Josh Sawyer Q&A Thread

[Cat Headed Eagle]

nah, it's just america, but since americans never leave america, they want to make us think their problems are worldwide

 

[Alienman]

And maybe the afterlife….

Oh don't say such things.

 

[Zeriel]

nah, it's just america, but since americans never leave america, they want to make us think their problems are worldwide

The problem is if anything legally more advanced and severe in Europe. Just not always as culturally entrenched. In terms of freedom though it's way easier for someone in Europe to get got and literally face judicial consequences for wrongthink.

In Europe, the legal system says its totally fine and in fact admirable to arrest people for having the wrong opinions. In US it's more of a case of a strong cultural bias in favor of wokeism that is in conflict with the law, but sometimes some biased people in the judicial system can insert their opinion in lieu of the actual law. But there's way more legal pushback. It's much, much harder to just outright arrest someone in the US for saying stuff the libs don't like.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

nah, it's just america, but since americans never leave america, they want to make us think their problems are worldwide

The problem is if anything legally more advanced and severe in Europe. Just not always as culturally entrenched. In terms of freedom though it's way easier for someone in Europe to get got and literally face judicial consequences for wrongthink.

In Europe, the legal system says its totally fine and in fact admirable to arrest people for having the wrong opinions. In US it's more of a case of a strong cultural bias in favor of wokeism that is in conflict with the law, but sometimes some biased people in the judicial system can insert their opinion in lieu of the actual law. But there's way more legal pushback. It's much, much harder to just outright arrest someone in the US for saying stuff the libs don't like.

You could choose not to be a chuddie, though. It's not that hard.

 

[9ted6]

Please, by all means, fuck off to Berlin. I'm sure there are some prostitutes there looking for company.

Also, look at all these sad californians hating on Vegas. Humorously, Vegas hates Californians right back, despite being ~50% former Californians.

Exactly.
It is more telling about his Californian attitudes and positions that he loves Berlin, than his hate for Vegas.
And it is probably not KristalNacht approval, but all the anarcho-socialist & Antifa squatting and artistic faggotry that are predominant in Berlin these days.

From what I've read Californians who leave California do so because they hate it and then when more Californians move to where they go they hate them too, all while they're trying to make wherever they've moved to more like California anyway.

 

[santino27]

Please, by all means, fuck off to Berlin. I'm sure there are some prostitutes there looking for company.

Also, look at all these sad californians hating on Vegas. Humorously, Vegas hates Californians right back, despite being ~50% former Californians.

Exactly.
It is more telling about his Californian attitudes and positions that he loves Berlin, than his hate for Vegas.
And it is probably not KristalNacht approval, but all the anarcho-socialist & Antifa squatting and artistic faggotry that are predominant in Berlin these days.

From what I've read Californians who leave California do so because they hate it and then when more Californians move to where they go they hate them too, all while they're trying to make wherever they've moved to more like California anyway.

Pretty much, yes.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Major_Blackhart]

This is what he's come to for attention? Fucking laughable.

Look at these highly organized charts and graphs about how we kind of designed a game from fifteen years ago I'm relevant

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Major_Blackhart]

See this shit? That cocksucker criticizes everything about AD&D, D&D, etc. but given the chance, me and everyone else would choose one of those systems over the garbage he created.

 

[Tyranicon]

I wonder if some game designers have such boring jobs they genuinely don't know what to say that can be interesting to the general gaming audience or other devs.

I'm in the trenches, so to speak, with lots of other low-level amatuer devs and the shit they talk about is way more interesting.

For example, just had a conversation about the design philosophy around being able to delay turn orders in a turn-based RPG, and whether it was meta-gaming because turns are supposed to be slices of realtime during the 6/10/whatever seconds that constitute a round. And being able to delay your action is like some kind of time travel because your slice has already passed.

That's the kind of boring, hyper-niche shit I'd be interested in.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

"Half of the base weapon and armor choices in every edition of A/D&D are unambiguously bad and if you have an aesthetic in mind for a character that uses one of those things, eat shit."
"Padded armor must be an equally valuable choice for a fighter; to have it otherwise would be unfair to players wanting the padded armor aesthetic for their characters!"

