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This is a massive thank you to everyone involved in the Doom community. Recently I've not been involved with the community due to some rather stressful health issues and it's taken away a ot of my capability to work on Doom related projects.
I'd like to thank everyone for their continued support and willingness to entertain the thousands of questions I have asked. I would especially like to thank Graf Zahl and Gez for maintaining and providing support and GZDoom, I loved the port and hope one day to keep modding for it. I'd like to thank Scuba Steve for helping with my artistic endeavors and allowing me to help with the Cacoward ceremonies. I'd like to thank Zap10, 40oz, Tormentor667, Chopinska, Espi and everyone else who has made mods that have captured my time and attention.
I need to take some time to get back into good health, and I hope this is something I'll overcome.
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In case you wanted to know. Jesus it's hot here. Anyone know a good way to kill 6 hours in Dallas at 4:00AM?
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Hilariously enough, I did find the Grassy Knoll as well. My layover in Dallas ended abruptly when the friend who I was supposed to meet in Waco decided to drive all the way out and pick me up. Since then we've been jumping into bodies of water to get out of the heat. I might also add that Greyhounds suck.
I assume there to be nothing else to do here other than to jump into holes in the ground filled with water.
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Dear Girlfriend,
We're adults. It's the 21st century. People who aren't having sex after their third date, let alone after 3 months, can't even be considered a relationship. You're not even religious either. I could understand if that were the case. I did tell the other girl I was committed to you beforehand, it was just sex after all. You brought this on yourself. Stop being a bitch about it already.
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Apparently I live in the skinniest town in the USA
I feel odd because I never really noticed how skinny I was (or everyone around me for that matter) until I took a visit to South Carolina. Apparently us little guys are a minority in those parts. I was even further terrified to see that there are petitions in these places to make it law to have wider aisles in shopping centers to accommodate 'plus sized' individuals. Are you fat? Skinny? Healthy? Discuss.- Show previous comments 20 more
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myk said:A large percentage of the population doesn't have that the "benefit" of getting fat. While it's spreading with the spread of McDonald's and similar junk food, it's mainly a "developed world" phenomenon.
Dunno, I never understood this "Mc Donalds will make you fat" fad.
There are surely more cost-effective ways of getting fat than eating at Mc Donalds, at least with the prices and portion sizes I've witnessed in Italy and Greece. If anything, many people don't factor in the amount of calories from soft-drinks: a big 400 ml serving of iced coke can give you as many calories as that teeny-wheeny hamburger you just ate, and they will all be pure sugar, too. Diabetics' delight!!!
In fact, pretty much any mainstread Greek eaterie serving gyros, souvlaki, pizza etc. can make you fat quicker and cheaper than Mc Donalds can, and in a much tastier way, too.
A practical example: with 3-4 Euros in the Italian Mc Donalds you get something like 6 Mc Nuggets with some pityful pickled cucumbers and a few french fries, and that was in 2001. By comparison, with 3-4 Euros in Greece you can take TWO fully stuffed and flavoury gyros servings, jam-packed with fried, fat, oily meat, french fries, tzatziki, ketchup and mustard, for what must be at least 1200-1500 kcals, even though I know several people than can eat 3-4 of them in one go.
Will eating like that once or twice a week make you fat? Surely no. If you do eat like that EVERY day though and you do nothing but snaking at home or at a cafe watching football every day like a slob...then yeah, even Mc Donalds' overpriced and insipid shit will make you fat ;-) -
In a way, we really do live in a fat world. You could say all this water and organic growth makes the Earth fat. Maybe healthy fat, although perhaps we humans are contributing some of the unhealthy fat :p
Maes said:
Dunno, I never understood this "Mc Donalds will make you fat" fad.A fad? That would imply it's not true. It's more of a slogan. "Quick and cheap meat in bread with fried potatoes and soda." Sure, there are many other cheap fatty food places. I am aware of equivalents here as well, but they all occur due to the same phenomenon; the predominance of the meat and corn industry. Most are local and don't have the global implications of McDonald's or the like.
There's probably nothing better than McDonald's to point out the economic "model" all this works under, with an image in few words. It's enterprises like McDonald's that managed to first exploit and then spearhead the diffusion of mass-produced cheapened food.
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This isn't a 'looking for advice' blog or a 'feel sorry for me' blog. This is a 'ugh I'm frustrated and I need to vent to random internet strangers my problems' blog.
