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(not) mapping rant
> hasn't mapped seriously in a month
> suddenly, out of boredom, fires up DB2
> makes 1024x1024 square COMPTALL room
> feels creatively exhausted
> alt+f4
Goddammit, I have promised to make 3 maps! Whoo.
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Startan texture before I start do something new, makes me nervous and combine that with default music, it strikes me with mapper's block for few days or weeks.
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^ ha, I didn't even use STARTAN, and I didn't even get to the part where I run the map (and hear the default music), yet I suffered from the same. :]
(by the way, I usually place my maps in the MAP05 slot while I'm working on them, because d_doom is cool. :] )
@leodoom85 no need to @@@mention the guy to whose status you're replying :]
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Hahaha...ok man :P
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14:20
"Hey, who's this XXXTentacion guy? Yo I've heard the name before, seems familiar. OK I'll check this song out."
16:30
"Huh I'm starting to like this XXXTentacion guy. I'll start downloading his latest album, go for a walk and hopefully it will have finished by the time I get back."
19:25
"Hey mr waiter dude, what's the WiFi password? Thanks!"
*checks instagram*
"WTF, he has just died?"
True story
RIP XXXTentacion 1998-2018
I got into your stuff a lot later than I probably should have
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A rather... delicate question.
I should be ashamed.
in that closed Laz Rojas thread in Doom General, Linguica mentions "one of the most toxic and sociopathic threads he's ever seen". Could anyone tell/remind me which one was that? That description sounds interesting, and I've got a bad memory.
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Almost a month since I started wearing braces and that gum-like thing, the teeth do "feel" a bit different. Yay!
Also I've gotten used to having a long piece of metal wire in my mouth. The ends of it get stuck in my cheeks sometimes but it's bearable.
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Also a map of mine got a 4-star rating from Zalewa. I can die as a fulfilled man now.
Why oh why can't I map like that anymore. :]
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Amazing bit of English language knowledge discovered during preparations for my exam: "Incidentally" = "By the way".
Vocabulary broadened by 20%.
Incidentally, before learning the word's actual meaning, I would always mix it up with "coincidentally", which has a completely different meaning.
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The moar you know :P
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Arrrgh due to the braces I'm unable to chew normally, hell yeah, so I just kinda "pull" food with my teeth so fun
Also flossing teeth with braces is the single most difficult process ever invented by humanity
The next 1,5 yrs will be fun, I sense it
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bzzrak messed up something again
Some time ago I booted up my computer and it started making a very loud beeping noise, then I just restarted it and it now works as normal. Apparently.
But the question is:
why the hell did it beep?
Should I be worried?
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My old computer would make a constant annoying sound, because of the broken CPU fan. When it started up, I would punch it to stop the noise and it stopped (the fan worked normally after hitting it). Though I had to do that every time I opened the computer. Why isn't it dead yet is beyond my logic.
Also, I had a Windows 98 PC when I was 5 years old, that for some reason was messed up and from one point and afterwards, the screen was like 50 shades of blue (it only had blue colors). I remember moving it once and it restored the original colors, but when I accidentally touched it, it became blue again. That was probably the fault of the GPU or the cable connecting the monitor with the tower. I will never know...
And now my laptop keeps heating up like crazy, but I am out of budget for a laptop cooler. So what do I do? I placed a blue towel under the laptop, so that it doesn't heat the table, which in turn heated the laptop. Now it is somewhat cooler.
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stop it guys :O
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My laptop is held together by one screw. It sits on an angle because it constantly overheats. When it does I have to use pressurized air to clean the ventducts. The internal keyboard died a year ago so I use an auxiliary keyboard now. Recently I got disc reading errors and very recently the fan started sounding weird.
I am not certain here, but maybe it is because this laptop is 9 years old.
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Bzzrak's Risen3D rants, part 2
How to have 3D floors on top of each other in Risen3D?
You literally draw sectors on top of each other! (you have to disable merging vertices in DB2 before that)
So... if you wanna have 3 platforms above each other, you literally draw 3 sectors on the same goddamn place, then you utterly destroy your brain trying to figure out what sector does each linedef belong to, and study the demo WADs to death just in order to check what sector should each sidedef reference to.
It's literally impossible to figure how do some features work. And I haven't even got to studying scripting yet.
