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by LarsDu88 47 days ago
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery!

I suppose there's still Quake 3 Arena and DOOM3 to complete the full "John Carmack" early 90s to early 2000s technical overview series.

Or maybe something with the Sega Saturn. I heard the Sonic X-treme team worked so hard to make a 3d Sonic game for that platform in the mid 90s that multiple team members had to go on medical leave!
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dmit 47 days ago
> Imitation is the greatest form of flattery

"... that mediocrity can pay to greatness" is the rest of the quote.

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spacechild1 47 days ago
This quote is attributed to Oscar Wilde, but it seems like he never said it. In fact, there is no direct source for this particular quote by anyone. Even the shorter version "Imitation is the greatest form of lattery" is much older than Oscar Wilde. The full quote apparently did not appear on the internet before 2012.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/no-oscar-wilde-did-not-say-...

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