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  1. frithiof

    We need convenience

    I was actually a little confused when some of the powerups showed up since I couldn't figure out what they did at first glance. I also saw this. Cool :)
  2. frithiof

    Best cheap eats?

    OK, so the budget has gotten really small again, and I'm trying to think of cheap foods that I can buy and make that also taste somewhat decent. I'll get the obvious suggestions out of the way: Rice and beans with soy sauce. Ramen noodles. Anyone else have any ideas, or did I pretty much cover all of the super-cheap foods? My budget for food is somewhere around $50 a month. I'm tempted to try cooking with tofu... (I will be supplementing with vitamin B12, to avoid the obvious problems) I'm not a vegetarian, BUT I've noticed that it's possible to make decent, "meaty" meals with veggies and fruits. I wonder if it would be possible to make something like a hamburger patty with tofu, soy sauce, and bacon grease. Add a few french fries, drenched in salt, and a hamburger bun, and that could be a tolerable meal.
  3. frithiof

    Best cheap eats?

    Hot sauce is an excellent thing to add to some meals. I'm tempted to get this stuff, or something like it. Getting crystals (in powder form) would probably be a terrible idea. It's been awhile since I've had any really hot sauce. I'd probably hallucinate and cry like a baby if I tried the hardcore stuff now. Never really tried hot pepper paste, or at least the type you're thinking of, but I will put that on my To-Do List.
  4. frithiof

    Nethack 3.6.0!

    What?? I don't think I've ever beaten this game, despite playing it almost as long I've been playing Doom. I think I found it on accident back when I had a minor interest in Linux back in the 90's. I still somehow managed to die even when using Wizard mode... edit: It would be interesting if someone decided to do a partial conversion for Doom, replacing weapons, monsters, and projectiles with letters/numbers/symbols, just for novelty's sake.
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    Stuff that should be committed before new release

    Woah... there have been a lot of really good improvements over the past week or so. (And especially since the release of 0.9, which kinda looks a little crummy compared to the current builds... but a lot of new monsters, textures, sounds, maps, and weapons have been added since then.) No offense intended, but this is starting to look like a very professionally produced project. The release of 0.10 will almost certainly get a lot of positive attention.
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    Gaming in 2035

    *hits blunt* I predict that in 20 years, or somewhere around there, consoles will be chips that are directly planted on the human skull, with the ability to use processing power from the brain to generate games, movies, and whatnot inside the user's mind, eliminating the need for TVs, clunky consoles, and controllers. Kids would probably learn to do some hardcore multitasking when they are playing videogames and/or surfing the web and/or listening to music with their hidden mind's eye while performing tasks unrelated to having fun, like driving cars and performing surgery. By then it probably wouldn't be unreasonable for wifi/4G/5G/6G to be directly accessible from an implant as well. Of course, there would have to rules about DRM and such, since it could be bad if game manufacturers were remotely deleting files from the brains of their customers. (Or, God forbid, reprogramming and brainwashing their customers.) I think it would be cool if there was a military version of something like that, for soldiers, so they can get a better tactical view of the battlefield as combat is ongoing. Or communicate with each other, or transfer files with each other.
  7. frithiof

    Best cheap eats?

    B-b-but... my masculinity!! I'm kidding, of course. That's a good idea. It's probably about time I expand my culinary horizons and start figuring out how to make decent meals on a small budget. Meals that don't taste of "college"...
  8. frithiof

    Best cheap eats?

    This may be a matter of opinion, but I like their breakfast menu options a lot more than their lunch/dinner items. The $1.00 Sausage McMuffins (no egg) appear to become cost and calorie appropriate as soon as you buy two of them. Buy 3, and you're still kinda coming out ahead. (One Sausage McMuffin has 400 calories, and if you get three of them for a total of $3, not including tax, that's 1200 calories, which a ton of energy for the price. Also, more than half of it is fat, which means you will feel sated longer, and less likely to try and snack on other things until you are genuinely hungry.) I think McDonald's kinda lost some its charm when they got rid of the Super Size option, and stopped flavoring the fries with beef tallow. I think the fries taste mostly like flavorless grease and salt, now. Would it hurt to maybe use soy sauce to add a little kick to the things? And on that note, it's weird how olive oil and (Kikkoman) soy sauce can make a lot of things taste better, while simultaneously requiring few, if any, additional spices (at nearly one gram of salt per tablespoon, soy sauce kinda makes the salt shaker obsolete, and adding olive oil makes it easier to make dishes greasy without having to actually fry them, which means I can steam most of my stuff and not worry about making a huge mess).
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    The Metal / Rock Music Fans

    I might be in the minority here, but all I really need is Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon', repeating endlessly. I still find it amazing that "Meatloaf" was able to find so much success despite having such a ridiculous name. To be fair, a lot of the music is excellent.
  10. frithiof

    Best cheap eats?

