Doom community happenings

He said vanilla must die.

I think vanilla may die when: I get to know there's a source port that runs on the same PCs as vanilla doom did and has multiplayer. After that point, I'd like to put some modding features that won't change vanilla gameplay or at least feel close to it, and have stable demo playback.

I'm pretty sure the table with actor states from info.c can be dehardcoded and be read from lump just like animated and switches (I've been thinking of dehardcoding terrain types for crispy heretic just for lulz, but didn't get around to it yet).

This would beat need of dehacked. And also beat its limits.

This is called Boom/PrBoom+ and has existed for 25 years.This is called DECORATE and has existed for 20 years.

Open source is soy, so I find the boom multiplayer being closed source a plus actually. Have you ever noticed how the only good multiplayer port is the only one that's not open soyce? This is like complaining about Zdoom not crashing when you hit 128 visplanes. All of what you mention are things you shouldn't even want to do for reasons other than the constraints of Dehacked and the vanilla engine. You can just copy paste the states from one actor to another. It's just lines of text.

better than grooming children in discord, which is much more on brand for those fucks.

I seriously didn't need another reason to dislike Doomworld at this point... espicially after the whole "Cancel John Carmack" nonsense (god, i hate identity politics and cancel culture), but this site is getting insufferable. I guess the problem with big communities, is that there are too much people in them, and when you have too much people in one place, you're bound to have a bunch of brainless morons in there, who are easily ofended. The worst thing about it in this case, it seems these morons are the ones calling the shots and setting the standards for the whole website. Of course they are surrounded by cocksuckers who are happy to kiss ass and prented to agree with their sackless ways, because they are too afraid to be true to themselves and speak their minds freely. And all of this, because of what? Because they're afraid to lose their Doomworld accounts? Now that is a sad existence. But where do you even begin to describe the abomination that DW has turned into?

Starting with the donkeys with blinders that is the moderation team, a collection of middle aged incels, fags, a fat feminist, and a man who thinks is a woman... Do i need to say more? These people are the biggest waste of space on the platform. If everything you're good for is closing discussion topics that are in no way in violation with the forum guidelines, but simply because you disagree with the opinions and arguments that are presented in there, you're not a moderator, you're a forum nazi. Because you're not allowed to criticize anything there, even literal trash.
If all you're good for is to act like some sort superiority figure, because your biggest achievement in life is to be a forum morederator, and you're using this to compensate for your own insecurities, then you're a little bitch and nothing more. If all you're good for is giving undeserved warns, supensions, bans and deleting comments, while at the same time being condeceding, sarcastic and sometimes straght up insulting towards harmless users, who are just new and not used to the forum yet, then you're nothing more than a fucking cocksucker! Oh, and let's not forger, allowing your budies to do the sam or much worse, again, directly insultig other users or use sarcastic remarks, like that insuferable bitch NineInchHeels, who is a complete moron by the way, and she has insulted half of the forum by this point, but of course, no one is allowed to say a word about that. And she's just one of the many priviliged moderator-ass-kissing lowlifes that are allowed too much there.

The double standards are just on another level, what else can be said about it...

Take Lee Jackson for example. I respect the guy for his work in the gaming industry, but my god, he clearly suffers from some sort of demetia or something else that turns him into the cringiest spammer in the history of forum spamming. What the hell is wrong with the guy? The worst thing about it is that he not only spams pointless posts, he also creates pointless topics and waters down whole subforums with his trash... "What pet do you have?", "What's the color of your eyes?", "What are your plans for today?"... what the hell? And then he post in the "react to the above profile pic" thread like 10 times per day. Dude, you're like 65 years old, and you're spamming in a forum thread because you want nonstop attention from people to react to your aging watermelon. I can't be the only one who thinks it's super cringe for an old guy to be such an attention seeker on a forum that is mostly occupied by people half his age. I'm 35 and i find these types of "react to my profile pic" topics to be extremely childish, and let me tell you, i didn't liked them 10+ years ago. The point is, if any other regular user was spamming as much and being as cringe as Mr. Lee here, he would be getting the warn in its first week on the forum, but not the 65 year old manchild because he wrote an awesome game soundtrack 30 years ago.

I'm not even going to talk about the bias with the shitty cacowards that are basically rigged every year, and "judged" by people who honestly have no business judging anyones work. The most laughable thing is how they award themselves too, even though as judges they shouldn't even be nominated. Some people will say "Why do you care so much? It's just a shitty forum "award" with no real value", but the truth is, the cacowards have the power to highlight and promote some truly good works that deserve it, but they often don't, and winners are often the ones that are either in the forum clique, or the ones that have kissed enough ass and have the soyboy behaviour that is tolerated over there. It's a long topic and it infuriates me, so i'll stop here... for now.

Let me address each point from my humble opinion.

1. This is probably true, but I think it has more to do with human nature in general. Some people are just followers and posers that want to fit in. There are wolves and there are sheep.

2,3,4

The thing is, they're not a publicly funded organization, and that is their prerogative, it is a private hobbyist website. I disliked how things were going there too, but I decided to start my own private forum, which evolved to become this website now run and populated by like-minded individuals.

Callback to Major Arlene giving herself a cacoward. Honestly, most of the time the moderators give this award out of nepotism; To their friends or people they just felt like pitiyng this time.

I played some of her maps, can confirm. It's jarring honestly, most of the status she holds is underserved.
There's also a problem with them abiding by the rules they set for Cacowards. (Unsurprisingly, since the forum by itself has NONE).

two unrelated points (rants).

1. "goto" sux. as do any unexpected control flow breaking. just read Dijkstra book, or David Gries one. sadly, i'm guilty of using shitty coding style, but that's because C basically begs to write shitty code. i'd like to rewrite k8v in Component Pascal (aka Oberon). it will never happen, of course, but can i at least dream for someting sane?

2. most "modern-style" maps are unplayable. they are overdetailed, good for screenshots, and completly missing the point. the simplicity of Doom maps is like the simplicity of low-res sprites and textures: give players some hints, and their imagination will do the rest.

tbh, it is quite easy to produce complex detailed maps, basically the only thing you need is some patience. such maps may be good for a walking simulator, but that's not what i want from Doom. yet creating a "low-res" map is much harder: once you don't have zillions of linedefs to impress people, you need something else. like some memorable areas, and good gameplay.

3. i absolutely don't know what my post has to do with "doom community happenings".

Major Arlene is the best mapper and person in general to ever live. I will not tolerate Major Arlene slander on this forum. If this shameless smear campaign does not cease immediately, I will be forced to take measures. @shibainumaster dwsucksassthesedays this is your final warning.

As for Cacowards, there's other standards of Excellence. Usually I see payload's Aliens: Eradication as one of the top 10 TCs of all time. It is even among them in the initial google search that is yielded. However, I think it never received any awards or recognition from DW, because it was sourced from Aliens: The Ultimate Doom, my mod. If not me, at least Payload deserved one. But I guess I am that radioactive. But honestly, I don't care, because I am sure a lot more people know of, and played that mod, than many of the ones that actually won the Cacoward of the year.

Don't get mad, channel that anger to something creative. That will piss off your enemies a lot more. There's a lot of people who share your sentiments. Use the opportunity to create something with them.