Doom community happenings

Graf is truly a treasure. Not only is he good at making people sneethe and fneethe, he's good at seething and fuming himself.

I thought there wasn't going to be a more Reddit-tier thread than the MyHouse meta thread, but here we are.

meh. i am Teh Real Carmack! i was stolen in my childhood, and replaced with that impostor you all know as John Carmack today. i wrote all engines attributed to Carmack just for fun in my basement, being unaware that Impostor Carmack hacked my computer and stealing my code!

p.s.: i finally set up a firewall, that's why Impostor Carmack suddenly retired, being unable to steal my work anymore.

You guys are mad bitter for some reason. I think you may be PROJECTING (i.e. you are the ones actually getting cucked)

When you think about it, it's kind of a brilliant way to get attention to your map. Approaching the 30th anniversary of Doom, almost no one on DW bothers to download and give feedback to "My First Wad" releases, everyone is expecting bigger things. And this guy not only got a lot of attention to his little map there, he'll probably keep getting attention in his future works, because he's now in the clique. Old school members helping him with testing and stuff, yeah, i bet other newbies wish they could rely on users with 25 years experience in the Doom scene, but tough luck for them, i guess.

Do i believe in his story? Fuck no, and this is definitely not his first map, he's an old face, probably someone who already got the ban from DW, and now he's having a big laugh. The funny thing is, no one dares to question him there, because as always you're not allowed to have doubts or criticize anyone in that place, you'll get suspended or banned immediately if you even dare to ask for any proof that this guy truly is who he says he is. And yes, his motives and story are weird and nonsensical. Let me get this straight, you're making a Doom map and dedicating it to the father who for 18 years didn't care about your existence? This is not homage to Dr. Sleep, this is a ruination of his character. The guy who abandoned his son! Or what he's saying is Dr. Sleep never knew he had a bastard? I don't know, i didn't read his shitty novel.

Another thing that bothers me, if you have a passion for mapping, wouldn't you want to see how your work holds up on its own? I guess he tried that before and no one cared, so now he changed the strategy. I expect more shit like this in the future, it's the MyHouse syndrome. I'm waiting for the lost children of Kim Andre Malde and Kevin Reay to show up soon.

I don't know, I'm sort of neutral to positive about it.

The 'a first map can't be this good' argument holds up only to a point - the ease of Doom modding, and the way a lot of concepts of Doom mapping are general game design concepts mean he might simply have experience in amateur level design for other games. The Doom community has a disproportionate amount of 'here is my first map and it's a masterpiece' (see DTYBTTC for example) cases, that a beginner given time and effort could make a decent map doesn't surprise me much.

As for the rest, the only thing I can sort of fault him for is a tad TMI - I come from a culture where 'you wash your family's laundry in private' so to speak, so in his place I wouldnt' have gone in so much detail about my mother's extramarital affairs and so on - a simple 'I'm Dr Sleep's son' would have sufficed. Beyond that, the rest of his personal story is sort of irrelevant to the map. Still not a huge misstep, personally I find much more irritating how pcorf manages to make every. single. thread about himself and his own maps.

So yeah, if it's true, good for him; if it's not, whatever. It's not like he's laying claim to a multimillion dollar estate...

'cmon people, are you really trying to find if obvious PR stunt is real? ;-)

p.s.: didn't played the map, but i reall don't need to: there is 10mb mp3 inside. 'cmon, i don't expect anything good from the map now.

i finally played the map, and it definitely looks like "my 10th map, but the first i decided to publish". combats are boring, mother spider is used as bullet-sponge blocker without any real threat at all, cybbie is just a shooting practice. teleporting monsters is a nice trick, but becomes very predictable.

also, the map seems to be designed for GZDoom, because dark areas are too dark. default GZDoom lighting mode is much bigger problem than texture filtering, i believe.

Watch out, you will be a DoomKid-Certified Total Asshole© if you make this reasonable observation.

honestly these are trash opinions and you guys come off as trash people for having them. Calling people 'cucked' is some seriously forever-closeted gay shit. we got some fucken alpha males in this offshoot doom community.

Anyone who has been in a serious relationship where sex is involved knows it can eventually get fucking crazy and make no sense. People who have never had an experience like that are either liars, controlling manipulative douches that made their partners' lives miserable or both.

Youre informing yourselves way too much into hypnos personal life with very little information provided. His relationship with his father and stepdad were circumstances out of his control. His relationship with them is entirely his to have and he doesnt owe you an explanation for that. None of you guys ever been prodded to post anything about your real relationships with your fathers for example. You might understand why that might be difficult to do especially at the request of those who are inclined to not believe you and seek the most disingenuous conclusion.

Those of you making claims that this is fake are projecting to me that you are just as capable of and should have come up with such a ruse for people's attention.

Its one thing to simp for fake internet points. But acting like crabs in a bucket towards someone who is being legitimate because you could be entitled to false care and admiration with some shitty con is a different kind of low. Just make good maps you fucken losers.

hm. so spotting almost obvious lies with so many red flags that the whole horizon is red is the same as "ready to lie this way yourself"? now, do you think that police detectives, for example, are really criminals in disguise, because they are doing exactly the same thing? and whistleblowers are really want to do what they're disclosing? and so on…

this is very slipery slope.

No, I'll give him that much at least. I just don't understand why it makes anyone an asshole for at least taking this with a grain of salt. I've tried to give it some fair thought, and I can't imagine any scenario where this revelation would be worth celebrating:

- Mom cheats on (now) stepfather with Dr. Sleep
  - Dr. Sleep knew about the baby but decided to dip out anyway and have nothing to do with him
  - Dr. Sleep didn't know and missed out on a relationship with the son he never knew he had

- Stepfather supported him (and his mother I'm assuming) for at least 18 years
  - Stepfather ACTUALLY knew about his parentage and still decided to accept this responsibility but his legacy is almost immediately discarded in favor of a man that was never there
  - Stepfather didn't know about his parentage and went to his grave thinking his wife was faithful