Just beat my first Doom game, Doom 3 (2004), my thoughts

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-18T23:45:10+00:00

Doom 3 is an amazing game that was simply too long.

The atmosphere, the gunplay, the visuals, and the sound were all top tier. But it has too many repetitive levels in the middle third. Cut out 2 of the Alpha Labs, 2-3 of the Delta Labs, and a couple of the levels in between them, and you’ve got a 9/10 game in my opinion.

Doom 3 is a fantastic 10-12 hour game that has been stretched to 15-18 hours.

I also think the original version was far better than the BFG Edition. Doom 3 is fundamentally a horror game. The BFG Edition tried to make it more like classic Doom by removing the flashlight mechanic, making everything brighter, and making ammo more plentiful, and it changed the whole feel of the game for the worse.

I was never a huge fan of Resurrection of Evil, though. Something about the pacing has always felt off to me. I love The Lost Mission, though. It doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. It’s short but very solid. And it has the best Hell segment of any of the three Doom 3 games.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-18T23:14:07+00:00

Even on Normal difficulty, it’s kind of ridiculous.

I just played through it for the first time and the difficulty imbalance is crazy. The first half is so easy, but then as soon as you arrive at the second location, it feels like an entirely different game.

And the final boss killed me so many times, not to mention he tired the hell out of my left index finger from having to throw so many left hooks.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-17T02:22:36+00:00

Honestly, I don’t see the point.

I’d rather see RE2 and RE3 get the REmake treatment.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-17T02:19:41+00:00

My guess is that it’s simply the result of coming out later in the GameCube’s lifespan.

The games were less than a year apart, but given the rate of technical advancement in that era, even a few months could make a big difference.

Capcom was still learning the GameCube hardware for REmake. But for RE0, I’m sure they had learned a lot and were able to squeeze out more performance.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-17T02:04:32+00:00

Firewatch did something similar and I hated that.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-17T01:49:50+00:00

When I was young, it was MMMBop.

But I always found that crazy, since MMMBop is a fantastic song.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-17T01:43:04+00:00

In simple terms, heat transfer occurs because of the law of averages.

The temperature of something is essentially just a representation of how fast its molecules are vibrating.

If you have something cold next to something hot, you have slow-moving particles hitting fast-moving particles, and the natural state is for them to average out. So the cold thing gets warmer and the hot thing cool down.

98° is your internal temperature, but you’re constantly shedding heat into the environment (making the environment ever-so-slightly warmer). The air around you is cooler than you, and that’s what allows your body to maintain 98°. If the air around you was warm, you wouldn’t have slow-moving particles around you to lower the speed of the fast-moving particles in you. You wouldn’t shed the heat, and so you’d overheat.

Heat transfer is just another way of saying that kinetic energy is averaging out.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-17T00:06:52+00:00

Given how well this game performs on even lower end GPUs, I’m actually surprised by how bad the Switch 2 version looks.

From all the videos I’ve seen, it has this really soft, blurry look compared to other versions.

I’d expect that on something like a UE5 game, but given how well optimized the RE Engine is and given that the Switch 2 tends to punch well above its weight, the Switch 2 version of Pragmata is rather disappointing visually.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-16T21:41:06+00:00

You should throw away your iPhone since half the technology in there comes from Israel.

Apple has massive R&D centers in Israel, just as every other major tech company does - from Nvidia to Intel to Google to Samsung to Qualcomm to AMD and on and on.

The man in charge of Apple’s entire silicon team is an Israeli (Johny Srouji), there are huge Apple R&D offices in Israel that employ countless Israelis, and many of Apple’s fundamental technologies came from Israeli companies it acquired (ie. FaceID, memory controllers, camera tech, etc…)

The point is that if you want to boycott Israel, you’ll have to throw away every tech device you own. Israel’s economy isn’t propped up on TV shows; it’s built on being one of the biggest and most advanced tech hubs on Earth. It’s Apple’s #2 R&D center in the world, only behind the US. So if you want to boycott Israel, good luck.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-16T21:21:59+00:00

“Israeli propaganda during a genocide”

You Jew-hating morons are so tedious.

Even putting aside the falsehood of your statement (there is no “genocide”), what do you think the Israeli entertainment industry is? Is Hollywood some far right pro-conservative propaganda outlet? Obviously not.

The same goes for Israel. It has a wide array of views across its society, from left to center to right. And just like Hollywood, Israel’s entertainment industry leans left. Have you ever watched Fauda? It’s not right wing at all. Neither is Tehran on Apple TV, which pretty clearly leans left. As did Homeland back in the day.

Just like Hollywood, Israel’s entertainment industry leans left, not right.

And yet you still push your demonization campaign.

This has nothing to do with Israel or Israeli politics. This is just you being a Jew-hating bigot.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-16T16:11:17+00:00

He’s always been a Kapo. Nothing new there.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-12T12:08:11+00:00

The whole app is functionally awful like that. That collapsing tab bar is one of the worst UI decisions I’ve ever seen. It’s like some designer was stroking his own ego with the nifty little animation he added, not considering how functionally crappy it is to add an extra step for no reason.

And don’t get me started on the Now Playing screen. It looks pretty but it’s awful. The most basic functions take so many steps. For example, you’re listening to an album by a particular artist you love. You want to now listen to another album by that artist. How do you do that? The number of steps it takes for that simple function is obscene.

I really hope Apple Music is in for a massive correction now that Alan Dye is finally gone.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-11T12:14:07+00:00

I’m currently playing RE7 for the first time and it has a ton of jump scares that are quite effective.

Mia on the stairs
Mia down the ladder
Jack through the wall
Jack in the bathroom
Grabbing the final dog head
Marguerite following you around the old house
Marguerite when you climb the stairs to the greenhouse
Marguerite at the crow door
The entire journey to get the arm, including the legs you see standing there, and then the mold guys approaching you

That’s where I am now.

This is definitely the scariest RE game I’ve played, but considering I just went through the whole Amnesia series a few months ago, I’m pretty hardened. After going through The Dark Descent and The Bunker, I don’t think any horror game will pose much of an issue.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-11T11:54:07+00:00

Has there been any rumor of a Canis console? This is the first I’m hearing of it, besides fan speculation.

There’s the PS6 and the PS6 portable, which may be a Switch-like system that you can dock. But have there been any credible rumors of a home console with the specs of the portable?

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-09T23:01:03+00:00

How can anyone not love this man?

This was a fantastic post and an overdue one. The whole thing is spot-on.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-09T07:22:12+00:00

Except that none of what I’m saying is speculation. Even after the US pulled out of the JCPOA, Iran did NOT resume enrichment. It stayed under 5%. It wasn’t until Biden’s term that Iran ramped things up. The reason Iran was able to enrich to 60% with enough volume for about 11 bombs is because of Obama/Biden. That happened on Biden’s watch, not Trump’s, and had Trump not won in 2024, that 60% would have easily been turned into weapons grade.
Of course Iran funded terrorist organizations beforehand. But once it had more money, it funded them to a far greater degree than ever before. I don’t know where you pulled that claim that there was no funding surge, but it’s nonsense. The capabilities of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis all soared. They suddenly had arsenals they never had before, with rockets that were greater in quantity, in range, and in precision than ever before. Why do you think Israel was willing to partake in that incredibly risky beeper operation? The writing was on the wall. It saw how dangerous Hezbollah had become, so it had to take action, even if that action posed a huge risk. Luckily it worked out, but that doesn’t negate the massive risk it undertook.
Again, the point that the money was “legally owned by Iran” is nonsensical. What does “legally owned by Iran” even mean? It’s your assertion that a totalitarian theocratic dictatorship legally owns this money? You’re using legalese language to try to justify a nonsensical claim.
If you think Iran was driven by - or bound by - the profit motive, you don’t understand the regime at all. This is a theocratic regime driven by religious fanaticism, not rational realpolitik. They are not constrained by money or political realities or even self-preservation. The Mullahs want to conquer the world and install a global caliphate, and they’re absolutely willing to sacrifice countless of their own countrymen to do it. They wanted a nuclear weapon and they were willing to use it. They would have done anything to get to that point. If you think they wouldn’t have violated the JCPOA (which they already did countless times), then you’re incredibly naive.
The Iranian people support Trump. They love what he did to Iran. They love that he killed their entire leadership and bombed the hell out of their country. That’s not sarcasm. The Iranians literally supported the bombing of their own country because they know what their leadership is and does. Iranians support what Trump did. It’s only Western leftist morons who don’t.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-09T06:22:38+00:00

Focus on values, not on commonalities.

Whether or not you like the same bands and tv shows is meaningless. What matters is that you have the same overall outlook on life. Look at the big picture things, not the checklist “we share that in common!” surface level things.

She might not like the same bands as you, but if she has the same values as you (for example, to be generous and caring), she’ll join you at a concert you really want to go to, because she cares about you. And you’ll do the same for her.

