Persephone's (Gothic) Insights

I'm Nicholas van der Waard, host of "Hell-blazers: Speedrunning  Doom Eternal ."  My blog is about horror, but also sex, metal and videogames ; this article explores some of those idea in  Doom Eternal . What follows is my interview with  The Spud Hunter , a Twitch streamer and arena combat specialist.  "Hell-blazers" interviews Twitch streamers, speedrunners and Doom fans about  Doom Eternal  (2020); it asks them, based on their own experiences, to compare the game to the rest of the franchise, and what effect it will have on speedrunning and gaming at large. General information about "Hell-blazers" can be found,  here ; a compendium of the interviews as they are published can be found  here  (which also includes interesting videos, break-downs and other articles). The Runner Nick:  What got you into  Doom ? Do you remember the first game you played? Spud:  I was three at the time and my father had me on his lap pressin

I'm Nicholas van der Waard, host of "Hell-blazers: Speedrunning  Doom Eternal ."  My blog is about horror, but also sex, metal and videogames ; this article explores some of those idea in  Doom Eternal . What follows is my interview with Twitch streamer Byte Me , who's (in his own words) "a simple guy who plays games—mostly arena first-person shooters."  "Hell-blazers" interviews Twitch streamers, speedrunners and Doom fans about  Doom Eternal  (2020); it asks them, based on their own experiences, to compare the game to the rest of the franchise, and what effect it will have on speedrunning and gaming at large. General information about "Hell-blazers" can be found,  here ; a compendium of the interviews as they are published can be found  here  (which also includes interesting videos, break-downs and other articles). The Runner Nick: What got you into Doom ? Do you remember the first game you played? Byte: I first played the o

My name is Nicholas van der Waard, host of "Hell-blazers: Speedrunning  Doom Eternal ."  My blog is about horror, but also sex, metal and videogames ; this article explores some of those idea in  Doom Eternal . What follows is my interview with  Under the Mayo , who makes content on YouTube.  "Hell-blazers" interviews Twitch streamers, speedrunners and Doom fans about  Doom Eternal  (2020); it asks them, based on their own experiences, to compare the game to the rest of the franchise, and what effect it will have on speedrunning and gaming at large. General information about "Hell-blazers" can be found,  here ; a compendium of the interviews as they are published can be found  here  (which also includes interesting videos, break-downs and other articles). The Runner Nick:  What got you into  Doom ? Do you remember the first  Doom  game you played? Mayo:   Doom  was always that mysterious game that I saw/played a couple times on other people's computers