⇛Marnetmar⇛

Possibly a video card overheating? If it overheats it wont let you reboot until its cooled down.

I hope so. If this is not put to an end, Trump and his enablers will keep telling America and the rest of the world to quit hitting themselves until everyone on the planet is dead. And then they'll only throw their heads back and laugh about what a fun time it was because all they ever wanted in the end was to watch the world burn. 

I wish this wouldn't end up being the case. That being said, though, I can't help but feel that this may actually end up happening. 

I have a strong feeling that if Trump's fuckery keeps going unchecked, it'll get just as bad as it is in pre-revolution Ukraine, or even Venezuela. 

I wish this wouldn't end up being the case. That being said, though, I can't help but feel that this may actually end up happening. 

I have a strong feeling that if Trump's fuckery keeps going unchecked, it'll get just as bad as it is in pre-revolution Ukraine, or even Venezuela. 

Wu wei & Sahaja are it for me.

Pro tip: A file doesn't exist unless it has been copied 3 times, preferably on different storage media.

And yes, I also fail to do this, however I have the habit of occassionally filling a "backup" folder and copy that over to my smartphone and several USB sticks, if it's nothing too personal I also use Google drive.

@Phade102 @MrGlide I'm going to pop the drive into my external HDD case and see if the files are salvageable. I don't see any reason for them not to be, so I'm remaining optimistic.

I hope for the best man, good luck!

@Grain of Salt While I agree my replying to this isn't likely an intelligent decision, I think you've either misunderstood what I typed or I simply didn't word my thoughts as well as I should have; that's not exactly what I was implying and I certainly hope I didn't come across so judgemental, (as that is not my place; we all live different lives and supporting one-another is the key to reaching a better place) but you are 100% correct with what you said. Also, after rereading my earlier response I can see how you got that from it, though stripping that one sentence out as a quote also removes its context...

The original messages themselves from Mar, plus statuses he posted before these ones, were vague and could have implied many things; even to infer anxiety is only considering but an end-symptom of the larger issue, as anxiety has many causes. Given the original posts' clear lack of specifics and airing too much 'dirty laundry' publicly, I wanted to be tactful and so I stuck with matching my response to be as general and vague as the information given... and given that Mar 'liked' the response, I can only assume that he liked the response. But I hadn't yet seen anyone else say "we love you Mar; feel our love," and that really needed to be said at some point; not just to be "helpful" or nice or whatever, but because it's true and I know more than a few people who I know feel that way. Add to that the fact that merely saying "I wish you the best" or 'liking' what was a negative post isn't exactly meaningful, and possibly uncouth in the latter scenario. Also the additional responses after the OP implied that Mar wanted at least a visible ear, which we all need sometimes; that's extremely important for our mental well-being and totally understandable.

I'm sure what I said wasn't perfect, finding the right words can be a daunting and perhaps impossible task at times, but I said what had to be said at the time because I care, as I'm sure many of us do, but somebody has to take the first step to say how they feel at some point. Maybe I should have typed less on account of so much left unsaid, but I wanted Mar to know he had my undivided attention then because he is important to us.

None of us are psychologists; at best some of us have taken maybe a handful of psych courses in our wild college days and some have unfortunately had to see them more personally, but none of us have studied enough of the vast cases out there to know everything (and even then the number one rule is that nothing is 100% when dealing with humans); even within the field of psychology there are many different specialities, as well as approaches/philosophies for those. Point being, DW isn't the place for real psych help; if we have one certified psychologist here it's a wonder, and the chances of them also being relevant are slim. I think that's fairly well known/to be expected. DW is a place for encouragement and socializing with regular people who share one of our main likes/hobbies in life, which I think was echoed in Mar's vague OPs here: I believe he wanted to talk to a casual friend; have an ear to listen and a heart to comfort, not open totally up to a psychologist.

