You guys remember the good ole days when id software has tal

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You guys remember the good ole days when id software has talented developers who weren't frauds? Pic not related

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American McGee:
"A map maker I discovered and brought into id back in the day who's gone on to become the company's creative lead has recently managed to make himself into the game industry's version of Al "I invented the Internet" Gore.
He claims he invented the idea of deathmatch (DM) only maps in Quake. It's an odd thing to claim since it's so easily refuted by physical records and eyewitness accounts. But it's not the first time I've seen this guy claiming credit for this particular "invention" or for other people's work in general. When the situation was first pointed out to me I responded, "History is written by the victors." I've just always assumed this is his MO and have ignored it in the past.
Once the story broke across several major game industry news outlets the guy not only stood by his nonsense claims but attempted to double-down by sharing video of what he claimed to be some of the map fragments he turned into DM-only maps for Quake... only one problem: He never contributed maps utilizing those textures to the final game. So his response has only increased people's scrutiny of the situation.
Difficult to know what's going on inside his mind. Human memory is notoriously terrible. It's been scientifically proven that whenever we "recall" a past event we actually re-simulate that event - and never with perfect fidelity. It's like your brain is playing a game of Chinese Whispers with itself. Over multiple retellings, we add details, remove inconvenient or boring elements, and re-write the resulting narrative as "truth." After a certain point, we can be "recalling" something that never happened and be completely convinced that it did."