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Oh, they still work, but the website no longer brings you right to the correct comment because of this stupid "infinite scroll" tech it uses. I apologize for the amount of grief it takes, but in order to get to those megawad reviews:

First you have to click on the link, THEN you have to scroll down the entire body of the article, THEN you have to wait for the comments section to finally load, THEN you have to click "Show All Replies", THEN you have to manually scroll down the comments until finally landing on one written under the pen name "The Demons". (At least that last step is easy because you can't miss all the screenshots.)

That's an absurd amount of work to do for something so simple - I've heard a saying about web design that "for every click you add, you lose half your audience", and I really should just sign up for Medium or Wordpress and repost them there. I'm just fond of their original context, on an open forum for any kind of videogame recommendations: Talking shop with community members is great because we have a shared vernacular, but I quite enjoy the exercise of trying to explain why this is fun or why this is appealing when I'm speaking to someone who knows nothing about Doom.

Oh, it's a part of the comment section! I didn't see that coming... I see there's a option to get permalinks to comments, but rather shitty permalinks at that... I suppose that's in part a counterintuitive use of the feature on your part, but largely confusing design on their side. If the permalink just had a word like "comment" in the url, I might have figured it out.

Now that I know what's up, this seems like a pretty alright format. Once I scroll and click, the right comment is actually at the top. May be a good idea to also reupload the writing elsewhere just in case, but a word of clarification next to the link would probably do the trick too.

You're absolutely right, I'm going to have to update my "About Me" profile with context & instructions. When I first made the profile back in 2020, The AV Club website's "link to comment" function still worked as intended, and your browser would drop you right on the linked comment thread so there was no ambiguity to it. I liked the convenience of how their system would let you add as many screenshots as you wanted without having to do the extra work of Imgur links or anything (and the activity on those weekly community-driven "open threads" was still bustling at that point since the members hadn't yet all quit in disgust and migrated over the The Avocado). But now it fails to do what it's supposed to do and drops you at the very top of the article instead, which is no help whatsoever. Thanks for pointing out that my shit was broken; I might have left it in that state indefinitely without the helpful prod.

thanks! i dont know from where i took the idea about the untextured blocks void, but i think looks good :)

didnt played mock2 map08, but sometime i will play it.

I see there's scorch marks on some of the cubes, but only a few. Do the fireballs actually do anything?

Mock 2's map08 simply consists of a giant swarm of cacodemons far away, but it's also dark, has very low gravity, and forces you to leap over a big lava pit to the other side, so the end result can look somewhat similar.

Mock 2 is a crude low effort jokewad for the most part, but there's clearly some unity of vision in it that makes for a memorable experience.

the fireballs are real fireballs spawned by acs, is a screenshot from GZDoom. also i know about mock2 but didnt played map08. has the best music ever :))

I'm actually working on the second map right now. Should be posted soon. I'm glad you enjoyed! I put a lot of thought into this sort of thing.

Thanks!

Huh didn't know that. I'll remember to do that from then on

That is badass, I didn’t even notice. I’ll go check that out once I get home later!

I think it was actually @joe-ilya who first brought it up during his stream! And now I remembered it again.

The music also seems to mesh perfectly with the level's aesthetic. In the sewer level of TVR! it didn't feel equally fitting.

hahaha excellent work :))))))))) hey gimme a link to the wad! congrats on the release!

Thanks! Here's the link!

And for the record, I have to say that he did eventually go back to that level and managed to beat it without cheating. And same goes for the extremely invisible level.

map 2 kicked my butt haha
i like miniatures like this, im gonna give this a proper go later. good work on this!

Oh man, that thread is a relic. I don't think you're missing much, it was just teenage me yelling about texture alignment in the era of autoalign.

I guess it wasn't like super advanced, but I'm sure it would help some people! I'm glad I saved the triangle-based slope guide pic while I could, it was really helpful.

My pleasure! I'm a big fan of Dehacked projects. I think it's very inspiring how people can create new mechanics with pure code swapping.

Btw, you are still working on this?
 

It looks very cool! I can help you with playtesting or anything you need it!

Not actively... but I'm hoping to get back to it. Thank you for the offer, some playtesting will certainly come in handy!

I'm looking forward to playing it!

I use these settings and mouse feels good to use. depending on tastes you'll need reduce or increase sensitivity. vanilla sensitivity and novert emulation should also help. 

I played around with it and ended up setting it to something completely different, but thanks anyway! You inspired me to try some more setting variations, and now it feels somewhat better. I'm just curious, how does page 2 of your mouse options look like? There's also acceleration and whatnot.

Well, it looks like this, of course mouselook is off and never goes up:

Call it the iron maiden.