The /newstuff Chronicles #337

[Brandon D. Lade]

Wills said:

Send them in a zip file via email to bloodshedder@doomworld.com

I don't have a registered copy of WinZip, and my trial has expired. Is it okay to attach the pictures as individual files?

[esselfortium]

Brandon D. Lade said:

I don't have a registered copy of WinZip, and my trial has expired. Is it okay to attach the pictures as individual files?

http://www.7-zip.org/

[Brandon D. Lade]

esselfortium said:

http://www.7-zip.org/

This site is blocked by Content Advisor.

[40oz]

http://www.pchell.com/support/contentadvisor.shtml

is this blocked too?

[Brandon D. Lade]

JohnnyRancid said:

http://www.pchell.com/support/contentadvisor.shtml

is this blocked too?

Yes. And I would not feel safe changing my settings on Content Advisor anyway. It is, after all, my parents who have set me up as to what I can see on my machine. And they don't want me to change a thing.

[wildweasel]

I'd find it a better solution at this point to just not bother Mr. Lade about his lack of screenshots, as I know all too well about how much of a pain these content filters can be. It's not worth messing with it unless your intention is to completely uninstall it. And, well, if it's your parents' choice, then I respect that choice.

[Gez]

Assuming your OS is Vista or XP, and not anything older, you can just select the pictures, right-click on the selection, and choose "Send to -> compressed folder" -- it'll create a zip file.

[Brandon D. Lade]

Xaser said:

I thought it was a rule that t/nc reviews aren't accepted without screenshots... a shame in this case. The review is good, but without a screenshot or two the chances of T2 being passed up are slightly higher. To me it should've been the highlight of the week, but lack of pics alone is probably what stopped it from getting a front-page spot. :( :P

Well, maybe it would have been okay to use text from the Titan 2 review on the front page, but provide either no screenshot at all or a screenshot from another wad. And even if that is not an option, I would think that Elegy, Hellopolis, or especially H/L 3 (awesome map, Chris!) would be a better front-pager than Darkness Falls.

[Deeforce]

Gez said:

Assuming your OS is Vista or XP, and not anything older, you can just select the pictures, right-click on the selection, and choose "Send to -> compressed folder" -- it'll create a zip file.

Wow, never have heared about that, but it works :-P, but maybe Brandon wants to get 7-zip too...

@Brandon D. Lade:
Can you download files from Filefront? ... Try it out, here is the link to 7-zip from filefront: Link. And if it doesn’t work, then maybe someone can send you an email with this file :-P !

After the installation you need to click on “7zFM.exe“.

[Csonicgo]

WildWeasel said:

, if it's your parents' choice, then I respect that choice.

I don't.

Shielding little Timmy from the world only makes it hurt worse when it hits Timmy head-on.

[Creaphis]

I found 4chan and furry porn in my formative years, and look how I turned out!

In other words, content filters are probably justifiable.

[Csonicgo]

Creaphis said:

I found 4chan and furry porn in my formative years, and look how I turned out!

In other words, content filters are probably justifiable.

nothing is better than parental supervision and time limits.

You know, Parents having to actually parent.... it's their job.

As for your first statement... well... you're still in one piece, right?

My parents thought the best thing to do was to put me on AOL 3.0 and the nickelodeon/cartoon network/disney "channels". As if the internet was TV. But it wasn't TV. Hell, it wasn't even the internet. Yet you could still enter chatrooms. Chatrooms even then, had pervs still askin for hot honeys' A/S/L---- in a Nickelodeon Kids channel.

That was around--- 1995? Heh. I wonder what AOL is like now?

[Wills]

What kind of internet filter lets you onto Doomworld but not a website to download Winzip?

[esselfortium]

The best kind.

[Ixnatifual]

Naan said:

After a few tries, it seems Titan2 levels aren't designed to be completed from pistol start.

Actually they are specifically designed to be completable from pistol start. I've tested and completed every single level this way. You do need to find the majority of secrets if you're playing this way on UV, however (at least I do).

