I’m in such an asshole mood:
So how is he any different to “David Kaltschmidt, 55, and his wife Maureen Smith, 70, [who] won a $528.7 million (£370m) share of the jackpot”, one of the largest lottery wins of all time. Lot’s of other people thought about winning Powerball long before these guys =/
Would you also, by the same logic, idolise the first guy to suck more than 1000 dicks ? I mean I’m sure @nehon wasn’t the first to come up with the idea, but he was the first to actually do it ?
So they won the jackpot by using OpenGL and Java, had a great idea for a procedural gaming experience? Okay, they were “indies” too (because they were individuals not being workers in a company specialised on the jackpot thing).
About the dick sucking record - there was that female German sex athlete which is a real cutie. Did not watch the record attempt itself but the interview before and after that marathon (her doc told her to stop at half the number reached). There is something about those poor minded women with low education. Something fascinating. In the end they are hard working workers too - in their own poor way.
No, it’s not about Guiness world records (which is paid freakshow). It’s about being pioneer in art and high tech. And games can be art - as much as they can be bussiness. Of course it’s best if they’re both. Honest people loving what they’re doing and getting the money they need to make more of their thing. Customers buying said thing instead of pirating it. Not some crappy mobile shit with freemium logic and reward-loop that aims at gaming addicts and weak-minded people in the way described before. Of course I tolerate the views of those who like crappy mobile shit and freemium and those who love spending 10,000 dollars for a game that’s worth 10 cents.
Note: John Carmack is not currently involved in any kickstarter. It’s a different Carmack and a bit misleading to those who don’t drill in.
I see what you did there. heheh.
Yeah, Notch was very lucky. Right place, right time, just enough skill to pull it off. Not all of us can hack the source code to a different game, lead it in the general direction the community wants, and expect to reap millions. And then even if you are, life is just as likely to throw up a hundred road blocks. It is a bit like admiring a lottery winner but he did actually put lots of work in and could have made a hundred bad decisions that would have changed the outcome.
John Carmack consistently pushes the leading edge forward. Many times in his career he did things that were considered impossible almost by shear force of will. Definitely one to admire, for sure.
Okay, thanks for the hint. I will take a detailed look then.
I assumed you were talking about the Romeroa and Carmack kickstarter that they recently put on hold until they have a playable demo to show.
Public service announcement -- I have nothing to do with Blackroom, that is Romero and ADRIAN Carmack, the founding artist of Id, not me.
— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) April 26, 2016
Yeah, I definitely have to make detailed research on him too. If only I had the time for that.
Have heard that he was a web developer starting that minecraft project in his spare time. Hard work and devotion and a good intuition and some creativity were definitely part of that. Luck and the right time too, agreed.
I can live with poverty. And life has been throwing immense bricks right into my face. If I stay poor until I die as an old man, loving what I do, then this shall be my fate. But I hope that now that I’ve survived all those bricks and finally have some trust in myself (the line between self-confidence and megalomania is thin, I know) - I just hope that I will have luck (since I already have ambition - which is the other ingredient).
Some road blocks are hard to avoid.
When I made Mythruna, it gained some small popularity pretty quickly after I put the network version out. There were always around 6+ people on the server most times of day. I could post updates to Facebook and get thumbs up and stuff immediately. Twitter following was growing, etc… I was in a place in my job where I could work just the minimum 40 hours a week and spend 6+ hours a day hacking on my own code. The month I decided to start my own company and accept donations my wife’s brain tumors had come back and we were on a rough road. Between surgeries, radiation treatments, chemo, etc. it’s been hard to keep even one foot in game development. Never mind the fact that she can no longer drive so I’m the sole driver for the entire family. There are only two days a week I don’t have to give someone a ride somewhere and the lack of her mobility means housework and/or the coordination of the kids doing the housework often falls to me. Not a week goes by that I don’t consider chucking it all in and just dying a little inside and living out the rest of my days as a broken man.
So, yeah, I see the guy that takes the infiminer code, rewrites it for Java + OpenGL, then evolves it based on some community feedback and gets to keep doing that part time from his home… as VERY lucky.
Do this crap while you’re young folks. It gets harder in a 100 different ways later in life.
I was wondering when you’d eventually drag me up into that conversation in your own particular twisted way…
Frenchmen eat ducks not dicks…
Oh, my youth was already taken in a very sad way. I don’t have anyone to care for - even though I sometimes do support my family in difficult and time-consuming tasks here and there. I want to make games until I’m very very old. If I have the luck to be older than 80 years, I probably will spend my last years finally playing some games - which due to my immense devotion to making games is impossible since there’s almost no time left for that.
So basically, my bricks where thrown at me when I was young - your bricks were thrown at you at a later age. But I know all that and still feel sorry for you and your wife. Hopefully you stay part of this community even though all these things are happening at the same time you won’t resign or mutate into a sarcastic or broken person.
Ducks are birds - but are they more like European swallows or more like African swallows?
I don’t know what it is and for some reason I’m reluctant to look for it on google…
Monty Python - knights of the round table
(swallows are birds - but I guess the search engine might return other results… :chimpanzee_closedlaugh
heheh yeah I figured it was more for my hilarious pun…
You’re welcome:
Edit: Definitely NSFW
We remove that part before eating them.
I was once angered too at this, but realized that is a moot point. What is on the disk is meaningless - what the developer put their “seal of approval for release” is. Making games means that a lot of assets and code get written and thrown away because is not deemed release-worthy.
By the way, did you know that “your” Blizzard included some unused assets on “Diablo 1”, which were later used for their “Hellfire” expansion? I’m not implying that they did it on purpouse though.
What REALLY irks me now is that a lot of awesome stuff gets done, and they put some DRM or online-only requirement and then shut down the server because you only pay for the service and not for the game… I like to own my games and possibly replay them in 30 years with my children…
Cool points, I hadn’t thought if it that way before. Keep up old servers is an interesting one, without a subscription fee, how long is long enough to keep them up. Perhaps there needs to be some kind of model (they probably already do) where they will keep the servers alive for x years, and after that, release them so people can then run them themselves.
… oh and by the by, talk smack about the one high and mighty power above all others, Blizzard, again and you won’t need to worry about what you’ll be doing in 30 years, punk.
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We remove that part before eating them.
[/quote] We would have no issue with this if you savages would just discarded them immediately, instead you treat them like the last lolly pop on the face of the earth…
One day you have to come in France and see how we eat ducks… also unfortunately, the process is not as funny for them as you imply…
But its so damn tasty 
Roast Duck, Foie gras ect.
But ya, its just kinda messup when you realise that you are eating the force feed liver of the product of a rape. ._.
Eating… dicks?.. :chimpanzee_sad: