340. Too Young for Doom

Lords: Matt https://mtrop.net/ Cort Topics: Doom Modding and You The Boston Marathon Stampede This 1989 Shigeru Miyamoto quote. "When pornography escalates, it eventually crosses into the grotesque. I think the world of 'hidden secrets' in games has almost reached that same grotesque level. It's reached a point where it isn't measured by common sense anymore. It's just people getting bored and looking for stronger and stronger stimulation. We've hit a wall. When you're at the point where you have no choice but to go 'grotesque,' you have to start thinking of new ways to use the medium." https://shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/ Dammit I'm Mad by Demetri Martin https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/zc6iic/poem_dammit_im_mad_by_demetri_martin/ Microtopics: Plugging in the middle of someone else's topic. Successfully comparing apples and oranges. Waking extremely early to meet with someone in the wrong time zone. Doing anything for 30 years. What monsters do. Making Doom mods before they figured out how to change the walls. The Hacker's Guide to Doom, by Hank Leukart. Anthropology of Doom modding. Roots: the Evolution of Doom Level Design. Demon of the Well. People heralding the end of Doom modding before you even get started. Megawads. Where's All the Data? Non-commercial Doom Source License. Jokes that take thirty years to get. The Vanilla Limitations of Doom. Recreating your high school in Doom, which was okay at the time but stopped being okay several years later. Dividing eras at a pinching point. People who are opposed to doors. Relaxed-Limit Source Ports. The Stand-Alone Project Era. DeHackEd patching the binary. Various sources of value you might get from modding Doom. Mark Z. Danielewski commenting on MyHouse.wad. Sonic Robo Blast 2. Falling Away Floors. Taking certain features and mushing them together into a new thing. Back when Doom rules the LAN parties. What you played on your Mac instead of Doom. A hardware mod that added looking up and down to Doom via a cardboard window that you can slide around the monitor. Making a Beeline for the Bungie Booth. A crowd of shifty eyed gamers waiting to sprint across the show floor full of unsuspecting exhibitors setting up booths. An okay one of those if you're into that sort of thing. Drinkable Cheeseburgers. Finishing the tutorial and quitting Marathon (2026) forever so that you can brag about your100% extraction rate. Doing non-euclidean architecture in your Marathon maps. Adding portals to the Doom engine. The three stages of development that every medium goes through. Paying the shareware fee to get your registered copy of WinBolo and/or LinBolo. The point when you have no choice but to Go Grotesque. Miyamoto quotes that modern-day Nintendo would never allow to escape containment. A completely constructed, untrue memory of how you played The Legend of Zelda. Miyamoto foretelling in 1989 that grotesque secrets in video games will lead directly to the cat hair mustache puzzle and kill adventure games. Slaughter-mappy. Hell Keep and the Fortress of Mystery. The one place in the Doom episode they can force a constrained-ammo puzzle. I rise; my bed on a sun. Rats peed on hope. Deified as a sign in ruby ash. Making a computer watch every episode of Seinfeld. Guided Markov. Writing a poem from both ends at the same time. Saying the moon is anything and squeezing a poem out of it. Doom mods where you can pull down the console. Porting ZZT to the Doom engine and vice versa.