HiMyNameIsChair

YOOOO~! this looks amazing~! congrats spoon~!

Map Name: Usagi Pass Author: HiMyNameisChair Music: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane Format: MBF21 Build Time: 2 hours Co-op Starts: Yes Difficulty Settings: Yes Which List Are You On?: Nice Gimmicks: BUNNIES~! Comments: A comfy moonlit pass where girlies and Non-binary cuties might go on walks and... h-hold hands... maybe even.. kiss~! U///U. Named after the many, many bunnies native to the valley. This was my first ever successful speedmap. I spent 2 hours silently screaming and flailing about, but I'm happy with how it turned out. Usagi Pass v1.7z

At least for me, personally, finally giving mapping a shot and actually successfully finishing a map.

OH THIS THING! Boy do i ever have receipts for this~! I forgot they were a thing until like a week before the results went live. Whole thing was just a trainwreck, really poorly put together, no real transparency, wholly dependent on AI generation, and that's just scratching the surface. OFC people constantly called them out for a lot of this, including how their discord was at one point, moderated by a very vocal bigot. really setting the tone here lol Or calling out the accessive amount of AI content being used. Which Hakros would respond by throwing a fit! which.. boy that ended up being a running theme lol. There were many examples of nominated mapsets with multiple members that were only attributed to project leads. Sets like Tetanus, What Lies Beneath, and Lunacy, were listed with no real hint of anyone else who contributed. this isn't even all of them. In an even funnier error: Hell Yeah! wasn't even attributed to PUSS lmao. @Yugiboy85 even had to keep pestering Hakros about it because they wanted to make sure Squonker Team was properly credited. Hakros responded by berating someone who contributed to a nominated mapset for their awards. very classy lol. @Major Arlene even had to point out how the Write-up for Break//Point// incorrectly states it contains Dehacked when it very clearly doesn't lmao. Not only could they not be bothered to write for their award show, they couldn't even be bothered to look over what the AI wrote! People very quickly got wind that this whole thing was a grift done out of spite and understandably wanted their names off it. Arlene had asked, multiple times even, and ofc they didn't comply. @Foxhead also asked to have their project:Foxtex removed, and to qoute him, "They begged me to keep it" which is... so sad. Foxhead had enough and just gave up on it. Ofc calling them out resulted in them getting blocked because Hakros is if nothing else: Consistent lol Hakros would ofc throw a very public tantrum over this, and in a perfect analogy for this whole mess: couldn't be bothered to check if he had tagged the right person!! Maybe the funniest thing, was you could see Hakros, throughout the months constantly @ ing @Bridgeburner56 ** IN HIS OWN REPLYS**. you can't make this shit up! OFC because Bridgeburner publicly called out what a sham the Doom Awards was, say it with me: he got blocked lmao. big shock there. It was so transparent that they badly wanted big names in the community to vouch for them, constantly tagging nominee's for Best Content Creator.. even when it didn't make any sense, like when they just.. randomly tagged Civvie and some other people on a random announcement post. There was just.. no effort put into this. the saddest thing, was that both the "Best Rookie Creator" and "Best Rookie Map" only had **one* nominee... the same nominee actually: Mr Hypnos and their debut map Octate respectably. The fact they just couldn't think of more people to include in one of the richest years in doom's history is.. so sad. Especially when the Caco's went above and beyond to talk about fresh-faced mappers. There is even more about the whole thing that was just a mess, but this is just a sampling of it. So the lesson to take away here: maybe don't make an award show out of spite. You might end up realizing it's way too much work and just give up on it.

UH... well, congrats to everyone who put Lainos as one of their answers, because I think we accidentally performed some kind of forbidden summoning ritual lmao.

Holy shit.. someone dragged Lainos out of a 7-year retirement...! OK ya'll gotta slow down, this is a lot of crazy shit happening in the span of like.. a couple days, whew...!

Seconded~! BluePinnaple's PUSS has indeed gotten very tight~! Innundo's aside, I really enjoyed what I played of Lunacy and Lover's Quarrel! Also while it's not from this year, Mysterious Mayan Madness was fantastic as well! Can't recommend the PUSS series enough!

How the hell can something as subjective as a list of songs be "incomplete"? It's not up to you to decide what should objectively be on someone else's list. Also, they're not excluding the DBP from all lists, just the Cacoaward, i.e: their own. So they rightfully have the final say. Other people can put them on their own lists, no one is gonna stop them. Your analogy makes no goddamn sense lol. Also, all the chuds complaining about Politics always seem to forget that all art, in some way is political: even Doom! They always forget the small detail that Doomguy got court-martialed for assaulting his superior after refusing an order to fire on unarmed protesters. Also, he literally has Nazi killing in his blood, it runs in the family. This ain't your game Nazi punks. Cry more.

Fantastic work on all the write-ups, and congrats to all the winners~! God... what a lineup this year, we were spoiled for choice! Also, thank you as always for spotlighting RAMP! When I saw my map alongside the few that got highlighted, I was genuinely lost for words. It meant a lot, especially because of how many phenomenal maps got submitted this year! Even a passing mention feels like an honor, especially in a community with no shortage of incredible people. Here's to an incredible year of Doom, and to many more to come~!

W H A T ?! DRAGONFLYYY YOU CAN'T JUST DROP THAT ON US!!! HOOOLY SHIT... Well, you just made my weekend.

Yoooo this looks cool~! Underground City does sound tempting... but an episode closer in 3 weeks (especially right now) is definitely beyond my abilities. 😅 I will await its arrival with much excitement!

Big Fairy Gun.

Oh, i definitely know mine: Natural landscapes. I'd rather find a way for my map to take place in a cave or outside than have it be in a techbase lol. more specifically: when I think an area needs something: add slimefall/waterfall, without fail.

Had a very sudden flash of inspiration. When I was brainstorming map ideas back in September, I saw the starry skybox and it immediately made me think of Epic 2. So, with the deadline extended, I started a 2nd map. Something quieter, lower energy, less ambitious, and where combat takes a backseat.

Oh wow that's a huge extension! NGL... that basically just saved my map. October proved to be murderously busy (enough so that I had to axe my NaNoWadMo project). Seasonal and external stress almost threatened to axe my contribution for this as well, but now i can slowly get back to it. Might even be able to make that 2nd map I had an idea for.