(Off Topic Rant) There are too many trolling videos on youtube

  Trolling is very common on youtube these days, and their terms of service simply allow it, and there is nothing they will do to block such stupid trolling videos. Trolling comes in many forms on youtube but for the most part, you get a lot of stupid (insert game/mod/levelset) sucks type of videos. These videos are clearly trolling attempts. The people who put them out rely on a lot of personal attacks and bullshit criticism. They often make up ridiculous claims to support why the game/mod/levelset they are trashing is bad, and it leads to a lot of nonsense on their part.

People make a living on youtube pushing out tons of trolling videos. I know 2 people who troll "bad" doom wads on youtube regularly, and their stuff is not taking down at all. Simply youtube search "crappy doom wad" to find such videos.   Many of these videos are attempts at trolling. I dealt with someone on youtube trying to post a trolling filled reaction video to a video saying the community was trolling people for making wads that "suck".. It lead to  more trolling on why my wad sucked by the guy, and no matter how much I tried to get it taken down due to defamation, youtube would not act to stop the rampant trolling on their platform. Even then the guy didn't quit, soon afterward he posted addendums to his video calling my wad, a "wad abomination" and kept on doing more crappy wad video's on youtube. They turned their blind eye to this kind of behavior and it sickens me.

But to think that this stupid troll is the only one doing the trolling, you would be wrong.  Many people post crappy wad videos, and they do the same thing as this guy a lot of the times, and still most of this stuff is allowed to go onto youtube. I've seen bullshit filled "vine" videos talking about "crappy doom wads" too which annoy me. More trolling.  It needs to stop.

But crappy wad videos are not the only kind of youtube trolling videos I see. I once saw a guy rant about how serious sam is a shitty game series due to it's cheap difficulty and other bullshit reasons. His video was clearly trolling yet youtube let it stay there and still it has not been removed. There are people who regularly post trolling videos on youtube attacking shit they should not be able to get away with and their videos are not taken down due to the lack of a trolling guideline in the community guidelines.  Youtube needs to implement one on their platform now!

Community guidelines needs an overhaul to include trolling as something that should not be allowed. Videos designed to troll such as "crappy wad videos" need to lead to community guidelines shutdowns on youtube.  Not just Porn and spam but that crap too. Too many people post trolling filled crappy wad videos and they can get away with them because of a lack of a trolling guideline on community guidelines.   It needs to stop, too many people have been victims of such bullshit before to allow this trend to continue, youtube!

Doom Mod Review : Serious Doom

There are 3 mods with the name Serious Doom Now, Serious Doom can be either A) A levelset made for doom with serious sam gameplay, B) A serious sam mod with doom eternal features or C) A serious Sam Themed Mod For Zdoom with enemies and guns from serious sam replacing ones from doom - This is not counting the not so good serious doom : the simple encounter mod

We are reviewing Serious Doom, the doom total conversion mod today, the one I marked with C)

Serious Doom is similar enough to serious Doom : The Simple Encounter which I reviewed earlier. Unlike that mod however, this one contains No new levels and is recommended to be played with egyptian levels. I recommend playing it with randomly generated egyptian maps or Epic 2.

Serious Doom imports almost all the enemies in serious sam first encounter and second encounter into doom plus the guns from both games. The only enemies missing are the ones that are too big to fit in doom maps like giant fire elementals, reptiloid highlanders/highlanders brides, and Ugh Zahn at his true size. Everything else is there, from headless guys, to grunts from second encounter, to gnaars, to kamikaze's, to kleers and werebulls, to witch harpies, the list goes on

The guns are actually kind of good in this, doing lots of damage to the enemies, being more OP than doom guns, and the enemies are quite challenging in this mid. If you find the download for it on zdoom.org you can download that version, but why do that when I made a better version anyway?

I altered it once again to play with randomly generated maps, and added a texture replacer, plus new enemies, one liners and new music from serious sam : first encounter.  Currently the only themes you have are egyptian  but that is fine to me. As with serious doom : the simple encounter you end up having to turn the music volume down to 0.15 to hear the one liners.  To load the mod with randomly generated maps load the loadss.bat (wad name) where (wad name) is the randomly generated wad you want to play, it will load with egyptian textures. I recommend obaddon as usual for this, make sure to make tech maps with armaetus texture pack turned off.   Colored lighting is recommended to be turned on. The batch file however, won't load ambient sound pk3's so don't turn them on, they sound bad with egyptian levels anyway.

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(RANT) Weather.gov pisses me off

So I go to bed last night, and like usual during the summer, I have to check the weather for my area. In case you already know this, thunderstorms are your worst enemy as a a pc user.  NO Surge surpressor on earth can block a lightning strike to your pc. Hell it's not needing to even hit your PC, just your power cable and then BAM, Dead Computer. So I need to know right then Exactly what hours thunder is going to hit the next day and plan accordingly.

