NoXion

I remember being vaguely aware of Doom before the 2010s, but it wasn't until about maybe 2012 that I discovered that Doom had maintained an active fanbase complete with maps and mods. Before that my main FPS obsession was with Half-Life and Duke Nukem. I must have spent a significant chunk of the 2000s playing Sven Co-Op. Nowadays Doom is probably the FPS game I play the most.

Eh. I think it's at best massively reductive to claim that the Slayer character can be boiled down and encapsulated by the "mortally challenged" joke. He has very good reasons for not giving a toss about the self-serving justifications of characters who seek to either meddle with forces that are clearly beyond their control (2016), or condemn entire worlds to destruction to save their own miserable hides (Eternal). He doesn't say anything because there's literally nothing to say. I suspect that the appeal of the Slayer's character is broader than you might think. I don't think skin colour, sexual orientation or any other demographic quality have much bearing on one's willingness to put on the shoes of a no-nonsense hero like the Slayer.

Neat puzzle. "I h no clue [?]at [?] hell im putt[?] don" - I think that's enough to glean "I have no clue what the hell I'm putting down" I was a bit thrown by my unfamiliarity with the fact that braille comes in different grades. There's a fascinating article about it here. To summarise, braille takes up more more room than printed type and thus uses a special set of shorthand codes to reduce page count. So I've learned something this morning. Mind you, we're getting way off topic. What are your thoughts on taking reviews with a grain of salt?

OK.

Seems easy enough to me. 🤷

You literally asked. What's wrong with Wikipedia? Are you more of a Britannica man?

Aufklärung: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English

I'm sure you're aware of the spelling differences between American English and British English.

Your posts can be as short or as long as you please. But there's absolutely no need to be rude to people for giving a more in-depth response.

Speak for yourself. Being unable to handle more than one-liners is more "NPC" behaviour than writing a longer post. Flesh and blood people have written entire books, which clearly you've never read.

Why? We've literally never interacted before. Also, you're not a member of the mod team, so good luck with enforcing that.

I'm sorry? You literally did that by making a post on a publicly accessible forum.

Where's that from? A Steam review? Somewhere else? Unfortunately given the nature of modern media, it's not unheard of for video game reviews to be irrelevant, nonsensical, and/or freighted with grievance-mongering. Although even at the best of times, expecting an objective assessment from reviewers is going onto a hiding to nothing. Everyone has their prejudices and preferences. I think that the trick with reading reviews is to be aware of the specific biases and tastes of the reviewer whose work you're consuming. A reviewer that you like or trust can still end up giving a negative review to a game that you would love.

Huh. Given his work on The Ancient Gods, I'd have thought that Hulshult would have been the natural choice. I wonder who could it be?

I'd say Winter is the worst season. Mainly because of the lack of daylight. It really sucks to get up in the morning and it's still dark, and then by the time you've finished work it's dark once more. That's just an utterly miserable experience. The cold doesn't help, but at least I can keep my windows closed and use my PC as an impromptu space heater. Mind you, there was that heatwave we had in the UK a couple of years ago that served as a reminder of the Hellish potential of overly hot summers. In winter you can wrap yourself in many layers, but when it gets too hot in the summer there's only so much you can take off. During the worst of the heatwave I had to wear nothing and put my feet in a basin of water to stay comfortable.