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You should try to focus your negative energy in something that's more productive. If you say that you are a non-threatening person irl and that most men could beat you up, well, idk, sounds a bit pitiful to me. Hit the gym, maybe learn martial arts, join in a physically-demanding sport, or if you don't like groups, practice extreme sports which most tend to be lone-sports. The point is that there's no relation with being a ''buff, mean looking motherfucker'' and an asshole. I look like a criminal compared to the rest of my family, for example, yet I don't act like one or like an asshole.

The way you phrase it makes it feel like you're a coward that actually vents out his frustrations on the internet by releasing all your fears in the form of shit attitude.

Being behind a monitor doesn't give you any power or right to be an asshole. At most, you use it as an excuse or shield to hide away your inner-insecurities and lack of respect for the fellow man or woman. I also don't like being an asshole in real life, and also on the internet. Why should I be? Fuck, I have a lot of negativity and rage inside me because of real life issues, but instead of venting out like an idiot by shitting on other people on forums, I try to find better people that help me see a better view, grow in my passsion, create fun content that can release my extrangulated creativity and have just fun.

Releasing your feelings bits by bits can work wonders. Feel cool, be cool.

Agreed, I should

Won't reply to the rest of the post because it's condescending bullshit, appreciate the attempt to be helpful though and I'm glad you found something that works for you. I likewise found something that works for me.

Hell, no. Mapping is the hardest kind. Modding-wise, with graphics, sounds and gameplay you know where you're aiming, you just need a hell of a patience to finish its most painstaking part, sprite editing. But making levels? You really don't know how your map is going to look like and how it's going to progress, you need to be continuously creative and hope that the dreaded mapper's block doesn't shut you down.

Yeah, programming is not, generally, as creative an act as level design. There is a lot of straightforward logic unfolding in programming, at least when you formulated your goal (for example, wrote down the specificaiton of what is to be implemented). By contrast, mapping has like a lose goal that is defined by "it should be fun to play" which should be measured against the end product which itself is not defined in advance, and if it is a deathmatch map, then it is total nightmare since you can't even know if it's fun by playing it just by yourself. Basically, for programming to be comparable to mapping you should have a goal of creating like a one-shoe-suits-all programming language, where once again the end goal is defined not by some syntax but whether the syntax it ends up with is fun to write in, and figuring which syntax exactly does that is a part of a problem.

That is, in programming there is like an avalanche of descending to the final goal by logical reduction from the initial problem towards the solution defined in idealized terms, by contrast level design is like solving a sort of (let's call it) "hyper-differential" equation defined as MeasuringFunction(<final stage>) = good.

In light of recent events, custom titles are available for fuckin' everyone now. Dunno how to feel about this personally

I think it's fucking cool, time will tell if there will be creative abuses or just pure retardation.

Always fancied a custom title, but now that I can... I couldn't be arsed.

I'd look for a bright side here, this helps to identify the site as cancer groth. Yep.

Heretic lover here! Cool stuff mattfright, thanks for sharing and it's cool seeing you over here. Heretic doesn't get enough love. You'd think Wayfarer's Tome would have revitalized the Heretic community, but maps still come in through a drip feed. Hopefully that will change soon.

I feel like the Wayfarer's Tome only really addressed the issue of enemies feeling too tanky and weapons feeling too weak when untomed since the other tweaks are super minor to make enough of a change. I always felt like Heretic's beastiary lacked in diversity (at least in comparison to Doom's), which is what i really want a Heretic DEHEXTRA for... I feel like a combination of Wayfarer's Tome's gameplay changes and Faithless' items/enemies/weapons variation would be soooo much more fun (at least to me) than anything else currently out there. I also feel like making enemies/projectiles faster to achieve a middle term between Black Plague and Smitemeister would make combat muuuuch more engaging.



I don't blame you, unmodified Heretic does feel incredibly slow... It's the whole reason i feel that modding it for most sourceports could make it far more enjoyable and "accessible" for the lack of a better term.