Then Daicos, where thou hath fallen and failed to do the deed, I shall, in your place, complete the mission.
TL;DR.
Just foolin', I read it. Okay I scanned it. ALRIGHT MAYBE I JUST Ctrl + f'ed "boobs" BUT I'M AROUSED DAMN IT!
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TS;DR, sorry man, time is money.
I kinda have a story like that, but a lot shorter. I'll sum it up for ya.
When I was in first grade I:
1. Didnt pay attention in class.
2. Teachers thought I had autism (which i dont, and never have)
3. Got put on crazy ass trial autism meds against my parents will as alternative to "special kid school"
4. Literally almost cut up my mom with a butcher knife as a result of crazy ass trial autism meds.
5. Got tooken off crazy ass trial autism meds.
6. Almost got my parents arrested for taking me off meds and not taking me to "special kid school".
In short, FUCK THE SYSTEM
What I love about all this is how you experienced Doom in the same way. My brother would play games on my dad's computer and I would watch, half because I enjoyed watching and half because my brother wouldn't let have a turn to play. But either way it was awesome that our dad would let us watch movies that he wanted to watch and like you put perfectly, he gave us common sense enough to know the difference between fantasy and reality. Funnily enough he let us play Wolfenstein and Doom, but not ever have our own game system. To enjoy that, we had to visit our cousin and a whole new degree of violence and enjoyment of said violence was experienced. Not too bad though, as you know back then the visuals were detached from real life enough.
Aah, I grew up with Doom...
You are violent stay away from my children.
BRING YOUR DAUGHTER, BRING YOUR DAUGHTER, TO THE SLAAAAAUUUGHTER!!!
"Calvary nodded professionally, and weighed her options, which left her no logical choice but to exile me from her school. I transferred to a school for the mentally and emotionally challenged."
That is ridiculous, I bet your father was especially upset.
Great story! Very descriptive and inspiring!
I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I PLAYED A DOOM GAME I WAS PUNCHING THE CYBER DEMON TO DEATH BECAUSE SOMEONE TOLD ME IT WAS POSSIBLE AND TOTALLY DIDN'T TAKE THAT LONG BUT IT DOES TAKE A LONG TIME AND I DIED LIKE ELEVEN TIMES AND THEN I WAS JUST LIKE FUCK YOU GUY WHO TOLD ME YOU COULD PUNCH CYBER DEMON TO DEATH IT DOES TAKE A LONG TIME I NEVER DID KILL HIM THAT WAY
Cavalry is kind of a badass last name, though.
It would be a lot cooler than "Calvary"
Oh shit, look at that, I can't read. It's all good, though, my reading comprehension won't matter in a few days.
It's actually funny because I re-read that four or five times to make sure it said cavalry because I thought calvary was an unusual last name
HAHAHAHA FUCK WORDS
I expected something Doom-related, but not this! :D Incredible that they can kick you out of a school just for a picture, interesting read.
As for Doom 3 btw, did you really appreciate it? Do you still run the originals? If so, which port do you use? Are you looking forward to the sequel coming out (maybe) this year? Have you tried the new versions of Castle Wolfenstein? How about Quake? How about Rage? How about this: <a href="http://www.wrackgame.com/">http://www.wrackgame.com/</a> (site seems to be down right now, so check back later if it's not working, it's a new game inspired by old Doom, new music made by the same guy who made the soundtrack for Doom 1 & 2 etcetc)?
I was probably around 12-13 the first time I played Doom, around the same age I was introduced to computer games in general. I played that, and a lot of other games, without any deeper fascination in the games than an overhanging fascination for anything immaterial, submerged within the imaginative realm of computers. But Doom is one of few games that stuck, I started playing it for real a few years later and I still am, occasionally, reliving the old classic level packs and messing around with new WADs. :) Gave designing levels a try too but that didn't result in any real masterpieces.
Btw, is your name by any chance inspired by Phobos technology?
Daicos
I was tempted to just go down here to the comment section and write TL;DR
But then I was curious as to why it was so long... So I began reading the first paragraph, and before I know it I was down towards the end.
Although I never got around to playing any of the Doom games as a child, this post reminded me of how my Dad would let me watch Highlander with him, where immortal beings would fight each other to gain supremacy, ultimately killing each other by chopping the others head clean off. Although we never saw it, we knew it happened, and I never understood as to why Dad would let me watch this violent show, but never the simpsons as a kid. It was because the Simpsons and all that go off of day to day life, where things that I might have repeated in school would get me in trouble because of the topics on that show, whereas in Highlander, I knew, even as a child, that it was all fantasy and fiction.
The game that Dad got me to play when I was around the same age as you was Decent. You were a pilot in a small space craft flying through cramped mines that have been overrun with robots that have been infected with a virus that turned their own intent into killing you and destroying you ship. It was an intense game as a child, especially watching Dad play. Because even though you could move in all three dimensions with ease, the hallways were so cramped and All you could ever do was just quickly, frantically back away from a homing missile that if it hit you would destroy you, finishing your last life, and so close to the last boss of the level.. (coincidently that's how Dad died on his final play of the game, he sadly back into a wall, died, and never touched another game after that, depressing moment in my childhood).
I, for one, will follow how my own father brought me up, with my own children. I won't shield them from all these "horrors" out in the gaming world. But I'll teach them to know the difference between reality and fantasy. Especially teaching them to develop their own imagination and use it to the fullest of their potential.
Galneda
Hell yeah, one of the games I watched over the shoulder of my brother was Descent! That game was hard...and the closest thing to it that I got into at that young age was TIE Fighter.
All we can do is learn, and carry our wisdoms on to raise our kids right. There's bound to be a steady rate of progression, man. Any alternative would suck :D
Godspeed, dude.