Here’s the crash: kaotic.com/video/104bc41e_20251222235734_t
Call of Duty co-creator, Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment co-founder, and Battlefield head Vince Zampella dies aged 55
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aesviation@lemmings.world 16 hours ago
subOrange@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
He forgot you don’t respawn IRL.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Why is this being treated like some great tragedy? This shithead bought a supercar he didn’t know how to drive, went 100mph into a wall and killed himself and his passenger. Fuck him, memorialize the person he killed.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
As far as pieces of shit game execs go, he apparently was actually pretty nice, and did actually do some meaningful things (hell of an understatement imo)
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
That’s great, I’m glad he wasn’t a total garbage person.
I just don’t have any sympathy for people that die due to their own reckless use of a stupid supercar that they absolutely did not need. He could have bought a reasonable and high performing normie car, donated the rest of the price tag to charity to feed a few thousand people for a year, and be alive. His death is entirely due to selfishness and excess.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
If there is one thing The Internet agrees upon, it is that the virtuous response to any death is to engage in competitive mourning.
Religious/“Religious” christians tend to embrace that mindset because so much of their beliefs are built upon the idea of deathbed repentance overriding all else. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader as to why an org that has had varying levels of political and military power over the millennia would love the idea that anything you do can be absolved with a single prayer (and a “charitable donation”).
Millennials and GenZ have a tendency to think the world is Steven Universe and what matters is that THEY are virtuous and forgiving and blah blah blah blah blah. Everyone knows you can stop an intergalactic war by showing you have the biggest heart!
We saw very similar bullshit with terry bolea and r kelley and the like. Folk tried to do that with kirk before EVERYONE agreed it was just too funny to care.
Personally? I’ve driven down that road in the past. Even driving the speed limit it is a “fun” road and it is well known that “car people” love to race down it at insane speeds. And Zampella pulled a paul walker doing so. It sucks and I do feel bad for his (very well off) family but also… yeah.
As a “gamer”: Zampella and his team more or less defined FPSes for almost 30 years (I think he was part of the original Medal of Honor?) for good (Titanfall 2) and for ill (… Titanfall 1). But… the vast majority of those games consisted of “Let’s go to Generic-stan and kill some brown people” and folk like Rami Ismail have highlighted this time and time again to deaf ears. Because it very much normalizes the idea that “we” are fighting mindless savages in Oil-stan and makes it much easier to ignore the horrific human rights violations in less lucrative locales.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
I’m at work, so I can’t really have much of a dialogue about it, but yeah. I think you hit a few different nails on the head.
aesviation@lemmings.world 16 hours ago
Yes. We need to keep in mind that products cost what they do so pieces of shit like this can race in sports cars.