The writing was on the wall for Carmack when he announced that everyone bunnyhopping and strafejumping in Quake 3 was playing it wrong and that he'd remove it if he could, and in the face of basically everyone who actually played the game telling him to "shut up nerd" he just stopped posting work updates https://www.gamers.org/pub/archives/plans/johnc@idsoftware.com/1999-04-24_1999-06-05
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carmack was never humbled like romero was and so he never grew as a person, truly tragic
Oh? I can see he is some sort of Libertarian, and he supported Ron Paul, but I didn't think he was part of the anti-woke reactionaries. What happened?
i feel like ''some sort of libertarian", and "supported ron paul" are poles on the becoming a reactionary slalom course
See, I wanted to leave the benefit of the doubt...
... but in between when I posted that comment and now, I learned that he is somewhat friendly with Elon Musk, and he plans to go to a place called "basedcon". So you are right, my naiveté got the better of me, I should have listened.
