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Looks like that guy was jettisoned from Doomworld. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about.
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Out of 500,000 people who showed up to storm Area 51, you were the person smart enough to travel back to 1997, a whole 20+ years before the US Air Force expected your arrival. Even back then, the military installation was armed to the teeth with custom high fences, guard posts and a complex interior structure of underground rooms. Armed with only your pistol, with the Mission Impossible playing in midi form you are able to Doomguy run your way inside make it inside to find 'dem aliens and rescue green plasma technology. Area 51 is a grand two level excursion that flows nicely, has a lot of content to its levels, good fights, diverse locales and some custom artwork. There is a new reskinned hover beast, barrels and rivers full of yellow glowing ooze, yellow hazmat suited foes, and plenty of text to guide you as if you were in the real facility. You'll trudge through sewers, explore pristine clean rooms, trek through some unique architecture with deep lifts, sprawling staircases, big rooms and tight corridors. This .wad is dare I say 95% good to great and a real gem from the era, but the worst parts are the early lack of ammunition that gets balanced out over time and the use of pitch black corridors. There are monster closets and a few chaingun snipers, but nothing that truly hinders the experience for more than a few moments. Everything else is an enjoyable challenge that gets punctuated every so often with a revenant or a baron here or there. These are the beasts contained, but you'll mostly be slugging it out with humans, imps, specters and pinkies.. It has withstood the test of 20 years and was still an enjoyable 40 minutes to get through today. Your results may vary. Make sure to quick save!
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So I just discovered that guy who did the "Doom is not 3D" video died almost a year ago at the age of 25 via suicide on July 4th.
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It's a wave based square map with four tall square structures and a taller square structure on each with bridges connecting them all and ramps going up to the top of each structure. Here's the catch, you don't gain access to the ramps until a few waves in. At first the waves are quite dull, full of scan hit enemies like shotgunners and typical zombiemen. Then it evolves into waves with pinkies, before later on it has revenants and mancubi. The waves build until the happy Mario sky turns into orange and has a spider mastermind gunning for you from the top of one of the structures. For a map, it's dull and takes a bit too long to amp up the enemies. It does get better, but I can't say it's fun being stuck in the channels between the four structures forced to wait for each sniper to line up along the cliff to shoot at you. On the plus side you won't get lost, but you won't be dazzled by the map either. It makes use of Skulltag's weapons and a few blood pinkies toward the end. Most of the stuff could have been done with other source ports. I was suckered in by the Mario name and there's a Mario song midi here, and colorful walls, but that's the only Mario content. Someone needs to add proper textures to make it feel more like Mario.
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I think you'll enjoy the new KFC fried chicken log: https://www.wate.com/news/watercooler/kfc-now-sells-a-firelog-that-will-unleash-the-aroma-of-fried-chicken/1657598217
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Are you up for a brutal, non stop challenge through detailed, but bland environments? The Secret Energy doesn't let up, so it's either a low health slaughter map or a speed runner's dream to get from switch to switch, all while enemies constantly spawn in with each button press. There's little health for such meaty enemies and even on the easiest difficulty, it's a slog to kill them all. To balance out the lower health, there are less hitscan enemies that seem to be relegated to a few chain gunners that can get distracted in a sea of madness. It feels like a punishing experience from the first room. It fills with imps, then pinkies, then flying enemies, then revenants and a cyber demon. The entire map is like that. Enter a room and it will flood in via waves. Each wave opens up something new and you need to find where that new thing is. Is it a switch on a wall? Is it a switch inside of a pillar? Did a door just open up? Are you supposed to go back into the main corridors of the complex? At least on my first play through, I felt there was a poor flow to the level. The place is so big and centralized, you might miss where you need to go next. No arrows, the switches are around corners and walls inside of rooms that may or may not have opened. The game has its detail, but detail with greens, browns, a few blue wires across the floors, perhaps to guide you to the next area. It was all lost on me and blurred together into a jumble. While the structures of each new room was different, it's the color scheme and darkness that stayed the same. Give it a try. There is something redeemable in here for those hardcore enough to endure the first room, let alone the entire map.
