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Imitation is the unironic-est form of flattery. Little Italo is a tribute wad featuring ten maps each from @raddicted and myself. Generally these maps are a little shorter or easier than the original's, but don't expect a beginner-friendly wad... these are still challenge maps directly inspired by Italo Doom's general philosophy. Odd-numbered maps authored by raddicted Even-numbered maps authored by lunchlunch Screenshots - Many thanks to our playtesters: @Arbys550, @knifeworld, @RedBoule, @suzerduzer, @Xulgonoth, @besus, and @Meowgi Download - LittleItaloRC1.zip

I'm only halfway through MAP02 but I'm enjoying this a lot, you've come a long way in the time since I played that early wad of yours. It's a rewarding evolution to follow, good work.

Well done

This is very much my cup of tea, thank you.

You just eat them, silly :)

Hard to say if I was waking or dreaming but when I started ketamine treatments I'd have visions of floating around vistas of Sunder-like structures fractalizing and expanding, covered in specific stock textures. It made me realize I was spending too much damn time in Doombuilder but it influenced my mapping quite a bit at any rate.

I think 99% of the time, trolls don't belong in DOOM. In Kaizo Super Mario World ROM hacks it can be hilarious but that's only because those levels only take 30-60 seconds to complete. The setback for getting trolled is a matter of seconds. The average DOOM map is between 7-10 minutes, and even with frequent saves, your setback is much longer. The other thing is that in kaizo, there's only so many things happening onscreen at one time so it's immediately clear when you've been trolled and what the troll is. In DOOM it's often not clear that you've been trolled, the cause and effect is not as clearcut, it takes more trial and error to see exactly what went wrong and why. Then by the time you realize it was an intentional troll, not a mapping error, not a puzzle you misunderstood, not a fight you had any chance of beating, the "troll" has lost any chance of being humorous and is just an annoyance, if not a reason to abandon the wad entirely.

From a utilitarian POV, making and playing mods is probably a huge waste of time. For the majority of people, I don't think learning to use editors for thirty-year-old computer games will prove a "useful" (read: marketable) skill. But that's just the case with art. Spending time making it is usually not particularly "useful," it's just the best way I know of to have fun. I want to do nothing more with my life than draw, sculpt, write, customize, mod, create according to my heart's every whimsy. The only way to be "useful" with your artistic skills is marketing- drawing business logos, composing commercial jingles, 3D-modeling environments for military training exercises, or obtaining a creative-writing degree just to pen HR-culture empty-virtue BS for a company's social media page... In making art "useful," it's bastardized to the point that it doesn't resemble what we learned these skills for in the first place. For me, art is the joy of living, any job or career is just a way to support myself so I can while away the hours with my own creative passions. For most artists, we're not going to make a living from people buying our artwork, our books, our albums, or (more relevantly) getting hired on as full-time level designers somewhere. Usefulness, the ability to be productive, I don't think is really the point with art. Art hobbies might even be anti-productivity. People can dress up the benefits of art in many ways- it's "culturally enriching," it "allows for therapeutic reflection," whatever, but at the end of the day art is really just a form of escapism for both the artist and the audience. Schopenhauer believed that life is entirely suffering, but he valued art because it allows one to momentarily forget oneself. I've gotten way off-track from OP's topic but I wanted to humor this rambling thought on art's usefulness. I no longer know if I actually believe the things I say or if I'm just spitballing hypothetical ululations for my irony-poisoned contrarianism, but at this moment I feel that art itself is just pointless fun, a masturbatory, nihilistic exercise, and I would have it no other way.

@TeK (⌐■_■)About Norwitch Lane's secret, you should just be able to walk over the teleporter pad on the left side of your screenshot unless it somehow broke in the two years since I completed it. Edit- Just downloaded the latest version and tested it, I had no issues using the teleporter.

Jaded is now finalized on idgames

Great maps, I had fun playtesting

This is my favorite community project I've ever taken part in, I love revisiting it every year. Great job e/vr/ybody : )

@TheMagicMushroomMan The first time I saw The Devils was the censored version. Every time after that I've seen the uncut version, which adds the full Rape Of Christ sequence as well as the bone masturbation scene you're alluding to. It's definitely nowhere near three hours long though, if there ever was a cut around that length I imagine it was just a workprint. Ever since I first saw it like seven years ago I've wanted an official blu ray release but I don't think we'll ever get it. WB still owns the rights and they've wanted to bury it ever since it came out. I do have a decently wellmade bootleg Blu Ray copy of it though and that's good enough for me. Edit- I actually like the cheap props. The campy outrageousness mixed with serious performances and heavy themes is a vibe that only exists to the same extent in one other movie, and it actually came out the same year: A Clockwork Orange

I'll go with directors who are acclaimed but I find to be boring, hacky, or overrated- Nolan, Bresson, Cassavettes, Wong Kar-wai, Refn, Spielberg, and half of Tarkovsky's output. @TheMagicMushroomMan The Devils is top five for me, it's a perfect movie. Witchfinder General is pretty boring but if you're in the mood for a similar movie that's actually good, check out Witchhammer (1970). Alternatively, there is Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) which is based on the same historical event as The Devils.

@LadyMistDragon Ha, I own the Vinegar Syndrome release of Pigs aka Daddy's Deadly Darling (it was a blind buy). I used to try trading it away to users on r/boutiqueblurays but no one in their right minds has a desire for a physical copy of friggin' Pigs.