#doomchief

[autumnbrambleagain]

edit: rant edited to reflect how Snoot Game treats gender identity b/c i hadn't really done more than look at a few convos about it

I'm GBH, Goodbye Volcano High got like, the worst fucking shake

Disclaimer, I haven't played it (there is a very special irony in this that i'll get into in a bit), but I've watched people on youtube play it, and I think it's. Fine? It's fine. But everything surrounding this game, everything that happened to and around it, it's fucking wild. I've never seen a game get such a poor serve-up on the tennis court before.

It gets put up on the big console premier along huge AAA budget games. That's rough. A small intimate-scale VN about the end of the world as a metaphor for growing up and leaving highschool and changing and also a non-metaphor for the world ending as itself a metaphor for the new generation entering into what feels like an absolutely hopeless, pointless future (spoilers: the future is pretty fucking dire (the present is already fucking bad))?

Those are some rough themes! That isn't doomchief and master slayer punching guys! And not to denigrate doomchief! These are some ROUGH themes and the trust that those themes will be handled WELL isn't something you want to give out so readily! Those are themes that are easy to fuck up! Fair! But still. Oof!

To have your relatively small scale game put up as a launch title alongside mass-consumption AAA games. Ouch.

I'll admit: the art style was pretty rough, it's really rough on first look. I made fun of it too.

Then it comes out the MC is enby, that it deals with queer themes, and 4chan-esque folk go nuts over it. Snoot Game comes out which, apparently, seemingly, actually not bad! A lot more ironic but with serious themes handled, apparently earnestly, and it's overall... good!? Even some critical accounts suggest it isn't, at least, bad? Whichever: it comes out faster than GVH does, so it now has a parody-competitor dealing with the same themes, but not just as a JOKE but actually putting effort into it too. Like. That's the thing. Snoot Game DEALS with strong themes of growing up, of becoming a person, it DEALS with the themes GVH is saying it will deal with... and it uses the characters to do it too.

And it does it, by some accounts, WELL.

Ouch!

Granted Snoot Game is from 4chan and apparently I'm now reading one of the themes is Fang accepting they're a woman and they were just being enby to try and be different, and while it seems like it DOES handle it very seriously, and like, the game seems to penalize you for being shitty about their gender, and like, detransitioning IS a thing! I don't want to give TOO much trust to a 4chan-derived game either. I'm literally enby, but I also wasn't always enby, but like. Having a game where the message of "you were only trans because you were pressured into being different", it's, ehhhhhhhh not great no!

TBH without going through Snoot Game I can't really speak about it but Snoot Game overall isn't the main point, the main point is:

Some people are already now primed with associations and expectations, you already have a doppleganger as your competitor. OUCH.

So like.

Pretty rough.

And while Snoot Game, from the compressed summaries of it I've seen, seems to actually have honest heart and love in it in its final form, a lot of people just seem to be along for the hate-ride against GVH at this point because "eww the alphabet rainbow furries."

And then the writer has to step down because they found out she's into child por--wait, it was just 3d animations? That someone else made? That she was watching and criticizing as part of an article on how dumb video game porn is?

Oh. See, there's a difference between "the author is an active pedophile" and "the author watched a Harry Potter porn animation to write an article on the concept of video game porn," but in our modern era there's really never a distinction. Drawing something bad is the same as doing it in real life. Looking at it at all is the same as doing it in real life. If you see a woman's ankle on the street, make sure to head immediately to confession or God will judge you for the rape you have committed in your heart.

We live in such a media-literacy dead-end zone that people are calling the original Lolita book child porn. We live in such a media-literacy dead-end timeline that people are saying the only media that should be permitted to exist is happy comfort fluff where nothing bad ever happens because if you make bad things happen in fiction it means you're an evil villain :3 i'm not an evil villain, though, i don't watch bad media!

