All those old stories of him making thermite to steal school computers or literally demolishing walls in the ID office so he could see everyone all the time become less "oh quirky guy" and more "oh, small business entrepreneurial freak"
Oh man it sucks that he's such a chode, he's an very talented programmer, I hoped he was just a generic lib.
Always stings when someone who is actually half decent at something is a total asswipe.
iirc the thermite story was almost entirely invented by the guys at id, and the only bit that might be true is that they stole some computers at some point
got Gina Carano fired from The Mandalorian
I thought hiring her was the wokism?
Hire her, fire her, these people don't know what they want and they'll just complain regardless.
There's no internal logic here, they're a bunch of screeching hogs in the dark rolling around in their own shit
/mu/ had some good recs but discussion there was impossible, everyone was just so insufferable and it took only one person to derail everything into slur town
the only good thing about tg is the sharethread, and they helpfully host that off-site now, so you don't have to go there
:expert-shapiro: I know I know we have [content] coming for DW+ just keep sending us money and no I don't have any work in progress teasers...just "trust me" :shapiro-poplar:
I had the displeasure of being reminded about Jago, basically he's a religious freak that was recently parading the Mario movie as proof that only conservatives can make good movies, despite the fact that he draws loads of porn so I don't get why he is such a prude.
man, Tony Hawk really is the only 90s guy who's aged gracefully.
And maybe Keanu Reeves
It gives me no pleasure to tell you this but Keanu's tactical trainer is a murderous cop. I know, i cried too.
Tony Hawk looks exactly like he should for his age and I respect it. If you took a picture of Tony Hawk in the 90s and old-ified it it would look exactly like he does now
Sci-fi written by people who can only look backwards, and not with much clarity, must be awful.
It's weird....seeing nerd culture starting to mindlessly pander to the cool kids, or the former football team captains.
I'm a pathetic loser, but let me enjoy my loser hobbies in peace, everything else is one big nazi circlejerk. Just let me have ONE thing where I can be alone in peace.
I mean it's kind of expectable but this needs a CW for transphobia, racism and mysogyny.
So is Tom Hall, if for no other reason than because he no longer has anything to lose.
It's crazy that Romero ended up being the likable one of the two. Romero supports trans rights. So does Tom Hall. Carmack was a hero of mine before I knew anything about him other than what he'd done for programming. What a loser.
Sandy Petersen is a Mormon and I have no idea about his politics, but he's probably some kind of bigot too if I had to guess. He made some of my favorite Doom 2 levels though. American McGee seems cool. Shawn Green doesn't have much of an internet presence.
Bobby Prince (the music composer) I'd really want to know more about him. He was a platoon leader in Vietnam so I would be surprised if he's witness or committed warcrimes. He was also a lawyer but I can't find his case history at all. I hope he's cool and not like the rest because I really admire his music.
I used to almost worship the Doom staff and I should have known all along they were just humans like us.
Sandy Petersen is a Mormon and I have no idea about his politics, but he’s probably some kind of bigot too if I had to guess.
Not all Mormons suck. Brian Sanderson has managed to avoid spewing any kind of vile bigotry across a prodigious volume of literature.
I used to almost worship the Doom staff and I should have known all along they were just humans like us.
As younger people with less exposure to the GenX conservatives of modern day, maybe they did suck less back in the 90s. Or maybe you sucked more (I'm not particularly proud of my teenage political tastes) and so their vulgarity wasn't as apparent. Hard to say.
But I've noticed a consistent amount of brain rot that comes with amassed fortune, particularly when they let you into the Kool Kids Klub and some Epstein type starts handing out drinks.
Not all suck, but Sandy Peterson sure does . CW: transphobia, racism, nazi palling, Ben Shapiro
I'm disappointed but I'm not surprised. His Doom levels are fantastic but he's a garbage human.
Yeah, he didn't just help make Doom, Sandy Petersen was the most prolific level designer for the games. He designed 19 levels in Doom 1 and 17 in 2.
Not only was he prolific, his maps are great. They're usually regarded as the best levels in the games, like in Doom 2 he did map 7: Dead Simple and map 8: Tricks and Traps. Somehow he's also a Mormon. He also writes HP Lovecraft fiction.
Also turns out he's an outspoken transphobe and overall chud.
Is American McGee chill too? I remember reading how he fucking hated George Bush and went to China to build his company there.
American McGee seems cool but it's kind of sad watching him trying to make Alice 3 for like ten years now with almost no progress or funding. He keeps trying so I don't know if it's just a grift he's running or if he truly believes in it.
The whole "wholesome Alice in Wonderland, but she's a blood-soaked mass murderer" thing is so out of touch. It's not the 90s any more, man.
he could probably get some funding if he just tried doing Wednesday: the video game
She's not really a mass-murderer. In the first game she's trying to overcome the trauma of her family dying in a house fire and the tWiStEd nature of Wonderland is supposed to mirror the state her psyche
The second game's plot is about [CW: Sexual Violence]
spoiler
an evil pedophile psychiatrist sex trafficking orphaned children in Victorian London
which is maybe a step too far for your Hot Topic/Tim Burton platformer game
The whole “wholesome Alice in Wonderland, but she’s a blood-soaked mass murderer” thing is so out of touch.
Feels like it fits right in with a community of twee leftists posting guillotines.
I had the same thing for :melon-musk:. I can't believe I ever thought he was cool.
But hey, at least your hero-turned-villain at least advanced his field. Mine is little more than the Koch Brothers eventual replacement but he's ok with EVs.
I miss the days when being based meant listening to Lil B yell FIGARO in his songs
Feels like shit, just want to go back.
Who'd have thought the term would go from "crackhead" to an extremely online bay area rapper reclaiming it to fascist for "cool".
If nazis maintained their own cultural references instead of perverting others, "based" would have to refer to the alkalinity of the quicklime in the barbara pit.
I read that at as John Romero at first and felt really disappointed. Then I saw it was the other John, and not knowing anything about his politics previously, him being a pissy gamer fossil makes perfect sense for him
Always knew he was High Bazinga ever since he tried to develop his suborbital open top space chair
"Men cannot give birth Guns don’t kill people; people kill people A fetus is a human being Socialism has failed everywhere it’s been tried Discriminating against white people is racism"
who the fuck wants to go listen to some dork that made video games talk about this shit? "wow doom was so fun, but i wonder if the white dev things he's being oppressed. that would be so based"
these people are such pathetic petulant little pieces of shit. on top of that they're fucking dumb as hell.
Sad that this is the same John Carmack who flew into a rage at someone who suggested he patent his programming innovations so competitors couldn't use them. Dude could've been a socialist if he wasn't so far up his own ass.
Many techbros intuitively understand the post-scarcity promise of software technology and free culture, and the better society it could create. But they just don't have any mental toolset to expand that thinking into other realms - they are marinated in the liberatrian grindset instead of any sort of leftist thought.
Socialism has failed everywhere it’s been tried
Citation, and probably some context, needed
They'll wave their hands generally in the direction of failed socialist states (that failed due to immense external pressures) or the internal problems that plague AES at times (again usually due to internal pressure) and go SEE SEE SOCIALISM FAILS
As we all know, capitalism is being very successful right now in the DRC
How many coups do we need to do before you'll realize socialism just fails on its own?
remember, every time you hear this cliche: socialism's failure mode is reverting to capitalism. capitalism has no failure mode, because widespread misery and suffering is considered a feature.
