Doomkid

What 40 said!!

I challenge you, Memfis! What's up for grabs? Two months of any avatar the victor chooses! I think the Doomshack California servers will provide as good a bridge as any between Russia and Australia :) I'm okay with ZD, Zand or Odamex - Your choice. The frag limit will be 50, and I'm okay with using duel40, zddl or duelpack as our packs to pick maps from. So, whadda ya say? You got off without a custom title last time, I can't let that slide!

Hmm, I'm not sure why it's opening to e1m1, it sounds like your GZdoom has somehow been set to automatically use doom.wad rather than doom2.wad, however I'm not sure how to fix that. This project has been on hiatus for a while now, but I still definitely intend to get it done, full time work just gets in the way. Don't worry about being MIA for a while, OfficerPipebomb - you're still on the team! Within the next few weeks I'll hopefully have something new to post. It's not dead, it just smells a little funny at the moment :)

Rush 2 for N64 and Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 for PC. Both of these games are fantastic, I'd love to see these games with updated graphics, but keeping the gameplay identical. That would be awesome.

I disagree - fuck the asshole posters, they're the ones with a chip on their shoulder!

Oh, I see, thanks for clarifying. I definitely agree that it's shallow as hell to blame many for the actions of a few.

It's like the world's most boring multicart, but it's authentic The bootleggers had me covered on this device (except a better version) like 10 years ago but it's still a nice nod to the ol' classics. EDIT: Holy fuckballs, they want $80 AU for this thing? Good joke

Ugh! Memfis, get your ass back here!

I'm putting my Zappa avatar on the line. Hopefully Memfis/kuchitsu accepts my challenge! (He better not be awol!)

I'm curious why you guys don't think body cam footage should just be easily accessible? I do sorta see where you're coming from, but that will not only hold police more accountable for their actions, but is probably the only acceptable compromise/first step to patching up relations between police and civilians. Innocent people will no longer have a reason to fear cops unless they actually are criminals if everyone involved knows they're being recorded. It just seems like a win-win for good cops and good civilians, they only people with a reason not to want this are dodgy cops and dodgy people. It's a shame it's come to this, but still, it's come to this. Is there any other reasonable compromise? I really can't think of one.

What a fucking worthless loser. Insanity, just sheer insanity.. Hopefully the residents of Nice will be able to pick up the pieces.

If you assume anything about anyone based on statistics, you are generalising. I'm not saying that makes you a bad person or whatever, but that is the definition of the term. Generalising has it's place, far as I'm concerned, but you can't say you aren't generalizing because that's simply inaccurate according to the definitions of the terms you're using. Does generalising make you the next Hitler Satan 9000? No, not necessarily, but literally assuming anything is generalising. Even people who don't admit they do it do it all the time. Generally speaking humans have an urge to quantify things, I believe that's why its pretty much unavoidable. EDIT: Also I definitely agree that claiming victimhood helps nobody and that we should be focusing on how to fix what's broken rather than continually indulging in discussion about the superfluous elements like "privilege" and such. I'd love to see some actual, legitimate proposals about what to do rather than the continual pointless name calling and such we see presented by the media.

I don't remember who said it, but earlier in the thread, someone pointed out that there mere vocabulary - the use of the word "privilege" is what makes people take issue with these claims. The right to a normal life should not be called a "privilege", but a right, and it should be pointed out that certain groups aren't given their full human rights. I don't think anyone could disagree with that claim given all the evidence, but as soon as people start referring to basic freedoms as "privilege" it only serves to divide us on the bottom and take focus off the real issue here: No one is "privileged" to be treated like a human being, rather the people who aren't granted the same rights are discrimated against. The term "Discrimination" implies something is seriously wrong and needs to be done about it. The term "privilege" being used for human rights implies they aren't actually rights but rather an advantage that "us whites" need to have taken away from us. I wish someone in the mainstream would just fucking say this already. The choice of words is very important and indeed sends an entirely different message when it's presented without the bullshit "spin" vocabulary. I doubt anyone in power wants it to be presented this way though - as it is, all of us at the bottom are at each others throats, letting the elite slide on by scratch free, as per usual. Really, that's just par for course at this point.

