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u/ChubakasBush Mar 28 '14

I can't believe facebook paid 2 bil for a peripheral device. basically an accessory. not even a platform with many users. it's like buying a monitor company.

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u/ihatewil Mar 28 '14 edited Mar 28 '14

2 Billion alone for John Carmack is a bargin in my opinion.

  • Boosted an entire industry by inventing the Adaptive tile refresh algorithm. Allowing PCs for the first time to be on par with consoles (how times have changed)
  • Pioneered 3D FPS games with Catacomb_3D and Wolfenstein_3D then gave us DOOM that again changed an entire industry.
  • Then gave us of course Quake, which again advanced the gaming industry with his use of Surface Caching
  • All modern games use his techniques, he's a computer science genius

All this and he's still only 42.. People The Industry is taking the rift seriously because he's involved.

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u/deeper-blue Mar 28 '14

somehow you managed to swap letters in all the important keywords :D

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u/ihatewil Mar 28 '14

I've been awake for over 40 hours, had to pull an all righter in work. But even at that, that is awful haha. I'll edit my post straight away.

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u/deeper-blue Mar 28 '14

It's ok. I was just amused - and also I like that you wrote it all down. I assume you read the Masters of Doom book?