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Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time
sfraggle writes "Kotaku has an interesting review of Doom (the original!) by Stephen Totilo, a gamer and FPS player who, until a few days ago, had gone through the game's 17-year history without playing it. He describes some of his first impressions, the surprises that he encountered, and how the game compares to modern FPSes. Quoting: 'Virtual shotgun armed, I was finally going to play Doom for real. A second later, I understood the allure the video game weapon has had. In Doom the shotgun feels mighty, at least partially I believe because they make first-timers like me wait for it. The creators make us sweat until we have it in hand. But once we have the shotgun, its big shots and its slow, fetishized reload are the floored-accelerator-pedal stuff of macho fantasy. The shotgun is, in all senses, instant puberty, which is to say, delicately, that to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world on which he'd like to have some impact. The shotgun is the punch in the face the once-scrawny boy on the beach gives the bully when he returns a muscled linebacker.'"
Plus, it's on Kotaku, the home of anime-obsessed nerds who love video games more than sex.
I think I'll pass.
as you type this from your mom's basement wondering what it would be like to have a girlfriend......
Well, by all means walk into a story about the game tell us how you're still not playing it. That's a great way to avoid a -1 troll.
Eat sleep die
Was he watching hot gay porn while writing this?
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
The creators make us sweat until we have it in hand. But once we have ...its big shots and its slow, fetishized ... stuff of macho fantasy. [It] is, in all senses, instant puberty, which is to say, delicately, that to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world on which he'd like to have some impact.
I remember uploading Doom to my local BBS. I don't remember it being quite the right-of-passage depicted here.
Kind thoughts do not change the world
I didn't expect him to know the terminology. I was just boggled by the writing.
Well I presume your average /.er's vernacular and phrase turning ability lies closer to the masterdebater end of the spectrum, rather than the cunning linguists range of word-play.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
You were on AOL in 1993? YOU KILLED THE INTERNET, YOU ASSHOLE!
Caps lock filter bypass text.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Are summarizing sex or doom?
Sex...it's like doom.
Bonus 'joke':
It's been 17 years since I enjoyed either.
You, sir, are going down!
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
You can get back to the 50% score if you look at it as:
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And I was going to post a deconstruction of the whole Doom metapsychological reference-view, especially its neoFreudian post-Marxist epistemological framework societal matrix, but then I found out that you can shoot the barrels and make them blow up.
To this day, (I'm 20 now) one of the clearest things I remember is 'IDDQD' and 'IDKFA'. This was some 10 years ago, but it has still managed to embed itself in my brain.
OMG shrooms!
sudo eat my shorts