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That makes sense, thanks for the input.

I fondly remember getting the DOOM hackers guide from barnes and noble in HS. Those were the days.

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If you were to make one edit to Claude's output here, I'd recommend rephrasing "of DOOM's shape shows up in Quake, Quake II and Lua" near the top; though it's explained slightly better later on, the wording seems to imply that Lua is derived from the id Tech family tree, which it obviously isn't. An explicit mention that these are negative controls would be good. Maybe rewrite it to "chance resemblance to three unrelated codebases (Quake, Quake II, and Lua)." Personally I find it fascinating that there's a tangible lineage between Keen 1 and Doom 3. (id used the same tile map editor and file format until Doom.)
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I remember burning a ream of paper printing the DooM FAQ
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