Journal #5591

I get the feeling TWHL is sort of de-sensitized to your work.
If you want some reassurance: You've churned up many of the best looking maps I've ever seen, and you tend to keep raising the bar with every new "serious" map. You also have a very unique imagination that you are excellent at translating into a model or texture or map, that is very inspiring, but would be hard to pull off for others. You're great, you're fantastic.
But we're used to it, and over time, the Hawthorne effect has hit hard. The vast majority of your work is certainly worthy of "HOLYSHITFUCK", but it's hard to stay surprised every time. It's also probably because TWHL has followed every tiny step you've taken since Castle Rimrook, instead of seeing the giant leap that others would.

If you had a brother who was a great actor, would you be surprised to see how well he did in every new movie? Probably not, but others who are unfamiliar with him might see his movies and be like "HOLYSHITFUCK!", and you could say, "Yeah, he's a damn good actor"

Or maybe I'm just a dick.

/dicksucking

Agreed. It's my turn for greatness anyway. Gimme some love.

Err, Rimrook...
The majority of the comments where on engine trouble, and there is hardly a bad comment among them. If people couldn't get it to even work to begin with, why did you even expect these comments? Sounds a little bit too much like a plea for attention to me. :/

It is a very nice looking map, but literally coming out and asking for "HOLYSHITFUCK" comments is just.. ugh.

That link doesn't work.

HOLYSHITFUCKBULLCRAP

Agree with Strider, and yes, the link doesn't work. I actually want to listen to it, too. Got a mirror?

HOLYSHITFUCK LOL!

but if you sit there and complain about the minor details of negative points,

Yeah i've noticed in a lot of maps here people are overly negative and petty about even the best maps sometimes, but like strideh said i didn't really notice any comments like that for riverpool. And like you and WCD said, if you constantly put out amazing work, expect the judging to be a litte harder too.

I know i tend to overrate maps a bit, but it fucking kills me when some assholes take a map as good as this and give it 3 stars(which i've seen a lot on this site). especially people downrating maps who don't even map themselves!!...just makes me want to hurt them...

Keep up the good work, you're an inspiration to us all. = )

Personally I would prefer critical advice over "LOL THSI MAP IZ AWSUM", because the former will help you to improve for the future, whereas the latter will just inflate your ego to unstable sizes.

I always try to give a good mix of both negatives and positives for the maps I comment on. I do like your maps, but that won't stop me from saying what could be improved. I expect constructive criticism on my part, and I will always give it to the people whose maps I comment on.

Believe me, I've improved a lot from the criticism I've received on my own maps and by reading comments on others' maps as well. However, there is some undue criticism that is just people whining/nitpicking about small things - which is useless to gain any sort insight from. For example, I've had people whine about a brick texture I used on a Source map - simply because that texture was the first on the list and they use it as a base texture instead of the dev textures. Makes me wonder if they use AAATRIGGER as a base texture when mapping for GoldSRC since it shows up by default.

Any kind of comments/criticism work for me as long as the one commenting has played your map/mod. People playing the stuff you've worked so hard on is definitely the best reward any mapper/modder could ask for.

And agreed with WorldCrafter on the comment thing. We're pretty much spoiled by the constantly insane level of quality in your maps. Seeing how you're going further and further towards perfection, it's pretty normal for people with expectations too high to get nitpicky.

Anywho, congrats on the feature. :>

WOW! they said very nice things about the map and talked about it for a while, but i don't think they mentioned your name once! = (

Oh and thanks btw for making me aware of podcast17 it's pretty cool! =>