Creaphis
I will deliberately take a contrary position just for the sake of writing incredibly long arguments
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The absence of /newstuff Chronicles is irritating by now. Yes, the wads are always on the usual mirrors, regardless of whether they're reviewed or not. But, a large portion of the doom audience relies on the published reviews to quickly see which wads stand out - otherwise, you have to do Deathzor's job of sorting through every level individually, when they're still in the /newstuff directory, to find the good ones. Also, many beginning mappers rely on the /newstuff chronicles for promotion - most of these levels never seem to be hyped anywhere else.
Theoretically, this wouldn't even have to be a big job if it was updated weekly or biweekly, so reviewers wouldn't have to sort through 40 wads at once. I've considered the possibility of signing up to write a /newstuff, as I believe I have a critical eye and a handle on the English language, but I definitely can't fit the current backlog into my schedule.
If nobody is willing to write reviews for /newstuff Chronicles, I propose a new way of making them: Every few weeks, someone gathers links to all the new wads in the /idgames/ archive, and then copies or paraphrases the reviews already written in Doomworld's archive browser. This system would lack the screenshots, and Deathz0r's usual flavor of commentary, but the job would be far easier - the "reviewer" wouldn't even have to play the wads. At least the job would get done this way, and it's better for the /newstuff Chronicles to exist in a crippled state than not at all.
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03-09-08 14:27 
