Josh Sawyer Q&A Thread

[Gangrelrumbler]

lolwhut, the "circle of unhinged egomaniacs plastering their names all over spells," even the formalization as a loose association, is a direct lift from Jack Vance, as it was in D&D. They just changed the names in the Pillows series, whereas D&D openly acknowledged the inspiration and some of the original Vancian names.

I mean, I suppose it's barely possible that they came up with the general concept all by themselves, but it's fairly common nerdy knowledge so I doubt it.

I think that Jack Vance might've been inspired by old timey medicine ads. Obsidian obviously lifted them from DnD like everything else.

 

[Desiderius]

But Vance probably wrote something anti-trans. Have they canceled LeGuin yet?

 

[ropetight]

But Vance probably wrote something anti-trans. Have they canceled LeGuin yet?

She lead the cancelling, maybe she will get cancelled too.

Thematically, she was pioneer of gender studies propagators tainting SF with questions of gender and sexuality as most important themes.

Gender and sexuality are prominent themes in a number of Le Guin's works. The Left Hand of Darkness, published in 1969, was among the first books in the genre now known as feminist science fiction, and is the most famous examination of androgyny in science fiction.[137] The story is set on the fictional planet of Gethen, whose inhabitants are ambisexual humans with no fixed gender identity, who adopt female or male sexual characteristics for brief periods of their sexual cycle.[138] Which sex they adopt can depend on context and relationships.[139]

Le Guin's attitude towards gender and feminism evolved considerably over time.[141] Although The Left Hand of Darkness was seen as a landmark exploration of gender, it also received criticism for not going far enough.

Le Guin responded to these critiques in her subsequent writing. She intentionally used feminine pronouns for all sexually latent Gethenians in her 1995 short story "Coming of Age in Karhide", and in a later reprinting of "Winter's King", which was first published in 1969.

Ursula was one of the main actors over the years in making military SF helmed by Heinlein's Starshup Troopers and other Golden Age writers persona non grata on the awards.

preferred reading Virginia Woolf and Jorge Luis Borges to well-known science-fiction authors such as Robert Heinlein, whose writing she described as being of the "white man conquers the universe" tradition.

On a banquet night in Berkeley once, when somebody jogged my arm and my beer went straight down the back of Mrs. Robert Heinlein’s dress, I slunk away into the crowd. I felt it would be unwise to identify myself. Mr. Heinlein was already extremely upset about the Communists at the university.

Science fiction of the fifties—called by its admirers the Golden Age—had been a gender ghetto, occasionally infiltrated by a woman wearing a false mustache, calling herself Andre, or using her first initials only.

https://archive.ph/8j3Xf

Other significant actor would be pederast actvisit and Marxist promoting Afrofuturism Samuel R. Delany.

His novels, too, turn on the serendipity of urban life, adopting the “marxian” credo that fiction is most vital when classes mix. Gorgik, a revolutionary leader in Delany’s four-volume “Return to Nevèrÿon” series, rises from slavery to the royal court in an ancient port city called Kolhari, where he learns that seemingly centralized “power—the great power that shattered lives and twisted the course of the nation—was like a fog over a meadow at evening. From any distance, it seemed to have a shape, a substance, a color, an edge. Yet, as you approached it, it seemed to recede before you.”

Even before Delany “came out” to readers—a post-Stonewall rite of passage that he’s criticized as oriented toward the straight world—his fiction explored homosexuality in the context of polyamory, sadomasochism, and speculative future kinks. (In “Babel-17,” which drew on his marital threesome, only throuples can reliably crew starships, learning their daredevil coördination from the intricacies of group intimacy.)

So, if her fellow feminists cancel her posthumously as they canceling other writers they don't like, it will be you reap what you sow.

 

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[Cat Headed Eagle]

you claim to hate it but you made a game based on it. i am very intelligent.

 

[whydoibother]

you claim to hate it but you made a game based on it. i am very intelligent.

No, its based on Bethesda's Fallout 3, and not the city of Las Vegas. I am very intelligent.

 

[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.

 

[rojay]

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

Nobody actually likes Vegas except the marks.

 

[ropetight]

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.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

“THE CANCELLING” sounds like a movie.

 

[Desiderius]

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.

It's the buggery, and that goes back a lot further than these days.

The park is nice, I'll give it that.

 

[goregasm]

I lived in Chicago for 9 of the past 10 years. Got out, sold our place, bought a house in a rural area last year.

This dude is fuckin crazy saying it's under rated. Crime is legitimately everywhere, even in his bullshit lakefront bike paths and northern enclaves, traffic is insane, taxes are bullshit, the government is corrupt, the pizza sucks dick, the sports fans too.

Schools are some of the worst in the nation for those of us with kids too, but not all of us aspire to be aging androgynous bicycling twitter cunts going on about "crunch" in an industry where you sit at a desk.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

ALL DEM states are nearly copy/pasta same shit, same crimes, same stupidity in sone form. It is BAD!!

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

ALL DEM states are nearly copy/pasta same shit, same crimes, same stupidity in sone form. It is BAD!!

this is america

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Possibly the world.

Maybe the Galaxy…

Or the universe….

Maybe the omniverse….

And maybe the afterlife….

 

[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.

 

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[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