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From: Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Carmack's Revenge
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 12:19:20 -0400
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Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On Fri, 23 May 2025 10:49:06 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>Xocyll wrote: 
>
>>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
>>entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>>say:
>>
>>>On 5/23/2025 5:21 AM, Xocyll wrote:
>>>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>>>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>>>> say:
>>>> 
>>>>> John Carmack once wrote about Doom, "Story in a game is like story in
>>>>> a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but its not that important".
>>>>> So it amuses me to no end that, with the advent of "Doom: Dark Ages"
>>>>> Doom-lore has grown so extensive levels that it literally takes three
>>>>> hours to describe it all.
>>>>>
>>>>>      The DOOM Timeline | COMPLETE DOOM Story & Lore
>>>>>        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5OdQYASIPQ&t
>>>>>      (length: three hours, thirteen minutes and 59 seconds)
>>>>>
>>>>> (admittedly, the narrator is extremely slow. A good editor could
>>>>> probably cut it down to one-third that length. But who am I to bitch
>>>>> about somebody being excessively verbose? ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Honestly, one of the unspoken marvels of the nuDoom games is how they
>>>>> managed to link together /all/ the different aspects of the Doom
>>>>> franchise --be it the original games, the spin-offs like Doom64, or
>>>>> even those awful movies-- into one cohesive (if not entirely logical)
>>>>> narrative. I rather liked how they gave the demons more depth and
>>>>> history than just random evil-things that you shoot, and I'm not
>>>>> immune to the appeal of the power-fantasy that is the Doom Guy's
>>>>> story.
>>>>>
>>>>> The original Doom games were fun, but too self-contained. Monsters
>>>>> appear, you kill them, end of story. "Doom 2016" --and more
>>>>> importantly, "Doom Eternal"-- added enough new nooks and crannies that
>>>>> the we can keep adventuring on for years. "Doom: Dark Ages" is just
>>>>> one such exploration of that lore.
>>>>>
>>>>> That said... even I have to admit it's a /bit/ much for a game that,
>>>>> mechanically, is so simplistic. It's like somebody making a two-hour
>>>>> Hollywood blockbuster out of a single game of Rock-Paper-Scissors. It
>>>>> just seems so overboard and out of place for a game that relishes in
>>>>> gore and guns.
>>>> 
>>>> With Keanu Reeves as Rock, Nicholas Cage as Paper and Dwayne Johnson as
>>>> Scissors.
>>>> 
>>>> <snip>
>>>> 
>>>> Xocyll
>>>
>>>What a minute here!  How can Dwayne Johnson NOT be The Rock?!  Keanu 
>>>Reeves should be Scissors, he does more blade work.  But I agree that 
>>>Nicholas Cage is paper.  :)
>>
>>Dwayne being Rock is too obvious, subvert expectations!
>>
>Johnny Depp should be scissors, for his work as Edward Scissorhands.

Again, too obvious.

If Dwayne can play a Tooth Fairy, he can play scissors.

Xocyll
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