Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' - eviltoast
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      8 months ago

      That’s insulting to Carmarck considering how intelligent and talented the man is. Sweeney is a mediocre programmer and a hack businessman at best.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t think either John or Adrian worked on Unreal.

        I assume it’s John your calling a chud, because he’s the one returned to speak at that scifi convention.

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          8 months ago

          Fuck does that mean there’s a third Carmack I’m forgetting about? 'Cause I’d swear there’s a Carmack in the credits for UT2k4.

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            8 months ago

            Hmm. It wasn’t John or Adrian, I don’t think. Those are the Id/Doom Carmacks. But there still could have been another dev on the team also named Carmack.

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              8 months ago

              Y’know after wracking my brain for the past 15 minutes you might be right; I might’ve somehow mentally mondegreen’d the credits screen of Quake 3 Arena over that of Unreal 2k4

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                Yeah I was wondering if you were thinking of Quake.

                It’s not like I can keep any of this straight either - I just happened to have been on a Doom history binge again earlier this week.

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          There’s two Carmacks in gaming and I can never keep them apart, which is a point of cognitive dissonance for me because one just held a right-winger convention and the other was one of the minds behind the now-defunct Unreal franchise that I still miss to this day.