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that harry potter ad that plays on twitch whether you like it or not has possibly the least inspiring fantasy music i've ever heard

pretty appropriate for the franchise i guess

can I sell a CD copy of Doom II as if it was my own work, if I wrote "by Zan-zan-zawa-veia" on the CD in permanent marker?

pretending the concept of crop rotating for Cabal Coffers doesn't exist so I can build my Erinis + Halaster deck in a way where it's not quite as boring to look at, play, play against, etc. chase cards ruin everything, I wanna play against people who like crappy uncommons as much as I do

(thinking about tracking triplets onto an imperfectly-swung beat) (cuts my sandwich into three pieces)

(over-prepares for a boss fight by assembling a team that directly attack its weaknesses) wow they made this game too easy

https://roxyunderscore.bandcamp.com/album/roxy-vs-zan-zan

check this, tracker music split
don't pretend you can't take this kind of music cos i already know you like midi lol

facebook christmas's like *impact font* MERRY CHRISTMSA TO THE TROOPS

trying to stop my tastes just being "Old stuff is good" and its a hard trend to kick

and it makes you like auto-problematic to say yr fave games are late 80s early 90s, yr fave music and films are late 70s early 80s cos um
that's the painful trigger-y silver era

and you have to spend like an hour reframing and justifying that to make it not seem suspicious lol

i checked out so much music this year but I noticed that all my faves from it were either by ancient bands or in revival-mode ancient styles (post-punk and goth rock is magically big this year ++++ Gospel going prog?) and I feel like Napalm Death are literally as good as they've ever been... bands and artists big with music sites right now are doing singer-songwriter stuff I can't sit through or else very eclectic hip-hop I can't get a handle on (I like Solange, Little Simz, Danny Brown? but I will never be a true head in this field the way someone who grew up with the music would be)... when bands like Spoon and PUP and Big Thief get so much attention it makes me wonder what I'm missing, I will never get into that. also I feel like a lot of the relatively successful extreme metal right now is not crusty enough? it feels even more nerdy than I am??? like the last 1% of punk influence drained out and got replaced by 18 minute long Clean Harmonic Picking Tips vids????? UK post-metal sounds glossier than a Take That album now???????? that said, Cloud Rat have an excellent album

kinda fascinated with The Garden who seem like they're brewing something exciting. would like Death Grips to release something again. i'm such an old prog and goth and industrial head but I wanna get optimistic about new music again but it has to be like... NEW music, by people younger than I am who don't wanna retread anything or pay respects to older generations or whatever... I like punk but the last pathetic bastion of punkness is in genre categorization aka "we're technically punk because we're where RYM puts us but we can't surprise you or fuck anything up because we already spent too long learning how to do this particular style"... i was pretty excited about IDLES's song "Samaritans" and then uh all that energy went in the wrong direction. there's some bands you wish hadn't heard death grips. giggle

same with DOOM imo. I don't wanna play stuff that pays reverence due to scythe.wad etc. the old classics rule but if they anchor you they are hard one star wads not recommended for anyone

ooh a limitation project, perhaps I'll j-"must include a christmas midi" hissssssssss

doomguy teaching himself how to fight with nunchaku by watching youtube vids from 2009, doomguy teaching himself nutrition by going out into the forest and eating berries at random

adopt external causes and remove the grievance guitar man on the wiki doing nerd malfeasance and there's no blues punk folk funk or soul in youuuuueeeooooeeeeoooooo-aaagh

unpopular recent gaming opinions

the UIs in dishonored and prey are depressing in the way that all the panels need to be slightly moving, like dishonored's tendency to flip between two different title and paragraph justifications while yr reading the mission info or prey's slight panel tilt as you walk through yr inventory... like... do I really need to be distracted to this extent? am i actually that much of a hamster that I find this an improvement over statically presented data

