DecoyZulu

The only posts I made that could be interpreted as belligerent were 1) Correcting someone that I was not judging Petersen by the available tools of the time and 2) Responding to your, to borrow the words, emotional and mouth-foaming post accusing me of trashing Petersen's body of work because an aesthetic mistake was annoying to me. That being said, in the former I was not insulting them and I don't think they were being emotional the way you are, and in the latter, you are the one who walked in jumping to conclusions about what I think and what I meant by very simple words. You didn't rebut anything. You provided a reason why something that annoyed me happened. Thanks for teaching me that, you could achieve that without being insufferable to someone who did nothing to you but suggest someone you like (and I like) made a minor mistake in a 30 year old game. There is no backtracking. I was never "burying" Sandy and I opened another statement calling him a genius because it is precisely his creative brilliance that made me surprised the textures were misaligned that much. You have adequately explained why that would be the case, owing to the time crunch, and I openly stated that it makes sense. What was so terrible about my take? Are the textures not misaligned in a lot of those levels? The thread is about small tweaks, this is very much a small tweak. I'm sorry I didn't like something so minute and voiced that opinion in a thread asking for that.

If you had taken the time to read what I said, you would notice the phrase "Petersen is a creative genius and he comes up with some great material" was in my first response to a reply to my comment. This was not merely a comment on his work for id which, as noted, is only part of his wider career; I am quite a fan of the Call Of Cthulhu TTRPG that he created, for example. Notice I said the texture misalignment was a nuisance I thought would have been a simple matter to get right. Nowhere did I say it made his levels bad or made him bad as a creative force for the game or in general. I did not know about the time crunch although it doesn't surprise me to learn and it certainly explains why he would not consider the texture alignment as a critical priority. You can calm down now and rest assured that my simple criticism of textures does not constitute an attack on Petersen as the titan he is. He has even stated himself that he is not an artist so the visual aesthetic of his work is less of a concern, I merely noted that in action.

This one right here, padre. That's the demon right there.

The problem with that assertion is that I am not judging it by today's toolstack. I can judge it by the same toolstack the other map designers were using. There are always going to be mistakes, but it's not even close how many misalignments populate Petersen's maps compared to the others. Clearly it was not an issue for the others to clean up their textures.

Standard, Category 1. I may try it a couple more times for a Prepared run later but for now that's all she wrote. You can disqualify the result for my lack of a monsters killed check, that's my bad.

Chaingun all the way. Even if the chaingun wasn't more versatile, the BFG in the OG games was always pretty underwhelming to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVQ-7svpUYE Alright, so that was a disaster. Died on the first map by standing a little too close to some barrels. The music also got drowned out by all the gunfire but I suppose that's fair enough. Tacked on a little something at the end for you guys. Side note: this WAD is amazing. The double pistols with the Chow Yun Fat shades on Doomguy are perfection. Feels amazing, sounds amazing, looking forward to playing through the WAD more casually.

I see your scheme, you little saboteur. You want me to listen to Baka Mitai in the hopes I will be emotionally overwhelmed and die early in the run!

It says the video is not available so I am going to assume it was Celebration by Kool & The Gang.

Real quick, how big of a deal is it if I straight up just OBS the attempt and you're forced to listen to Yakuza music in the background?

What can I say, but that you are a scholar and a gentleman?

Hey guys, I've been away from the site for a number of years. Are Ironman runs still done monthly? Is there one going on right now?

I didn't pay much attention to it the first bazillion times I played the games, but after a few years of toying around in Doombuilder it began to annoy me how sloppy the alignment is in a lot of official levels. Petersen is a creative genius and he comes up with some great material but this is such a minor thing to get right that he flubbed a lot.

The funny thing is I haven't played the first game in a few years and I was positive going through again that Tower of Babel was the final level. The Dis fight could be acceptable if it had occurred at the end of a full, proper level and you threw some more monsters and items into the room.

Getting absolutely rinsed by the one hitscanner or slashed by the one Imp that shut their mouth and completely blindsided me when I turned around.