John Carmack apologizes to Sandy Peterson, designer on Quake.
"I pushed everyone too hard. I didn’t appreciate how maturing companies need more slack, and that running people at startup intensity constantly will wear them out"
Sandy had posted about how Quake ruined iD Software, causing Key talent to quit, including Romero, Green, Dave Taylor, Mike Abrash and American McGee and himself.
Carmack went on to say he found his own limits on Quake, and that they should have just improved the Doom engine instead of writing a new one, because it rug-pulled the designers several times:
"Quake was also where I really had to accept my personal limits. I was working pretty much as hard as humanly possible, and I was still slipping past my goal points."
John went on to say that he doesn't take the blame for insisting aesthetics meet level design in order to look AND play awesome, but that he they should have figured out how to pair up artists and designers.
It's a good read, and the link is in the reply.
Those were the gung-ho days of game-dev and working 7 days a week, all waking hours, was pretty much what we did, even at OG Blizzard (Starcraft was brutal).
🚨 Three thousand years deep - Evidence uncovers Velanai's ancient seafarers
A newly published study has identified the earliest scientifically confirmed evidence of prehistoric human settlement on Velanai Island in the Jaffna Peninsula, dating back around 3,460 years and overturning an erroneous long-held Sri Lankan assumption that the region was largely uninhabited until much later.
The study, published in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology and led by Thilanka Siriwardana of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka and the University of Groningen, examined an extensive shell midden, designated CB/Ex1, around a kilometre south of Velanai beach. Its earliest marine deposits date to between roughly 6,300 and 5,970 years ago, while the earliest confirmed human occupation is placed at about 3,460 years ago, the oldest yet established anywhere in northern Sri Lanka.
🚨 Rights group flags 184 Sri Lankan prison deaths to visiting UN delegation
The Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) has formally raised concerns with a visiting United Nations delegation over custodial deaths, prison overcrowding, alleged torture and deteriorating detention conditions in Sri Lanka.
The submissions were made as the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture concluded its official visit to Sri Lanka today, following a ten-day mission from 15 to 24 June.
حدائق بابل المعلقة – هولير (أربيل) في كوردستان 📍
هل تعلم أن أربيل تحتضن مشروعاً مستوحى من حدائق بابل المعلقة، إحدى عجائب الدنيا السبع القديمة؟
🌳 أكثر من 25 ألف شجرة ونبات
🏃♂️ مسار جري بطول 700 متر
🚶♂️ ممرات واسعة للمشي والاسترخاء
🎾 ملاعب تنس وبادل
📚 زوايا مخصصة للقراءة والهدوء
⛰️ تلال ومناظر طبيعية ساحرة
تقع الحديقة داخل Erbil Avenue، أحد أبرز مشاريع الترفيه الحديثة في كوردستان، لتجمع بين الطبيعة والرياضة والمطاعم والترفيه في مكان واحد ❤️
🇱🇰🇭🇹 In the mid-2000s, Sinhalese UN peacekeepers in Haiti ran a child sex ring, abusing minors as young as 7.
134 soldiers were implicated, none were prosecuted.
Sri Lanka never held a single peacekeeper accountable for sexual abuse abroad. 🤡
#EelamNews#UN#Haiti#SriLanka
Save this before it gets buried:
India just announced full PSLV technology transfer to private companies.
PSLV isn’t just a satellite rocket. It shares propulsion lineage with the Agni missile series. Lt Gen A.K. Bhatt (retd), DG of Indian Space Association, publicly said rocket tech “can be used for missiles.”
Adani Enterprises was already in the running for PSLV contracts back in 2022; confirmed in Parliament by Jitendra Singh himself.
HAL grabbed SSLV tech for ₹511 crore. Now the FULL PSLV; 33 years of publicly funded R&D, 61 successful launches; goes to whoever meets a ₹400 crore turnover bar.
PSLV-C62 already failed in January 2026. What’s the accountability chain when this tech sits inside a private boardroom?
No parliamentary debate. No public security audit. No disclosed oversight framework.
Every airport, port, coal mine, defence factory; and now the rocket that blurs the line between space and missiles.
This isn’t space policy. It’s a transfer of strategic national assets to a pre-selected corporate ecosystem; funded by 140 crore Indians, owned by none of them.
🔴 Ask yourself: which “Indian-owned company” is already positioned to absorb this?
जय हिंद, if there’s anything left to salute. 🇮🇳
In 1993, this photo of Belgian soldiers roasting a Somali boy alive went viral.
The soldiers were in Mogadishu as part of a 5,000-strong UN-led "peacekeeping" mission codenamed Operation Restore Hope in Somalia.
The image shocked the world.
What happened in November 1997, was even more shocking — A Belgian court acquitted the two soldiers.