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You Can Now Play 'Doom' Via Twitter (kotaku.com)

(Monday October 18, 2021 @11:25AM (EditorDavid) from the first-person-tweeter dept.)


" [1]Why not play Doom using Twitter via short commands and videos? " Kotaku asks bored internet users.

" [2]Tweet2Doom is a new Twitter bot that started up in September of this year and which lets folks play through the original game using a series of commands."

> Those commands are translated to the bot and you are sent back a video showing you what happened, then you can continue to send more commands and progress through levels. [3]The full list of commands and how it works can be found in this pinned tweet from the account ...

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> Tweet2Doom now joins a long and ever-growing list of "Ways To Play Doom." That list includes [4]a pregnancy test , [5]unreleased indie console , [6]cash registers and much, [7]much more .



[1] https://kotaku.com/you-can-now-play-doom-via-twitter-1847881209

[2] https://twitter.com/tweet2doom

[3] https://twitter.com/tweet2doom/status/1444355917160534024

[4] https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/09/doom-kinda-running-on-a-pregnancy-test/

[5] https://kotaku.com/handheld-doom-lets-you-manually-crank-the-chaingun-1843836489

[6] https://kotaku.com/guy-gets-doom-running-on-a-mcdonalds-cash-register-1838680691

[7] https://www.destructoid.com/the-maniacs-went-and-got-doom-running-on-a-game-watch/



Shows the degree of computer improvement (Score:4, Interesting)

by JoshuaZ ( 1134087 )

This really shows how much computers have improved over time. When Doom first came out, I had friends who had to upgrade their desktops so they could play Doom on them. Not everyone had 4 megabytes of RAM. Now this level of computing power is so common that we can put it pretty much anywhere. I suppose at some point there will be a headline about how Foone got Doom to run on a single nanobot.

You can play anything via Twitter... (Score:2)

by h33t l4x0r ( 4107715 )

If you have that kind of patience.

Re: (Score:2)

by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 )

What do you mean? I just did a speed run through the first level - 1 hour, 57 minutes!

Re: (Score:2)

by rpresser ( 610529 )

Pasting in a long, wandering, obviously precomposed screed does not make you look more like a human.

A cause for concern. (Score:2)

by Dirk Becher ( 1061828 )

The juvenile mind cannot distinguish between reality and Twitter.

Re: (Score:2)

by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 )

Not sure what you call juvenile, but there seems to be a lot of deluded adults who think stuff on Twitter is true.

Re: (Score:1)

by The Grim Reefer ( 1162755 )

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" -Abraham Lincoln

play via cash register? (Score:2)

by RegistrationIsDumb83 ( 6517138 )

Oh no, don't give EA ideas! :P

It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten... (Score:2)

by jfdavis668 ( 1414919 )

Playing Doom like Zork. Wonder what typing IDKFA does in this game.

Re: (Score:3)

by RitchCraft ( 6454710 )

IDDQD and take over twitter!

Each time the previous POTUS tweeted something (Score:2)

by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 )

it felt like watching a Duke Nukem gameplay. So the idea isn't exactly new.

I'm sure its technically clever (Score:2)

by Viol8 ( 599362 )

And people nod and appreciate the clever programming behind it, but who the feck is going to play it for more than 10 seconds after the novelty wears off and you realise playing doom using this method is about exciting as tweeting someone to watch paint drying.

So, you better watch out!
You better not cry!
You better not pout!
I'm telling you why,
Santa Claus is coming, to town.

He knows when you've been sleeping,
He know when you're awake.
He knows if you've been bad or good,
He has ties with the CIA.
So...