Sorry for posting this here; I believe in the end we all do just want Mar to get to a happier place in life, tough as the current situation can be to live with or hopefully one day overcome. Hope is important to help us keep the drive to do whatever it is we have to do on a daily basis to get by in this often cold-feeling world. Reach for the stars and one day you might reach the moon; reach to overcome and maybe manage to find joy while living with. Might be a cliche, but something has to drive each of us; I have seen enough depression to know that.

Also, next time you talk to me, being overtly disrespectful isn't appreciated. And maybe throw a token message of encouragement/love in for the person we're here for. Get your shit together; thank you.

Hey Fonze, just want to let you know that both of your responses meant a lot and you didn't come across as judgemental at all :)

I'm gald to hear that my words meant something positive to you Mar, because I meant what I said :)

"Never beleive that anti-semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies."

Keyword being "completely". ;-)

I've been looking at this status for like 5 minutes trying to work out what on earth prompted it

So they're just trolling?

Is that a parody on someone's idea of what an HD mod for Doom 3 would look like?

That moment when you finally find your favorite gun that you accidentally flushed down the toilet.

Cool!  I loved Enpro and would be interested to see what you did here.

Thanks. I might add doom-paletted Doom 3 textures for a Marathon-y look.

i remember this

I like the look of that. Could you release it? I would be...interested trying to make it into a single player level!

Sure. It might take me a bit but I'll PM it to you. I'm curious to see what you do with it.

I've heard about this before. Neat to hear about the details. Cool that he turned his wasted 30 years into something to try to help people appreciate and survive in nature.

Interesting... Also shows what madness we're capable of as a species. Sure gives me mixed feelings...

I don't disagree, hallways aren't a bad thing in and of themselves at all if they're set up right. I was just getting after pillar usage here.

I guess it could be visualized as an astronomical body's orbit path around the pillars in question.

^On the subject of "orbiting" around pillars: It's easy to put pillars in a way that allows for this to happen, but it's vastly more difficult to create a scenario that requires this from a gameplay perspective. Not to ramble too much, though... I always like when I'm given options in regards to which way I can move, because movement in doom is very enjoyable. So I'll take the "good idea" any day. ;-)

Thanks! I don't intend on changing the overall look of the room much at all -- I'm just going to move a couple things around to make it more fun to run around in is all :)

That shot is looking very nice Forum Stapler; I'll note that even if it is a shooting gallery, at least it's one of glass-hitscanners that will move by faster than the player will notice it was a shooting gallery set up. You could always use that sense of confidence as the player advances on these quick kills to drop some more guys in from the player's back side.

Still, bad encounters are much easier to be accepted when they are over quickly, if worse comes to worse.

I can't wait for you to finish that map! I look forward to playing it :)

Thanks, hopefully soon!

The simple thing is that the first three are letting the beauty of custom textures shine. The last one is using (mostly) vanilla resources, or derivatives of them. Take that first scene and use vanilla textures. Hello 1997~ish era mapping.

Honestly though, that first screenshot (competently) rendered in stock textures would still look a lot more pleasing to me than the last shot.

They all look nice. I've noticed using gritty textures makes an area look more detailed even if it's actually somewhat basic.

If you look to your right, there is some misaligned wallpaper. "Use" it to reveal a teleporter to the kitchen.

The first 5 words are unnecessary.

You're absolutely right. What a great map.

It was probably similar to the mindset behind Doom 64: creating new levels catered to the platform's specific capabilities means selling something new and exclusive, rather than releasing a worse version of levels that were already available in a more complete form elsewhere.

Seems like a reasonable explanation. 

esselfortium already gave a good explanation but I need to say I really loved playing those levels 

That was some violint shredding.

Same. I feel like very little is known of Sandy's design ethos; a lot of it seems random or by chance, but I'd like to think some of the clever stuff he did in his maps was by design.

If you've ever read scarydarkfast, it's confirmed that the layout of E3M4 was intentionally based on human guts among a few other things I can't remember. Also, I believe it mentions Sandy Petersen being colorblind somewhere in there.