    Cool. :) And yes, butter does increase happiness. I daresay that bacon grease makes you happier, though. Edit: I think I might go simple for a while and get a bunch of instant mashed potatoes. With a little vegetable oil, garlic powder, and soy sauce (for salt and that vaguely "meaty" flavor), it could be tolerable, I think. (I was never a huge fan of onions, since in my opinion they tend to have an overwhelming flavor that doesn't really complement the dish.) Made in bulk, that could be microwaveable food for a week.
  11. frithiof

    Freedoom.org

    Personally, I would have a giant, waving American flag that displayed for 20 seconds before transferring the viewer to freedoom.github.io. (That was a joke.) VVVVV - That is an excellent idea. :)
  12. frithiof

    Best cheap eats?

    ...but if you had to choose between a perfectly spiced blue steak (raw hamburger meat doesn't count, mostly because it is about as safe as eating raw bacon), with thick cut, salted fries and a pint of Guinness, or spaghetti and tuna, which would you pick? *sigh*... I know this feeling all too well. Thinking about food that is better than I can afford is like thinking about that ex- that was too good for you. I kinda feel like a rich kid that suddenly lost almost all of his money. I will look into this. Veggies are starting to look like a serious alternative to meat. And I suppose I could be super lazy and just eat things like apples for dessert (supposedly this is what some of our ancestors did back before everyone could afford the common tools in our modern kitchens). I will look into this as well. Sometimes I forget that vegetarian diets are a cost-cutting measure (versus something associated with PETA types). I might look into stockpiling cheap corn products that can be converted into other types of food, too, as wikipedia claims that this is the most mass produced "staple food". So it should be relatively cheap, right?
  13. frithiof

    Deterioration themed gameplay mod

    That's what I was kinda hoping for. Doom is kinda the game where you almost feel like a space marine with severe PTSD, and given the relative lack of plot and/or logic in later maps, sometimes it feels like I'm playing as a crazy dude. I mean, you wake up on a military base, and start killing "zombies" (which may or may not be your fellow space marines and not zombies), and then you gradually descend into Hell. Brutal Doom makes the entire concept very ambiguous... edit: PTSD does not equal crazy, but PTSD can cause problems for people, and it is not a combat specific ailment. Also, it can severely amplify problems if someone actually is crazy (pre-existing condition). It literally stands for "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder", so it makes sense that experiencing trauma could cause unintended or harmful side effects.
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    Map idea...

    This may be a dumb idea, but... for the first map of Freedoom Phase 2, maybe it could be redesigned to be a showcase for the current and new textures. For example, at the beginning, you could have two doors, one which would lead to a passage that ends the level and leads to what is currently the first level, and another door that leads to a sort of museum (maybe make it map 32 or something), with rooms that just show off the textures that exist in Freedoom (and of course this could potentially be modified to show extra textures that aren't "compatible" with Doom 1/2), and maybe have glass cases with monsters in them, or something along that vein to allow players to look at the monsters. Maybe even have shooting galleries with monsters, weapons, and ammo in them, so that artists can easily test to see how they function in the game. But no monsters in the main gallery area, to avoid killing the player. This probably sounds silly, but it probably wouldn't hurt to have a map that allows end users to easily see what kinds of actual progress have been made between updates (and it might encourage mappers if they know what is available for them to use). A room with unfinished textures/monsters (*cough*arch-vile*cough*) would probably also be a good idea...
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    Major retexture with unique, new set?

    I thought the idea in the other thread was to make a community project that was essentially going to be a standalone TC that was based upon Freedoom, while allowing Freedoom to take bits and pieces from it if they were applicable to the project. I think that Freedoom's mission of being an IWAD replacement for Doom 1/2/TNT/Plutonia should remain the same, and it probably wouldn't hurt for a constantly evolving fork to exist, wherein the mission is to create an evolving TC and/or new variant of the old game. I personally think it would be interesting if several years down the line, the projects ended up being merged, and we ended up with something that could be used as an IWAD replacement, and a new game at the same time. And if new content was constantly being introduced to both elements, it would be pretty amazing.
  16. frithiof

    Map idea...