Yeah, it's pretty sad that even celebrities like Patton Oswalt claim anyone who doesn't like this piece of trash has to be a woman hating mouth breather. I don't have it quoted exactly, but yes, he actually said that. There are loads of examples of this pathetic cash grab being defended from any sort of criticism and labelling all critics as woman haters: http://www.salon.com/2016/05/18/angry_video_game_nerds_calm_down_about_ghostbusters_its_still_a_comedy_about_ghosts_and_those_who_bust_them/ http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/05/the-sexist-outcry-against-the-ghostbusters-remake-gets-louder/483270/ https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/ghostbusters-is-youtubes-most-hated-trailer-the-in/151bc115-3081-439b-af8d-b870d56c7ba0.htm https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/twitter-shits-itself-after-whiny-man-baby-refuses-/8204b8b3-fe2c-448b-a16b-61a850982e69.htm http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/291025/ghostbusters-james-rolfe-cinemassacre/ http://www.dailydot.com/unclick/ghostbusters-reboot-movie-critic-refuses-to-review/ Pretty fucking sad.

ZDaemon Thursday Night Survival #257 - The Beginning of the End (Part II Revisited) Date: 14th July 2016 Euro session: 19:00 BST/14:00 EDT at Ducks, Czech Republic (usually lasts over 6 hours) Zandronum Friday Night Fragfest #331: DBAB LMS & Push European FNF: July 15th, 2016, 18:00 UTC American FNF: July 15, 2016, 20:00 EDT ZDS #463 - 32in24-7 CTF - Part II - 2nd Chance Date: Saturday 16th July 2016 Euro: 19:30 BST / 14:30 EDT USA: 01:00 BST / 20:00 EDTBe sure to check out the Multiplayer forum for discussion about clans, matchmaking and other fun events. Happy fragging!

ZDaemon Thursday Night Survival #257 - The Beginning of the End (Part II Revisited) Date: 14th July 2016 Euro session: 19:00 BST/14:00 EDT at Ducks, Czech Republic (usually lasts over 6 hours) Zandronum Friday Night Fragfest #331: DBAB LMS & Push European FNF: July 15th, 2016, 18:00 UTC American FNF: July 15, 2016, 20:00 EDT ZDS #463 - 32in24-7 CTF - Part II - 2nd Chance Date: Saturday 16th July 2016 Euro: 19:30 BST / 14:30 EDT USA: 01:00 BST / 20:00 EDTBe sure to check out the Multiplayer forum for discussion about clans, matchmaking and other fun events. Happy fragging!

TFW Quasar points out that this shitty film is being defended by certain people simply because it has an all female cast despite looking really shitty and an_mutt somehow hears that as "this film is shitty because wimmins". Seriously, to pretend this film hasn't been defended by the mainstream is to wave off reality. There is a fabricated claim that everyone who dislikes it has to be some woman-hating basement dweller. That narrative is being pushed, all to defend a shitty attempt at a 'progressive' remake. Do I think it's ridiculous? Of course I do, but that doesn't just suddenly mean it isn't happening. Most people think it looks bad because it looks bad. Or I mean we can go ahead and live in a fantasy world where a bunch of mainstream publications didn't lynch popular voices like AVGN for pointing out that the movie looks crappy and immediately assuming he "hates women". The reality is though, that DID happen. A narrative is being pushed. Do I think it's some big conspiracy or something? Of course not, but please stop pretending that naysayers haven't been portrayed in an extremely negative and hateful light for merely not wanting to go watch this film. The extreme divisiveness resulted from that rubbish, it didn't cause it. I only bring this up because it's what's actually happening.

Just to be clear, other than those bodies, every other change you made was a huge improvement and really is appreciated! :) By the way, was there a version of Map05 where you fixed the too-low-ceiling outside area in the middle, or am I just hallucinating again? If not I'll be happy to raise that roof, it looks odd with the sky "cutting off" the blue room, which is how I (absent mindedly) designed it in the first place.

Sorry for how unclear my post was - I agree entirely, it's just a sad state of affairs when my human rights being slightly less trampled by unruly cops is considered a privlege or a thing to be thankful for. The fact that anyone has to feel scared of police officers even when they haven't done a single wrong thing is flat out disgusting. I agree that anyone who genuinely thinks that way is being wilfully ignorant, but I also think we could get people of this mindset on the side of logic and justice if we harped on less about racism and more about classism, that's all. I think it's more relevant and would also be more effective in uniting the common man.

The only privilege I'm aware of is that if a cop pulls me over if I happen to visit the U.S., I'd be slightly less likely to be murdered in cold blood. Hardly some big privilege and hardly something I feel "responsible" for just because I was born with a certain skin pigmentation. I can't think of a single thing in my life that was handed to me just because I'm white. I've been picked on by police, I've been mistreated by authority. This idea that the common white man needs to "accept responsibility" is frankly hogwash as there's little we can do beyond treating people with respect. Conversely, there's a lot a rich person could do. They have the ability to accuse assets with ease. It would take exponentially less time for a rich person to find a position in the government and actually work to change this shit. It doesn't even have to go that far - my point is that pointing the finger at people who can't do jack about the issue isn't going to get us anywhere, so how about we hold the wealthy people shaking hands with the lawmakers responsible, as if they were under enough pressure, they would actually have the means to change things. Harping on about white privlege will not get us anywhere and will certainly not help relations between the common black man and the common white man. Band together and put the pressure where it belongs - that's what we need to do. As a relatively poor white man, I can't do shit to stop systemic oppression, but if we all come together and state loud and clear the the people with power need to make changes or be overthrown, we might actually get a little fire burning under the asses of the people who see us as mere pawns.

I think I'm just frustrated by this idea that white people as a whole owe black people as a whole something, and I fully understand that isn't an idea you're pushing, but it's just unfortunate we're still falling into that "point fingers at each other on the bottom" mentality that the powerful want us to stay in. Bringing up white privlege is far less relevant than bringing up rich privilege, but I see the former discussed exponentially more than the latter, which is disproportionate to the actual problems that we as a society face.

It was more that your claim that white people benefit solely from being white could clearly be read as "making something out of your life is less impressive if you did it with that white privilege on your side". It belittles the achievements of poor white people, because after all, they're white - The system is on their side, man! It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to claim that white privlege is real and simultaneously claim that escaping poverty isn't easier just because you're white. The fact is, escaping poverty is extremely difficult no matter what colour your skin is.

The NC ruling is garbage, always-on body cams are absolutely necessary in our current social climate. The ruling is a massive step backwards. EDIT: I'm also pretty sick of reading about "malfunctioning body cams" in some cases recently. How conveinient, it happened to malfunction right before you pulled a gun on someone! That kind of dodgy behaviour definitely needs to be more closely monitored from within the police force. There's currently almost zero police accountability, which is just disgraceful. You literally said white privilege is a thing outside of wealth on the bottom of page 3. Insanoflex then directly responded to the your claims about white privilege. He may have extrapolated a tiny bit, but that's hardly putting words in your mouth. He responded directly to what you said.

It's pretty frustrating when someone doesn't have a worthwhile response so they just resort to mindless, offtopic retorts that have nothing to do with the subject matter. It just kills the discussion dead and benefits no one, but it's unfortunately an all too common tactic. Not just on little message boards, either. You see this kind of crap in politics all the time. It benefits no one.

The sad thing is, people are still falling for it and blaming one another on the bottom rung rather than placing the blame (and thus the pressure) where it belongs.