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myrrh
joined 2 years ago
...in `94, i mailed a handwritten check to id software and received a slim box of 3.5" diskettes a couple weeks later; the world was a different place...
...for the original doom, the overarching narrative was that deimos disappeared after teleportation research inadvertently opened a portal to hell: episode 1 (knee-deep in the dead) was set on phobos; episode 2 (on the shores of hell) was set on deimos hovering in the skies of hell; and episode 3 (inferno) was set down on the surface of hell itself, not mars...
...episode 4 (thy flesh consumed) was set back on earth following the invasion of hell, but it was an add-on released a couple years after the original game; counterintuitively, back then the original game was downloadable shareware for episode 1 with episodes 2-3 available via mail-order directly from id, and episode 4 was finally distributed as a retail expansion only after the retail release of doom II (kind of an inter-quel?)...
...what?!.i've worn pajamas + crocs on commercial flights and the TSA agents said it was genius!..
...i even used a zippy-mesh cat-carrier for luggage and they practically waved me through security...
...i thought OS/2 was the industry's system of choice...
...yeah, come back after you've pulse-dialed an acoustic coupler at 300 baud to network your terminal emulator with a shell account, kid...