#runner-up

[keepingitneutral]

“Silence” by Jan Piecha,

Courtesy: 2023 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest

[onewhale]

2018🔙 🇭🇷🥹 part 1

[masterandapprentice]

World Championship Flag Football | Women's gold medal

Mexico - Silver medal 🇲🇽

Well done girls! ❤️

[thoughtlessarse]

Runner-up in the Humanity vs Nature category: Camouflaged in the Garbage Dump by Lakshitha Karunarathna - Elephant in the middle of a sea of waste, Sri Lanka, 2023. A lone elephant is spotted here feasting on a very vibrant patch of a vast garbage site. As some of the largest waste dumping sites are placed very much close to the ‘important dry zone’ forests in Sri Lanka, elephants regularly visit these sites, looking for an easy meal and finally absorbing microplastics and polythene along with the food, which are life threatening elements -Photograph: Lakshitha Karunarathna

Click source for more 2025 Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Environmental Photography award

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[rightnewshindi]

9 साल की श्रियोवी बनी 'वाइ��्डलाइफ फोटोग्राफर ऑफ द ईयर' की रनरअप, 116 देशों के फोटोग्राफर्स को पछाड़ा

9 Year Old Indian Girl won Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024: दिल्ली के पास फरीदाबाद में रहने वाली एक 9 साल की बच्ची ने अद्भुत कारनामा कर दिखाया है। इस बच्ची का नाम श्रियोवी मेहता है, जो अपने पिता के साथ नेशनल पार्क घूमने गई थी। श्रियोवी ने पार्क में एक ऐसी तस्वीर खींची, जिसे देखकर हर कोई हैरान रह गया। श्रियोवी मेहता को इस तस्वीर के लिए ‘वाइल्डलाइफ फोटोग्राफर ऑफ द ईयर’ का रनरअप चुना गया…

[m39]

Doom WADs’ Roulette (2008): Remain 3

I wouldn’t be surprised if Eternal won two Mapper of the Year awards in a row if not for the fact that you can only win it once in your lifetime. As if having a WAD getting a Cacoward in 2007 was not enough, not only did he manage to do that again in 2008... but also filled both runner-up slots with the other two. Complete and utter madman!

Today, we will be taking a look at Eternal’s first out of three WADs from the 2008 roster.

S1: Remain 3

Main author(s): Alexander S. (Eternal)

Release date: August 26th, 2008

Version(s) played: ???

Required port compatibility: GZDoom

Levels: 13

Remain 3 is the only WAD on the roster that requires a specific source port rather than just a limit-removing one. It took over a year of work to be created (it started in 2005 but there were breaks in between), and I’ve run out of interesting things to say in this section, so let’s just jump straight into this WAD, shall we?

For something out of 2008, Remain 3 doesn’t have the rights to look this good. Even with the knowledge that some of the maps were made back in 2005, and might look basic, this WAD makes up with the atmosphere for the lack of better words. From different kinds of tech bases/labs (both in grassy or desert areas), to the cities and more unusual places like the rocket silo and the meat factory. The further you go, the WAD gets prettier and prettier.

The WAD’s soundtrack consists of classics from the older WADs like Icarus, HRII, STRAIN, and others (one of the tracks feels like it was out of Batman WAD, but I’m not entirely sure). Hell, even the stocks used in MAP06 and 09 fit like gloves (I’ll tell you why later). The track from Wrongday could be something different in my opinion, but asides from that, the soundtrack is pretty damn great, not gonna lie.

Remain 3 isn’t a complicated WAD to finish. There were some annoying moments for sure, but these were relatively rare.

What I noticed about this WAD is that it feels like it is structurally split between at least two types of maps.

Maps from Wrongday to the Bridge of Death feel the most original, with the original concept as a foundation like infiltrating the base or crossing the titular bridge.

The Crusher to the Pits are more like an homage to the maps from the original Doom II, with maps 08 and 09 actually being almost the same as the original ones but with slight changes, additional areas for a more organic transition from one map to another (this is with every map in this WAD), and tougher enemies.

Refueling Base to Downtown meanwhile, while still taking a concept of their original variants, make something completely fresh out of them.

To describe some of the maps this WAD offers, in Base-Court you visit some kind of village that might be populated by cannibals, with a food line near the butchery, and a hangman nearby.

Circle of Death focuses on stealing a rocket that takes you to the Meat Factory, in which you kick it back online to unlock a passage to the Downtown.