It doesn't help when sites like accuweather (that claim to be more accurate than the rest), and weather.com keep on saying thunderstorms every hour during the day so I use weather.gov.  They write the forecasts and you think they would be accurate. So they say thunder from 2 PM to 5 PM last night.  I shut off my PC, wrote a note to say turn it on after dinner, and unplugged it and went to bed.

Early this afternoon I waited patiently while severe thunder wen't by.  Not expecting any more thunder this day beyond 5 PM I turned it on. But lo and behold, they changed the fucking forecast today. Instead of ACCURATE Forecasts given last night, they decided to give me crappy ones last night that sucked. They changed it to Thunder from 2 to 8 PM tonight, and now I had to endure several hours of turning my PC on and hoping thunder would not hit, because they could not give me accurate forecasts. So they said severe thunder from 2 PM to 8 PM, so I thought, once it hits 8 it would be done right?

Wrong

Dead Fucking Wrong

They changed it to 2 to 9 PM 5 minutes later, then changed it to 2 to 10 PM 5 minutes after that, like they could not give you accurate forecasts in advance for the life of them. For someone who wants accurate ones the night before, this just pissed me off. The night before they said 2 to 5 Pm! Not 2 to 10 PM!  It's like they could not do accurate forecasts.

So I did what I normally do : Check weather.com radar images and their future display which predicts what weather will hit said NO rain, nevermind thunder.

So An hour later I log back into weather.gov, and this time they said Severe Thunder from 9:30 PM to 10:15 Pm!  And not just a watch but a warning, and all of the sudden they added it like they could not add it again. The damn forecast last night said 2 to 5 PM again!  They could not accurately do it for the life of them! I know weather forecasts are not an exact science, but Common!  They shouldn't be THIS inaccurate!  I had to shut down the PC 2 FUCKING TIMES in 1 day to avoid the thunder, which happeend again tonight!

They need to work on their thunderstorm forcecasts during the summer, because this is fucking stupid. When you get a forcecast that is not accurate 24 hours ahead of time it's not good. Why could they not forecast 2 - 10:15 PM last night? What made them have to change things over and over again and not just forecast it with some really accurate method and stick to it!  What's really annoying is that these sites will also occasionally give you forecasts that are totally inaccurate and you will get thunder when they didn't even forecast it! It's bad, they can/t forecast for shit and I am sick and tired of it!

 

Doom Mod Review : Serious Doom : The Simple Encounter and SDSE V2

Anyone who plays doom Should Know about the Serious Sam games. Looking for a doom mod like serious sam made me only find the badly designed retro encounter and things like that. I made my own but it sucked so I needed something similar, and I came across This gem, serious doom : the simple encounter on moddb one day.

Serious Doom the simple encounter is a mod that has a lot of (badly designed) new levels.  But besides that it looks promising, it has enemies and guns from serious sam ported to doom, and they are pretty nicely done.  The enemies sprites are mostly taken from retro encounter as are the weapon sprites.

The levels, however, are not that good. Some are ok,  but most are terrible.  Very few are good. So I did something to improve the mod. I made my own submod for it that includes the following new features"

A) Support for randomly generated maps
B) Tech theme texture replacer for doom maps built in with egyptian textures mostly, and some ones from hexen II thrown in because it fits.
C) RPG Elements like the ability to buy ammo, stat upgrades, and credits given as you level up

(taken from my generic rpg mod)
D) Serious Sam : First Encounter Music imported in and Serious Sam One liners
(Make sure to turn the music volume to 0.15 to hear the one liners - they are kind of quiet)

Extract the file you can find here to your doom 2 folder and run loadss.bat (wad name) to play said randomly generated wad in serious Doom.

I like how it came out. The maps look great, the enemies look cool, I even added some new ones, the weapons work right, and with the cybernetic abilities you can do things like speed up weapon fire rate, heal yourself, regen health and more. It is fun, more fun then serious sam is! I like it more anyway. I ended up spamming the ability to buy ammo, and boosted my max health/damage resistance and movement speed a lot and then just used the tommygun and when I ran out I just bought more ammo. When using shotguns I used the ability to double the fire rate.  It is a lot of fun with randomly generated doom maps with hell revealed 2 difficulty.  Enjoy.

EDIT : I made a new version of the SD Mod I did based on serious Doom this time, not simple encounter, and you can download it here, it's much better than it was before because serious doom has everything serious sam had and more yet serious doom : the simple encounter did not so check it out

Download link

(off topic) The Hypocrisy of adblocker whining

By Now you should have known about adblocker whining - the practice of locking you out of sites that hate adblockers by the website builders.  These sites Piss me off.  Many of them exist, forbes.com does this and so do many "news" sites. If it's a news site, you can be guaranteed, they will whine about you using an adblocker, and bitch about it till you whitelist them in your adblocker and let their fucking ads through.

