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Whenever I tell someone or show someone there all like those graphics suck COD is better and all that stuff plus everyone but me in my school is getting MW3 but me and so my friends keep saying doom FTF MW3 FTW

Hello everyone. KingShinra here. Member of Zdoom forum mainly, and decided to extend out to Doomworld, which seems to be the main forum for Doom in general.

Is there a "introduce yourself" thread? Tried to find it, and didn't see any stickied on the relevant subforums.

Otherwise, thank you, and I'll dig to see for an appropriate pic to place here.

I was a "VIP" guest this weekend at the First Annual Michigan Chess Festival. I created some puzzles for this event, and as there are a few chess enthusiasts here at DW, I'm posting them here too in case they are of interest. The attachment to this post includes PDFs of the handouts I gave out at the event. There is an easy sheet and a harder one.

The harder puzzles are similar to those in some of the early chapters of my new book The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles, which was recently published in the UK, and is soon to be released in the USA. I spent way too much time on this book, but am happy with the outcome.

detroit_puzzles.zip

I was telling a friend about the wonders of Vitamin D today and how everyone should take a lot of it. My friend said that she heard Vitamin D locks fat in your body. We just so happened to be at a mall while having this discussion and oh look there's a vitamin store over there. So we went in and started talking with the sales clerk.

My friend asked about Vitamin D and the clerk praised it and talked about all of the bennefits. The thin female clerk said that she takes 5,000 or whatever a day. She looked like a librarian, with glasses and dishwater blonde hair I think its called.

Then my friend asked if it locked away fat because its fat soluable. The clerk explained what fat soluable is that vitamin D gets stored in fat and everyone has fat.

The clerk reiterated that she takes 5,000 or whatever a day and then lifted up her shirt and said do I look fat? Yep, just got flashed by some 40 something sales clerk like we were at a Girls Gone Wild event.

Then came the bad part, she told us she'll be 63 in a few weeks. Well at least vitamins kept her looking young and slim without grey hair.

I kept looking the woman in the face and told her she can put her shirt down. Crazy.

Once we walked out my friend said that she did not need to see Girls Gone Wild in there.

Today is my 15th birthday.

How did 15 passers feel about this age?

Just curious. :P

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Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb6U6WrGGfo

I am the one in the blue/white shirt.

Just post what you're listening to:
Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

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Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

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Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

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Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

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Biosphere - Bose-Einstein condensation

I went to the Tanger Outlet over here to one of the stores that had hot sauces my brother got for me on my birthday back in April. While there this afternoon, I picked up this and two other bottles.

For those who don't know, Naga Jolokia, also known as the ghost pepper/chili is one of the hottest peppers in the world which taps in around 1 million Scovilles, with Jalapenos being a mere 2,500 to 8,000 on the scale.

I will be trying this on dinner tonight and to sear my taste buds and might report back on my experience.

Yep, August 27th marks year number 24 for this dude. Let's review the last year:

-Drank more beer (including Firestone Walker Parabola, which blew my mind in an unthinkable way)
-Uploaded a demo I actually think is pretty good (sc11-140, for those wondering)
-Made some maps I actually think are pretty good (UR, for those wondering)
-Received a BA in History (Medieval emphasis, for those wondering)
-Saw the B-52s for the fourth time (free this time)
-Moved to California (LA are, for those wondering)

Quite the good year, especially after hell-fest 22. It starts with Brats, beer, and a trip to Koreatown. No Nitro this time around, though :(

Snakes on the up, bitches!

My mate and I were driving to get some dinner and he's like "let's check out this new grocery store" so we take a right turn off the main road and follow this plaza drive which goes a bit before getting to an isolated parking lot for this one store, Aldis. It's very hard to see from the main road and the fact that it's set away and by itself was a bit strange. There are only a handful of grocery stores where I live and I know them all pretty well, so I was like.. where'd this new store come from? never heard of it.. weird. We go inside and as we enter we see a poster on the door advertising $23/hr manager position. The aisles are strangely minimalist and there are cardboard boxes everywhere with food in them. There's hardly anyone in the store... no one is at any of the cash registers. A man with a distant, isolated expression on his face pushes a floor cleaner around the store. Fruit is stacked on cardboard boxes. A container of grapes rests haphazardly and half opened. There's hardly anyone in the store (did I mention that already?) The few people there seem a little too ordinary and comfortable in this strange place. Are they really part of the same town? Are they even part of the same universe? I can't tell if I've entered into the future or the past. Even the attractive lady with nice legs seems to have a veil of doldrum about her. The prices seem really low. We go up to one of the referidgerator doors to get some milk and as I pull out a gallon of rBST free whole milk for only $3.19, I see a giant, unlit, cold, industrial and completely empty concrete room behind the minimalist milk shelf. Giant fans are blowing on the far wall facing me.