The last map is full of interesting landmarks, having a hotel with broken elevators, a bar next to the supermarket with a freezer room, some slums with hobos standing around, a construction site occupied by Imps, a playground near a park, a water pool area, etc. it looks incredible.

I don’t think this WAD is hard. Sure, there are cheap moments here and there occasionally, but it wasn’t going too far in my opinion.

It would be better if there were no stealth enemies in the last two maps (sigh) but at least it’s like one/two enemies per map.

The new enemies definitely spice up the roster, being used already in the older WADs/maps although without the KDiZD makeup this time. It has typical stuff like tougher variants for Imps and Nobles (along there are other ones too) and a bunch of old new zombies like rocketeers and rapid-firing blondies, but it tends to offer more unique variants like super-shotgun zombies, marine zombies (sucks due to no attack windup), half invisible orange pinkies that breath fire and spit out lost soul after death (like they were possessed), Cyberdemon with spiderdemon’s legs, tortured soul as a miniboss of MAP11, bouncing skulls from Happy Time Circus (slightly less annoying now), and Tornado Demons who are basically arch-viles but with wind powers and teleporting around. Hell, you even get attacked by a helicopter in MAP10 (basically a flying spiderdemon), not to mention barrels with napalm in the last two maps (even if they don't technically count as enemies).

The only bug I’ve encountered was with enemy bats playing helicopter crashing instead of their screeching. That was weird.

Remain 3 is another great WAD from Eternal. Fitting in almost every place perfectly. Not to mention using GZDoom in a way that is not a script galore (done badly). Full recommendation; go play it, folks.

But as you might already guessed, we are not done with Mr. Eternal. Tune in next time, as we will take a look at the second runner-up of 2008.

Bye!

[ditzybat]

i’m sick and tired of people calling jason a literature buff and then perceive him as only reading jane austen, because, yes he does canonically read austen avidly, but please let him read other books/authors that reflect him like; crime and punishment, metamorphosis, frankenstein, the art of war, the velveteen rabbit, the count of monte cristo, dante’s inferno, to kill a mockingbird etc— maybe i’m salty because i’m a book nerd and no one gets it right, but i want to see people take canon further and excel it rather than boiling down the one thing and beating it with a stick

[just-null]

[modern au] pjs movie night w these idiots

[buqbite]

GO, GO, GO

[kyasunn]

❗❗ NOT LAST, BABY...! ❗❗

Assorted session 6's drawn to the tune of chaos unfurling.

[jingle-jangle-spurs]

Robert House watching The Courier rip all the copper wiring out the walls of the Lucky 38

[tendie-defender]

“Blade Runners” are cutting down carbon tracking cameras in London. They seem fed up with all those taxes.

[trashdorito]

I swear they better not mess this up

[zoe-oneesama]

Out of all the akuma-inspired outfits you made for the header of each episode, which was your favorite?

I can't really pick A Favorite, but I'll pick a favorite Per Season:

Season 1 -

Something about designing leggings really gets me excited lol. It's not the most complicated look (and tumblr kept trying to take it down lol) but I love when an outfit looks good, looks like the akuma, AND looks like it fits the character.

Season 2 -

I'm basic, okay? I like designing for cute girls and I like designing normal clothes themed after "heroes". Volpina let me cheat like that, and it's one of the few where I tried more than one look before deciding.

Season 3 -

This one I broke from convention because I DON'T think Sabrina would normally wear this, but going for a High Fashion look AND designing it after my own personal akuma design with make me soft for it.

Season 4 -

What'd I say about leggings? Plus I got to draw a buff girlie. I'd buy this outfit lol.

Season 5 -

...Girls rule, okay? Pretty sure we can figure out why I like this one.

[rhiangalaxy]

Something Familiar...

(Piece chosen by this week's poll!)

[ID: A Scum Villain Drawing. Image one depicts a ~15-16 year old Ning Yingying walking alongside Shen Qingqiu with her arms spread out towards the ground, smiling and excitedly saying "Shizun!" SQQ is looking down towards her with a warm smile, one of his hands holding up a closed fan. Image two depicts Shen Yuan's little sister, walking alongside Shen Yuan with one of her hands hanging onto his arm whilst the other has her phone. His sister has glasses, a pink sweater and her hair tied up into a ponytail by a red bow. She excitedly goes "Gege!" with a wide smile. SY looks at her with a grin, wearing a Hatsune Miku hoodie with one hand in the hoodie pocket and the other on a red foam grip cane. End ID]