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Honestly it drives me nuts. And it's beyond autism. Like why the fuck does he need to make everything fucking viable and the same?

Mother fucker is like Syndrome from the Incredibles. When everybody is special than nobody is.

 

[Butter]

It's one thing to say "All classes should be balanced. I don't want players rolling a class that sounds fun and then being useless all game." But it's really fucking easy to switch weapon type if the one you're using sucks. "But muh character concept hinges on using bec de corbins!" Big brain developer response is to make all weapons deal the same damage.

 

[caffeine]

Like why the fuck does he need to make everything fucking viable and the same?

Probably attended this talk and took it to heart

 

[Beastro]

Honestly it drives me nuts. And it's beyond autism. Like why the fuck does he need to make everything fucking viable and the same?

Mother fucker is like Syndrome from the Incredibles. When everybody is special than nobody is.

It's not even, there's something more and gets into the aesthetics thing. He wants allow people the freedom to pursue whatever style they want without suffering the consequences of it.

I mean, if you wanna be a Wode warrior, naked and painted up, you're not going to do well against someone in full plate, but his argument is that you should.

I'd think an autistic person would be focused upon what is more effective and eliminating what isn't.

 

[REhorror]

Perhaps one day a porn director can share all his tips and tricks on Xitter when he comes of ages.

 

[Robert Erick]

Honestly it drives me nuts. And it's beyond autism. Like why the fuck does he need to make everything fucking viable and the same?

Mother fucker is like Syndrome from the Incredibles. When everybody is special than nobody is.

It's not even, there's something more and gets into the aesthetics thing. He wants allow people the freedom to pursue whatever style they want without suffering the consequences of it.

I mean, if you wanna be a Wode warrior, naked and painted up, you're not going to do well against someone in full plate, but his argument is that you should.

I'd think an autistic person would be focused upon what is more effective and eliminating what isn't.

He can't grasp that making sacrifices for aesthetics is not a bad thing. The risk in which you put yourself to be flamboyant is what makes it fun. It's what panache, sprezzatura, style, etc, is. Dark souls players beat bosses with the broken shit sword they get at the start because it's funny and courageous. Sawyer doesn't have autism, he has Terminally Wrong Syndrome, where everything he believes is wrong. Or maybe Terminally German Syndrome, where everyone has to be a conformist nazi.

 

[luj1]

"Padded armor must be an equally valuable choice for a fighter; to have it otherwise would be unfair to players wanting the padded armor aesthetic for their characters!"

You see, only a retard could say that.

But again, this is a person who claims that Wizardry *was" an RPG, but now it's not.

 

[luj1]

He wants to allow people the freedom to pursue whatever style they want, without suffering the consequences of it.

This is *exactly* what it was. Trying to please everyone killed Pillars. This man has no spine, even in a most distant sense.

And that's why I hope he will never again be considered for a lead, fortunately for us.

 

[luj1]

See this shit? That cocksucker criticizes everything about AD&D, D&D, etc. but given the chance, me and everyone else would choose one of those systems over the garbage he created.

That is the tragedy of his career. He wanted to reinvent the wheel, and rolled a critical failure.

 

[luj1]

Honestly it drives me nuts. And it's beyond autism. Like why the fuck does he need to make everything fucking viable and the same?

I don't know but it sounds like some old PnP frustration of his. Dude is terminally insane. You can see it just by listening to him.

 

[Robert Erick]

He wants to allow people the freedom to pursue whatever style they want, without suffering the consequences of it.

This is *exactly* what it was. Trying to please everyone killed Pillars. This man has no spine, even in a most distant sense.

And that's why I hope he will never again be considered for a lead, fortunately for us.

He's going to make his Darklands dream game that will review well and perform well on the game pass and then he'll semi-retire. No one will talk about it, of course, because the gameplay will be like wet newspaper and every character will be a lesbian, but it will be a twitter darling for 2 days.

 

[luj1]

No one will talk about it

The twitter bot Infinitron will report on his master's farts until the heat death of the Universe. October 10, 2054. This morning Josh let out a long, wet one while ducking to tie his pink shoelaces.

Additionally, I am confident that Roguey, who is technically a prostitute, would do anything for but a glance from Sawyer.