Carmack's QuakeCon Keynote Detailed

TheRaindog writes "In addition to announcing the Quake III source code's impending release, John Carmack's QuakeCon 2005 keynote also covered the programmer's thoughts on Microsoft and Sony's next-gen consoles, physics acceleration in games, and what he'd like to see from new graphics hardware."

Kenote?

[rasjani]

mmmmmm.. Kenote! Delicious! [salive drool] mmmmmm.

I attended this, and can offer some insight.

[Anonymous Coward]

Lets talk about Jon Carmack. Jon is the legendary programmer of such classic PC games as Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke nukem 3d, Quake 1, 2, and 3, unreal, and the upcoming doom3. Jon has single handedly created the genre known as the first-person-shooter. He has also popularized the OpenGL 3d format over Microsoft's competing Direct3d format, as well as caused public interest in 3d cards when he first released accelerated quake for the s3 virge chipset. Jon carmack has redefined gaming on PC's.

Now stop for a moment and think, What would have happened if Albert Einstein had worked creating amazing pinball games instead of creating the theory of relativity? Humanity would suffer! Jon carmack is unfortunately doing JUST THIS, using his gifts at computer coding to create games instead of furthering the knowledge of humanity. Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent computer games.

Is this a waste of a special and rare talent? Sadly, the answer is yes.

Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Not only is Jon carmack not contributing to society, he is causing it's downfall. What was the main reason for the mass murder of dozens of people in columbine? Doom. It's always the same story: Troubled youth plays doom or quake, he arms himself to the teeth, he kills his classmates. This has happened hundreds of times in the US alone. Carmack is not only wasting his talents and intelligence; he is single-handedly causing the deaths of many young men and women. How does he sleep at night?

Carmack is a classic example of a very talented and intelligent human being that is bent on total world destruction. Incredibly, he has made millions of dollars getting people hooked on psychotic games where they compete on the internet to see who can dismember the most people. I believe there is something morally wrong when millions of people have computerized murder fantasies, and we have Jon Carmack to thank. Carmack has used his superior intellect to create mayhem in society. Many people play games such as quake so much that their minds are permanently warped. A cousin of mine has been in therapy for 6 months after he lost a 'death match' and became catatonic.

It is unfortunate that most people do not realize how much this man has damaged all the things we have worked hard for in America. Jon has wasted his intelligence, caused the deaths of innocent children, and warped this country forever. To top it off, he got rich in the process and is revered by millions of computer users worldwide. Perhaps one day the US government will see the light and confine Jon Carmack somewhere with no computers so he can no longer use his intelligence to wreak havoc on society.

Re:physics is here to stay

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Funniest. Subject line. Ever.

Re:Here we go again....

[domipheus]

Personally I think you are a moron, because if you paid £1000 to get 30fps in 800x600, you obviously went to PC world.

Thoughts

[williamhooligan]

John Carmack's QuakeCon 2005 keynote also covered the programmer's thoughts

"Ladies and Gentlemen,

...I want more funky graphics things...

...I wonder if I left the gas on...

...My leg itches...

...That guy looks tired..."

Re:Kenote?

[supertsaar]

Obi Wan Kenote ?

Re:I attended this, and can offer some insight.

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Are you implying the US military hasn't advanced the knowledge of humanity? Thanks to the military (not just the US ofcourse) we've got a few million ways to kill all sorts of intresting people. Without it we would still be beating each other over the head with a bone and now you got to admit that a modern dressed man beating someone to death with a bone looks just ridiculouse, right?
So what is the purpose of military research? Simple: to keep our killing tools up with our latest fashion in clothing.

Re:Interesting

[CaptainFork]

Jon Carmack is a typical male programmer. Like all males, he can only think of one thing at a time like a cold hearless single-threaded computer brain. That's why he can only write programs that way. There should be more female games programmers. Females have a compassionate multi-threaded mind which can be both more intuitive and more practical. Female programmers would naturally relate to multi-threading and reap the benefits in processing power.

However unfortunately all the games would be about buying shoes and your only weapon would be a handbag, which would suck.

Re:Here we go again....

[Tim Browse]

Personally I think Carmack is so far up his own arse that he can't see daylight anymore AND WE'RE PAYING FOR HIS INDULGENCE.

If only there was some way for you to be able to decide not to buy Carmack's games.

But I guess that's just impossible.

Kenote?

[Arivia]

Is this the KDE project's competitor to Microsoft OneNote or something?

Re:Spent!

[nullgel]

Oh good. So Carmack ISN'T the one obsessed with satanism. It's someone else at Id. For a longest time, I figured he sold his soul to be the great coder that he is.