The arachnatrons and spider mastermind were my absolute favorites as a kid and till this day i think theyre the mosy unique of them all.

This is awsome doom is absolutely my favorite game of all time, i started out playing wolfenstein 3d when id be on the computer with my dad, i was really young and said "the guy in the photos look like grandpa(hitler)" ill never forget how seriously my dad got and explained who that was..

Im like that as well. And also have trouble making friends and am a bit unusual.... Does John have autism too by chance? 😂

John's got that good autism

That philosophy involving argument/debate is fascinating. Its something I'll try and adopt as well where applicable.

Neal Gaiman figured out how to add horror while putting the player in the role of the monster. Nothing quite like waking up the night after the full moon and vomiting up fingers.

That’s a rare and admirable trait

JC is not "weird", he is very Aspergers :)

Hyperspace cybernetic intelligence and juvenile delinquent, John Carmack. Benevolent hyper-intelligent architect of the post-singularity simulation we all live in, John Carmack.

Every story i hear about john makes me wish I was friends with the guy

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Notorious space techno god John Carmack

Fez's are cool 😎

I swear Sandy's eyes change color.

The interesting thing is that Shadow Out of Time establishes that the Yithians mind-swapped into the ancient prehistoric mollusks on Earth billions of years ago in the timeline, and built cities etc. Then once the time was up there, they swapped with the Copeopterans, a sentient species of big beetles far in Earth's future, long after homo sapiens had gone extinct. What I want to point out is that they skipped past humans! What's wrong with us, huh?! >:(

According to a story by Clark Ashton Smith, the Serpent Men were not atheistic. The two human characters of the story summon a demon from another world, that of the Serpent Men. One with whom their own terrestrial demons have no power over or even an ability to perceive.

Late to this party, but I think you shouldn't be too hard on yourself regarding the map design criticism out there. Unpopular opinion, but most of those that seem to do that are from my perspective either a bit elitist or completely anachronistic in perspective. As you put it yourself, there were no blueprints, you guys had to experiment yourself to come up with how to make these maps to begin with. Your levels might not have been aesthetically perfect and a bit abstract. Sure Downtown doesn't exactly look like a downtown, but they had personality, they were challenging and they were fun. And the most important thing with any game is that it needs to be fun (which so many modern games seems to forget as they only focus on the "pretty" parts). I mean, heck, take Romeros Sigil wads. The community is still to this day sheepishly obeying his "golden rules", making so many doom projects look sadly uniform, while Romero himself seemed intent on breaking every single one of those rules in Sigil. Those levels are raw, weird, but they are damn fun to play and seem to share more with your design philosophy back then than his own old rules. So don't be too hard on yourself regarding such nonsense. All in all you did great and are a legend in especially the rpg world, still inspiring old timers as my self as well as new and aspiring players.

He’s an inter-dimensional entity which is why he’s angular.

I've painted a few of the models for by friends set. I loved getting to practice my leather and weathering techniques on the large cthulhu model. Awesome game. Thanks for making it.

I mean, at least they're honest about it. They trade back and forth with other races, give them knowledge, etc. . . Of all of Lovecraft's eldritch beings, I'd say these are the least evil and most downright friendly!

Sandy: "We have myhouse.wad at home, kids..."

well done, you made up some of the coolest monsters in the game. Awesome work!

You should be realistic, always let the players have fun and try. Then after the penalized check fails show them the consequences. 😂

3:36 I had no idea that was a thing and that it had a name, but that is truly depressing!

Best area control game ever. One of my top games overall. With all the factions and extra maps there is so much you can change up from game to game.

Hey Sandy, what happened to the $1.7 million you took from kickstarter backers for the games you never even started making?

A YIG yig,yig yig Yig Yigg Yigg..🐲🐲🐉🐸🐍🐊

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2 years have passed, only 3 years until Sandy can potentially retire and make Doom stuff

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I'm so glad I have another Cthulhu Cultist out there in the world. You really help keep this going for all of us Die Hard fans. Your book, your games, your knowledge, it's all awesome. Thanks. Praise the Tentacle

Muse? What's that?

Okay this is a wild first short from this channel for me.

I don't play but the miniatures are awesome I just finished painting a bunch of cultists

Whats crazy to me is how this civilisation has such mindboggling power and knowledge, but still had to resort to living as effectively eternal refugees, jumping from one extinction to the next

So if the yith reproduce after the swap, do they create more yith or is there effectively a set ammount of yith?

My favourite board game of all time

Well now i have to see where this goes from here

I wonder what would happen if we viewed every project we work on the same way Sandy viewed Cthulhu Wars.

Note from the Future: Sandy's tabletop gane swan song is "The Scrappy Doo Cinematic Universe Collectible Pog Game". Please, please help avoid this timeline!

Glad to help.

Hearing that made me a little sad, but I'm so glad to hear that it became your phoenix! Hope springs eternal!

Now I want to play chutulu wars it sound like a bunch of fun

Even if it would have been, it would have been one hell of a final run. Fun, good, deep game with an amazing table presence.

Well put! Miss ya, Sandy!

It's awesome that you underestimated yourself so much, keeps you humble

Only part it stops making sense is with the "Bwaah" pain sound...still a pig sample? Either way it totally sounds like fat guy being inconvsnienced (trust me I know; I went to gencon)

Um this is weird, seeing as how last night I was looking up how to play Cthulhu Wars…….. And then Sandy drops this. Which to be honest, kind of freaks me out and it’s starting to make me think that I’m actually in a Mi-Go brain cylinder and they’re spying on and messing with me! 😮 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The real Cthulhu war was the friends we made along the way.

Fun fact: There was a band called Brown Jenkins and they have an album called "Dagonite" inspired by "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"...good stuff