Greetings, mortal. Are you ready to die?

still crazy to me that people still completely misunderstand Doom (2016) eight years later.

The entire plot is literally “megacorps would literally enter into a corporate partnership with Hell itself to profit off of the souls of the dead and even when that inevitably leads to horrors beyond your comprehension downplay it, make excuses, and not care about the human suffering”. The anticapitalist message is pretty obvious. Made even more explicit by the fact that this is the Original Doomguy, who in this multiverse is the descendant of his universe’s BJ Blazkowicz, the Polish Jew that in their universe killed Hitler. Doomguy got the stationing that led to him fighting the forces of Hell as a punishment for refusing to open fire on civilians. The parallel between him and his ancestor is intentional and loud and clear, he opens Doom 2016 in the same exact situation as BJ in Wolfenstein 3D: captive and unarmed until he kills his most immediate captors and escapes. The Nazis, corporations, and Hell are all depicted as one ideological mass wearing multiple guises.

Also its only drivern further home in dark ages, because before time wore him down he was even GENTLER with innocents, hes actively kind and thoughtful and GENTLE in dark ages, which only adds that though time has roughened his edges, he cares for the innocent but the mykers? Who ordered him around and caused lost life? No mercy, no gentleness for them

idk how you managed to make him look exactly like his 1992 mugshot but u did

so i was talking to my grandmother about old-school video games and she was all “y'know there was one game i used to play, and it had like a maze, and it was underground, and there was a guy in first person and he had a weapon” so knowing her penchant for puzzle games, i started guessing like myst, or legend of grimrock so we start hunting through these 90’s-era games featuring dungeon crawls. turns out. it was not a puzzle game. it was nothing close to a puzzle game. apparently, in the mid-90s, my grandmother would sit down and play fucking Wolfenstein 3D and listen to AC/DC for like hours on end.

Au contraire, the puzzle was “how to kill Nazis” and the answer was “use gun”