John Carmack, the coding genius/nightmare behind Quake and Doom left id Software last year. While most thought it was because he wanted to roll much deeper with the Oculus Rift, there’s a bit more to the story. Specifically, he was all “let’s like partner the fuck up! with Oculus” and the parent company ZeniMax was like “naw, bruh.”

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John Carmack was a visionary back in the day. Doom. Quake. The engines for both. And for those wondrous developments he holds my eternal appreciation. However, I can’t really get up for anything he’s done in…fourteen years? So him developing the Oculus Rift is like announcing John Carpenter is making a new movie. Classic dude. Time has passed. Am I alone?

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I don’t understand the regulatory rules for many foreign countries. Well, most of them. I’m an American! My life stops at our shores! I do know that I find it odd that a country that cranks out scat porn like its going out of vogue (never!) somehow also groups a video game like DOOM in the same restrictive category as it.

Well, until now.

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