Incline Josh Sawyer appreciation station

[Atlantico]

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.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Bloodclots are nothing, he should get another vax, that'll fix him right up.

 

[Ryzer]

This is what 20 years at Obsidian does to people.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

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.

 

[KateMicucci]

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.

 

[pickmeister]

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.

 

[Brotherman Bill]

Thx for being human guinea pig so I don't have to

 

[Ryzer]

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.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

What is it about they say hero's sticking around long enough to become villains?

 

[†††]

what happened?

California is one hell of a drug

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

Bring us back young Josh.

You mean the young Josh that thought it was good idea to get a bachelors degree in history, which is one of the most useless degrees on the planet?

 

[rojay]

Bring us back young Josh.

You mean the young Josh that thought it was good idea to get a bachelors degree in history, which is one of the most useless degrees on the planet?

I don't know. It's served me pretty well. What's your degree, ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB?

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

Bring us back young Josh.

You mean the young Josh that thought it was good idea to get a bachelors degree in history, which is one of the most useless degrees on the planet?

I don't know. It's served me pretty well. What's your degree, ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB?

Yep. Many Starbucks baristas are great sources of historical knowledge.

I have a STEM degree.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

without historians, who will tell us that the greeks were all gay and every fictional character that existed prior to the 20th century was in fact a fertility goddess?

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

^
I know a guy that has a PhD in history. His knowledge of superfluous historical events is immense. He can also brew up some tasty coffee at the local cafe.

 

[Hace El Oso]

No society has ever been ruled by technicians.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

No society has ever thrived where science, technology, engineering, and mathematics were shunned either.

 

[Kaivokz]

No society has ever thrived where science, technology, engineering, and mathematics were shunned either.

Depends what you mean by thrive; if you mean “are accomplished in technology, engineering and mathematics”, then of course you will need engeineers, mathematicians and other specialized labor… if you mean “made lots of babies and lasted a long time”, well… bad news—and if you try to define what a thriving society or human is, oops: now you’re engaging in philosophy.

The division of philosophy and history from maths and technology plays a large part in the downfall of societies; educated men should be generalists with a wide breadth of knowledge and a few areas of speciality—when you divorce physics from metaphysics & logic, you get modern gobblygook like brute facts and “theories” like the multiverse. You get glorified lab monkeys who think they are geniuses because they do “the science”, which, ironically, leads to the decline and irrelevancy of real science. As soon as you start denying core axioms of reason (like the principle of non-contradiction), it will trickle into all social spheres: from Stephen Hawking’s theory of everything to non-binary binaries to pedophile storybook hour.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

No society has ever thrived where science, technology, engineering, and mathematics were shunned either.

Depends what you mean by thrive

The division of philosophy and history from maths and technology plays a large part in the downfall of societies

You get glorified lab monkeys who think they are geniuses because they do “the science”, which, ironically, leads to the decline and irrelevancy of real science.

This has to be the most asinine twaddle in defense of worthless poor fag history and philosophy bachelor degrees I have ever read.

Society needs STEM degrees or apprenticeships, not worthless degrees that don't put food on the table and also put people that study this trash deeply into debt.

You're also indirectly claiming that if simpletons don't get a worthless history or philosophy major, then STEM majors will never come into contact with history or philosophy. This is incredibly absurd, especially since many STEM majors also have a minor in liberal arts. Not to mention that everyone has also had history and philosophy to some degree in grade school.

Also, a worthless history major might make you feel all fuzzy inside, but it won't support you financially. With a PhD you can at least teach (good luck finding a job, I personally know a guy with a liberal arts PhD that is unemployed), but anything less is worthless. The least of history majors will have great luck like Josh Sawyer and be able to find a non-specialist job in some industry.

Finally, you can continue to claim that a bachelor degree in history isn't worthless, but the droves of unemployed liberal arts majors, that can only get a job at Starbucks or McDonalds, speaks a very clear language.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I'm a lot more sympathetic to the value of education in the humanities which isn't generally quantifiable in an economic sense, it's more of a cultural/societal health measure. All that being said, this meme is gold.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

To learn physics well, you gotta go to the university for 5 years. To learn history, just open a history book, go lie on a sofa and read, taking some notes at your leisure.

Both are important to know. One requires effort, another can be a relaxing hobby.

 

[Atlantico]

To learn physics well, you gotta go to the university for 5 years. To learn history, just open a history book and read some, taking some notes are your leisure.

History books are thinly veiled propaganda. A historian needs to understand the propaganda and decipher it.

 

[†††]

Can't even trust current sources, imagine sources of the past. History is a spook. Only stuff like archeology and genetic studies can shine a light on history, and it's not without its limits as far as interpretations go, since they often pit their conclusions against written accepted "history".

 

[Butter]

https://gab.com/Halp/posts/109263391531807674

Josh getting dragged.

[Medicine 12/40] uhm I guess I'll take the jab, can't hurt eh...

 

[Major_Blackhart]

That's great