one more cute disaster… it’s hard here in paradise
There is an hour just at evening when the plains seem on the verge of saying something; they never do, or perhaps they do—eternally— though we don't understand it, or perhaps we do understand but what they say is as untranslatable as music....
jorge luis borges, "the end"
it's probably not ideal, but I absolutely write all of my long form blog posts in a local markdown file before I copy and paste them to cohost. I am easily distracted, and deeply love sublimetext, so it fits in my workflow.
This is my go-to favorite quick-script:
➜ ~ cat ~/.scripts/qn
#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p ~/notes/$(date +"%Y")
subl --new-window ~/notes/$(date +"%Y")/$(date --rfc-3339="date").md
rip to the multiple people I've seen in the last week that have lost longposts to the editor window.
Your name is Doom Guy, an actor. You've been cast in a cable TV reenactment of 2007's "Knee-Deep In ZDoom". You were never much of a history buff, but it'll put food on the table and help cover Daisy's vet bills. Maybe it'll even revive your acting career. You adjust the prop helmet to breathe a little easier, try out a few cheesy poses with your character's handgun, and ready yourself for the first day of filming.
Welcome back to 2008, everyone! Knee-Deep in KDiZD is here, appearing courtesy of The History Channel. That’s right, it’s 2007’s Knee-Deep in ZDoom, now upgraded for vanilla Doom2.exe.
I didn't really expect a clearly infeasible joke project announced over a decade ago to actually become a playable WAD, but here we are
also I'm pretty sure several effects in this WAD are supposed to be impossible in the vanilla doom engine, and yet...
bonus content: I played this in prboom-plus without setting the required complevel, and got completely obliterated multiple times in the final boss fight, until I figured out that maybe spawning infinite fireballs is not how this is supposed to work and had some fun looking at the DEH file until I figured out I need to turn on the "limit to 21 spawned lost souls" compat option