So of course it's fine to ruin careers because that's not EVIL. I didn't look at the BAD media so I CAN'T be evil. So you know, we have this modern purity pandemic of people thinking they're heroes for getting people to kill themselves because they drew or wrote "the wrong kind of thing" and are therefore EVIL and we're in a post-DnD world the cultural well got poisoned by DnD's secular take on evangelical protestantism's absolute morality of saved-vs-nonsaved. You're Lawful Good, you know you're Lawful Good. Whatever you to do Chaotic Evil people? That's fine. You can do whatever you want to them. You're Good.

Anyway, then it gets delayed to remove all her influence from the game, because at this point, even admitting you know what sex is online seems to be enough to ruin anything you touch tbh. Humanity's doing great, btw.

Like I can find twitter posts of her apologizing for "hurting people" by having seen harry potter porn. Your species is insane, just btb.

GVH finally comes out quietly and everyone's so fucking. MAD at this game. Hardcore 4chan whateverfolk hate it because there's queers and highschoolers. Other people dislike it because Snoot Game already came out and now GVH feels like fanfiction of THAT to them. They already met these characters, enjoyed them written like they were in Snoot Game, so how they come off in GVH feels worse. And you know, sure! That's a rough fucking shake when a fanfiction comes out before your actual release and it's good! For others it's tainted because a ""sex perver"" had worked on it. For others the art style and that it premiered alongside big name AAA games as a launch title was enough to slot it firmly in the derision zone. For some, because the queer community cannot NOT devour its own tail, it's doing queerness wRONG (Fang's parents MISGENDER and DEADNAME them!!! you can't put that in a game that deals with gender as a theme!!!!)

And then you have people who don't care about ANY of that, who are upset that everyone dies in the end and "your choices didn't matter", despite your choices affecting your relationships with the other characters. Granted? Sure! More actual endings beyond the end-of-the-world concert would be great! But comparing it to Mass Effect 3 where NOTHING mattered because the Reapers destroy everything and you pick one option at the end and their implied consequences before like 4 different changes to the ending came out to retcon "oh yeah everyone in the galaxy is stranded, everyone probably dies anyway, you accomplished nothing everyone's still dead" ? ?

The world's ending. That's the point. It's what you do with the time left that seems to be the point? Yeah? No? I'm not saying it HIT that theme well, and I'm not saying it actually failed at it either. I honestly think it did FINE. The criticism i keep seeing is "everyone died so nothing mattered." Buddy. Buddy. YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. Please do not let that convince you that nothing you ever did mattered.

Among all that it came out buggy, apparently, and the music minigame isn't like. Super. Good. Doesn't matter too much if you do well or not. Not greatly designed? So you know. The game also has just general internal problems too mechanically, so people without a dog in the race just don't enjoy playing it? Like, the art style was all on the creators, like, it's... it's not GREAT I'll be real! It's really weird. It's humans in those latex dolphin masks the memes weren't off base even i was laughing at it and groaning at yet another piece of media whose theme was "leaving highschool is like the world ending"

but like.

GVH isn't like. I dont' think this is some great amazing the best game ever. The art style's grown on me but in the way where you learn to ignore how it looks. But like, I see people complaining it's too whiny--wait, the characters aren't depressed ENOUGH about the world ending--honestly, honestly,

I think I like it? I haven't played it but I've watched it and I think I like it. I'm not like, this is probably the last day in a while I'll ever even think about the game, it isn't going to stick with me for years and years, it didnt' make a big impact on me--but I liked it well enough???

At this point, my default assumption at this point is if someone strongly openly firmly dislikes this game it's not at all for any good reasons--or rather, that it's not on the value of the game in-and-of-itself. This poor game was saddled with all this WEIGHT on top of it. Can you even dig it clear of this external context and examine the game itself for what it is anymore?

I'm writing all these words and like. I haven't PLAYED it i've just watched other people play it. I'm not even BIG into the game it's like... it's okay!

But oh my god I cannot get over what a fucking. BAD serve-up the game had leading to its release and just beyond. Oof. Ouch. God. That's real rough, buddy. I have never seen something get this POOR a serve. What an absolute rough, ravage, unfair birth for a thing into the world!

