It's as simple as that I guess. Considering it is an older forum, those are more notorious for having internal slap-fights and users with high levels of unwarranted self-importance rather than the more common algorithmic brain-rot of today. Every one of those modders dreams of hitting it big until somebody who isn't them does, then it's all about the "passion" and "art". Anyone who isn't a groveling starving artist is a sellout, bad, etc. A common theme in any creative field I suppose. Greatly appreciate the information guys. I hope VietDoom is one day finished, it looked good from the few videos and demos released.
I feel like I did a poor job going over a few details, so I'll elaborate.
This was zdoom forums "stance" on brutal doom after the community falling out from a few edgy jokes mark made. It doesn't take a genius to read between the lines there, they don't like brutal doom and ESPECIALLY mark, but also, its impossible to remove from the community. not to mention forks such as brutal doom platinum, and project brutality are played by a huge chunk of the community.
For reference even only 2 years ago, new "forks" were being made for brutal doom like platinum doom, so you cannot just ban it.
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=73991 it shows 0 sign of "fading into obscurity". This is also only 1 of SEVERAL published brutal doom forks, theres been dozens over the years, which really demonstrates how its popularity over-shadowed things.
Though note the line in the community post on brutal doom. "
Stop arguing about whether it's "right" to break Brutal Doom "support" in a given mod or TC project". This is debatably well intended perhaps due to what I said about it overshadowing the community, a side effect of that was that just about any mapset with custom assets would get asked "does it work with brutal doom?", which while completely fine, it really made it clear how brutal doom was so huge when ANY custom mapper got asked this. It got extremely annoying to some, which is why they banned debating compatibility. BUT there's absolutely been people who have made scripts which INTENTIONALLY check if brutal doom is being used, and then run malicious code to fuck with the player, which makes that rule a bit insidious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaLjiGWeT30 at 2:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BVc5H842qo one from "marisa the magician" who is a troon whos been caught screwing around with minors in the past (and got defended by admins)
.
So basically none of these people think brutal doom is a bad mod, its just tactics to badmouth the mod for being too popular, and giving fame to someone that didn't keep in line
. So they make passive aggressive stuff like this
, or post "opinions" like that beansprout video in my previous post.
Also worth noting, when the mess of marisa the magician happened and the doom community admins tried desperately to cover it up, mark suspended his rule about community drama on his discord for a time.
He did also say "don't be transphobic" but considering the doom community at large hates him as a person, I view this as only being cautious
. He still effectively confirms marisa, and rachel (admin who defended his fellow troon) were trans, but I understand trying to cover his ass a little. I suspect this still didn't help the people like marisa hating him, nor the army of troon / troon defenders, but his willingness to call it out is good.
I'm also including a video from "cardboard marty" that details out the marisa situation for archive purposes, I see the video linked in a few places here, but I didn't see a non youtube option. So I am including it here in-case it ever gets deleted, since its too important to let disappear. (especially since its already "delisted")
Finally, I have no idea whats up with viet-doom, I suspect it was kinda set aside to work on BD22, and brutal fate (his upcoming game hes going to sell).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1409460/Brutal_Fate/