)?

As long as he's blocked from the channel with no responses toward his crap, I can't imagine anybody trying more than 10 times. AFAIK, YouTube does not indicate to users when they've been blocked and will still let them post, but those posts won't be visible to anyone else. As long as they don't investigate, they might just think that nobody bothers to interact with them.

I usually end up taking care of all the stoned guys around me, because it has barely any effect on me at all. Shrugs, I guess I'm sticking to good old booze.

I've never done pot before. I'm not against recreational marijuana and I don't think it should be illegal, but I just don't see myself ever really needing it in my life.

You're on a dangerous gateway drug now. Studies link smoking pot to moving to Colorado, so I'd advise you to watch your finances.

Coopersville said:

Pizza places are open in the morning in America?

Yeah, you can get a wide range of food at any time of day apart from... mid-evening or later.

Actually, I should already know this. I got to try Golden Corral a couple of months ago and they had pizza slices during their breakfast buffet.

No pizza places here are open until at least twelve noon, and you have to deal with fast food restaurants' crappy breakfast menus up until around then too.

Dicks

Searched up Fear Factory, and I'm not disappointed. How did you find this awesome site?

This would have been helpful to find when I was working on a game in RPGmaker.

StevieCybernetik said:

Searched up Fear Factory, and I'm not disappointed. How did you find this awesome site?

I think Googled "death metal MIDI" or "doom metal MIDI". It was near the bottom of the first page.