    Oops. Sorry about all of this... edit: The test map is pretty cool, just to see what's available, and what's been done. Making it map 33, and inaccessible without using the level warp cheat probably wouldn't be the worst of ideas... but that's just my opinion.
  17. frithiof

    Best cheap eats?

    It's pretty much the same in the states. When I have the money, I'll eat out, but I always keep a bag or two of rice and beans stashed away for the slightly more embarrassing times. I used to eat just rice and beans when I was in the army to save money. Boring as hell, but cost effective. I would eat different types of potato chips at work with the rice and beans, and homemade french fries at the barracks, to keep myself from getting bored with eating identical meals all day long (and to prevent myself from "cheating"). This is excellent advice. I'm not Irish, but I'm a HUGE fan of the potato (and to a slightly lesser extent, "Welsh Rarebit", which presumably was the inspiration for the somewhat popular combination of french fries, cheddar, and bacon bits). I think you can also get a nice tan if you eat enough carrots. ;) I will try those ideas. Thank you. :) Heh. :) Being in college sucks sometimes... (not poking fun at you, but rather myself; funds are not as plentiful when you are in college) edit: Laugh if you want, but when I was a kid, I remember my parents making sandwiches for me when I was going to school that literally consisted of one slice of white bread, cut in half, and a bunch of Crisco. Gross, in retrospect, but I didn't get fat, and it kept me from feeling hungry.
  18. frithiof

    Best cheap eats?

    I wasn't specifically thinking about that, but I suppose if I were to wander the USA during the summer, cannibalism COULD be a viable option. You would be surprised if you knew how little the police care about people that go missing.
  19. frithiof

    Deterioration themed gameplay mod

    Oh no you di int!
  20. frithiof

    Deterioration themed gameplay mod

    And yet... it's probably better than the gameplay mod in this thread.
  21. frithiof

    Map idea...

    But that still leaves the question of "Why would this be bad for Freedoom?" Dismissing an idea because it was implemented poorly in another game is not necessarily a good idea... (for example, what is your actual objection to my idea?)
  22. frithiof

    Map idea...

    I don't want to be rude, but I don't know what you are referencing, and your broken English makes it hard to understand what you are trying to express, beyond the dismissal of my idea.
  23. frithiof

    We need convenience

    I'm not entirely sure this is the direction this thread needs to go in... As an outsider who is more of an end-user of Freedoom (and a cheerleader, I suppose), I support the idea of forking Freedoom, with one fork being dedicated to the original mission of creating Doom 1/2/TNT/Plutonia compatible IWADs, and one fork dedicated to taking Freedoom in a different direction. I agree that it probably would make sense for them to develop separately, and maybe share resources here and there. Perhaps some artists would feel less restricted if they didn't feel obligated to make things vaguely Doom-like, and maybe some of those things might end up fitting in Freedoom, or vice versa. That being said, if the fork of Freedoom might crank things up to 11, maybe Freedoom really should consider making most of the maps vanilla, to increase compatibility. VVVVV - I actually kinda like Freedoom because it's kinda like what you would get if people kept trying to improve Doom after it was released. At this point in time, I feel confident that Freedoom has the potential to be better than Doom in some ways. Also, Doom is cool for what it is, but I really only play the shareware episode when I'm feeling nostalgic. Doom 2 had the SSG, but some of the levels kinda stunk. Nowadays it's mostly mods/maps/OBLIGE... stuff you don't really need the original IWADs for most of the time anyway. It also seems weird to want to cancel the project when over the last couple years it has gotten significantly closer to being an actual, functional set of IWAD replacements.
  24. frithiof

    Deterioration themed gameplay mod

    That reminds me of the time I put a cat in a box. Except I attached a special device to the cat: it was a Geiger counter, but in the counter was a small bit of a radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. Anyhow, I never bothered to see how the experiment ended. Did the cat survive and get out of the box, or did it die? I will probably never know, and I don't really care.
  25. frithiof

    We need convenience

    Yeah, maybe Stallman isn't the best person to reference...
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