neongrey

you should definitely pet that cat

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bruxisma
@bruxisma

In 2017, I got to sit front and center at his GDC presentation for DOOM 2016's soundtrack. There's several clips that get used a lot in YouTube videos and you can see someone sitting front and center wearing a hat. That's me. I hung onto every word he said, because 2016 was what inspired my current left tattoo sleeve, which is a large DOOM tattoo.

After the talk, he was speaking with someone I later found out was (and still is) a member of NIN, Robin Finck. Mick interrupted talking with him to take a picture of my then in-progress tattoo. He asked if he could tweet it out, and I agreed, and then when I handed him my business card he took a moment to read my name and then asked for my pronouns. He also said "Fuck gender, mate. That's what I think".

That's something that will always stick out to me. Not the "fuck gender, mate" line (as great as that was), but that he interrupted talking with Robin Finck to take a picture of my tattoo. 🙂

Mick has always come off as an extremely genuine person who is passionate about his work. The news dropping today of how absolutely awful id Software and Marty acted, and how they basically dragged his name through the mud was, if I'm being honest, absolutely enraging.


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