Doomkid

Made a great deal of Super Mario World levels over the years using Lunar Magic, though never released any of them. Never really figured out custom graphics or music, tried for eons and kept failing so gave up. I still mess around in the editor from time to time. Also made some very basic custom scenery for Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, mostly assets ripped straight outta Doom and Mario RPG just because it was possible. I wanted to make maps for Mario64 as well but utterly failed. From what I've seen the editing tools have gotten much better over the years though so I may take a stab at that again some time.

I started off with 0 knowledge about Doom mapping. Dicked around with DoomCad and WadAuthor til stuff finally started working. There weren't many guides at the time other than (I think) one by Dr. Sleep so I referred to that for some basic things, but not much. I asked people on Doom Connector and the Skulltag forums when I ran into snags I didn't understand. Took a few years and the release of Doom Builder for me to even get to iwad standards in terms of visuals and gameplay, so don't be deterred if you're a slow starter when it comes to mapping. Trial and error is what taught me the most!

this should be a blast :)

Based purely on DPS the chaingun is superior, but due to it eating through ammo and not having the effective burst that the SG has, I'd say they're about equal but play to different strengths. I actually did just as you said in Revenge of the 90s and reskinned it as an assault rifle and it balanced out quite well. Also, like you said, an 8 pellet cone spread for the shotty is very satisfying - Eon Weapons basically does this and I love it.

I've tried lowering lost soul health but I find it just makes the enemy even more harmless than it already is. I do like starting with a chaingun (no pistol) and having slot 4 use a more powerful minigun, as well as adding an 8th pellet to the single barrel's blast. Speeding up rockets is fun as well, they miss to often in large areas as-is!

If not for Doomworld I never would have heard of these strange devices..

That is absolutely bizarre. Instead of owning up to homosexual desires, just change what counts as homosexual! Some people will bend reality to such extremes just to protect their fwagile wittle egos, it's totally bonkers. I mean, lets be real here - isn't it just easier to admit there's nothing wrong with being gay if they're gonna go that far? "Oh sure, I slobbed his knob all night. No homo"

"Do as I say, not as I do"

The Bible has 0 time for subtlety!

Halfway on topic: The one thing I dislike about reputation (not likes themselves!) is that some people seem to be convinced certain posts are funny for the sake of building rep rather than funny for the sake of being funny. This isn't so much a problem with rep as it is human interpretation, but still - I've always loved and posted quips and one liners, but now there seems to be this assumption among our more conspiracy-minded users that it's not just for the funny. (this does not matter at all and has no impact on my posting but I still just felt like blabbing it anyway)

Why is "either way depending on it's mood" not an option

Depends on the server's DMflags!

Alright, all the gifs have finally been added!

Thanks for the comments, much appreciated!

Looks nice, but upon closer inspection, I think I might see a bug in one of those screenshots.

I actually agree with Mem on this one though, right clicking and "opening in new tab" is way, WAY easier on my browser than the embedding. Not saying you shouldn't be able to embed videos, it just makes some threads nearly impossible to view, especially on mobile devices. Plus certain threads end up looking way more cluttered because of it. Very minor gripe in my opinion, certainly no big deal, but still true.

I actually thought the 2005 film was alright as a generic sci-fi action popcorn flick, plus the set design captured that Doom 3 vibe quite well. A newer, better one would certainly be welcome though and Doom 16 has lots of good visuals to draw inspiration from.

Ahh, that makes sense! Consistency is always good. I assume it replaces keen.. Really wish there was a death string for that!

Thanks Nevander, that's exactly what I'll do.

I was just wondering if there is a way to have different music playing at each intermission screen? Additionally, I'm curious how to have different backgrounds and music playing for each story text? I figured this one out many years ago, but it's been so long that I've forgotten and am coming up fry from googling various strings.. Thanks for any help in advance

That would be a huge improvement. With that said, I always hate those non-descript "Player died" messages. They (accidentally I assume) made it so being killed by the BFG in the newer Zandronum builds just say "Player died" and it's so uninformative/bland. Why not "%o was toasted by a plasma turret" or something? [/minor, virtually pointless 2c]

EDIT: Photo of Pikachu ft. some stupid lunatic