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Believe the hype, Sand Chain is indeed a terrible map. Not terrible like oh this must be someone's first map or designed by a team of kinder gardeners and their friend in second grade who can use DoomBuilder, I'm talking hall of mirror walls, coupled with the fact you can go through the game's exit switches. The map is short and sweet, which only adds to how terrible it is. The level is a single hallway with... get this... a bend! Oh stay with me here... and then after that bend, there is a bank of switches! Yeah, that's it. The level isn't meant for Nightmare, but it should become everyone's first accomplishment of, "I can beat this level on nightmare." I suppose in an artistic way, the hall of mirror affect on all walls is to disorient the player, so they miss the big twist at the end. Thus costing speed runners valuable seconds on their first play through. The big twist being the bend. Other than that, there are plenty of shotgun shells, shotgun troopers and health to ensure you make it to the end of this brutal and rigorous test of endurance over the course of 5 - 30 seconds. This is the level that has become famous, because everyone needs to play it themselves to add their two cents of "it's crap" to the pile of reviews that will no doubt entice more people to play this game. It's a gorgeous display of everything wrong without the annoyance of having to play it for longer than a full minute. Complete with someone from an aol email to spice up it's true 1995 feel... despite being made in 2009. * slow clap * You've done it. You've found a new twist on terrible.
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You there... Zappa fan. You did the Flat Earth video correct? You should do another about how New Zealand doesn't exist. It's not on 99% of the world's maps.
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I'm here and I think that's a great idea, time to debunk the myth that is New Zulland
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I remembered another theory that had a lot of traction about a decade ago... FACT: The sun doesn't heat the Earth, the Earth's core heats the Earth and that's why mountains are cold! If the sun really did heat the Earth, the mountains would be hotter and not colder.
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I have never seen Garfield look so healthy.
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Great avatar!
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my eyes
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I don't see eyes in those sockets.
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I was listening to the radio when some sort of hardcore dance beat came on... now I look at your avatar and he's dancing good to the music.
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THE CURRENT ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN MY AREA
Has been both a giant annoyance and a source of hilarity. The prep work for this construction began like 9 months ago. Things were marked, things were fenced off and terrain was leveled. This was not an issue. The actual construction began about 3 months ago to put in a sewer system on my side of the road. My side of the road meaning literally its mine and my own side of the road. All the other homes are on the other side. Its justified that I take the brunt of it.
The first issue happened on the first day, they severed my cable for television, phone and Internet. Electricity would be worse. Someone came out to fix it right away and it was fixed right away. However... the cable company denies sending anyone out and they want to know who it was. Well he had a van with your company's logo. The guy warned me that the cable has deteriorated and would need to be replaced at another time. Well its less than a year old. That does explain why my Internet has been bad for 9 months. Well I guess now that I'm tying it out... construction would explain why its been bad for 9 months.
Its fixed, it works fine... for 24 hours where then the line is severed again. This cable line was spray painted on the ground so they could clearly see it. I saw the orange spray paint. Cable company sends out a new guy to fix it. New guy comes in like a week. It took a stupid long time for this guy to get out here. He even missed an appointment. When he did come out he was pissed off he had to lay a new cable. He laid it right across the line. That's fine... construction would only cut it again.
Later on during construction, they warned me I couldn't leave the house for 4 hours. That's cool. They dug out an area and laid pipe. Well quitting time came... so rather than continue to bury the pipes they left them exposed, put up a little orange fence and laid a giant metal plate where my driveway used to be. Even for a giant metal plate, it didn't look too solid over a chasm. I dealt with it. They filled it the next day and put gravel over it.
CONSTRUCTION BLOCKADE
A month or two goes by. Construction is now literally blocking my driveway again as they work down the road to put the sewer beneath a body of water. So now the blockage is a giant semmi to haul away dirt. If I needed to leave... they'd just move the semmi. The only problem is I had to wait for an excessive amount of cars. At night they left their equipment next to my driveway so its like trying to peak out past 2 buildings with 55 mph traffic coming. So I only went out at night as that way I can see the headlights and not get hit. People can't even see there's a driveway and well since my house is the only house on this side of the road... no one would expect oh there's driveways. Unless people know the area.
Let's continue shall we? Construction severed the cable line again. This time, they didn't just sever it, they first buried it with dirt and laid two giant metal plates over it so the semmis could have an easy resting place. That's just procedure I assume. But then at night they laid a giant metal box over it. Box for debris and rubble, whatever.
Cable company sends someone out like 3 days later. The box is still there, the construction is still there. The cable guy is the same as last time... he flips out about it. Says he can't do anything and just drives away. What? Cable company was shocked about it, so they sent a new person out 2 days later. The new cable person did the smart thing, which was have the construction crew move their giant box, their metal plates and they dig out the cable. Well that was easy.
ROAD BLOCKADE IS NOW POLICE HQ
As of 3 or 4 days ago. construction has now barricaded the road, because they're working on a 4 way intersection further down. I bring it up, because now it starts getting hilarious. This 4 way is a big hub. A hub on the way to Walmart, and a hub between 3 towns. Not having it means an excessive drive through lots of stop lights in all other directions going 35 mph rather than 55 mph.
