Obsidian

...and DOOM II is now my DEFINITIVE Favorite Game of All Time!

The only thing that was keeping it from being my favorite game was Super Street Fighter II Turbo and my love for fighting games. This changed after a brief visit to Shoryuken.com, where, even though I can beat the game and am pretty good at it, I was basically told "YOUR SKILL IS NOT ENOUGH". And then they had to throw in "Maybe a desk job would fit you better".

Now I've been playing and loving video games since I was 5 years old, so the fact they think I shouldn't even be playing them pretty much sealed their doom (no pun intended). I'll still play fighting games, but if I had to change my Favorite Game of All Time for any reason, it will never be a fighting game again. Besides, there's a LOT of classic and a few modern shooters I DO enjoy playing.

To Doomworld, where you're free to love what you do and not have to have the skill or the experience to do it.

I have a modified doom E1M1 i did myself. if you want to check it out i can give you the wad file of it. Email me at JBrockerDUDE@gmail.com and I will reply with the file attached.

Hello everyone in the Doom Community! I don't know if anyone remembers me from the good ole' days...:) This is Cadman, just wanted to say hi and see what's been going on in the community!

Been missing the gaming and the level designing of Doom and Doom2!

I've been having a lot of things going on in my life and have been very busy, it's been tough for me to continuing gaming, but I think I have some time now, things have settled down.

I've been looking on the forums and have seen that CC4 has come out! WOW!!! It's hard to believe that when I started the original Community Chest that it would go so far!

It would be good to hear from you, please post a reply and bring me back in the loop! Thanks everyone!

Hello everyone in the Doom Community! I don't know if anyone remembers me from the good ole' days...:) This is Cadman, just wanted to say hi and see what's been going on in the community!

Been missing the gaming and the level designing of Doom and Doom2!

I've been having a lot of things going on in my life and have been very busy, it's been tough for me to continuing gaming, but I think I have some time now, things have settled down.

I've been looking on the forums and have seen that CC4 has come out! WOW!!! It's hard to believe that when I started the original Community Chest that it would go so far!

It would be good to hear from you, please post a reply and bring me back in the loop! Thanks everyone!

Me.

Another year, seems just as boring as the last.

I'm bored, what kind of map should I make for you? (yes, you) note: I make only Prboom+ compatible maps, no ZDoom, Eternity, etc.

Me.

Another year, seems just as boring as the last.

two days away. eeek.

Just post what you're listening to:
Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/703508_391995957550986_1279323672_o.jpg

Very cute kittens indeed.

Just post what you're listening to:
Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

I will be twenty for another 12 hours.

This is in blogs so little jerks can't find it as easily, but I still want the community's input on this. I've been reviewing maps lately, so consider this a blog entry.

Now before I start this entry I'm sure you all know the little jerk known as "Terry" that uploads jokewads on /idgames from time to time. Most of them are immature, unplayable maps.

A lot of people have asked who Terry was, and was simply told to ignore him, and he'll "go away". That's rapidly becoming impossible to do. Instead of labeling his maps as jokewads, Terry now uploads zip-bombs under a dozen alternate names. Let me explain what that is.

A Zip bomb is a malicious compressed file that exploits compression techniques to compress a huge file of gibberish into a small size.

A recent PWAD that does this is "Dementia". It can be downloaded here.

This Zip is 4272 KB. Let's unzip that.

See that huge number? that's over 500 Megabytes of uncompressed garbage.

This isn't the worst offender. There was a previous wad (that has since been removed) that unzipped to a whopping 1 GIGABYTE in size. It was distributed as a WAD in a compressed PK3 file, which meant that ZDoom was loading the entire WAD into memory. While modern machines wouldn't find this an issue (just an annoyance), it still is a pretty dickish thing to do.

I have no idea how this guy is getting under the radar. Surely there is some way to check these wads before they get into /idgames. But I'd call for a more radical solution: A check for this in source ports. since Eternity Engine now has ZIP support, this is now something I would like to brainstorm about. The issue is checking the entries of a WAD file without having to extract the whole blasted thing from a zip file, and from what I've read, that is close to impossible.