Scuba Steve

First post!

*Cacowards tomorrow* You mother fucker...

I think one of the greatest tragedies occurred right here on Doomworld; Ninja Doom vanished without a trace. Despite being hosted by this very website, there were no files recovered from 3DDownloads, no one seems to have any development builds, and no screenshots remain from years of development. There is also a 'lost wad' which was destroyed intentionally. My hosted site mentions a map I made in high-school... of that very same building. The map was completed in 1998, when I was a junior, however the Columbine shooting occurred the following year. I scrubbed the file from the internet (which was possible back then) and it will never be seen again.

RAMP - Map34: Four Comas is definitely inspired by MyHouse.

A lot of you are new members, so you might not realize we've been trying to have "polite" discussions about GZDoom for TWENTY years only to be rudely dismissed or ignored. For over a decade, other far more passionate people have wanted to improve GZDoom only to be stymied by someone who has, despite being an exceedingly talented programmer, a poor sense of design. He's been banned for antagonistic and rude comments about other's work (because it breaks the engine), creating suck-puppet accounts even threading to leave and take the port down. Yeah, I might seem like an asshole, but nothing I've said is untrue, and these problems have only grown because they've gone unaddressed for so long.

Yeah, none of you are actually reading or listening to everything that's been written. Durr of course Graf can do whatever he wants, but we're also free to bag on his bone-headed decisions. That's the cost of making your work publicly available. There's a passionate group of people who all contribute to the GZDoom codebase and I'd rather see them in charge. They actually care about the game and the community and would be better maintainers of the most popular port. GZDoom really is just being held hostage by a lead programed with no artistic talent who has no real clue what developers and end-users of the port actually want. It's literally the definition of a disservice. The fact that @Graf Zahl goes radio silent every time someone raises constructive criticism speaks volumes about how little he actually cares about GZDoom and its end-user experience being dogshit.

If that's the case, you're right, it would make a lousy GZDoom replacement. The best solution then is to allow the newer developers who actually care about Doom and the community itself to take over as the lead developers of GZDoom.

https://x.com/romero/status/1679631270332997632?s=20

This is a specialty forum dedicated to Doom, debating the "damn game" is literally the entire point of this thread. Let's be honest; at this point, the best outcome is VKDoom replacing GZDoom. The port is maintained by people who actually understand and care about Doom itself and are closely connected with the community and what it wants. The port is listening to indie devs who want to build games using GZDoom and implementing features they need to build their games. The devs are also excited to overhaul GZDoom with modern features like an improved settings menus and a more accurate default presentation. The fact that GZDoom needs to be drug kicking and screaming into being a modern game engine as opposed to a byzantine hobbyist port is, frankly, embarrassing in 2023.

John Romero explicitly said it should be off by default. That should be the end of the discussion.

Did I mention ports which enable texture filtering by default?

I'm not crying, you're crying.

Lol, you are the last person who gets to cite "what people want" as a rationale for justifying port features.

What does any of that even mean? Remove parties? Politics is about building coalitions... and political parties will inevitably form since people with shared values and goals will form coalitions to get things done. Policy? That's literally the goal of politics, crafting policy. There isn't enough space allowable in a post to give examples of how wrong that final statement is. For twenty years, many of us in Minnesota have worked to shape the DFL "faction" into a much more progressive party and in 2022, those efforts paid off. The groundwork helped them win enough seats to control all branches of the government and we literally 'got' tons of 'meaningful' policies that we've been demanding of our government for years. We didn't need "something scientific" to pass new laws that give all residents three months of paid family leave or "The Government" isn't some amorphous entity that exists in the ether around us... we can absolutely bend it to our will. Those same Minnesota Representatives and Senators who used to worry "we're doing too much too fast" were pressured into enacting the goals of the new progressive majority. Beyond worthless advice; everyone is 'part of politics' because policy drives so much of our lives. You don't have to literally be an elected representative to have an effect on policy. The Republican party has sprinted towards fascism in large part because Republican elected officials are terrified of their voters who participate in primaries and routinely cast out their elected officials if they aren't sufficiently "conservative." Collective action can absolutely, 100% create "good for the voter," but the truth is, most people are just too lazy to engage with the process and would rather just complain on Facebook claiming none of it matters because they're an enlightened centrist who can see politics "for what it really is."

Forcing texture filtering on by default. You'd have to be a fucking moron to think anyone wants that.

The ruling class wants a proletariat that thinks politics is boring, dumb and pointless. They want you disengaged and powerless. Otherwise, you might realize collective action and "voting for better coalitions matters." Again, case in point, Minnesota.

I'm the chair of the local county party who also ran for public office, advised other campaigns, and does work for the statewide party as well as lobbying on behalf of our local union at the State Capital. Yes. Reddit-level understanding.

In the strictest sense, sure. Elections aren't won by "a vote" (blah blah I'm sure there's one or two anecdotes), which is why it's not about "voting" it's really about engagement and advocacy. Your vote itself might not mean much, but canvassing for a candidate, volunteering to work for their campaign and registering voters is how you win elections. I was even more cynical and bitter until last year when all the hard work of volunteers paid off and we helped flip all three branches of the Minnesota government to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and they immediately enacted three decades worth of progressive policy in a single session. We now have paid family leave, paid sick leave, debt-free college for families <80k/yr, legal marijuana, strengthened abortion rights, expanded voting access and automatic registration... what they were able to accomplish was incredible, it actually restored my faith in the state Democratic-aligned party... and it was all made possible by twenty years of active, progressive volunteerism.

Both parties are beholden to the wealthy, capital class... but no one being honest with themselves can look at the two major parties in the United States and think they're even remotely equally "bad." The Democratic party—at least nationally—is feckless and weak and perfectly content with the status quo of doing nothing to address the material conditions of the country and the growing inequality while occasionally offering performative virtue-signaling gestures towards marginalized groups. The Republican party no longer believes in Democracy. They will never again believe elections can be won by their opponents—70% of Republican voters do not believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected—and will take every step necessary to disenfranchise voters to prevent future "fraud." They are a minoritarian death cult held together by the interests of the same capital class as the Democrats, but also Christian fundamentalists and white supremacists. They are actively hostile towards marginalized groups and, currently, if you're a trans American, they want you dead. If you don't want to vote for Democrats, sure, fine. Nationally, they have done very little to earn your vote and, as of late, are actively driving young people and Muslim Americans away from the party due to their unwavering stance on Israel... but there are plenty of strategic, coalition reasons to vote for Democrats. There are literally no reasons to vote for the modern Republican party unless you want fascism.

That's a lot of coded language... 'having very left positions' and 'very open border' aren't actual evidence of political ideology. It's why it's important for people who think the Democratic party is "left" to explain exactly what they mean by "left" and to demonstrate that the party is pursuing those same "left" ideas. What is the most "very left position" a member of the democratic party publicly supports, and what policies is the Democratic Party enacting (or advocating for) that are "left."

What's the most "leftist" position of a member of the Democratic caucus today, and then please give an example of an issue where the Democratic party has moved dramatically 'left' in recent years.

This thread is a harbinger of the internet to come; it was filled with really neat custom artwork for wad album covers... but everything is now gone, replaced with a static "file not found" as the imgur files were removed. @Pixel Fiend did you ever upload them anywhere else?

You'll appreciate this; I saw them while running down the long hallway and they had a purple glow to them... at first, I thought they had a purple outline applied to them in order to resemble the player sprite in 'Harmony of Dissonance.' I had to noclip and fly over to them to confirm if this was true.

Not the same @Helm that used to frequent an old forum for pixel artists, is it?

Royal Chapel. Assuming the sprites aren't modified to use the new palette.