I bring it up, so you can understand just how bad people want to get through these barricades. Despite having a posting on the construction barricades citing its unlawful to move the barricades... sure enough people still move the barricades and drive right on through. So the police now have a posting there to catch people and give them tickets. Only here's the thing, one post isn't enough. Its up to two postings. ... but now its at 3 squad cars and 1 police SUV. The cops have 2 cars blocking one of the roads that still has a barricade.
That's just one posting though, the other postings people still see the cops and chose to go around the barricade and the police vehicles. Wow. Now that's some bravery or stupidity to move the barricades in front of the cops. The cops are busy with 1 vehicle so another vehicle will try to just weave around them.
Anyway, now the police seem to be impounding vehicles if they weren't already. I went to observe the area since its legal to as I own the property. The police had one person stopped that somehow got through the barricade, then three motorcycles just drove around the barricade where there was no police posting and sure enough the police got them in the middle of the four way. Looks like they need four postings to keep people out, but then again I assume they get ticket money for all these blockade breaches.
I would take pictures, but it might be illegal still or frowned upon to go taking pictures of crime scenes or police on duty.
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UNIBOMBER or 70s UNDERCOVER COP
I go jogging a few times a week and usually about once a month I see at least one guy in a zip front, light hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled tight, big dark sunglasses and a mustache so thick that there's a 50% chance its not real. With that combination, I start to wonder if these guys are unibomber enthusiasts or undercover cops from the 70s. They're too young to be from the 70s, but they just looks so out of place and they really stand out. No matter if its winter or the summer, they still have the same getup. I know its different individuals, because one wears what I think is a wig that's held on by the hoody. To make him stand out even more the last time I saw him he was holding his head, leading me even more to believe its a wig he fears losing in the wind even if its under a hoody.
Maybe they're running from the law, literally so they wear a disguise. Maybe they work for the law and that's why they have the overgrown tash that looks fake and store bought.
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The title says it all, "Maps by my 6 year old son" is an easy, fun, basic romp with BFGs, clusters of big enemies and no need to kill any of them. The 5 maps made by a 6 year old are easy and basic, but playable. There is a working lift, a crusher ceiling, working doors with door tracks, keys, transporters and exit tiles. Its several of the building blocks that should make up every Doom level. For the most part, the geometry is square and flat, with no pillars, stairs or detailed textures. While the simplicity alone might be bad, there are more complex "typical" levels that are less fun and more frustrating. This pack of 5 levels is short and sweet at a mere 5 - 10 minutes but worth it just to see the simplest things stand out. Suddenly having a lift to a blue key is a monument. Its almost a level of 1994 fan creation, but without the frustration or cluster phobic hallways. Everything is broad and easy to dodge. Whether it was made by a child or not, its just unconventional because its so below the bar of a typical level and that adds to the novelty and charm.
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Like in a prison riot, the only way to survive is to get your back against a corner and start throwing fists. Questler's Fest is a speed map, a challenge map and rocket map against lost souls, pain elementals and two trapped arch-viles. At least that's what it was like on "too young to die." Fighting swarms of lost souls with a rocket launcher is an unenviable task. To quote Ice Cube, "Lost souls will swarm... on any motor trucker in a green uniform." There are revenants and imps in higher difficulties, but when I saw them, I thought "nope." So do you gamble and stay moving to rocket launcher your way to victory, risking the fact that a single lost soul getting in your way will splash damage you to death or do you punch your way out of it? After losing a lot in Vegas, I went for the tried and true method to rip and tear out the eyes of floating skulls. It worked. Since Questler's Fest is what I like to call a challenge map, there's a high challenge for such a small map. Its broken into what I'd call three parts: A grand room, a balcony overlooking the grand room and a second room that overlooks the first. Each area floods with lost souls and pain elementals and you fight them off. Simple map, high challenge. They flood in through different methods, they teleport in, lifts will bring them to your level, walls will seal you in and so on. So there is diversity with their arrival even if its 10 minutes of brawling with those that have no arms. To spice things up, there are two arch-viles, but when they're confined in cages behind brick built bars, you can dodge their hell fire by hiding behind the bars. If it was a set of typical bars, the player would get fried and died within seconds. To be fair there is a soul sphere toward the second and a mega sphere toward the first. Most will never endure the first onslaught and they will succumb to fighting a swarm of bees with a rocket launcher. Some might find the challenge fun, but to the rest of the world, there are easier maps out there.
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