Ed

Oh, that's just evil. That film will ruin your weekend. Probably one of the bleakest movies ever made and the classic, lofi BBC patina only seems to make it that much more dismal. I'm going to roll with Halloween III: Season of the Witch. The black sheep of the series, but the only film I know of to deal with witchcraft on an apocalyptic scale.

As a mapper, yes, absolutely. Once you establish a level of detail, it commits the rest of the build to that standard, which drains your creative stamina.

One of Trey's guitars with a not so subtle reference

Movies: Pontypool Bad Taste The Thing Anti Christ Reanimator Altered States The Dead Next Door Jacob's Ladder Tetsuo the Iron Man Evil Dead II Night/Dawn/Day of the Dead Return of the Living Dead Dead Alive Videodrome Mordum

Junior shredding it up on Zandronum

20 years of Doomworld is closer

Cool! Thanks for sharing this. Didn't realize the Mastermind model was quite that large.

I can imagine that, definitely. I don't think their tactics in getting a foothold in the money stream is going to be as blunt as legal whack-a-mole. The Youtube channels, user commentary, mods and everything else become part of the larger experience. They know user created content drives desirability of the product and sustains popularity. It's not the users that are sitting on a mountain of gold for this, it's the channels in which the content is hosted. If they hold everyone, including content creators, to a standard in which their intellectual property can be monetized, it would be in Zenimax's better interests to allow user content to flourish and then press the hosting sites for compensation.

I don't think creating uncertainty in the Doom community on account of Sarge would be the big downside for Bethesda in enforcing any legal action against his Patreon account. His decision to open a Patreon account is exception within the Doom community because of it's traditional openness and general 'share and share alike' collective mindset. In other modding scenes, I don't think it would be quite as alien to do so. That snowballs into Youtube content creators, Soundcloud DJs and anyone else that generates a revenue stream through Patreon by modifying other people's intellectual property. That's a can of worms that Bethesda would probably avoid opening at all costs.

After reviewing those chat logs, I am sure Mark will dispatch any future legal disputes he may have in a mature, tactful manner.

I think on whether or not legal action would be warranted would depend on how the Patron account is presented. If it were worded as such that monetary compensation is desired for work directly related to a mod, then there could be a case. We all know who SgtMarkIV is and what he does and why anyone would consider donating to his Patron account, but a Patron account can be opened for completely arbitrary reasons not directly related to modding or anything else for that matter. I don't think that Mark is making money hand over fist from his Patron account. Best case scenario, just enough to make up for the loss of revenue doing something more lucrative, like a running lemonade stand. Now, if Doomworld or another gaming site were to pursue advertisement revenue not to make a profit but to make up for operating costs, could Bethesda issue a C&D in that scenario?

Trying to channel my inner Skinny Puppy superfan with some Sunday night synth jammin'. Everything is live off the board being sequenced from my PC via FL Studio. There's a lot of CC automation on the live synths. My phone is also set-up to receive MIDI in and being used an instrument as well, stacking some choir samples from my old Korg X5.

Post-shower / pre-bedtime situational picture Son: "I'm doing a Sonic pose, so you have to do Knuckle's pose" Me: "I don't know what Knuckle's pose is" Son: "Just look tough" Best attempt

Oh god, this post brought up some deep seeded Waded ptsd. The uncompleted beta looked to rectify some of the workflow hang-ups, but a stable release just never came to be.. The worst parts on my end were 1) CRASHING! What a finicky bitch that program was. If you double dropped a vertex on one spot and tried to make the sector, that cursed white text brick would pop in the lower left corner. 2) I remember there was some linedef count limitation that was determined by the amount of ram you had. I remember upgrading my ram and getting excited to have a few dozen more to work with. The program was written in QBasic. Source code was promised, never released. The author went on to make another buggy-ass editor for Quake, Qoole. It had a great interface and a beta that was poised to squash the editors hangups, Qoole99. A stable release never came to fruition with that, either. Such a cock-tease. Edit: a DOSBox community project where you had to build exclusively with a 90s era editor would be probably be pretty interesting!

Valhalla was a real breakthrough map for me. I was plagued with a lot of personal problems at the time and this map was a therapeutic process in getting through them. Also, I had reached a stylistic dead-end with my previous maps. I really kinda carved out what would be my mapping style in this one. I've made better maps (Warp House), I've made worse (Putrefier), but this will probably never be replaced as my favorite personal work.

"some women do deserve tortures, and Pussy Riot are the first candidates on it."

You had me up until the 3d printed part. I mean, maybe the end product would be something that is constructed in the way of 3d printing to resemble the desired food product and probably the most desirable taste and texture.. but I don't know about printing it into just whatever. It would be utterly insane to go into a Wendy's and at table 1 there's a kid eating an Air Jordan sneaker, and over in the booth there's someone eating a Tom Brady bust and some teenagers end up printing a Baconator into the shape of a comically large penis and leaving it on the table. I don't think we could expect sensible restraint.