Bloxwess

Can't go wrong with The Hobbit, which has been my favorite book since I first read it as a kid. Honestly I enjoyed the Hobbit more than the LOTR trilogy. Some other good ones are War of the Worlds, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Space Teams books, and any of the Dragonlance books. I also found City of Ember to be quite interesting, and it's one of the only books I had to read for school that I actually enjoyed. I could go on all day listing good books that I've read, but these are just some of the ones off the top of my head. I used to read all the time but in the last few years I haven't really read anything for pleasure. Back when I read all the time I mostly read science fiction and fantasy novels, and I would carry around a book with me wherever I went so I could squeeze in some reading whenever I could. Reading this thread actually has me itching to read a good novel, so thank yall for reigniting the reading spark inside of me.

Probably California. I haven't been there myself, but I have a friend who used to live in LA and he said it was hell.

It's completely unacceptable that something like this is allowed to happen. I've been unhappy with the justice system for a while now, but now I've completely lost faith in it. I hope he gets the help he needs.

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Name: Halls of Barbetos Mode: Singleplayer Format: Doom: Doom 2 (Doom format) Tested With: GZDoom, PrBoom+, Chocolate Doom. Jumping/Crouching: No Freelook: Not intended, but it shouldn't break anything. Download: https://www.moddb.com/games/doom-ii/addons/halls-of-barbetos Here are some screenshots:

Category: 1. Difficulty: Hurt Me Plenty. Survived or Died: Died on Map 04. Pistol Start Used: Used on Map 04. Total Time Elapsed at First Death: 19min 16sec. Number of Kills at First Death: 17/61. Total Time Elapsed at Final Death: 20min 6sec. Number of Kills at Final Death: 15/61. Source Port Used: GZDoom. bytheprickingofmythumb_bloxwess.zip

May he rest in peace.

Wolfenstein 3D, Heretic, Dusk, and Back 4 Blood.

I don't celebrate Christmas (I'm Jewish), but Hanukkah just ended a few days ago, and being 19 I guess I'm still young enough for my parents to buy me gifts. On Steam I got the "Wolf Pack", which contains Wolfenstein 3D, Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I got the "Heretic and Hexen Collection", which contains Heretic, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Hexen: Death Kings of the Dark Citadel, and Hexen 2. I also got Back 4 Blood, and was preordered the PC version of God of War (the one from 2018). I also got an Alienware computer monitor to plug into my gaming laptop so I can have a dual-screen setup. Oh, I almost forgot, one of my friends gave me Dusk on Steam as well.

The earliest Doom experience I can remember was my Dad telling me stories when I was younger about how he modded Doom 3 to make zombies respawn if you didn't gib their corpses, and how he scared the crap out of my uncle by not telling him about it so when they played he got jump scared by a zombie coming up behind him. Then, a few years ago, my dad and I were in a hotel room on vacation, and he booted up Doom 2016 on his laptop to show it to me, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I remember telling him that I wanted to play it, and he told me that he wouldn't allow me to play it unless I played the rest of the games in order, because he wanted me to experience the games that he enjoyed from back in the day (for reference, my dad was born in 1962 and was kind of a computer geek). Finally, around mid to late 2019, my dad gifted me Doom 3: BFG Edition on Steam, and I played through Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3 and Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil. Then, for Hanukkah that year, he gifted me Doom 2016 and preordered me the deluxe edition of Doom Eternal. I played through Doom 2016, and enjoyed it immensely. Then when Doom Eternal came out I played through it, and it quickly became my favorite game of all time. I was extremely hyped for The Ancient Gods Part 1 and The Ancient Gods Part 2, and also enjoyed those. For my 19th birthday (summer 2021) my dad gifted me Final Doom, because I had realized I had missed it somehow, and had added it to my Steam wish list. Not only have the Doom games given me many hours of fun, but also sparked lots of enjoyable conversations with my dad. When I played through Doom and Doom 2 for the first time, I remember every time I would encounter a new enemy or pick up a gun for the first time, I would run into the other room to tell my dad about it, and we would just talk about the games for a while before I would go back to my computer to continue playing. And when I played Doom Eternal for the first time I would tell my dad (who hadn't played Doom Eternal yet) about the lore I was discovering, and we would talk and speculate about things in the "Doomverse". I have to say, I'm glad my dad made me play the games in order, because finding out that the Doom Slayer is the same person as Doomguy from the classic games wouldn't have had the same impact, and I wouldn't have appreciated the more recent games as much if I hadn't played the classics. I also probably would have never bothered to go back and play the classics if my dad hadn't forced me to, and then I would have missed out on the incredible modding and mapping community that has grown and thrived over the past ~30 years. I know that was a little more that just my first experience with Doom, but I got excited about sharing my experience and went a little overboard.

Response to title of post: Play Doom Eternal :D Response to OP's idea: I think it's a cool idea, but if someone were to do this they would need to make sure they didn't make it too overpowered. The Berserk powerup is already pretty powerful as it is, and if you take the same damage multiplier from the Berserk and apply it to the chainsaw, it would be quite powerful.

Doom Eternal, Quake Champions, and No Man's Sky.

Hugo Martin said in one of his streams that the picture is Doomguy's wife and son. Theory confirmed.

cool.