Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20191119202919

Well, the last few days were my turn to get ill - it's mostly coughing. Infrequent, but pretty painful. I think I have a pretty good idea what being stabbed in the chest feels like. But there already is major improvement - this morning I managed to spit out an impressive amount of goo (I surely hope you're not squeamish). Now I just have to restore my voice, which has become pretty weak. Thankfully, all of my meetings with the important visitors at the university were completed last week, so this week I can just sit quietly in my room and not exert myself too much.

I don't usually hear voices, though there have even cases when I'm on ther fringe being sleep and being awake when I could hear someone calling my name. Perhaps it's some dream that can't start properly due to me waking up immediately. There were also a few cases when I got startled by some weird noise. Turned out it was nose - having a deviated septum can cause such effects when lying in some positions.

Somewhat related, I recently saw a video about a Doom map called "OCD Doom 2". Imagine having to press a button every 15-20 seconds, or else you die instantly - and this happens throughout most of the level. The thing that impressed me is that this isn't done with scripts (a possibility with modern source port), but with genuine mapping tricks. So this map should, theoretically, work in vanilla Doom 2.

You could try sending that problematic EXE to me - I will try running it on my old Windows XP laptop and see what happens. It's a real 32-bit OS running on real older hardware, so maybe it will work. The prospect of solving a seemingly unfixable problem always excites me ;)

(I'll keep this short since I'm still a little tired from the whole illness thing... and, apparently, coughing can cause headaches as well, due to all the tension on the cranial muscles)