Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Joe Biden calls game developers "little creeps" who make titles that "teach you how to kill" [View all]mathematic
(1,618 posts)He's a genius programmer and video game developer that created Doom, Quake, and many of the engineering techniques for creating first-person perspective video graphics. Doom, which is perhaps what the general public might know best, is a game where you play a space marine that uses lots-o-guns to kill literal demons from hell that are invading mars. Obviously, John Carmack is a creepy, murdery sociopath.
Edit to add:
I see kotaku has dug up some actual meetings, which are helpful.
https://kotaku.com/unsolved-mystery-which-game-industry-exec-did-joe-bide-1841073390
One meeting included the boss of EA. Another meeting included boss of Bethesda (which owns Doom/Quake). Neither of these guys are game developers. They're businessmen, and both boomers too, so describing them as "little creeps" (which is an ageist attack, unless he's literally calling them small) seems unlikely. It's possible that he was referring to Mark Pincus, who was almost a billionaire at the time and is a gen Xer. Too bad Pincus' company's biggest game is Farmville, a game where you pretend to grow plants because you like growing things.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden