Please do not perceive me.
Yes, but we all continually bitched about Jackal Alley in 2005 and I will continue to do so now
Walking around a corner and getting instantly domed the nanosecond the enemy has line of sight on you has never been fun. There is room for it to be bearable if the shot doesn’t one-shot you but on the higher difficulties it was some bullshit back then and it remains so now.
To be fair a brand new desktop tower can also barely handle android studio, I’ve never had a good experience in it not once
If you exist in the Social Security records then yes, your personally identifying information has been leaked to unknown actors a minimum of three times.
Whether or not your identity has been properly stolen and used for illegal business is down to luck and pretty much nothing else.
The bones of some of his lighting algorithms are still in use to this day. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that he is an exceptional programmer.
The best of his generation is harder to assert just because that generation had a pretty large handful of names who each truly revolutionized computing. But I do believe that without Carmack then Doom never happens, idtech never happens, the resulting 90’s-2000’s FPS craze never happens. Without Doom landing on the hardware of every nerd on the planet it’s very likely the middle age of the video game industry went in a very different direction.
I’d say he earned that ego, even if I wouldn’t like dealing with it in a professional environment. But I think it’s a reasonable thing to say that a good 75% of the next decade of game dev was primarily borne up by Carmack’s bootstraps.
Should check out FFXIV with all the other WOW refugees, it’s a good game
The DM may have handwaved all travel and navigation rules specifically because the party contained an overgrown boy scout
Like yeah, this is normally a problem that needs to be worked around, but you guys straight up don’t have to worry about it because Eratosthenes over here always knows where you are and where to hunt food
You may not have had to roll dice to feel useful but you were still useful in that you removed a food clock from the game by virtue of existing. It’s a lot harder to credibly make travel and food an issue when the party brings a ranger, that’s kind of the ranger’s whole class identity.
I went to one of those, around 2010ish. I have many, many consecutive hours of bitching that I could do about it, but suffice to say it’s exactly as bad as you’d expect.
I made some really good friends there, though, some of which I’m still in touch with. Out of the five of us who hung out together, I think one of us graduated.
Personally, after I dropped out, I tried to transfer the nearly half a degree worth of credits that I had completed, only to find out that not a single one of those transfers to any other school due to some difference in the school’s accreditation, which we only learned about after I left it. Very pleased to learn that, I walked out of that school with $30k in student loan debt and literally nothing whatsoever to show for it.
This kind of shit is how arson happens, don’t fall for it.