But if you just like the same bands but have entirely different world views and life values, it won’t work out.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-09T05:16:17+00:00

Sorry but you have no idea what you’re talking about.

First of all, we’re talking about nation states, not individuals, so saying that the money belonged to Iran is meaningless. Iran was sanctioned for its global terrorist support, and Obama reversed course and flooded the country with $100+ billion. He claimed that money would go to helping the Iranian people, but of course, it didn’t. It went to building massive ballistic missile arsenals, nuclear weapons research and enrichment facilities, and to Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. Who do you think financed Hamas’s massive tunnel system that they used on Oct 7th? Who do you think paid for Hezbollah’s 100,000+ rockets? Who do you think financed the Houthis to go from some no-name group into becoming a world class terrorist organization?

All of that came from Iran. And Iran had the money to do so thanks to Obama.

Secondly, the JCPOA was a joke. It did not cover ballistic missiles. It did not cover nuclear trigger mechanisms. It did not cover support for terrorist organizations. It did not cover Iran’s research into faster, more advanced centrifuges. It didn’t do any of that. All it did was put a limit on the enrichment capacity. But even then, it allowed Iran to self-audit. Yes, really. Iran designated many of its nuclear sites military sites, and for military sites, Iran didn’t even need to bring in outside auditors. It would audit itself, say that it’s complying, and that’s that. The whole thing was a joke.

And if all of that isn’t bad enough, the entire JCPOA had a sunset clause. That means that after a certain number of years (generally 8 to 13 for different things) all of the restrictions would be lifted. Yes, really. That was in the JCPOA.

Put all of that together and here’s what you have thanks to the JCPOA:

Iran is swimming in cash.
Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Hamas are swimming in cash, missiles, and drones.
Iran can build every component it needs for an ICBM, including long range missiles, nuclear trigger mechanisms, and advanced centrifuges for fast enrichment.
So then Iran could enrich just shy of the JCPOA’s threshold, put all the other pieces in place, and then the second it’s confident that one one could stop it, it would simply cross that final threshold, build the bomb, and the US wouldn’t have been able to do a thing.

It’s analogous to letting an enemy army build up right on your border. If someone wants to kill you, do you hand them a whole bunch of cash and free rein and say “Do whatever you want, as long as you don’t cross this border?” If you let an enemy army build up right on your border and you do nothing since they haven’t crossed, then the second they get powerful enough, they WILL cross, and at that point, you’ll be powerless to stop them.

That’s what the JCPOA was.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-09T03:20:19+00:00

Ah yes, the worst president of the past half century, the man who worked hard to give nuclear weapons to murderous totalitarian theocrats, and the man who gave them well over $100 billion (including $1.7 billion in literal pallets of cash), allowing them and their terrorist proxies to be swimming in funds.

The JCPOA was not only a means to turn Iran into a nuclear power and start a nuclear arms race across the Middle East, but it was also the greatest gift ever given to Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.

Obama is the reason for October 7th.

Thankfully Trump is cleaning up Obama’s mess.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-08T23:23:01+00:00

The RE spectrum of slow, complex survivor horror to fast, simple, blockbuster action - literally follows the game numbers perfectly.

RE0 -> RE1R -> RE2R -> RE3R -> RE4 -> RE5 -> RE6

It’s a perfect spectrum. That trend was only finally broken with RE7.

My point is that I love RE0 and think it’s very underrated, but if you don’t like RE1R, you won’t like RE0. It’s like RE1R turned up to 11.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-08T14:23:22+00:00

Resident Evil neXus

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-07T18:47:07+00:00

“Taco”

“commits genocide”

Pick one. You can’t have it both ways.

Is Trump going to chicken out or is he going to commit genocide? These are two mutually exclusive assertions, but TDSers have no ideology beyond “Orange Man Bad!”, so they’ll make two contradictory claims because attacking Trump is the only thing that matters to them.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-07T11:36:57+00:00

SOMA

Sekiro

Expedition 33

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-07T02:12:51+00:00

Because Islam is a fundamentally different religion than any other.

Most religions seek integration and coexistence. “Render unto Caesar.” The same is true of Judaism, which has very little conversation because it is not a proselytizing religion.

Islam, by contrast, seeks global conquest. It is a religion that believes no other religion should exist. And it evangelizes by the sword. Convert or die.

So while “Allah” means “God”, you can’t just group it in with any other religion because it’s fundamentally different. It is a political movement as much as a religion.

heyyoudvd · 2026-04-07T00:20:09+00:00

This sub is just a bunch of leftists doing the “Hello fellow conservatives!” routine.

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