Doom community happenings

Hah.. I was casually watching/replying in a doomworld thread, web.archive.org/web/20200816112709/https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/116264-whats-the-worst-youtube-channel-for-doom/?page=2
Now I click back from a doomworld link to see the discussion and get a message "You do not have permission to view this content.".
I a not saying it's some fight or censorship going on again, it could be something else, but so many times I am used to the fact they ban/close threads when there is some shitshow there, it kept me puzzled. There is nothing in the archived version that tells me the story ever. It gets annoying everytime this happens. I don't even know if they ever close that thread because of a fight or another more understanding reason.

I think this is just an impossible bias to overcome even aside from the old DW / DB dramas. I've had numerous years go by where wads I felt were fantastic didn't even get a passing mention. Even when trying hard to look past bias, you're going to naturally sway toward what you know.

www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/116977-vorpals-2020-wad-picks-from-the-community/?tab=comments#comment-2191631

Here's something positive, I think this kind of stuff is great and can help bring attention to anything that may have slipped under, props to Vorpal

Vorpal has always been a class act.

Yeah, that was quite the shitshow, this last exchange in the thread sums it up :

oh boy

I would suggest to avoid criticizing people if you want a productive discussion to take place. There is a difference, for example, when giving feedback on a map between criticizing someone's map and criticizing the author of said map, this approach can be applied to other sort of discussions as well - avoid attacking a person at all cost. If you really care to do it soon it becomes evident that there is always an alternate way to convey a message involving no personal accusations whatsoever.

The things that bother you about people shouldn't be said as they won't get you anything or anywhere. A lesson all could learn (or more realistically re-learn over and over)!

NOTE: Probably not applicable in every and all situations of course but still, assuming that you haven't totally written that person off.

Tragic irony is always funny.

Was probably fun, until someone redacted politics out of it.
A passing remark that deserves to be commented on:
I should start that here Redneckers - the author of the quoted text - is replying to topic starter who stated he hates the developer of Gzdoom because he (topic starter) is having problems running Gzdoom perhaps on some mod/wad - I didn't quite get the part what he was trying to run. Also, the text Redneckers was replying to seems to be self-contradicting and hard to make sense of: " respect the developer but i hate the gzdoom developer."
So what's the deal, if I agree the topic starter deserves the criticism? What I disagree is the following: I don't consider hate a strong word (although perhaps I should have requested Redneckers to clarify what is meant by "strong" here), or the emotion meant by "hate" a particular strong one, and I don't like the fact that "hate" is now used in political context where it's meaning implies some sort of criminal behavior, which is not what hate originally was about. This emotion - hate - is not at all intense on my emotion palette. Rage and contempt are much further down the intensity spectrum, especially since these latter contain a component of self-righteousness, while the hate - as an emotion, and not a misguided political notion once again - by itself doesn't. When I was adolescent I much preferred to express that I despise someone rather than hate them - because hatred is (in my view) what is felt towards equals, while contempt is felt towards inferiors.
Also, I believe that if one political party uses legal instruments (including trying to get the opponent prosecuted for extremism) to suppress the agenda of another, opposing party, then hatred is actually involved - on behalf of the party using legal instruments - even if it is not legally regarded as criminal activity and thus not meeting the definition the word "hate" acquired in political context. In my view, that such a definition arouse is a big mistake, and we should find another word for it, since meanings attached to words in one context tend to penetrate the other, and the repression of emotions is, in my view, undesirable, because it only leads to neurosis. That is, the emotions can't really be suppressed - they are just driven out of consciousness, and thus may manifest unconsciously on their own - outside of one's ability to control, in a twisted way that may or may not be harmful to others. Instead, one should learn how to consciously express in a socially acceptable way any emotion felt, including that of hate, and that means acknowledging one can feel hate and that is ok to do so and that expressing it in some particular way - to fuel an art passion, or to win a competition in a fair way, or to exercise vigorously, - is appropriate, while expressing it by harming others (except as a necessary self-defense, or to aid someone dishonorably attacked, but those situations usually involve emotions other than hate) is not.
I presume some people would question how hate can be positively channeled in situations I described, but I assure you I've done that, yes, it's possible, and was often the only way I could motivate myself to do studies in university or something else. That is, I really needed to strongly desire to surpass other people, feeling hatred or contempt towards them, with these motivating me to actually do things so that I don't end up surpassed instead, and I couldn't often get the source of motivation from anything else. And realizing that the my most effective, or often only, motivation is hatred was not easy even before this political definition of hate gained popularity, thanks for my background being raised a Christian (now an atheist for more than a decade) and the overall widespread influence of Christianity on culture.

The appeal of what remains after promise of political holy war was shut down is not much to me, it's just some guy who can't speak English properly and writes what amounts to trolling, and people seriously responding to him trying to make sense of it and as if it could get anywhere. Good finisher from Maes though:

That is such a wall of text that there are still mexicans trying to climb over it.

Also, who's the degenerate furry retard who doxxed themselves over on the farms today?