>John Romero, once a legendary video game developer, Co-Founder of ID software now works at a gas station thanks to recent AI advancements.
>John Romero, once a legendary video game developer, Co-Founder of ID software now works at a gas station thanks to recent AI advancements.
Pixel quit his white collar business job and worked at a grocery store to clear his headspace in order to create Cave Story. If you can work as hard for yourself as you can for an employer, it's not a bad strategy; most cannot do that, however.
most don't really want to. they just want to work for a dude and then hope that he won't be too much of a dick-bag. the fear of failing deters a lot of people. a lot of people haven't tried to fail in a spectacular fashion, so they don't try, to begin with. we on 4chins are all failures in life with zero people who actually like us and respect us, so one of us creating our own business isn't going to be too big a deal, because if we fail, so what? society has deemed us losers anyways, so frick it, right? a person with a comfy job and tons of friends and family and people who respect them and such, it's a lot more unlikely that that person will start his/her own business, since failure means taking a giant step down, reputation-wise. suddenly, they'll all start looking at them differently, they'll see them as dirty, disgusting, a loser. a failure. the way they have always talked about the other failures in the family, suddenly they'll start talking like that about them, and that's the one thing they don't want.
Most menial working men don't use Ganker and they're not faring all that well as you'd think.
so? they're still not going to start their own companies. the vast majority will never do it. when shit hits the fan, you watch, as the giga-corps just vacuum everything up and becomes even larger and the pathetic fricking inept powerless government just stands there and lets it happen. and the people will let it happen, as well.
If you haven't, read Kazimierz Dąbrowski's theory of positive disintegration. Your post is pretty much a quick summation of it.Yeah, survivorship should never be forgotten about. Yeah, most will fail, but when you already have nothing to lose...
>clear his headspace
thats a nice mindset, i treated my retail job as a free gym.
that pictures predates the scourge of ML cancer, newbie
ML and "AI" shit is like 70 years old
sounds like pure copium here
Man, how the mighty have fallen. 🙁
If I'm ever passing by, I'll stop and have a chat to him about the good times he had and the joy he and ID brought to the world. I'll also buy some gas and offer him a beer from my truck. Shake his hand and hope that I've improved his day. Get in my truck and be on my way.
you're a real mensch.
homie that's his private collection lmao dis dude don't work at a gas station as if brotherman lmao xDDD
You're still his b***h.
Did he burn his money or what?
>legendary developer
>develops a few DOOM maps then releases a dogshit game after leaving ID
Literally mogged in every single way by Carmack
>Literally mogged in every single way by Carmack
Who eventually got mogged by Tim in turn.
carmack mogged himself by thinking he would get to do anything remotely interesting at facebook
this guy is still riding on his fame from almost 30 years ago
Carmack and McGee are the prodigy ones
Reminder that Sandy Peterson made the majority of Doom maps.
>once a legendary
If you make above average income doing anything and you don't use it to acquire capital (land or a boat or whatever) to make yourself financially independent you deserve to end up working in a gas station once the gravy train ends.
very few ever thinks that the gravy train will end, though. also, people are morons and society should be insulated from these people, they should literally be allowed to fail on their own accord, so that they don't manage to drag us all down with them. look at all the people who win it big from the lottery and spend it all. they then do the old turn-around and blame society for it. their parents never taught them to value money and be thrifty, society never taught them, teachers... frick off with that fricking bull, i say. you always see it with the stupid lower-class people, the "proud working man". they win it big and immediately starts spending all the money, like the fricking low iq morons that they really are. then they blame us afterwards, when they have stupidly spent all their money and are flat-fricking broke again.