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The missing context is that he was quote-tweeting a thread by Sandy Petersen titled "How Quake ruined id software": https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2069592

by pgl 3mo ago

The missing context is that he was quote-tweeting a thread by Sandy Petersen titled "How Quake ruined id software": https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2069592209645785294 https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2069592209645785294 > How Quake ruined id Software. > There has been a lot of praise of Quake of late, with its 30th anniversary, and it's deserved. Quake is an amazing feat of art, programming, and design. I worked on it, and everything came together almost perfectly from all of us. We ended up with a free-wheeling, frenetic action game with enough of a visible world to grip the imagination. > ... [thread continues] ...

JeremyNT 3mo ago
Still not quite exactly following Carmack's suggestion here... is he saying on that last point that the problems with designers/artists were due to Sandy's mistakes (i.e. not a genuine apologetic "sorry" but a "sorry you're wrong" type response)?
- wlesieutre 3mo ago
  He is acknowledging that it was a problem and apologizing for it happening, but is not personally taking the blame for causing said problem
- itishappy 3mo ago
  "I'm sorry we couldn't resolve things before they caused you to leave."
TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> ... [thread continues] ... That's the interesting part that Twitter no longer lets us see without logging in...
- Gracana 3mo ago
  https://xcancel.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2069592209645785294 https://xcancel.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/206959220964578529...
- farnsworthfusor 3mo ago
  xcancel (or any other nitter) is useful here
  - BLKNSLVR 3mo ago
    The irony...