We get to the check out line and James notices there are no plastic bags. Only empty cardboard boxes near the entrance to the checkout line. We grab some and while I've always been in favor of reusing cardboard boxes to plastic bags, the whole setup feels very cheap. We start asking the checkout girl where the store came from. Apparently it's only been here since December. It's owned by Trader Joes but until recently was only in Germany. I mention that the store has a very temporary feel to it. The cashier gives me a quick look like I'm way out of bounds "temporary..." she odles. I then ask if she thinks the store will be around very long. She's quick with her affirmative response: "Once we open a store, we never close it. We've been opening about two stores per week."

She gives us instructions on how to return our grocery carts. Give a quarter, get a quarter back.. or something. I didn't fully understand the process; was still trying to get my bearings on how we suddenly stepped into the Truman Show.... James isn't able to figure out how to chain up the grocery cart to the rest of the carts. I give it a try--clip in the dangling clip to the one in front, and we go back to my car, very bemused, but eager to get back to the real world.

Drunken email from a former customer (a bar owner)

K....im gonna let the rest of the list go..most are invalid anyways..those of you on this by accident..just deal....WE DID NOT havea stabbing at misfits..some stupid fuck got hit in the face........then they went downstairs and called the cops cause thers been an accident. I have to hide in my bar for two hours before i deal with CSI japan till just now......those of you I called who are suppossed to answer in this case...it was noticed....next time you need to get out of jail.......call me.....oops...its late...im drunk..and not typing well....those of you in the bad know who you are....or trust me..........Ill let you know this week.

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This should probably be thrown up on the mount washington thread, but it's buried somewhere :D

If it is indeed your birthday, you trickster. Either way, here's a map I put together entitled "Essel's Birthday Cave". Runs on Doom2 map01, limit-removing.

http://www.mediafire.com/?62y4hvvfw7ut5a8

Happy birthday, brah.

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My girlfriend knows about my obsession with Doom and that I design levels for it, but until last week she didn't quite realize how simple it was. The other day my girlfriend approached me while I was drawing layouts for doom maps on paper. She looked at me quizzically and asked what the hell am I doing. I explained to her that it's a lot easier for me to make Doom levels when I plan them out of paper. I basically draw some shapes and when I draw them in the editor, they become rooms.

She looked at the unfinished half of the layout and said "what are you putting here?" I told her I hadn't decided yet. She told me I should make a room shaped like a heart. I was a little skeptical at first but I have a bad habit of frowning on a lot of ideas my girlfriend has, so I just went ahead and drew the heart shaped room.

Yesterday I was at home, off from work, and began mapping. When I was finished with the bits and pieces of the layout I drew the other day, I used my phone take a photo of the layout on Doombuilder next to the layout she helped me draw and sent it to her. Then sent her a screenshot of me playing the level inside the heart shaped room she designed for me.

She responded to the picture message with "OMG!! that looks awesome! Can I play it so I can see it better?" before then she had only played the first few levels of Knee Deep in The Dead before she was getting sick of getting lost. She needed to. I wouldn't let the relationship continue if she wouldn't play doom with me.

Later that night I stopped over her house and told her about how easy it is to make Doom levels. Just draw some random shapes, adjust the floor and ceiling height, and throw in some guns and monsters and you have a doom level. "I love drawing random shapes!" she exclaimed. Later this week I'm gonna install Doom 2 and Doombuilder on her laptop and play around with it to show her how it works.

I'm hoping I can show her some of my strategies to making simple layouts and show her some cool stuff you can do with thing placement. I know already she doesn't really love playing doom as much as I do, but I think she might have a thing for designing levels. We'll find out in the near future and I'll be sure to upload her work to the /idgames archive.