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Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

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Map name: NUTS
Map author: B.P.R.D

For the Karl competition thingy. This run is awful, so yeah, not a huge fan of this comp, but I guess I did it anyway. :^) It's all RNG, really, pretty much. Surviving first half is a rarity as is getting to the switch early. This run isn't even that good, though, needs to be like 29s, at least.

Side note about nuts, obviously coming from the jaded speedrunner perspective; I got nothing against the original shitpost, but the overall dynamic around how it's been viewed in the community is a bit frustrating ngl. Part of the frustration extends from when people take nuts as something other than a random shitpost someone made for a joke and use it to denigrate actually good slaughter gameplay. Not to mention, the fact that the UV-Max ruling of just not killing a bunch of cybs kind of irks me as well, as I don't even think it's fair to call that max either. :^) And of course, UV-Speed/Pacifist/etc. runs for this are basically entirely RNG-fest nonsense. :D

Overall, I guess it's the sort of gripe one may have with anything that becomes popular, when you fel it doesn't really "deserve" it. At the end of the day, it's just a shame that this is the wad that gets so much attention to the point that people include it in serious slaughter lists compared to wads with far more work put in them with far more skill-based/creative runs. That said, ZM's run is cool, and to be fair, both Karl and ZM did acknowledge how silly this is, but I do hope that this is the catalyst for further analysis videos of wads and runs with more depth to them (hint hint, Sunlust D2ALL). Alas, if only I had the time/skill for some analysis-style for Doom speedruns. :P

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