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Corvinus

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"Grab the minigun, there are demons here to smite"

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UTTER DECLINE. There are no miniguns in Doom! It really should read:

"Grab the CHAINGUN" or even better, MUCH better: "Grab the SUPER SHOTGUN" Ideally it should also be a picture of the super shotgun, and not a Cacodemon.

...And that new artistic button is indeed superfluous. I would also consider it a negative rating based on how it looks - which probably isn't the intent.
Know your lore, heathen:

"If the Doom chaingun is associated with real weaponry, it is a Gatling-style weapon with rotating barrels similar to a minigun. An actual chain gun only has a single barrel and uses an electric motor to drive a chain connected to the bolt assembly, moving it back and forth to load, fire, extract, and eject ammo cartridges.

The weapon's classic first-person sprites are based off of a toy minigun called the Tootsietoy Ol' Painless.

The weapon was originally an assault rifle or submachine gun-type weapon in the Doom alpha, but was redesigned into a slow-firing rotary-barrel gatling gun to give it immediate visual differentiation from other weapons, as well as to give it its own distinct style."

Indeed. But calling the weapon a minigun? I haven't been making hellspawn do the CHAINGUN CHA-CHA since 1993 with one, now that's for sure!
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SausageInYourFace

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With the introduction of the recent redundant buttons it occurred to me that we have perhaps reached 'peak button'. Perhaps it does not take more than maybe a hundred buttons to express all our feelings and thoughts. Perhaps this may be the beginning of newspeak a wonderful new language.

(We still lack some kind of anime/desu desu button)
 

Semiurge

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DarkUnderlord

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I'll agree that my original intention behind artistic was to replace the creative icon, which I've never been a large fan of, and rename it to artistic - to allow broad representation and thanks of those who have created artworks that have been posted here and rated as such. However, than I came across posts such as this: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...hat-garbage-here.89809/page-1697#post-6704846

Now while I readily agree the post is clearly creative, is it artistic? And thus, torn from conflict, I added artistic in addition to creative. Allowing creative to be used at those times when someone doesn't wish to acknowledge humour, but rather a perhaps creative attempt at winding their way out of an issue, or something that is "creative" but not related to art.
 

Semiurge

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Bring on the "fabulously pessimistic" button already
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I'll agree that my original intention behind artistic was to replace the creative icon, which I've never been a large fan of, and rename it to artistic - to allow broad representation and thanks of those who have created artworks that have been posted here and rated as such. However, than I came across posts such as this: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...hat-garbage-here.89809/page-1697#post-6704846

Now while I readily agree the post is clearly creative, is it artistic? And thus, torn from conflict, I added artistic in addition to creative. Allowing creative to be used at those times when someone doesn't wish to acknowledge humour, but rather a perhaps creative attempt at winding their way out of an issue, or something that is "creative" but not related to art.

I thought it conveys 'artistic' in a derogatory sense, like 'arty-farty' it can be the opposite of 'creative' and simply pretentious, or just 'creative' but with a twist of pomp.
 

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