Carmack’s rocket company would’ve been SpaceX if he just coulda got that grant money hookup. He lost quite a bit on it.

Ah, you either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain, mate. Who ONLY does exclusively good deeds or ONLY makes good decisions at every turn in their life? I can only think of one guy. 😉

This isn’t a “separate the art from the artist” talk. A Woody Allen movie is a steaming, insignificant pile of vomit and can’t be compared.

linux/unix software was anti-monopoly and created millions of jobs. proving to corporate faggots that the shareware business model can be profiyable was a big deal—-also id was dumping huge open source code releases. Basically, id was paving the way for napster/kickstarter in the late 80’s until id got bought up in the mid-late 90’s.

I don’t follow these guy’s content or hero-worship them or any of that… just an amateur tech historian.

Hey, Don’t be like the boomer that still won’t buy even a used japanese car because of that pearl harbor thing 80 years ago before he was born. 😅

I Highly recommend the book “Masters of Doom.” Back when entire video games were made by crews of less than a dozen people working 12-15 hours a day, it was a really interesting medium. Some “indie devs” are bringing back that ethos.