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Maybe a custom mid texture?

Same! It's probably the most relaxing ARPG on the market. As much as I love Diablo II and Grim Dawn, they tend to require a lot more focus and critical thought. I didn't stick with Diablo 4, either, for much the same reason. I'm thinking of reinstalling it to check out the latest major patch, given that it's been getting a lot of praise, but considering how Blizzard has been doing lately I'm not gonna hold my breath.

Enjoy! 😀 I can into some connection issues during the stream (see the latest community tab post) so I'm going to upload a better version of this soon.

no u ;)

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Ooooooh, that sounds like a good time (the music, at least…not sure about the video yet, heh). I'm gonna have to check that out. :D RUclips seems to have different rules when it comes to music videos. I was on a huge Julien-K kick a couple years ago and ended up discovering the video for Kick the Bass. I'm definitely not a prude, but RUclips really isn't a platform where I expect to see full frontal nudity.

@@Spectere TBH, I found the eye-grating interlacing throughout the video worse than any nudity in the video... D: (What is it with RUclips and still not having any de-interlacing options? Do they want you to download the video to be able to watch it?)

​@@KernelLeak Ah…yeah, understandable. And yeah, RUclips makes a lot of…dubious decisions. Have you had the "pleasure" of experiencing the new video player UI? D:

@@Spectere Having banged at ffdshow a lot to get AviSynth in it running right to deinterlace on the fly this is a pet peeve of mine, but at some point I just had to step away from that... :/ And yeah, if I open a video in a private session (so as not to infest my RUclips history with random videos and giving 'em funny ideas about what to suggest) I sometimes get the new interface... D:

@@KernelLeak If only it were possible to force the browser's HTML5 video player to deinterlace. Then again, I suppose that really isn't an issue with most modern videos, soooo… :/ Google really needs to hire some better UX specialists, methinks. I had to use RUclips Music the other day and it's as bad as it ever was. The parts that are copying Spotify are fine, but they really should have kept their original ideas to themselves.

Ahh, that explains it. I recall the error message being something about an out of range droppable thing ID, so that definitely checks out. I remember Graf Zahl mentioning in DW's DSDHacked thread that implementing it in GZDoom was going to be tricky because ZDoom didn't internally use thing IDs the same as as more traditional ports, so maybe that's the issue here as well. I can even see the uncapped nature of it causing some issues with more Boom-adjacent ports as well. The naive approach of simply dynamically allocating a larger thing array would be fine until someone decided to throw a thing with an ID of 2,000,000,000. I think port developers basically have to implement a hash table to do it properly.

@@Spectere I mean, the defensive thing to do would allocate a thing table with, say, 64k entries (to be on the safe side) and add a hash table for anything with and id bigger than 65535...

@@KernelLeak Shouldn't be necessary, IMO, as Doom doesn't have any way of dynamically adding things to the list. We're already so removed from the original codebase that bug-level compatibility isn't really necessary or desirable.

Don't forget to wash down the junk food with some classic Mountain Dew™. 🤤

I'm the same way. My watch later list is looking pretty good these days, but I still have a hard time with stream VODs. I think for me it's because I have a hard time staying in one place for 4-6 hours straight, coupled with the fact that RUclips's resume feature only seems to work when it wants to.

Yeah. I seem to recall a developer of PoE telling people that if they weren't happy with their spec they could always reroll their characters. That always kind of rubbed me the wrong way, especially given the size of the passive tree and the fact that it's very easy to get 20-ish hours into a character before realizing that you made a horrible mistake at the 1 hour mark. At least they seem to give out Orbs of Regret a bit more freely these days compared to when the game was new. I think Grim Dawn had a great approach to respeccing-allow the player to do it freely, but add a currency cost to it. It allows you to make small tweaks without much fuss and only punishing you if you screwed up *really* badly. The feature bloat is a different story. Ugh. I don't think it would be as bad if things were spaced out a bit, or if the features were more subtle (the Altar of Rites from Diablo III comes to mind), but having something like a half dozen fleshed out minigames thrown at you within the first half of the game is overwhelming.

@@Spectere And if you screw up real badly in Grim Dawn, there's always the Tonic of Clarity and Tonic of Reshaping that refund all your attribute and devotion points. Can't change classes that way, but if you really want there's enough character editors out there to do it anyway... (Bring on Fangs of Asterkarn already... :D)

@@KernelLeak Very great points! At this point I'm so used to saves either being encrypted (…why??) or saved on a random server in the middle of nowhere that being able to edit saved games actually feels like a feature. And yesssss…when the expansion drops I definitely plan to pick up GD again. :D

Nah, the Doritos Research Lab was in the previous Junkfood video. ;)

Thanks! :D It is kind of fun being able to sit down and record Spectere's Storytime.

Turns out the issue was Windows enforcing incredibly aggressive power management settings on my desktop PC. I can't even, lmao. I disabled those, so the random stuttering shouldn't happen anymore. 😎

Yeah, I can actually hear when the audio cuts out. Basically, Windows 11 has a very aggressive core parking implementation that you can't disable without third-party utilities or registry hacks, and from what I can tell that was introducing enough driver latency that it would actually force the driver for my audio interface to reload. I disabled that feature, so this shouldn't happen in future videos. Hopefully. Fingers crossed. Aaaaaaaa! 🥴

m.ruclips.net/video/wvwbKfS44Fo/видео.html

**shakes cane** Get off my lawn!

Too true! -_-

Caco? Of course! Caco corpse? I have a bad history with those. x)

I still can't believe I did that face rocket. xD MAP30 was pretty pleasant in terms of Icon of Sin maps. It felt a lot less tedious, and maybe even a bit frantic, and it was nice not having to figure out some weird timing to get my rockets to land. I agree with your comments on the difficulty. It seems to have gone up steadily with a few exceptions (MAP04 was pretty tough for where it was placed, though it was short, for example). Generally it seems to give the player a break every few levels by putting in a couple of maps that are a bit less intense than the previous ones. I like that sort of design. :) And yes, definitely give Neurometry some more support. He's a good guy. :D He also streams pretty often, but I think his usual starting time is around midnight CEST. :(

Yeah, I suppose it depends on what monitor they had, which version of Doom they were testing with (Doom 1.1 only had two gamma correction settings while Doom 1.2 had five-in the former I remember "off" being a bit too dark and "on" being way too bright), and whether or not they even knew what gamma correction was in the first place. It may also be worth noting that, on an even playing field, specters are a bit easier to see in vanilla than DSDA, since DSDA's software renderer doesn't scale up the fuzz pixel sizes. That's the only thing I really don't like about it. I tend to lean towards this one being tested (the author knew about a potential soft lock, despite the fact that the player basically had to go out of their way to trap themselves) and it merely being an odd design choice.

The berserk icon is easily one of my favorite GZDoom features. I'm going to have to see if it's possible to show something like that using a DSDA-Doom custom HUD.

Sorry, I was really slacking with this one. :D

No kidding. I wonder what this map would have looked like if the author had better hardware. A mid-range 386 would have probably struggled to handle this map as-is, but if they had a 66MHz 486 or something along those lines they could have put in a lot more detail without running into performance problems.

I seem to be in the minority when it comes to my apathy for MAP28. I do tend to feel that the map's combat rewards running for cover more than actually engaging, which I'm not the biggest fan of. The sections where you're actually forced to engage directly (like the demons in the sewer section) feel like they're over far too quick. I really wish I knew why the line to open up the exit is so well-hidden. >_<

Whoopsie. xD

I thought that was just me

@@BarneyCarroll Nope, he even apologised for the stutter in the second NERVE video. @Spectere If it's some driver update that's causing lag spikes, have you tried running LatencyMon next to DOOM? It should give some insight into which drivers produce excessive latency and/or lag... Other candidates would be an AMD Ryzen CPU and it's fTPM with an older BIOS causing random lag spikes, or newer Intel CPUs with E- and P-cores where Windows 11 (and last I heard now also Windows 10) makes background tasks with no UI run on the E-cores only unless you futz around with powercfg... but I guess unless you've changed hardware recently or updated your BIOS this shouldn't suddenly happen...

@@KernelLeak It was an NVENC issue. I switched to software encoding and everything way fine. The issue ended up coming on very suddenly-as in, I recorded Friday's video, walked away for 8-10 hours, and all subsequent videos were stuttery. No reboots needed, apparently. I already ran into the Ryzen fTPM issue on my old PC (which is now serving a new life as a wonderful Linux desktop ❤), but that one was easier to spot since I could actually see it. In this case my game was running silky smooth and all of the hitching was happening on OBS's side. The stuttering was actually happening in the OBS preview window, but only while I was recording. I didn't notice that for a while since I have OBS running on my other monitor, and I have to look up a decent amount to see it. I largely think the E-core issue is overstated when it comes to certain things. It's not like the sub-1GHz cores you often find on ARM big.LITTLE designs.

Oh jeez, I didn't even notice that. Two possibilities: WizardWorks shipped the wrong text file (wouldn't be the first time!) or the mapper originally made it for Doom, but later converted it to Doom 2. The text file does seem like it could match up with this map, after all. Also: oh my. x)

I suppose it's short compared to the entirety of D!ZONE 100. ;)

Walls: my greatest enemy!

antonym: E2M1_MT 😝

I was lucky enough to be standing on a couple of medikits, so I was immediately healed back up. 😁

Those kind of mods aren't possible with DSDA-Doom, sadly. GZDoom has a lot more modding potential (but it struggles with my beloved slaughter maps 😈).

Nope 😔