Josh Sawyer Q&A Thread

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[Old Hans]

his fencing friend looks like William Riker from star trek

 

[rusty_shackleford]

bioware's design is still better than "go to this NPC and read fifteen walls of text"

 

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[Trashos]

I think F:NV’s main quest design would be worse if we told the player they could look for Benny in Primm, Novac, or Boulder City and required them to get a thing at each location before physically unlocking access to Benny in The Strip.

Personally I would not mind. However, I could see the players who want their open world as open as possible have issues with it (you know, the players who do not like the first part of FONV, because it "too limiting", and they "cannot go whichever direction" they wish. Myself, I love it as part of the whole FONV experience.).

 

[Peachcurl]

The question is rather: Can unions (help to) solve the problems prevalent in the games industry and why does the games industry have those problems, while other sectors, which also don't have unions, either don't have those problems or to a much lesser extent.

I'm not quite sure what specific problems we're talking about here. But at least one seems to be that salaries in this industry are comparitively low.

I suppose, the Game industry may suffer from a certain attitude towards the job: "Hey, this job is essentially my hobby, so I don't really need to be paid that much or treated well". Which, regarding payment, neglects that a decent salary is not intended to be compensation for personal suffering, it's supposed to pay for your present and future expenses.

 

[Infinitron]

Good response from JES:

 

[Prime Junta]

^
Looks like Josh has lost patience with the SJW brigade too.

 

[Butter]

I would've just called the questioner nigger and kept going. Props for coming up with a real answer.

 

[Orma]

 

[Harthwain]

^ Looks like Josh has lost patience with the SJW brigade too.

All he says is that chat in a multiplayer game that requires no team coordination is useless as it's mostly used to type stupid shit by morons, so he disables it and thinks it should be disabled by default.

Edit: Unless I missed something and he considers morons typing stupid shit in a chat to be SJWs?

 

[Prime Junta]

Edit: Unless I missed something and he considers morons typing stupid shit in a chat to be SJWs?

He pooh-poohed the niggerfaggot chat shit as "just the most hostile thing the person can think to type."

 

[Harthwain]

Edit: Unless I missed something and he considers morons typing stupid shit in a chat to be SJWs?

He pooh-poohed the niggerfaggot chat shit as "just the most hostile thing the person can think to type."

Are you saying he is being too reasonable/isn't outraged enough in his response?

 

[Prime Junta]

Are you saying he is being too reasonable/isn't outraged enough in his response?

Entirely too reasonable. Not getting upset at racism is worse than actual racism don't ya know?

 

[Roguey]

I don't recall seeing any kind of bad language back when I played games in multiplayer.

 

[Harthwain]

Are you saying he is being too reasonable/isn't outraged enough in his response?

Entirely too reasonable. Not getting upset at racism is worse than actual racism don't ya know?

Was it about the actual racism though? Racism in chat can be used merely a ploy designed to upset your opposition. In order to be a true racist you have to mean it.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

^ Looks like Josh has lost patience with the SJW brigade too.

All he says is that chat in a multiplayer game that requires no team coordination is useless as it's mostly used to type stupid shit by morons, so he disables it and thinks it should be disabled by default.

Edit: Unless I missed something and he considers morons typing stupid shit in a chat to be SJWs?

I think the person was trying to goad him into a "OMG, are you sick and tired of the right wing white supremacists and fascists you have to put up with to enjoy our hobby now or what good fellow?" type of comment and josh dodged it, or is sick of it...and seems to have done it a couple of times of late.

 

[Trashos]

I do not see what you guys are seeing. Josh's answer looks entirely reasonable to me, as an opinion expressed in public.

I have not noticed whether he had a different style at some point and changed. He never looked like the REEEE kind of person to me.

 

[santino27]

I do not see what you guys are seeing. Josh's answer looks entirely reasonable to me, as an opinion expressed in public.

I have not noticed whether he had a different style at some point and changed. He never looked like the REEEE kind of person to me.

In my (admittedly limited) browsing, he's generally content to just like and retweet others REEEE posts rather than making his own.

He's also thirsty af (as I'm told the kids say), so who knows if he buys into all of it or is just looking for digits (as I'm told the much older kids say)

 

[Beastro]

I don't recall seeing any kind of bad language back when I played games in multiplayer.

The most unClassic part of WoW Classic was that they couldn't keep modern day chat away from the game.

 

[Jezal_k23]

I do not see what you guys are seeing. Josh's answer looks entirely reasonable to me, as an opinion expressed in public.

I have not noticed whether he had a different style at some point and changed. He never looked like the REEEE kind of person to me.

Agreed. I don't know what that was about. He just made a statement of fact. Chat windows in MP games are an endless stream of trash. I don't see him taking a stand against social justice or anything like that. That's reading a lot into what is essentially an extremely simple and very straightforward answer.

 

[hexer]

Was Sawyer always so politically active?
Lately, his Twitter account looks like he lost almost all zest for games and went fully into SJW mode.

 

[Prime Junta]

SJW

He's a Bernie bro bruh, not a SJW

 

[Jarpie]

SJW

He's a Bernie bro bruh, not a SJW

There's a difference?

 

[Roguey]

There's a difference?

A subtle difference, but yes. They just roll over for sjws, they're not actively into pushing it.

Was Sawyer always so politically active?

He was never shy about politics, but the US 2016 election changed a lot of people.