Picnic! At the Dungeon

(gang vox) THREE STARS! GOOD BUT FLORD x12

playing Prey 2017, it's really nice but I'm on console and fighting anything in 3d on a joypad is just miserable to me. but im ever so happy wandering around dark places putting old hard drives in my inventory and reading other people's emails

i feel like this is wrong era stuff, i know there are some killer players who can do doom 4 on nightmare on a pad etc but I cannot learn how to use one at any level of skill, too many buttons and weird rules about holding it. gimme that sega megadrive pad i have my license for that but don't ask me to press down a directional control and if you bind that to sprint i will never do anything but walk

and all the buttons do something hahaha i can't bear it

modern games are too complicated for me give me something simple like morrowind or ufo

messing with grimrock dungeon design and my doom brain is complaining cos
 

Tentacle enemy: fixed-in-place pinky

Snail enemy: pinky
Herder enemy: pinky

Slime enemy: green pinky
Scavenger enemy: fast pinky

Spider enemy: fast poisonous pinky

Skeleton guard enemy: pinky with front-facing armor
Crab enemy: pinky with front-facing armor

Ice lizard enemy: pinky with improved attack

Ogre enemy: pinky with improved attack and charge

Warden enemy: pinky with improved attack and charge

Skeleton archer enemy: imp

Spore herder enemy: poisonous imp

Crowern enemy: lost soul

Shrakk torr enemy: fast lost soul

Goromorg enemy: cacodemon

Uggardian enemy: cacodemon

Wyvern enemy: cacodemon

***Elder herder enemy: no comparison - has an attack which leaves behind toxic clouds for certain duration

lol
where is my mancubus

cant join my gang unless you can two-hundred-shot a cyberdemon

why are there so many meta-posters who go into a thread and tell you why yr thread isn't a good idea? just go back in yr cave, your commentary is worthless <3

.bex to make you regen 1hp every five seconds while standing still or running? can it be done using long delays on the marine's frames + the health bonus, or isn't that callable from whacked?

i've been feeling like ultra-slow regen would be a welcome feature in my tyson-centric, hot and cold maps. ~sixteen minutes to go from 1% to 200% health is pseudo-punitive enough that no-one would play like that i assume

hey thanks for this really nice review :3 i got such horrible feedback on this map at first that i'm glad you've been all the way through it and seen what it's about <3

tnt evilution is sort of a funny mess but I think Steel Works is one of the best commercially released maps and is confirmed yakfak-core for having maintenance tunnels and a useless spiderdemon. i award it the gold medal

doom mods need daggerfall's devil may care decorating strats
2d billboarded cats dogs and pigs
naked people especially naked pagan people
lampposts occupying the same grid coords as trees

hundreds of extra prop people who stand around pubs or castles or outside dungeons and refuse to talk to you for reasons of unexplained distaste

torches and candles are kinda running their course

99 iq: pip install pygame
100 iq: pip install pygame --pre

how are you meant to know you're supposed to use the second one hahahahahaha hahahdfjdgyhfsuvfdsu

i think tnt map08 is *generally* a silly map that has no idea what it's doing but mm that bit with the metal staircase that you can walk around both sides is kinda fascinating... I love extra walkspace, I love those places in the forts in morrowind where you can walk under the spiral staircases until the ceiling gets too low, I love being able to walk through alleys in city maps, I like cupboards and deadends and little maintenance passages with windows you can peek up through so you can see the floor of the places you're really meant to be... and it's just so impossible to make a map of that and then present it to anyone else cos they'd be lost in one second flat lol

when people complain about sewer maps i feel like they have superhero syndrome sorry

need to release dontplay.wad some time

switched computers, just tried to speedmap and discovered i didn't have doom or any of the iwads or slade or any doom level editing software lol

should i stick with gzdb or should i learn dbx? i keep asking this i know but it's so hard to learn a new one and i remember recoiling at the lack of shift-click: select all matching contiguous textures in visual mode to the point of total allergy. but now i think i just had it set up wrong