Dear god.
However, a feature I will compliment is that if you mess something up and run the map, the port will crash and tell you exactly what should be fixed.
I use that one a lot, heh.
The worst part is that I asked4it myself. For 2018, would a 3DGE map be troll-y enough?
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Bzzrak's Risen3Dification, part 4:
Remember that last rant about the sucky node-builder? Well, I've found a work-around, sort of. If the node-builder is being a naughty assface as usual, select some random linedefs around the place that is glitching, and press Shift+S (split linedef in DB2).
It might work. No warranty provided.
I hate being forced to do that just in order for my map to not have HOMs caused by the horrible node-builder, though.
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I'm starting to feel like I understand what I'm doing, that can't be good.
Slowly figuring out scripts. It is hard, but it does feel like something that makes some sense, unlike the 3D floor features.
You've got map Things ("script spots"), and when you trigger some linedefs (which are connected to the script spots via "linedef spots" -- also map Things), stuff happens. After you figure out some concepts, it does start to feel like something usable. Or my brain is becoming something unusable, I'm not quite sure.
One thing that does feel very refreshing is the lack of a palette. YAY I can use YELLOW and PURPLE textures as much as I want!
The map itself though... I haven't recovered yet from the impact of my philosophical semi-trollmap on my mapping style. An ambush with 20 Barons and a switch behind that kills them all, that's so much demonstrating the port's features.
To summarise:
It'll be great if this actually ends up in DMP2017.
I'm amazed with my persistence, TBH.
Thank you for devoting your time to reading some total stranger's rant about a niche Doom source-port and its influence on that stranger's mental health. :]
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Bzzrak's Risenation3D, part 3.25
Another thing about Risen3D that can backstab you quite frequently is the node-builder. As far as I can tell, R3D has a built in node-builder derived from an old-ass version of GLBSP (2.05 IIRC, while the last one was 2.20-sth, released quite a few years later).
That thing breaks very easily. The R3D editing process is very brainpower-consuming by itself, now I have to care about the GODDAMN NODE-BUILDER?
Just let me draw goddamn vertices where I want to, for god's sake, and don't make me think about whether the stupid node-builder can make the map look as I want it to.
Jeff Bird (the origwad author) would be proud... or probably not.
Rantification finishification.
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Bzzrak's Risening3D, part 3
OK, I have been studying a bit of scripting and everything, now I do understand it a little more than I should. Drawing linedefs on top of each other is still a difficult concept to grasp for my stupid brain, especially when coupled with having to manually edit sector references. Darn, this is HARD! As the properties of a 3d floor are specified in upper textures, if you have a height difference which requires an actual upper texture, you have to draw a separate set of linedefs only for the 3d floor, and then mess with sector references until you die of boredom.
The result of all that: I've started making the actual map... the problem is: after my previous philosophical and conceptual semi-trollmap, I've completely forgotten how to do legit awesome mapping. Not that I ever knew it, but I did try. Now I've forgotten how to do even that.
I do crap I never did before, like making circular rooms. The worst part: the radius of every one is a multiply of 82, because when made into a circle in db2's curve linedefs option, you get a curve whose total length is a multiple of 256.
But... I HATE circular rooms!!! What's happening? My orthogonality seems to "wrap around"!
But yeah, the map is gonna be something really sensational if/when finished.
Conclusion: people, don't make philosophical semi-trollmaps.
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Can I have another week ban to get away from this place a bit, please, mods?
Uhm, code OLYMPICS GENETICS?
Thanks a bunch! <3 <4 <5 <3 <3 <3
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Change your DW password to something long and annoying to type in, so that the annoyance of logging in is slightly stronger than the compulsive urge to check DW. Then log out.
Or better yet, for more layers, change your password to the answer to a puzzle. maybe use software to generate the answer, or an encrypted version of the answer, but just copy and paste the answer, without memorizing it, into your new password box.
Or, I bet there's some browser plugin that just locks websites for you for a certain amount of time, i dunno.
ps. I just googled and found this: StayFocusd plugin I only skimmed the description but it sounds like what you're looking for (i never used it). As long as you aren't finding yourself the urge to uninstall the plugin after you start the timer to circumvent the whole thing, then you're fine. But I wouldn't want to put that idea into your head so I probably shouldn't mention it.
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Colloquial Greeting Commonly Used In Informal Occasions WHAT'S Risen Above The Horizon?
Pronoun Referring To The Speaker AM BACK IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T Become Aware
HAVE YOU State Of Feeling Absence ME?
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Did you know that...
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(intentionally making it look like clickbait, yes, I'm a very bad man)
...the "My Attachments" menu lets you see how many downloads did your attachments get? That's so badass.
The total limit is 20 MB, by the way; I have occupied 1,04 for now.
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Does anyone here speak Hebrew?
I need the name "Nick Wilde" translated into that language, Google Translate won't cooperate.
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Does the source-port you're using affect your demon killing skillZ0rZ?
The other day I was masochistic enough to try to replay map15: Industrial Zone in Cancer3D Risen3D and my ass kept getting kicked, despite having mouselook under my belt.
Today I tried the same in Chocolate Doom and this time the ones who got their asses kixXx0rd were the demons. God bless fraggle.
Does this happen to others as well?
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All ports have their pluses and respective feeling; with SP ports it's a bit tougher for me to justify playing all of them regularly without getting sucked into the preferred port, but on MP's end I highly disagree with not playing on all of the triumvirate, save operating system limitations, such as zd to Linux. Though I'll note that I also love some ChocoDM from time to time, too.
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edgy, sadistic rant
Whenever I feel hopeless, I find some group on a social network or a site where people share depressive stories about how disappointed they are in people, society, humanity, anything. I laugh at the whiny sissies, and the hopelessness goes away like a charm.
No, I don't feel bad at the slightest. I've already told you countless times that I'm the worst person this planet has ever seen.
OK, maybe a leeeedle bit. But that's it.
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^ I live in Serbia, but I go to a Russian school. It's kinda complicated. So that makes three languages, heh. :]
You should totally learn a second one, man. One of those decisions that ends up being useful either way.
Hey, if the edgy sadistic me learnt the monstrous beast that is Russian (it is, really), I'm sure that you (or anybody else, heh) will have no difficulties wth French!
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end of an era :_(
Does anyone have any particular suggestions for my new avatar (which will reflect this sad event)? :]
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It says "Enable status updates?"
I remember the glorious 13th March when nobody could figure out that you had to enable statuses in order to be able to post them. Good times.
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Yeah, I read it, but I had to mouse over it.
I have a thought... Maybe if there's a surviving screenshot of the forums page with 4 or more Slimz updates on it. Or anybody else for that matter. It's funny, but almost certain to earn you an enemy. :-P
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Folks, I have for some reason claimed a map in a ZDoom-format CP. And for some reason I want to try to use the advanced stuff (and fail miserably as always). Is there some sort of manual of Hexen format that would be "adapted" for Doom format freaks such as yours truly? Thanks!
...betcha I'll end up making a vanilla map anyway.
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FRUSTRATED RANT:
From now on I'll be playing Doom with cheats only.
I wonder when will I get bored of it? Seems like an interesting experiment. Also probably a good opportunity to check out some slaughtermaps that I hate so much.
Yes, I know I'm a jackass, a disgrace, an attention whore, a teenage scene-queen, the personification of shame and I should smash my cortex into a concrete wall ASAP. All of that and probably something I might've missed.
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Oh no y u do dis now u are a...
*reads from a smudged hand*
jack ads, dis brace, an attention shore, a bean age steel-queer, the personification of share and you should...
*rolls up the sleeve*
slash your vortex into a donkey-crate ball as soon as pausible.
*rolls down sleeve*
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*high fives his own face*
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This isn't a rant =( I want my 10 seconds back.
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FYI I've somehow made your pic with the snake my background in my browser's speed dial. I dunno how did I do it or how to change it, so I'll have to stick with it.
...I feel like you should know that. :P
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goddammit I missed that spam thread by literally a second or so. What was in there? I feel the obsessive urge to know.
(the one by @Letsplaycharities.)
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goddamn visplanes rant
you can increase the blocking geometry in size as much as you want
you can add as many blocking decorations as you want
you can remove as much detail as you want
but you'll still have 1337 137 visplanes
Life would be SO much easier if the visplane limit was only slightly larger. 144, and my neural system would be in a better condition now.