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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because he's a classy guy, and that's the traditional way to issue a proper challenge to fisticuffs: That's where the expression 'the gloves come off' originates. For bonus points, slap your enemies across the face with them before you start punching.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And you don't want icky gunpowder residue on your skin, hence the gloves.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 10 points 1 week ago

Daemon blood on the other hand (or possibly both hands, chest and face)... Great for the skin, allegedly.

[–] TheKracken@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

The brass knuckles don't fit over the glove.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think he's wearing a glove when holding his pistol.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As shown in a comment below, he is.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Three decades of graphics development and no one has come close to this level of arm hair realism.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok this is more obvious. In the image OP posted it's quite hard to see.

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I've never played doom so I have no frame of reference. But I feel the op image was intentionally cropped deceptively because I had no idea what I was looking at either

Ngl, I thought it was a dick

editTypo

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Nah, you see very little of Doomguy's arm in the actual game.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Two left hands, one with and one without glove.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Duke Nukem had at least 3 legs. He could kick with two legs while still being able to walk around and even jump!

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ve got a third leg. And it’s looking to kick your ass

Sounds like something he’d say.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Bet they are kicking themselves for not recording that

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, this was just obvious lore.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

He might just have digestive issues and really good balance. Maybe a hovercraft skirt sewn onto the seat of his pants.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I loved doing that

And they laughed at me when I said Doomguy was related to Goro.

[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This makes me uncomfy

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

It's his armhair, just a slightly different perspective

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

He was probably just a heavy smoker, skin like leather. Checks out for the time period.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thats not a glove; his wrist is jist extra wrinkly when holding guns.

But also: He puts on a ring with a spike on it, too.

[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

No glove, no love

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it looks like a glove, but maybe it supposed to be skin folding when you hold gun on the belt/stomach level? The skin will fold similarly if you do.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He's definitely wearing gloves. You can also see it on the plasma gun recoil sprite:

The shotgun:

And especially with the super shotgun in Doom 2:

And for good measure, these uncropped pistol sprites are in the "vault" thingy that came with the latest Bethesda rerelease:

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

You're right. My bad.

Thanks for explanations and including the art from the game, nice to see it as I haven't played it literally in decades.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

plasma gun

One of the first "aha" design moments I ever got was the Doom plasma gun. There was a kid's toy version of the American M-60 Light Machine gun that I had. The back half was pretty cool on its own, the typical thumper machanism to make noise, but it also had secondary triggers in the stock and a little gear that would advance a belt of soft plastic ammo. Didn't do anything except move, but the effect was cool.

The front actually came off, and was a pretty decent quality suction-dart shooter. However, if you turned it around and used the the mating surface as the "muzzle..." BOOM! (or "ZAP" I guess... lol) Doom plasma gun, down to the exact number of ridges.

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

"The gloves are off!"

[–] Trebuchet@europe.pub 4 points 1 week ago

Sometimes you just need to make that personal connection

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 week ago

:O I never noticed that.

... Nor that doom guy is left handed. :O

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

He's also wearing brass knuckles on the punch, or at least something spiky! Never noticed that before

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe its a flip mitten kinda deal