I think if the game congealed out of the aether (and maybe with a more... better art direction?) it'd be fondly remembered in small quantities?

Instead it's just... the actual game itself is just BURIED under all this mess.

It's fucking fascinating to me, honestly. It's far more fascinating what happened to this game than the game itself at this point, and that, too, isn't very fair to the poor game. I, too, am here not to talk about the game, to care about the game, to have anything to say about the game. I am PART of this problem I'm talking about. Instead of addressing the game I'm talking about the context that was built around it.

I'm here because I remembered the drama, looked into all the drama, then went to watch the game and, after seeing ALL of that, EVERYthing I read through to get to the game itself, actually seeing the game was just... like... for this? All of that, for this?

Huh.

[naemors]

semi-hiatus notice: 6/20/23 - 7/24/23.

hey everyone, as you all know, I've been having constant pain / stiffness / limited mobility in my right hand due to a cyst that's been pressing against my nerves and tendons - i do need surgery for it and that day has finally arrived - unfortunately, it's in my dominant hand so my already scarce activity is going to be even more erratic due to recovery and physical therapy. if you wanna keep in contact, here's my discord: doomchief. please let me know who you are, it's mutuals only! Love y'all ❤️

[fredfugues]

What about doomchief fortnite friday

i don’t want anyone to ever do a ‘its reblog this thing thursday!!!’ on any of my posts. every single time it’s just a pale imitation of posts that were actually iconic enough to occupy a day of the week, i’ll never in my life make a post like out of touch thursday. maybe i’ll upload a banal video of a cat with music over it, but it will never deserve that day, and neither will any of your flop ass posts. accept it.

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

Are requests open

Can I please request

Doom guy seeing chief and going oh no i guess he has to be my boyfriend now

The battle rages around him, another landscape destroyed beyond recognition spattered with the blood and gore of demons bent on destroying a dying world. His work is never done yet he persists, venturing out over and over. Vision narrowing to whatever enemy falls in front of him, he allows the deep simmering rage to flare and rear its ugly head as he loses himself in the onslaught.

The Slayer is clearing out yet another UAC building when an armor-clad figure falls through a glowing portal that he knows Vega didn't summon.

Whoever they are, they're quick as a whip and roll out of the way of a Hell Knight bearing down on them. It roars as its first attack misses and the new enemy levels a rifle at its howling maw. A staccato spray of bullets shreds the monster's flesh and it howls in a blind fury, winding up to bring a fist down onto the new soldier on the battlefield.

The Doom Slayer blasts a gaggle of imps into a cloud of viscera and sprints towards his potential ally, too slow to intervene in time. He watches as the hellspawn brings its bloody arm down onto the soldier, their arms raised as if to block the blow.

To his and the Hell Knight's surprise, they do stop the swing. Green armor lighting up gold around the impact as they grab and twist the limb with a sickening crack, shifting their stance and the monster's weight into a throw that downs the beast with a howl. Before it can react and move, a grenade is thrust into the creature's mouth and the soldier sprints with an inhuman speed to cover from the explosion.

The battle rages on and the Slayer continues to be impressed by his new ally. Dodging blasts and fireballs, this new figure adapts to the fight and seemingly accepts demons as an easily defeatable foe. The only issue seems to be a lack of ammo.

The Slayer notices that whoever they are, they only carry two guns and a few grenades and while they are extremely effective in combat, the waves of hellspawn make ammo conservation difficult. They dispatch a cacodemon with their hands, green fist punching through the eye socket of the demon and causing them to land near the Slayer in a mist of blood. They turn that opaque golden visor towards him and nod, and the Slayer notices the rage he usually feels is muted, subdued.

Watching this new player on the field has left him impressed, and maybe feeling something close to hope. He pulls his shotgun out and tosses it over as the shrieks and cries of another wave of enemies fill the air.

