John Dervish Carmack II was founded in 1970, crawling around near a smoldering meteorite in a Kansas cornfield. He was adopted by local farmer John Carmack, Sr. and his wife Adrian, who raised him as a pig for Thanksgiving dinner. As November approached, John Sr. couldn't find it in him to eat the pig child, and so they lovingly took him into their home and named him John D. Carmack II.