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pickmeister

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Calling himself a shitposter, huh? He indeed does have a pretty high opinion of himself.
 

Major_Blackhart

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Being a shitposter means being rude or biting or poignant in some way in striking people's personal flaws in a nasty way.

He is literally a meek cunt of a man.
 

pickmeister

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The fag has no clue what a shitpost is. He just wants to sound kewl like the other kids.

I hope that one day, someone blows a whistle on what they are putting in the water in Commiefornia.
 

Major_Blackhart

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It's a culmination of things. I lost faith in all of obsidian in Pillars 1. But ultimately I just saw soyer as this fucking full of himself pseudo intellectual with terrible ideas of game design. Like he has no idea what makes something fun.

Examples:
1. He's admitted he thinks dnd 3e and such with dice rolls and the values are something he just doesn't get. I think that was it. It was al9ng the lines he didn't get the appeal of it.
2. He thinks that the ability to cheese a system is a flaw of the system that requires fixing. He gave an example of a pnp system where he picked up on a way to cheat the sysyem by making some stupid knife thrower just to demonstrate to the DM that it was flawed and could be cheated. Rather than have fun with it, he HAD to fucking point out it was shit in his mind because it could be abused.


With that and other stuff he proved himself to be the last guy you want designing rpgs. He's a control freak that wants you to follow a path he's set out, not experience it for yourself to fuck up and min max or experiment to your players challenge themselves by making broken builds etc. NO. Everything must be viable. And so as a result nothing can be more effective than anything else. And so everything is the same no matter what.

It's like a sick form of communism. And its just as evil because there's absolutely no fun.

Why play as a wizard if it's going to feel the same as a barbarian and do the same stuff no matter what etc. The stats don't really matter or influence things. The class doesn't matter really except in the most topical of ways.
 

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Didn't he allegedly hire people that are essentially something awful goons or some horseshit? I can't remember specifically but I think a former employee said that here.
I guess their hiring was depend on the outcome of their relationship with Josh.


Wut, this has to be expanded upon. Does Something Awful have a dating service? How does that work, is it hookers? I mean, he follows a bunch on Twitter, so...
 

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Wut, this has to be expanded upon. Does Something Awful have a dating service? How does that work, is it hookers? I mean, he follows a bunch on Twitter, so...

No, he got involved with a woman who was also dating/got engaged to Lowtax. Caused a lot of drama.
 

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kites https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1187540886835482625

my co-workers after i tell them about an Extremely Online Relationship i had in the early/mid-2000s that was very tumultuous and also resulted in almost getting matching tattoos:

it's cool to look back at myself in the mid-2000s and think, "wow, what a stupid idiot. what a complete dumbass moron."

and you know, i still am.

it's also cool that at one point this relationship became drama fuel for an internet community and it seemed like such an embarrassing nightmare at the time but in retrospect it was all just stupid meaningless garbage, much like everything we post here to this day.
 

Yoomazir

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Sooo, besides the Codex, was there any other site, reddit or forums that informed of Soyer health issues? I mean, as much we despise this soyboy, some still check on him (and some will still play Pentiment).
 

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Wut, this has to be expanded upon. Does Something Awful have a dating service? How does that work, is it hookers? I mean, he follows a bunch on Twitter, so...

No, he got involved with a woman who was also dating/got engaged to Lowtax. Caused a lot of drama.
So much autistic soy that Soyer produces. Goddammit, there are quite a few women available in the world.

If I knew that a woman I was interested in was dating DU, I'd have to give her a hard pass. No thanks.
 

Major_Blackhart

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More like 20 years of being a friendless no personality autist living in socialist paradise California. I think working at a video game company has less to do with it than anyone realizes.
 

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Examples:
1. He's admitted he thinks dnd 3e and such with dice rolls and the values are something he just doesn't get. I think that was it. It was al9ng the lines he didn't get the appeal of it.
2. He thinks that the ability to cheese a system is a flaw of the system that requires fixing. He gave an example of a pnp system where he picked up on a way to cheat the sysyem by making some stupid knife thrower just to demonstrate to the DM that it was flawed and could be cheated. Rather than have fun with it, he HAD to fucking point out it was shit in his mind because it could be abused.
He's right.
 

Ryzer

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What a downfall of a man. From loved by everyone for making Icewind Dale 2, to Fallout New Vegas and for looking like a cool and friendly guy, to hardly find any friend outside of Twitter and ending like an NPC. Josh, what happened?
Bring us back young Josh.
 

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