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Dieting Hippo
@dhippo.net

to be fair to john carmack, he's also a dumb piece of shit that deadnamed burger becky when she passed, was a speaker at an "anti woke" convention, and had the id office cat put down when it peed on his couch.

Robert / Zeboyd@zeboydgames.bsky.social

Xbox: Guts id Software, firing half the studio. John Carmack: No wait, hear them out. I think Microsoft is onto something here. John Carmack is scum. www.ign.com/articles/to-...

ign.com'To Continue Being Produced Long Term, Games Need to Succeed, Not Just Be Beloved' — John Carmack Responds to id Software LayoffsJohn Carmack has responded to the significant layoffs at Doom developer id Software, expressing sadness but not “anger or outrage.”

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Emily
@cat-appreciator.bsky.social

I’d like to think the vet was like “sure, I will absolutely euthanise this perfectly healthy cat and not take them home with me”, but that might be wishful thinking.

The Tool Man
@winmanjack.bsky.social

I read The Fountainhead in high school and my takeaway was that Roarke deserved to fail for being a huge piece of shit and I reveled in his failures. But of course Rand loves horrible men so of course he wins in the end. Honey, who hurt you this way?

X-nimator
@x-nimator.bsky.social

this is the same guy who said story in videogames was unnecesary stuff comparable to a porn movie. His opinion has long lost it's value. Idc if he worked on the original doom, most of his opinions are garbage

PostScript
@postscriptreal.bsky.social

And yet Half-Life came out 5 years later and proved him wrong. That quote about story being unnecessary has the same energy as Asmongold's "It's the bottom 2% oppressing you, not the top 2%".

X-nimator
@x-nimator.bsky.social

EXACTLY: Half life came in and shutted his trap and proving his point wrong. And yet a lot of boomer doom players (the same ones that piss and cry whenever other doom indies, like supplice, has the audacity of having a female protagonist) still hold his opinion as something worth, when it's not.

Neurodetergent
@onthedl.bsky.social

I get where he's coming from...if there was data showing the last 10 years of id's output not performing well (relative). I feel all of id is doing good/great from an outside perspective but the expectations are sky high and that says more about Microsoft and the industry landscape.

Keiya
@keiya.tinyfairy.xyz

I mean, that's basically demonstrated by id's output while he was there. While the engine tech continued to wow and the games were good, after losing Hall and Romero they were never again *great* until after Carmack left.

Charmageddon
@charmageddon.bsky.social

Yeah I don’t mean to imply that Carmack is *talentless*, he’s actually extremely good at certain things, but he’s exactly the kind of guy for whom the plagiarism machine is an ideal strange

Berix
@berix.bsky.social

He put down a freaking cat?! I knew he was a bit of a reactionary fellow travel who deadnamed Burger Becky right after she passed away, but that? That's the rotten cherry of top of that pile of toxicity.

Robin-Niv
@robin-niv.bsky.social

People can get old and stupid, this moron probably didn't even think that maybe the issue Is over payng shit instead of normally distributing the Money, of course It you invest more than Needed, waste all of that on useless stuff, then most of that goes to ceos and other over budgeted games

Robin-Niv
@robin-niv.bsky.social

With that i do not mean Dev salary, Just the Stolen Money from over payd positions, ceo cash grabs, and all that sort of shit, a game needs lots of Money, but over a certain amount It Is Just stupid, treating It like it's a bet where the more you gamble the more you get back