Editing John Carmack (section)

==Personal life==
Carmack was so successful at id that by mid-1994 he had purchased two [[Ferraris]]: a [[Ferrari 328]] and a [[Ferrari Testarossa]].<ref name="lombardi199407">{{Cite magazine|last=Lombardi|first=Chris|date=July 1994|title=To Hell and Back Again|url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=120|magazine=Computer Gaming World|pages=20–24}}</ref> In 1997, he gave away the Ferrari 328 as a prize to [[Dennis Fong]], the winner of the ''Quake'' tournament "[[Red Annihilation]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Davison |first1=John |title=How 'Quake' Changed Video Games Forever |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/how-quake-changed-video-games-forever-187984/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=June 22, 2016 |access-date=July 21, 2017}}</ref>

He met his now ex-wife [[Katherine Anna Kang]], at the 1997 [[QuakeCon]] when she visited id's offices. As a bet, Kang challenged Carmack to sponsor the first all-female ''Quake'' tournament if she was able to produce a significant number of participants. Carmack predicted a maximum of 25 participants, but there were 1,500.{{sfn|Kushner|2003|p=281}} Carmack and Kang married on January 1, 2000, and planned a ceremony in Hawaii. Steve Jobs requested that they would postpone the ceremony so Carmack could attend the MacWorld Expo on January 5, 2000. Carmack declined and suggested making a video instead.<ref>{{cite web |first=John |last=Carmack |title=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2146412825593223&id=100006735798590 |website=Facebook |access-date=March 18, 2020}}</ref> Carmack and Kang had a son Christopher Ryan in August 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=273 |title=Rebuilding, New team member |publisher=Armadillo Aerospace News Archive |date= August 16, 2004 |first=John |last=Carmack |access-date=September 30, 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040817044247/http://armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=273 |archive-date=August 17, 2004}}</ref> Their second son was born in November 2009.

Carmack is divorced as of 2021. On May 26, 2022, he announced his divorce and how he met his partner Trista through the VR ''[[Beat Saber]]'' games he would host via Twitter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1530022920130543630|title=Relationship related post|publisher=Twitter|date=May 27, 2022|access-date=August 8, 2022}}</ref>

As a game developer, Carmack differed from many of his contemporaries by avoiding commitment to a final release date for any game he was developing. Instead, when asked for a release date on a new game, Carmack would usually reply that the game would be released "when it's done".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/896/896763p6.html |title=GameSpy: John Carmack: QuakeCon 2008 Keynote Highlights – Page 6 |publisher=Pc.gamespy.com |access-date=November 27, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210193443/http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/896/896763p6.html |archive-date=February 10, 2012}}</ref> Employees at [[3D Realms|Apogee]], in their past years the publishers of games by id Software, adopted this business practice as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?p=654680#post654680 |title=DNF Dallas Business Journal Article, 2008, and stuff – Page 4 – 3D Realms Forums |publisher=Forums.3drealms.com |access-date=November 27, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018112949/http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?p=654680 |archive-date=October 18, 2012}}</ref>  In 2019, as a guest on ''[[The Joe Rogan Experience]]'', Carmack stated that his beliefs have changed over time: "I largely recant from that now." On ''[[Rage (video game)|Rage]]''{{'s}} six-year development time he says: "I think we should have done whatever it would have taken to ship that two years earlier." Carmack also reflected on the internal development of Quake in this regard and described it as "traumatic" and says id Software could have split the game into two parts and shipped it earlier.<ref>{{cite podcast |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znJPn3FSFmM |title=John Carmack: What Went Wrong With "Rage" |website=[[The Joe Rogan Experience]] |publisher=[[YouTube]] |host=[[Joe Rogan|Rogan, Joe]] |date=August 28, 2019 |time=0:43 |access-date=September 2, 2021 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902180419/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znJPn3FSFmM |archive-date=September 2, 2021 }}</ref>

Carmack has a [[blog]] last updated in 2006 (previously a [[finger protocol|.plan]], which could be accessed by making a finger request for an active [[Twitter]] account), and also occasionally posts comments to ''[[Slashdot]]''.<ref name="slashdot-answers" />

Carmack supported the [[Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign|2012 presidential campaign]] of [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] [[Ron Paul]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Page by Page Report Display (Page 5052 of 7433) |url=http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?12951516414 |publisher=[[Federal Election Commission]] |access-date=March 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428203357/http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?12951516414 |archive-date=April 28, 2015 }}</ref> and also persuaded the [[Libertarian Party of Texas]] to accept [[bitcoin]] as an alternative to donations.<ref>{{Cite news |title=VR Legend John Carmack Persuaded the Libertarian Party of Texas to Accept Bitcoin Donations |last=Prisco |first=Giulio |date=2021-03-04 |url=https://www.ccn.com/vr-legend-john-carmack-persuaded-libertarian-party-texas-accept-bitcoin-donations/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |work=[[CCN.com]]}}</ref> He is an [[atheism|atheist]].<ref>{{cite tweet |user=ID_AA_Carmack |number=18382634732224512 |date=December 23, 2010 |title=@eastwood333 I don't believe in god, but I don't see any correlation between religiosity and human virtues. Merry Xmas everyone!}}</ref><ref>"Having a reasonable grounding in statistics and probability and no belief in luck, fate, karma, or god(s), the only casino game that interests me is blackjack," he wrote in a .plan file." — John Carmack, David Kushner, as quoted in ''Masters of Doom: How two guys created an Empire and transformed pop culture'' (2003).</ref> During a conversation with [[Joe Rogan]], Carmack revealed that he had trained in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and [[Judo]] for several years as a hobby.<ref>{{Cite web|last=BjjTribes|date=August 1, 2021|title=John Carmack details his BJJ and Judo experience|url=https://bjjtribes.com/john-carmack-details-his-bjj-and-judo-experience/|access-date=August 1, 2021|website=BjjTribes|language=en-US}}</ref>

During his time at id Software, a medium pepperoni pizza would arrive for Carmack from [[Domino's Pizza]] almost every day,<ref>"The pizza, it's one of those things that's actually true. For a long time that I did software, I had a pizza delivered every single day. You know, the delivery guy, he knew me by name and I didn't find out until years later that apparently I was such a good customer that they just never raised the price on me and I was using this 6-year-old price for the pizza that they were still kind of sending my way every day." "So you were eating once a day or were you—" "It would be spread out. You know, you have a few pieces of pizza, you have some more later on and I maybe have some at home." —John Carmack, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4&t=3300s 2022-08-04 Lex Fridman interview] (starting 54m)</ref> carried by the same delivery person for more than 15 years. Carmack had been such a regular customer that they continued to charge him 1995 prices.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Thomsen|first1=Michael|title=The Deathmatch Daydreams of Tim Willits|magazine=Electronic Gaming Monthly|date=June 2011|issue=248|pages=23–24|url=https://archive.org/details/electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-248-june-2011}}</ref>

On occasion he has commended the efforts of similarly focused programmers&nbsp;– first [[Ken Silverman]], who wrote the [[Build (game engine)|Build engine]] for [[3D Realms]], and later with [[Tim Sweeney (game developer)|Tim Sweeney]] of [[Epic Games]], who wrote the [[Unreal Engine]].<ref name="slashdot-answers" />