THEBaratusII

Some good days, some bad days. Though I will add that between 2012 to the end of 2019, (2021 wasn't great either) I was in one of the lowest points in my life. I was just some insecure teenager (with anger problems) that kept doing things that I ended up not being proud of, and was dealing with the bullshit that I went through with the public school system. It got to a point that I ended up eating a lot of food just to relieve myself from most of the stress and anxiety I endured, I almost became a diabetic in the process. I think what got me out of it and led me to changing to become a better person was joining Discord communities for both the DOSBox Deathmatch Club and Razorback95. (though Razorback's Discord server had shutdown two years ago) Prior, I was mostly a loner, and I would get very anxious about talking to people I am not familiar with because I worry that I would upset them. Now I have learned a lot being active there, and nowadays I don't see myself even using Facebook (it used to be my go to platform at the time) anymore as I made new friends. (I have my friend group in my own Discord server) I've also matured, and last year I went from 333lbs to about 202lbs in about a year and around 6 months. (thanks diet!) As much as I hated my past, I ended up learning a lot from that too. I hope to continue improving myself as time goes on.

Aside from occasional caffeine and prescriptions for my sleep schedule that is being held together by duck tape and glue I don't really see myself taking hard drugs and drink beer/alcohol, as I already had a relative that is a drug addict and already is in a downwards spiral at this point. :/

If you want to wish to play or make modifications for games like Doom, I highly recommend getting a PC. You don't have to start out with a $1000 PC either, though my experience with computers started with a Pentium III Dell PC that was manufactured in 2000 and this was back in 2006 when that became my first PC, and I assume others had machines with the Pentium 4 or even the brand new Core 2 Duo CPUs at the time. Anyway, I remember back in around 2018, I spent maybe a couple hundred dollars on a Dell Optiplex 9020, which had an i7-4090 which is a 2014 CPU. All it needed was a dedicated GPU (In my case I used a GTX 1050 Ti) and it became a decent gaming rig especially for those starting out. I think nowadays you could spend about the same amount on a pre-built Dell with an Intel i7-9700. But since I started becoming a power-user, I ended up saving up slowly since 2020 to build my own PC. But I got lucky this year and got enough money to complete my custom build. I call it the Vanquisher (named after a song from Mechina's Acheron album of the same name) which currently has an i9-10850k, 32GB DDR4 and a Radeon 7600 XT 16GB GDDR6. While I don't usually play many demanding games often, it currently serves me well with video-editing/encoding and VTubing. Oh! and emulation as well if you want to play console games. ^^

Quake Won is great, but have you ever played Quake Too?

Okay, so it turns out I tested through DOS 1.9 EXE and while yes it is supposed to pan real fast, but I decided to test it in multiplayer again, this time with @ZNukem and it turns out the clients only see a non-panning texture while I can see the panning texture. Odd.

I don't know if this was reported already or not, but I was playing Plutonia co-op with friends and noticed that the texture pan extremely fast. But it's only visible to the host, as my friends told me they didn't notice it unless they looked at my shared screen via Discord.

I recall the Blood community is still somewhat around. just not as popular as it once was during the 2010s. Though I might be referring to multiplayer the most because I was enjoying the multiplayer since the Meltdown days. (long before people barely using it ever since it was said to be malware) Nowadays, most of my Blood multiplayer time is spent at the DOSBox Deathmatch Club. As for singleplayer, I've been meaning to check out the user addons.

Alien Shooter

I made the switch to 64-bit at the near of 2012 I believe. Aside from the lack of compatibility for 16-bit applications, (at least we have winevdm for that) I don't see myself reverting back. Though I only use 32-bit OSes for hobbyist reasons. (like vintage computing)

I know this is just me nitpicking, but it's "THEBaratusII", not "THEBaratus". Also I might take a crack at porting over more WADs sometime.

I remember chatting about this with people over at the DOSBox Deathmatch Club Discord last year, I thought I want to share this here. So I remember coming across a game by Kaos Kontrol that is like a clone to Crack Dot Com's 1995 game Abuse, called Genocide that was released in 1998 but later got a remixed version about a year later. But what interests me the most is their upcoming title called "Block War" While this game never got released/finished, this game claims to be a combination of Postal's gore and the strategy of Command & Conquer. So I assume it's like a hybrid third person real time strategy game? There weren't really many screenshots out there aside from a magazine scan I found off of Archive.org. The game is apparently compared to Bullfrog's 1996 game Syndicate Wars, but looking at the screenshots these models look like they've been ripped off from Quake II. I don't know if it was meant as a placeholder or not but we won't know for sure as the developers (I think) quietly disappeared sometime after their last game Blowout came out in 2003. Which speaking of, Terminal Reality (the creators of Terminal Velocity, Fury3, and Hellbender) were involved in developing Blowout.

I was in the middle of making an Unreal deathmatch map but I put it on hold to binge Doom since the re-release happened. Still a work in progress, just patiently working on it at my own pace. ^^ * level name to be decided *

The intermission offset seems off when playing Widescreen turned off and playing at a Widescreen resolution. (1920x1080)

Nice! I've also have put together a presentable version of EARTH for the re-release of Doom myself. Will check out Roger's other works someday.