A while ago there was a girl I'd met who was very odd. She didn't quite work the same way other people did. her thoughts were ... jumbled ... but not impaired at all. But she could keep her priorities straight and she was very intelligent, despite being very difficult to interact with. She liked me, but I had no interest in her, I was mainly scared away by her crazy randomness and odd personality. I dated her for about a week, but I ended it quickly and afterwards I wouldn't even give her the time of day for a year. Now I've spent more time to understand who she is and what kind of person she is, and I've come to find her very attractive and I'm very much in love. I've learned to not be afraid of her eccentricity and admire it because she's so damn different. problem being that a friend of mine insists she's with someone else and is now just toying with my head.
what's even worse is that she now knows how I feel about her and remains entirely ambiguous as to her feelings about it. I can't tell if she's just trying to avoid hurting my feelings, or if it merely has to do with her airheadedness. This is driving me nuts.
it's entirely my fault for not realizing what i had and not taking the time to understand her. i brought this upon myself, but it certainly isn't helping me get over the major depression I've had since I quit smoking. If anything this has furthered my self-loathing to a new level. I might just have to join TimeOfDeath in his self-imposed isolation :P
The depression is pretty terrible right now, and I think that simply venting helps to alleviate some of this. Then again, what's the worst that could happen? I'm emotionally destroyed? I can live with that.
EDIT: on the bright side, its times when I'm bent up about women that I get the most work on my mods done. I should focus this frustration on ironing out more bugs. -
WOOOOHOOOOO, I QUIT SMOKING TOBACCO!!!! Unfortunately, while my tobacco consumption has gone away, my cannabis use has gone up a lot. I don't see this as much of a problem, but I still smoke it. I dont want to breathe another liter of smoke into my lungs in my entire life, but I also don't want to give up Cannabis because I love it so damn much. That being said, I'm looking for some easy to make recipies that people have found to work for consuming cannabis. I'm going to miss smoking it, but eating it certainly seems healthier. I've found a number of recipies online, but I've yet to find one that works, and works well. Has anyone got any that have been known to work? I haven't had any luck so far. Maybe there's some step I'm missing?
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Since my computer was recently compromised, I lost all of my mods and my 10 Billion WIP projects. Suffice to say, there's a hole in my life where my favorite hobby used to be, and I'm quite upset because years worth of work and discovery are gone down the drain, and I won't ever be able to get back to where I was.
But. I'm not going to drop doom modding since this is one of my few favorite things to do. I would like to finally make my Magnum Opus of Doom modding before I move onto other things. I have a very good knowledge of ZDoom and would like to put out a project for ZDoom.
With that said, a few weeks ago I had a very beautiful and mind opening psychedellic experience that really changed how I look at my life, among other things. And I found that it was also an incredible source of inspiration for Doom mods.
So here's the idea I had, narrarated from the perspective of the player.
"I have often wondered if this prison is even real. The gaurds look on, speaking to me in tongues. The writing on the wall only tells me how long I've been here, but even then, I do not know if they are days, years or eternities. No sentence, no parole, no visitors, no light. The only voices which speaks clearly to me are those of the cold steel bars, and they tell me I will never see the her again. My mind wanders and I don't know where it will go.
I only want to see her light. I only want know what it feels to bask in her glowing rays and know that I am real."
I like the idea of creating a mod where the gameplay is a trip (if you will) through the prisoners mind. The only goal of the game is to find sunlight. I don't have much other than that. I'd like to create some surreal levels that represent various aspects of the protagonists psyche.
This is a concept i'd like to play with:
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Super Jamie said:
it's amazing how one tab of blotter paper can change your entire perception of your environment.
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But seriously, Cold as Hell comes very close to what I have in mind. Think: Desolation. Emptiness. Abandonment. Alone.
Even in a Doom map, you're not alone, because there's monsters and guns. When its just you and yourself in a room? That's even scarier. -
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Patrick said:
Think: Desolation. Emptiness. Abandonment. Alone.
I can't help but think of David Firth's cartoons man, even though they also have a strong psychosis component. Some of his older B&W "paperflashes" are probably close to what you're looking for:
A BLACK AND WHITE CARTOON ABOUT ROOF TILING
A BLACK AND WHITE CARTOON ABOUT BERRIES
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So yeah, the title says it all. I got accepted to CU Boulder. I'm so ecstatic right now that this is all I'm going to post.
