Open Letter to ID’s John Carmack RE: Rage
Dear Mr. Carmack, I have been a fan of ID since elementary school, and have played every game from Commander Keen to Quake III. I have owned copies of Doom for Dos, Windows 95, iPhone, Motorola Doom RPG, XBOX 360 and I even once hacked an iPod to run a Linux version. I found what you were able to accomplish as young as 21, and most of the things I have heard you say about game design and innovation to be a consistent source of inspiration. I say this all mainly because I would love it if you could take the time to read this and not dismiss it as the normal trolling fanfare any game can expect to receive. Before I get to the real point, I have some basic questions: Why can I not shoot through 1/2 inch thick wood planks with fully automatic weapons? There are all...
Optimus/Pessimus Prime
History is riddled with stories of great mathematical minds. Individuals that saw patterns no normal eye could see, correlations no sane mind could reason. Carl Friedrich Gauss, for example, is rumored to have been such a prodigy that by age three he was already correcting his father's arithmetic. My personal favorite Gaussian anecdote happened during his primary school years. A teacher by the name of J.G. Büttner gave his class what was supposed to be a long and drawn out arithmetic exercie, adding all the numbers 1 through 100. Before Büttner had finished writing the problem on the board, Gauss had scribbled 5050 on his little chalk board, flung it on his teacher's desk, and exclaimed Ligget se, "There it lies" in peasant tongue. To see how he...
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