Name: Doug 'Opulent' Merrill
Located: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Born: December 3, 1967
Employer: General Dynamics Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence Systems: Battle Management Systems Division; a defense contractor
Hobbies: Personal computer First-person Shooter Demofreak; music, movies, and some other interests...
Homepage/email:  Opulent // mail
Computer specs: Current main system is about 2 years old. Pentium4 2.0 Ghz 512Mb RDRAM Geforce4 Ti 4600 nVidia and about (6) 80 Gb hdds.

DOOM config (key bindings, controllers):  Left-shift|z|left-ctrl|left-alt    |   s-run|mouse2-strafe-on|a-turn-left   (I use the same basic cfg for all games)
Size of DOOM directory on your hard drive: 6.5Gb or so
Favourite Maps: link (a little out of date)
Favorite DOOM demos: too many to list.. christ, that's why I started the DSDA.  :)
Favorite Executable(s) to use: Doom(2).  PrBoom, Boom, and MBF if I must.  Zdoom and Legacy are quite nice though, but are really leaning towards being a different game.
Other games:  Quake/Quake2/Quake3Arena;  Half-life: DM/AG/CS ; DOOM3; Total Annihilation; Descent 2

more info:
I'm a desperately bland dude. A loner who doesn't like people in general and will never amount to anything.  I'm married to a beautiful woman named Cheryl.
I collect and watch demos for the above games; and I am one of the world's most hardcore demofreaks there are for FPS games.

A few questions:
1. Do you play DOOM more than any other game? If not, what game takes up more of your obviously misguided time?
Perhaps I have been playing more Quake2 online than actual DOOM play recently.
2. Ever played multiplayer DOOM? If so, what?
Doom2.exe and a wee bit of Zdoom coop.   Used to play with my brothers back in 1995 when we weren't very good at games.
3. About when did you start playing DOOM?  1994, 2004, etc...?
1995.
4. Do you make maps?
yerp, but rarely.  I don't have the patience... or skill.
5. DOOM3?
yes, but I was disappointed in the gameplay.
6. Favorite monster / most hated monster?
Lots of favs... Lost souls would be the most hated.
7. Music you like
(see below)
8. Movies you like
(see below)
9. Girl/guy who lights your fire
Francoise.
10. Current type of internet connection
Medium-speed cablemodem.

Songs:
Second to No One  (Rosanne Cash 1985)
Taxi  (Harry Chapin 1972)
Corey's Coming   (Harry Chapin  1976)
Operator  (Jim Croce 1972)
Simple Twist of Fate  (Bob Dylan 1974)
Duke's Travels  (Genesis 1980)
Heathaze  (Genesis 1980)
Honey   (Bobby Goldsboro 1968)
Hopper Painting   (Janis Ian 1978)
Jesse  (Janis Ian 1974)
Could We Start Again, Please?  (Jesus Christ Superstar 1973)
I Don't Know How to Love Him  (Jesus Christ Superstar 1973)
Come Down in Time  (Elton John 1971)
Casey's Last Ride  (Kris Kristofferson 1970)
Darby's Castle  (Kris Kristofferson 1970)
For the Good Times  (Kris Kristofferson 1970)
Stupid Thing  (Aimee Mann 1993)
I've Had Her  (Phil Ochs 1967)

Movies:
1984  (Radford 1984)
Another Woman  (Allen 1988)
Brazil  (Gilliam 1985)
Citizen Kane  (Welles 1941)
J.W.Coop  (Robertson 1972)
Jesus Christ Superstar  (Jewison 1973)
Kiss of the Spider Woman  (Babenco 1985)
Star Trek II   (Meyer 1982)
The Last Temptation of Christ  (Scorsese 1988)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold  (Ritt 1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf  (Nichols 1966)

If you are willing to share, I'd be interested in hearing possible additions to the lists above...  I think they speak for themselves; content and intelligence in a passionately created art form.


added 9/2004
9/2004 -- Opulent