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WOOOHOOO!!! I've made it one week w/out smoking. I hope to keep this up for the rest of my life. The only problem I have now appears to be withdrawls. Which so far have become a bitch. I seem to be majorly depressed, but I'm hoping how 'down' I've been feeling will go away soon. It doesn't help that me and my girl just broke up recently, which has been a major problem with my quitting in the first place. But this all is made better by the fact that I have quit for a week. Now shooting for: 1 month.
EDIT: holy cow, withdrawls are a major bitch. I wish I hadn't quit during my first round of testing at school. I've been majorly depressed and I haven't been able to focus on anything. For those of you who have also quit: how the hell did you deal with withdrawls? -
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Although it's possible, there doesn't have to be any particular "cause" or reason why something like this would develop. As geekmarine says, for example, paranoid schizophrenia often develops in the early 20s. It's probably a waste of time trying to find a "cause" for it because there likely isn't one.
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Regarding another brilliant person and his schizophrenia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr.#Schizophrenia
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I hope my job gets outsourced to Pakistan/India/Phillipines, there is just too much bullshit involved. The only problem is, there are no jobs around. I need to have a job. There needs to be some serious change here so I can maintain my sanity and source of income. No one wants to stand up to management, because the corporate guys could fire us all in a heartbeat. Can anyone offer any solutions to make them change their policies? We can't unionize, they'd just fire us all. We've asked our supervisors for change, and nothing happens. Also, does anyone else have a similar experience in customer service?
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Perhaps their centers are a nice place to work in, relatively speaking, compared to other jobs in India or compared to centers in some other countries. India has a lot of poverty, which could explain wages that are well-above average, yet cheap internationally speaking.
One drawback Indian telemarketing and support centers have in providing services to Americans, who make a huge demand, is that they make a particular use of English which is not entirely clear to Americans. That is, English is taught a lot in India but it has British roots with Indian particularities in accent and tone. To counter that they usually develop other skills such as a high degree of technical expertise. -
myk said:Perhaps their centers are a nice place to work in, relatively speaking, compared to other jobs in India or compared to centers in some other countries. India has a lot of poverty, which could explain wages that are well-above average, yet cheap internationally speaking.
Of course. I don't think this is a bad thing, it enables India's economy to grow whilst providing Dell with cost savings. Indians obviously work cheaper, there is no point paying Indians the same as Dell would pay Americans/Brits/Australians as this would negate the advantages of hosting a foreign call centre and India would get nothing.
I read in the news a little while back that there is an increasing trend of skilled Indian workers moving back to their homeland after getting experience and promotions in Western jobs. A large proportion apparently move back from non-management roles into management roles, living very well in a place I assume they would rather be. -
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Welcome to Everything Under the Sun
This is my miscellaneous blog where I post anything that happens to have caught my attention recently, random thoughts, reviews and updates on my WIP stuff. I hope to start a development journal on a mod I'm working on at some point in the near future.
12/23/09 - Walking Stereotype
11/14/09 - Movie Review: 2012
11/13/09 - Don't Upgrade to Coffee
11/10/09 - Reasons not to get a TiVo
Noir, a Doom Story:
Some of you may have seen screenshots from my black and white cel shaded mod. I hate to disappoint, but that project is officially dead. It was more of an experiment to see if it was possible to pull off the look effectively. Ultimately, the problem that caused me to stop work on it was the sheer amount of content I'd have to create to make it work. However, I have not abandoned the idea entirely, as I think that I can use that effect in other projects I'm working on (possibly as an 'alternate universe' effect or something like that)
Help wanted?
I'm looking for some useful tutorials about using 3D modeling programs (gmax or blender in particular) and how to create/animate Quake 2 models using [insert name of good modeling program here]
My latest Crappy Chinese Made Mp3 Player:
I got a DINGOO A320 recently, and it is the best investment I have ever made. Here is what it looks like:
It has native emulator support for NES, SNES, Sega Megadrive/Genesis, Atari 2600, Neo Geo, Game Gear, Gameboy, Gameboy Color , Gameboy Advance, Commodore 64, Homebrew games, prBoom and Duke Nukem 3D. Also plays MP3, WMV, OGG, FLAC, etc. Does not require any file conversion to play videos,it can natively play AVI, WMA, DIVX, XVID, TIVO, etc. Has a built in radio, e-book reader, microphone, takes Mini SD cards for expanding storage, and it even has an A/V output to connect it to a television. Talk about being feature rich.
The Good: Emulation is great, no lag, good framerate, I can even pull of some delicate moves with good accuracy. The music quality is great, the Mp3 Settings are easy to use, looks beautiful on an HD TV when connected. The price was only 69.00 bucks, so definitely a worthy investment. Battery life is ~ 8-10 hours.
The Bad: Like any other cheap chinese mp3 player, it suffers from really bad english, making some of the menu options hilarious (doom is in my 'The interesting 3d game' folder.) Doom wads cause signicant lag (this is mainly my fault to assume the DVII would run on this.) And the customization is a pain in the ass. Also, there is no volume switch, which means that volume has to be changed through a certain menu option. Does not tell you how charged the battery is while its charging, and charging typically takes a few hours, but that's a really a minor gripe.- Show previous comments 17 more
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Coffee is really a too broad topic to sum up in one paragraph. Just the way of brewing it results in totally different drinks with different qualities: e.g. filter or instant coffee is usually nothing but an insipid gut-shrapnel, and for me drinking even two sips out of a big cup of that abomination will cause me to fibrillate and send me straight to the throne where I'll put the AVGN's diarrhea dumps to shame.
OTOH, Espresso coffee, if properly made, is like having a little Xmas each time you prepare one (Espresso is by far the best way to brew coffee, at least for what regards striking a balance between caffeine content and taste. Filter, instant and frappe are too watered down to taste good, plus they have MORE caffeine per serving than espresso and are nasty on the bowels. Greek/turkish coffee is prepared with entirely differently ground coffee and tastes very different than both. Not particularly stimulant, but at least not as bad on the guts.
The only drawback to espresso is that you need a special machine to make it at home, and most of them are expensive and/or use very expensive coffee pods (even though LIDL already took care of that with a machine that is so awesome and cheap that it stomps on the colons of other espresso machines). I've yet to find an espresso machine for the home that can produce bar-quality coffee, though (I guess those $1000+ ones do but heh...I don't have that much money to burn).
The next best thing is "Moka" coffee, using that hex-shaped screw-top pot. The pots themselves are very cheap, even top-quality ones, can make up to 6 or even 12 cups of near-espresso coffee at once. The final result is similar to espresso, but not quite as good. -
ArmouredBlood said:Heh, I liked eight-legged freaks too. The reasoning behind apocalyptic movies is usual stupid to me, only a few like armageddon, and I guess you could call independence day apocalyptic, were ok, to good. The day after tomorrow ... wasn't bad, but not even quite as good as armageddon.
ARMAGEDDON WAS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF SHIT IN ALL EXISTANCE.
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So my community college held a drawing for a free copy of Windows 7, and oddly enough, I actually won. So now that I have a brand-spakin' new copy of Win7, I am in the tedious process of backing up EVERYTHING and writing down all the programs I have installed and where I got them. Suffice to say, I'm hitting some hiccups and could use some advice
(1) Does anyone know of a cheap (free?) file host that can hold ~20 GB of files for an extended period of time?
(2) If anyone here has had the chance to use Windows 7, is there anything I ought to know?
(3) Dooming is one of my major hobbies, has anyone had any problems running Doom, ports, editors or any other Doom related programs?
If there's any advice anyone can offer for making this upgrade, I'm all ears.
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So real life has been catching up on me lately and I could use the friendly advice of the good people of DoomWorld. Now I normally solve all my problems by either pretending they don't exist or making them someone else's problem. This is all fine and good for dealing with things like colds and ex-girlfriends, but some things cannot be solved this way. Like financial issues. I have a big choice to make. I currently have $12.00 to my name right now. I don't get paid until next week. With the next paycheck I can either make rent or pay my community college bill. Currently my credit is great. Not so much as a penny past due on any of my bills. EVER.
If I pay my college, my rent will go past due. If I pay my rent, I wont go to college this semester.
If I dont pay my rent, my credit will be fucked and I wont get grant money, which would prevent me from ever going to a 4-year school. Alternatively, If I do pay rent, I will have to postpone my education another semester. My major problem is that things keep getting more expensive and I keep having to postpone my education. I want to go to school someday, I dont wanna work shit jobs the rest of my life.
Now borrowing money from the parents is outta the question because they're poorer than me, I won't be able to get government aid until next semester. I've been filling out ridiculous numbers of scholarship applications hoping to get money, so one of these days I might get something. Banks don't do college loans. I'm not entirely sure what to do. And yes, probably TL;DR