This close he can see the body language of the new ally that even he has to look up to, and the number emblazoned on their chest. 117. No UAC symbols mar their armor.

They catch the weapon with ease and pause a moment to examine it. The helmet turns back to face him and with a crackle of a mic he hears a gruff voice call out above the growing din of clamoring demons.

"Are you going to want this back?"

The Slayer grins inside his own helmet. Maybe it's hope, or maybe it's finding a kindred spirit as crazy as he is.

[hereliesbitches--me]

Happy Belated birthday to the platonic love of my life ans Bestie over @glorykill

I'm gonna save myself from a heartfelt homo message but full homo I love you, glad I met you, and I'm glad we still friends to this day. Happy happy birthday ♡♡

[snafv]

K I know it's not dbd related but I just liked this drawing so you can deal with it

[databuffer]

miscellaneous doom sketches,,

Master Chief/Doomguy for @sharklordsatan

Vega/Marauder,,, my,,,,,,, strange crackship,

and Samuel Hayden

[mshedgehog117]

John: I'm having guy troubles

Kelly: what kind of guy troubles? Is it the "his body won't fit in my trunk" kind or the "I like him" kind?

John: the "I like him" kind

Kelly: damn I would've helped you with the other one.

John:.....

John: kelly, I don't own a car.

[peachybats]

Have some halos. Sorry for the sketchy ness of the top one I drew the armor from memory lol. I got several requests for out of armor and being cute n dancing.

[glorykill-a]

john's hands are just as scarred and messed up as doom guy's and he loves holding them so much... they're callused and rough with scars from the augmentations and from boot camp. sometimes doom mindlessly traces the outline of john's hand and fingers while he's watching something or they're even standing by one another.

[orphidian]

@glorykill:  "𝙸𝙵 𝚃𝙾𝚁𝚃𝚄𝚁𝙴 𝚆𝙴𝚁𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝚂𝚃𝙾𝙿 𝙽𝙾𝚆, 𝙸 𝙼𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃 𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙻𝙻 𝚁𝙴𝙲𝙾𝚅𝙴𝚁."  /  dark tower.

They had come to rest amidst a standing circle of statues. Figures of myth and legend. Some of those figures Orin had seen draw breath, had stood beside herself, had touched and loved. The pair of them sit at the feet of Wei Ning and Orin lets the memory of her brazen laughter ring in her ears while she prepares their meal of hardtack and bitter tea sweetened with the last of the honey. 

Across from them stands the spartan, John. As formidable a titan as any in the circle. Orin and Orion sip their tea in silence, and she studies the crumbling moss-covered statue. Wonders what his laughter might have sounded like. 

“If torture were to stop now, I might still recover.”

Orin’s glowing eyes do not shift away from John’s stone visor. She let’s his words settle in the cool air around them for a while, leathers of her armor creaking as she settles her hands in her lap, mug warm in her palms. Sometimes she envies him; for all that his greatest love is out of reach the god still knows where to find him. What she would not give to know where Namqi was. 

But envy is a trite thing; she doesn’t let it sink its teeth in her any further. Instead, empathy wells inside of her chest; she dares to rest her little hand atop his gloved one. 

“Love is torture,” she murmurs softly, the light coruscating across her skin flickering with the well of grief within her. “The root of passion—pati—means ‘to suffer.’ It’s better to suffer, I think. Even if we can never recover from it.”

[miiilowo]

when sending the doomchief ask i was thinking like. u hear the sounds of glass clinking and metal scrapinga gainst metal. u round the corner. they r kissing qith their helmets on . im so tired

tjats a REALLY funny visual thank you

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

wait

if I can drag the half life and doom people into halo, I can drag the halo people into half life and doom

[dybbukbox]

Fuck it,

I'm gonna make an tumblr for my doomchief au shit.

[lunarlicorice]

fuck it. not enough chellyx or doomchief. *cracks knuckles*

[r--g--b]

i forgot that the ship doomchief is awesome, actually.