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Interview With id Software's Robert A. Duffy
LEXI writes: "Accompanying our recent first set of Q3Radiant Tutorials I had the chance to interview one of the programmers behind the editor and the new engine, Mr. Robert A. Duffy of id software. 10 questions asked, 10 answers given. Topics range from personal details, education, job description, over to the new engine and the new tools, to violence in games and George W. Bush. The English original can be found here; the German translation resides at this very spot. The interview should be interesting for as well the quake player desperately awaiting the new engine, as the fresh or old-school mapper."
Robert Duffy: Well wearing a gun and owning a gun are two very different things and neither of them have to do with any game in my opinion. The only countries I have ever seen citizens wearing guns are ones where it was illegal. I don't think to date I have seen a citizen wearing a firearm in public here in the US.
Riiiight. That's not a gun in my pocket, I'm just happy to see you.
In case of the Slashdot effect, here's the interview:
Interviewer: Boxers or briefs?
Robert Duffy: I'll have to keep my take on this to myself.
Interviewer: We would like to thank Robert Duffy for taking the time to answer our questions and wish both him and id software all the best for the future.
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I always wondered what happened with Sergeant Duffy after his roles in Infocom's Witness and Deadline...
"There ought to be limits to freedom"
The irony is overwhelming. Frenchmen considering Americans to be xenophobic. Aren't these the people who wouldn't allow the word "rocket" into their language?
On the subject of the French language, is it possible to say "Defend the border." in French? They hate American guns except on the occasions when those guns are sparing them from becoming a German province.
-Peter
I've actually been quite sucuessfull in persuading a large quantitiy of French people that personal responsibility and personal accountability are the true choice of a Liberty seeking people
Perhaps you succeeded where Montesquieu, Voltaire, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man failed.
Perhaps they were delighted to have an American explain what their true choice should be as a libery-seeking people. After all, the French had only abolished slavery in France a mere 70 years before it was abolished in the U.S.
Perhaps the French had no paragons of personal responsibility and accountability to match Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton and thus were happy to use your humble self as a working example.
Now perhaps some of your fellow Americans could stand some similar enlightenment.