But don't fall for that crap, for there is a GOOD reason to use an adblocker these days - malvertising. Malvertising, the practice of putting scripts in ads that download malware onto people's computers. This malware is something you want to avoid, so never ever run without an adblocker installed.

But what really pisses me off is these websites that let ads into their website, and they get around web blockers, and when malware ends up in their ads, they do NOTHING, to stop it.  They don't even scan for malware in their ads, and they force their ads through so your adblocker can't block them.  They simply don't care about the security of their users.

Sites like fieplanet fall into this category. They ran an ad that had ransomware downloading through it last night and I got hit.  I wish these people would actually test their shit for malware, because It's getting fucking stupid when adblockers can't block their shit and their shit becomes infested with bad malware. 

People, if you ever go to the internet, DON'T go to fileplanet or similar sites that allow ads to go through despite you using adblockplus.  Don't let these sites determine how secure your computer will be, just avoid the following sites

forbes.com
(many other news sites)
yahoo mail

fileplanet

just stay safe and don't go to sites that demand you whitelist their ads, it isn't safe to do that and you could end up with ransomware.

I just got a ransomware infection and I think I got it from fileplanet

Gamers beware, fileplanet is no longer safe. Fileplanet, a site you can download free mods, and things of that sort for video games, is not safe like it used to be. I was browsing on fileplanet and trying to download a serious sam mod when some nasty ransomware infected my PC.

It encrypted my photos folder (where I had a few photos but most were in another folder), and some spreadsheet documents. My newly installed malwarebytes anti-ransomware stopped it dead before it could encrypt more.  Whatever you do DO NOT go to fileplanet anymore, It is unsafe now.

I had a full sandboxie sandbox running and it got through that people, so keep that in  mind. I am just trying to see if it encrypted more, I checked my doom folder and music collection and they are fine. I also ran antivirus scans, and looked at my running processes with comodo killswitch an it seemed good.

This is a warning to people that ransomware CAN and will come through ads. Fileplanet had tons of ads and adblock plus could not find eny of them and they got through.  Ads deliver malware these days, and if you don't run a good adblocker you will get infected a lot from ad intensive sites. I am pretty sure that's how I got the ransomware in question, and I am glad malwarebyres blocked it.

Amway, that is it for now, I will give you guys and update soon to tell you what else has happened on my PC since then.

On the alleged "Wanna Be Friends" Hack on youtube

I've been following this youtube related situation for a while, looking at videos about it, and finding people online that can explain it well, and it always seems like there are people, who flat out believe this comment bot hack is real, yet there are very few people dismissing it.

I am in the middle, I simply don't think that responding to comments that say "wanna be friends" can get you hacked, for that to work, youtube would have to have the nastiest backdoor on the internet now, and I don't think google would let it go unpatched.  IF google had let youtube have such a bad backdoor into it's code, you'd think they would fix it. They've said nothing about it, which makes me think there is nothing to the allegation that simply replying or liking comments from a spam bot would get you hacked. 

But subscribing to a channel made by a bot might be different people. You can embed malware in images people, look up malvertising. It's still possible to loose your channel if you're logged in if you go to the bot's channel, and definitely going to the bod channels discord link could get you hacked, you have to sign in with your google credentials, and they can read that shit, so don't do either for now.

I'm still investigating this people, to see if this spambot hack is real. My main "source" for this is a guy who does videos on smapbots. He has already properly ascertained who is behind the spam bots.  A hacker with 3 laptops is posting bots with three different account names. He is claiming people are giving him channels to log into for him to use, which is fishy. If he is really hacking channels, he must be doing it from malware infested bot channels or through discord. I suggest people avoid going to bot channels from now on because that can get you hacked.

Overall, this is a weird story so far, and not all of it has come out yet, the guy who is doing it is known, but for security reasons I am not mentioning it here now, for security reasons. But just be careful people, you don't know what is happening, I can't even tell if people are REALLY getting their channels hacked people, I do know the bot channels are all hacked channels, and my source proved that to me.  But the allegation that "THOUSANDS of channels. are hacked by a comment being liked" has no proof online, really.  So be careful, just in case it is true,  but don't believe everything that you hear, either!

I will keep an  eye on this for a while. I will watch videos from my source and will report to you what I find, and tell you if it is really true that you can get hacked this way, but for now, I doubt it.  It seems to difficult to implement it on youtube now. I am never logged into google for security reasons when I view youtube, so I am fine, but people might want to do that from now on, just incase the hack theory is true.