NoisyVelvet

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🎃🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃

Kids these days.

Hey Maribo, 

Do you mind if I drop something quick into your PMs? (don't worry, only 3/10 on the weird scale)

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interesting avatar...

i see... this prof pic is a clever ruse to goad me into creating the gene therapy company i always wanted and turn everyone fluffy, isn't it.  i see through your plans and will not bite!  i'm only a day in since my dry period, so you can't take the best of me.

*breathes in heavily and meditates:* do not pet the rd. do not pet teh rd. do not pet the rd.....

^{really cute avatar, i hate it.}

i like your profile pic!

Uncapped framerate not pure, but makes brain work so much gooder.

Smooth framerate make brain feel smooth too.  Hmmm. yes. good.

I've yoinked your art for the time being. :)

Hmm.  I hope you're doin' okay over there.  Quite the vibe.

Lowkey been trying to pacifist your one level.  Not sure if possible but has been a fun puzzle to chew at so far.

@BiZ, meat @Biz!. 

Now FIGHT!

Ok, I won't abuse any 180 binding in demo recording, because according to @Andrea Rovenski, it's being suppressed in a future DSDA-Doom, at least in strict-mode. 

But now I have other devils on my shoulders because I learned two things just now:  I can bind the USE action to my mouse wheel and just machine-gun spam USE when approaching switches for optimal switch pressing - kinda sketchy but super effective;  Also, Toggle Vertical Mouse Movement is a bind-able action too.  I knew about this one for a while but it always felt like a sketchy thing to me personally.  I know it's not frowned upon and a lot of people use it, but if I was already going to be corrupted by the allure of insta-180's, I might as well reconsider this one too.  When Kraflab gives you lemons, make kraflab-ade... or not.  Dunno...

I see... Windows Powershell can unzip files using "Expand-Archive filename" and it's much simpler than I thought.  Which means after downloading a Doom wad, I can eliminate all clicks from the Dooming workflow entirely instead of whatever I was doing before.

1. [Windows Key]
2. "pow"... [auto-complete; Enter]
3. "cd down"... [auto-complete; Tab]
4. "exp"... [auto-complete; Tab]
5. " My1stMa"... [auto-complete; Tab]
6. "cd My"... [auto-complete; Tab]
7. "dsda"... [auto-complete; Tab+Space+Tab x2]
8. [Enter] and start Dooming.

I feel so epic and powerful now.

Yo, maybe it's just a friday afterwork and my brain is frizzled, but your profile pic ROCKs.

Downloaded the new DSDA-Doom.  Set it up as global, copied Doom2 into it.  Still figuring out what settings I want yet, but it's mostly ready to whip out whenever.  Part of me kinda wants to keep using PrBoom-Plus, though, because it's grown on me.  It isn't the same without music playback crashing your game during a long ironman; It isn't the same without catwalks and ledges randomly sheering and disappearing from under you like during that 1 hour long D5DA2 map;  It isn't the same without having to manually ESC quit out of a demo and reload the same map over and over again for a 5000+ attempt demo.  Etc...

New port looks awesome, though.  I'll probably break into it eventually.

The Hexen stuff sounds exciting (hub maps!?).  Also, the new ENDDOOM in Windows PowerShell looks brilliant (not sure what I expected):

You made me realize something today:  The Pagodia -deh file would make for a really good Tyson set outside of "Purple Mapset".

Just think about it, a fencing match with endless amounts of juking Cacodemons and low health Cybers.  It'd be glorious.

lol

Must... resist... urge to crawl into the PMs of people that I like and type animal noises for no reason.

I'm feeling kinda loopy and droopy and ploopy :) 

Good thing Doomworld's Status Updates are broken and no one will read this.

Ahh good, just checking to see if he's still the Forum Etiquette Expert.

thx Maribo, you have me watching Animaniac clips on Youtube now, just before bedtime.  I hope my dreams won't be corrupted.

I will use the last bit of my power available to upload a meta post about me expending my final remaining power.  I was on borrowed time as it is and am blessed.  This is my final most powerful move.  Farewell...

-disintegrates into dust and blows into the wind - woosh~

too much red.  i must be ded. powering down...

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@MFG38 Damn, I got snubbed hitting submit. https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/127560-a-humble-request-regarding-difficulty-curves/

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I respect the problem: There's a sense of satisfaction and closure from completing the mapset's ultimate win-condition, that of getting to the end screen and "beating the game".  Whereas running into a wall towards the end leaves the player unsatisfied instead.  Just closing the mapset after hitting a wall doesn't always feel right.

my difficulty of preference is still no higher than HNTR, and I honestly hate it when I play a mapset that I enjoy for the first 90% of maps but then the last 10% are an almost directly vertical upward ramp in difficulty.

This part is noteworthy to me.  Knowing that players like this exist can still run into trouble, despite playing on HNTR.  In this case, it's a question of: How hard would do you nerf these maps so even the humblest of HNTR players have a path to completion; or do you just leave some in the dust and move on from mapping?

And maybe it's not a HNTR thing, and just a playstyle issue.  I.e: player doesn't enjoy/handle slaughter, and even a billion extra megaspheres added on HNTR won't make the map feel less awkward to them.

PS.
This is why I really like hub-systems/overworlds over of the conga-line-of-32-levels that most Doom sets are railroaded into by format.  Bottlenecks suck, and being able to the "beat the game" and get to the end screen without them, is nice.  

Shoutouts to the Joy of Mapping, Winter GZdoom wad.  I wish most Boom community projects had the luxury of organizing map submissions in a hub like that.

I also wonder how xvertigox is gonna handle the DIY Atari color set... there's some parkour mappers, let alone slaughter, that submitted to that, lol.

Hello Madam Catpho, I hope everything's going well over in Catpho-land.  I feel good and purple this Holiday season so far, and was hoping to extend the blessing to you.

Also, random imposing question: do you mind if I borrow a copy of your genome? - For research and theory-crafting purposes, of course.  It will help develop a Crispr-Cat-9 enzyme that I will shelf for a rainy day, while I sort out various existential issues plagueing me (or keep it as a nuclear button).  After all, you never know when you have to unleash an army of infinite Catpho's, or Thanos-snap someone into a fluffy cat.  Rest assured, I'm not one to get too carried away, though.  (probably a weird topic to discuss openly)