This game is super documented about, because it literally is the first esport in history.Īnd the thing is that, at that point in time, there were only a couple of events that granted that type of money that Elon is lying about. In Quake we know about every single major event ever hosted, and about everyone that was ever top level at this franchise. Real engineers that actually build things instead of just shuffle money around to satisfy their own megalomanic idea of the future of humanity. Less of these useless billionaire assholes, more of Chris Lattner, Linus Torvalds, Andrej Karpathy, etc etc. How about Gates and Thiel? Are they titanous geniuses of engineering and industry I should look up to? Okay? Fine as long as it results in liquid methane based rocket technology? Then again, you've got colonizer vibes so maybe stealing and raping an entire country based only on race is. They are not geniuses, Carmack is about a thousand times smarter than Musk and yet spews constant bullshit about fREe SpeEcH on his socials whenever anyone is a widdle mean on the Internet to him and his friends.Īre you ill informed on the Musk family? They are not aspirational figures. I'm an engineer by trade, I've spoken with direct employees of this businessmen. You can never fail to make agi but you can fail to optimize fission reactors, so like the small, scared man that he and Musk are, he didn't choose the useful path but the flashy one that is most likely to make his Wikipedia page more impressive.Īnd imagine you'd be qualified to look up to them. There's a reason Carmack pissed off to waste money and electricity on AgI instead of being useful and optimizing nuclear fission. Genius engineers scale things, hopefully we enter a future where carnival barking is not mistaken for engineering acumen. He works well alone but struggles to be of any use in large organizations, a problem of his that goes back to the id days. John is not a particularly skilled engineer nowadays, an opinion I've formed after dozen of hours of interviews and talking to Meta employees that worked under him. With Carmack, they have ran in similar circles for decades and are close personal friends. His only genius is luck from his apartheid emerald mining past. He's a genius carnival barker, much like 45. Here you can see Tresh winning Carmacks Ferrari, at Red Annihilation. He was in San Fransisco back then, I think and there were some major SF servers back in the day with the elite of the elite duellers (not to mention there were hardly any TDM tournaments, so he couldn't have won "lots and lots" of them) He probably played though, like, in general. Pre 1996, which is all documented so it's hard to believe this one tournament got lost in cyberspace when none other did. MPaths tournaments weren't the first either, the Doom tournaments were. If they won "thousands" of dollars they would have been the top earners of Quake players back in 1996-2002+, but they are not. The first tournaments of Quake, Doom and even Quake 2 are all available historically. There where only two american clans back then, neither mentioned in that comment. He may have played but he was never on a team that came in second, or would have won "had not someone DCed". "Are you bribing the MAE East admins to sit on their bandwidth?", "You should be handicapped" (I was on UMD's Digex T3 connection back then for the record). I remember distinctly playing against a particular Zip2 player in a deathmatch before our scheduled final and how much shade he was throwing at the fact I was on superior bandwidth on the mplayer server that game. All were unremarkable looking 20-something unkempt nerds, much like we were, and didn't think anything of it until Elon became a billionaire and his ties to his older companies became public knowledge. I remember distinctly going to their webpage after playing against them in the final and seeing their "about" page with their executive profiles. It was the first tournament held by MPath/Mplayer (that eventually hosted the Red Annihilation single player game that awarded the Ferrari). If you google it it's a bunch of political bs and mentally ill people but there is a comment from some guy who supposedly won the tournament saying:ĮXTREMELY late to the game here. There are a few devs that roam this reddit.
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