Doom community happenings

Maybe not keeping it alive for the old guard but definitely attracts newcomers like flies to shit.

Some of the haters may have valid points, but in the comments section and what I have seen in recent history they just come off as jealous.

You will have to read from the bottom up for some reason because I tried more replies when I found in the channel comments on his YouTube page.  He's still right about this community as far as I'm concerned. The comments on the Moddb article further proves just that.

Coming from the same guy who compared myself to Mark.  All you did was embarrass yourself.

It’s a game yo, wad authors are not here to be role models or your friend or even an acquaintance.

citation needed.... 

How is this any different than any bullshit that’s spoken by wankers online? Pop quiz, what was the name of the user that Mark gave the su-advice to? Did anyone really care about that dude or the fact that dickhead Mark was talking bullshit again. On the Internet how can you really take anyone’s word seriously at face value? Are all you cunts who talk about impse and the like really into bestiality? 

I don’t even want to give the cunt that much credit, he’s a hip hop musician after all, you know, a copy and paster. It’s time for people to get off his dick, that’s all. Brutal Doom exists, it’s popularity dwarfs other community creations and the sky is blue. Hopefully one day one or two of these new Doomers who come to us by way of BD will be popping out good Doom style maps for us to enjoy in the future.

I'm not really sure what to say about Brutal Doom winning the award. If the award is measured in how much work, dedication, and community involvement the creator has, he 100% deserves it.

In regards to the haters, and I'm one of them, I think I can untangle what people are saying. Theres an air about how our world's leaders have to use their fame for good instead of evil. If people know who you are, you better do the work you need to do to be liked, because it's going to piss everyone else off who is nice all the time. Unfortunately, they're dealing with someone who is putting in the time and the work to promote their Doom mod and getting attention for a reason that is completely detached from most people's inhibitions of wanting to be liked, and most people can't wrap their head around that, which is where the frustration and need to vent sets in.

When people transcend from a nobody to somebody, their personality doesn't magically change. It can, if they surround themselves with the right people, but Sgt Mark IV did something that magically turned a lot of eyes towards him. So if any forum nobody from here who has never released a single thing says to someone that they should kill themself, people won't remember for a second. Sgt Mark IV, as a Doom entrepreneur had to keep the spotlight on himself in order to keep Brutal Doom interesting and relevant. Plenty other people make good wads, but they don't do what they need to do promote it often and always to keep reminding people about it. Sgt Mark IV does, and this rubs people the wrong way because they don't like to see people paying any mind to someone they dislike.

Getting attention has a lot of parallels with making money. Most people seem to want to believe that if you're a good person and you have the right attitude and you do the right kind of work that helps the world, the money will come. And this is the mindset of most people who don't have money. If you really want the money, you can get out of your own way, bypass your moral righteousness and do something predatory that feels wrong but inherently works to get you the money you want, which you can then use the money to help the world and feel like a good person later. You can get attention for all the wrong reasons too, and people don't like to see that attention used irresponsibly. And that's that. If Sgt Mark IV has some sort of weird epiphany that he needs to use his attention to better his image, that would be great for everyone. But he's past that. For now, the attention is solely to promote his Doom mod.

If people have any arguments other than not liking him as a person, this is what they don't want to say out loud. They dont want people to play more Doom. Why? Because Brutal Doom is not Doom. People who like Doom and people who like Brutal Doom don't seem to like Doom for the same reasons. They don't want to be in the same rooms together when there are conversations about Doom. Brutal Doom people don't like to play Doom without the mod, and Doom people don't like to play Doom with Brutal Doom. Trace is a rare case of someone playing Doom again with Brutal Doom, and then decide to water it down with regular Doom. So Brutal Doom has facilitated a merging of two separate demographics of people that have bad chemistry with each other. For that reason, getting more people into Doom with Brutal Doom is not a good thing.

It's not nice to say that we're really not as welcoming as we claim to be, but we're really not.

Interestingly, Brutal Doom doesn't seem to cause much drama in the Russian community. Maybe because we only have one main forum, Brutal Doom fans and classic Doom fans just have to learn to get along. I am able to talk with members who play nothing but BD in a totally civilized manner, and I think we accept our differences.

My biggest gripe is how BD is the thing that hogs the spotlight and gets a billion "journalist" articles. Like, who the fuck is he paying and who is he bedding? Why does his get so much attention versus others? I know DRLA certainly deserves it a lot more.

You mean the poorly written section about me that isn't even accurate?


I was going to reply but, @vordakk has already beaten me to it. Still what makes DRLA more deserving of popularity when it can't match the popularity of Brutal Doom? Plus you have no citations to your claims of the guy paying and bedding anybody for attention.

Ha look at all this Brutal Doom salt [starts arguing about Brutal Doom]