Map02 I find is hardest when playing this way, mainly due to a mistake I made when I made some fixes for 1.1. The shotgun near the beginning (just in front of the elevator, next to a splattered corpse) doesn't spawn on Hard difficulty, though you can steal one from the shotgun guy just around the corner. It'll leave you a bit short on ammo in the beginning as you don't get the shells from the missing weapon pickup, but you can scrounge up enough ammo to get by.

I'll have it fixed in the next version, but if this is the map giving you trouble I can see why. Hopefully I haven't messed up any of the other maps this way.

[Udderdude]

JohnnyRancid said:

Udderdude, why did you explain what invasion was in your review for Omega Invasion, which is a Skulltag-only pwad, but not explain what Harvester is for people like me who don't have Quake 3?

It had sat there unreviewed for almost 2 weeks. I figured a quick summary would be ok. You're probabally right that I should have explained that, though. Oops.

[Udderdude]

entryway said:

He didn't play Eternal or does not like it.

I've played Eternal Doom, I played it back when it was new, in fact. Just about everyone else still hanging around the Doom community has played it at this point. And I did enjoy it. Reternal is, at best, an average attempt at some Eternal-style maps. Certianly not any better than the originals. And the original Eternal maps were not nearly as confusing.

entryway said:

And I do not know how it's possible to get stuck on map03 in yellow key room. How it's possible to get stuck in a small square room with yellow key on the column in the center of room with switch for lowering it and with yellow door for exit? So I think "the bug" is only in underdude's head, not on map03.

It didn't seem to work for me. Maybe zDoom bug? Who knows. After Map 2, I wasn't about to give it the benefit of a doubt.

[Creaphis]

Wills said:

What kind of internet filter lets you onto Doomworld but not a website to download Winzip?

Now that I've said "porn" on this page he probably won't even be able to access this thread.

[entryway]

udderdude said:

It didn't seem to work for me. Maybe zDoom bug? Who knows.

"-nomonsters" demo?

[kristus]

Entryway, the new /newstuff drama queen.

[Udderdude]

Creaphis said:

Now that I've said "porn" on this page he probably won't even be able to access this thread.

Come on, that's not nearly enough. You gotta throw some ass balls tits pussy vagina in there too.





Oops.

[Grazza]

Funny, I once got locked out of an internet terminal at an airport while browsing DW, for "accessing content inappropriate to a public location". Not sure exactly what the cause was, but I think someone had used the word fuck or fucking in the thread I was reading. Or it might have been something like anal, who knows? Or perhaps fitbin or semprini.

[GreyGhost]

You're screwed if the filter draws the line at "shit" or "shitty" - they're embedded in most DW pages.

[Gez]

Grazza said:

Or it might have been something like anal, who knows?

It's especially funny when the filter detects "anal" in an innocent word like "analogy" or "analysis".

[Csonicgo]

Gez said:

It's especially funny when the filter detects "anal" in an innocent word like "analogy" or "analysis".

Have you ever been analysed?

would you like to be?

[printz]

Please don't start tabooing more words, especially from the scientific domain.

[Csonicgo]

printz said:

Please don't start tabooing more words, especially from the scientific domain.

I say, don't be so darn anal, boy.

Speaking of Anal, that's the kind of rape that Hellopolis delivers.

It also feels like Run Buddy, a style which I thought was only possible with ports like Boom.

[TheeXile]

Creaphis said:

I found 4chan and furry porn in my formative years, and look how I turned out!

In other words, content filters are probably justifiable.

Indeed.

[Belial]

To quote the Hellopolis txt file:

Will work with :any source port

A pretty bold statement for a map that was almost certainly tested in ZDoom only.

Gotta love them hanging corpses blocking every teleport destination.

[TheeXile]

Belial said:

To quote the Hellopolis txt file:

A pretty bold statement for a map that was almost certainly tested in ZDoom only.

Gotta love them hanging corpses blocking every teleport destination.

Oh jeez. I supposed I'll use chocolate doom/prboom for my reviews from now on, then.