On Jun 28, 3:23 am, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow. That's THE Nasir? He made some awesome games in his time!
He's so incredibly engineer-like, and very modest.
Yes, he seems to be a very pleasant person. But I won't call him
"mythical" just because he wasn't that visible to the public back
then and has other interests besides getting rich and famous.
He's Iranian, by the way. Some folks should remember this when
they cry for bombarding a certain country in the middle east.
If John Romero is freaking out about this guy's coding prowess,
you know he must be a mondo-badass. :-)
Romero is / always was badass - maybe even too much so.
But he knows his stuff well enough to recognize and support (!)
real geniuses and work horses like Carmack for example.
There is a good book about id-Software from the Apple days to
Quake called "Masters of Doom" describing the "personality disorders"
and under-developed social skills these guys have ;-)
I think its good that Romero sells this DVD nearly ten years after
the event to make his "personal gurus" better known.
I can't believe the guy didn't ever use a printer or any other
programming helper tools... just hammers out code non-stop. Amazing.
It's the old "pressure sometimes gives the best results" principle, I
guess.
And most programmers today don't really know how good their
environment is.