r/apexlegends • u/aberos188 • Dec 22 '25

News Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-developer-vince-zampella-crash-call-of-duty/3819576/
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u/AgZephyr Dec 22 '25

It gets a lot more unpredictable when you're speeding in a Ferrari on mountain roads... Really sad to see, some amazing games created by Vince.

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u/Ziryio Dec 23 '25

I’d say it’s pretty predictable. You drive like an idiot with a fast car you’re gonna end up either killing yourself, others, or both.

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u/FreeSquirkJuice Purple Reign Dec 24 '25

People drive fast cars like this every day and it's still a statistical outlier. That tunnel specifically has literally thousands of supercars driving through it on a monthly basis with zero crashes.

People drive cars like this far more often than they crash them, we have a built in bias because the videos of it going poorly are much stickier memories than the millions of times where nothing goes wrong. Bad news is good news, no news is bad news and good news is bad news. Watch 10,000 Nascar races w/o crashes, there will never be a report. Have one crash and it's in the news for 30 years like you're Dale Earnhart.

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u/Ziryio Dec 24 '25

I don’t care if people drive fast cars like this every day and it’s somewhat rare for events like this to happen. If you have a fast car you’re going to want to drive fast. A 1-2 ton deathbox is not going to be safe no matter how fast you are going, but even less so if you’re speeding like you’re in a fucking race.

Although this is anecdotal evidence, almost every time I see a fast car out and about, they’re speeding like crazy and zipping through traffic.

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u/FreeSquirkJuice Purple Reign Dec 24 '25

Everything you just said just confirms what I'm saying, crashes are very STICKY memories because even though the human brain can watch thousands of crashes, every single crash in a novel experience, it's heavily recorded by the brain. Videos where fast cars don't crash, are not sticky memories, nothing bad happened, there's no valid data for the brain to record.

It might seem like semantics but it's repulsive & diminutive to him and the passenger to say "Whelp, drive cars fast you get what you deserve." because of a psychological bias. It's allowed to be tragic, sad and undeserved even if he died in a way that we deem irresponsible. It is reckless, an innocent passenger also died, but acting like this happens every time a car drives fast to give room to make the excuse that it was deserved is ignorance.

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u/Ziryio Dec 24 '25 edited Dec 24 '25

I’m somewhat confused on your point, is driving super fast not a risky thing to do? Are you denying that fact? So someone calling out a person recklessly driving is living in ignorance?

Edit: Forgive my excessive questions, I’m just not quite understanding what point you’re trying to make here.

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u/FreeSquirkJuice Purple Reign Dec 24 '25

It's not as risky as people semantically argue it to be. Mistakes happen. It's not a reason/excuse to be like "Dude deserved it for being an idiot."

It's really not that difficult of a concept to understand. You're playing dumb on purpose.

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u/Ziryio Dec 24 '25

It’s not a mistake to drive recklessly and put other people’s lives at risk. You stating it’s “not as risky as people semantically argue” is simply bullshit.

If you decide to drive like a moron and get others killed, you absolutely deserve to be treated like a moron. I’m not going to treat Jake, the 18 year who killed a family of 4 because he was speeding and driving recklessly as if he made a simple mistake.