Casting Fireball, Gimme A Minute..

YOU WERE WATCHING THIS LIVE THIS WHOLE TIME?

Ok... kinda crazy... I thought you were gonna be like "yeah, I'm a boy," or something, not, "I'm your sleep paralysis demon (The dark presence behind you that you cannot turn around to see.)"

Nice skin choice, I don't like a lot of the cel shaded (?) skins on Fortnite but that one looks good. (I barely play Fortnite)

You sort-of kind-of know me... I think we're in each other's radar

Ok so this is going to be a REALLY specific question since it's only one of two (maybe three) people that would type like that, KNOW me, and I know you

Have you ever dm'd me the word nerd?

what if the mojave wasteland had access to twitter

Notes from JE Sawyer's stream:

Toward the end of development, every location would have a day or half a day to complete. Most of the border locations suffered from this like Searchlight Airport, and thus did not have a lot of time for Lore™

Something specific JE Sawyer wanted to add if they had time: more bug testing, postgame, more Legion content

Testing for Caravan took place during idle times like lunch. Implementation was not difficult. JE says he regrets making it not as easy to understand.

The musical cutoff point was JFK's assassination

"Arcade is not my self insert 🎵"

JE sang the Lonesome Drifter's songs because there weren't many options when they realized they should implement performances. He didn't put them on the radio because he felt it wasn't professional enough. When Bethesda used his Home on the Wastes he was surprised

He chose Goodsprings because when he visited it he liked the idea of starting somewhere small and isolated.

"I feel people responded well to Veronica and Arcade at a time when lgbtq representation was not very common"

"Arcade does not represent me in the game."

Arcade was JE's player character but so was Jean Baptiste-Cutting, and he is also not JE's self insert

He is happy that Arcade is part of the conversation about how representation happens and that as a result there is a broader spectrum of representation. He has seen the discussion about whether being "gay" is a character's entire personality

Carry weight can be a good part of playing a game, but sometimes it just feels vestigial

He feels that karma was more or less vestigial and unnecessary

JE designed cazadors

Vault experiments: were mostly recycled from their time at Black Isle

There's one JSawyer mod, other modders can use it and do what they like just be clear that their mod isn't his

The reason why the Legion has less content is because the devs designed the content on the map from the inside out

He likes the feel and aesthetic of Fallout 4's power armor, but doesn't like getting power armor early. Prefers a sense of progression in equipment depending on stage of the game

Lip sync for NPCs is procedural

Likes Zachary Levi :)

New Vegas's orange tint was found early. Pre-Fallout 4, the lighting engine was not strong, and without a tint everything washes out.

Multiple currencies was JE's idea

JE disagrees with Avellone about the setting being "too civilized" and prefers post-postapoc where people try to rebuild

6, 10, Kings, Jacks are his suggestions for Caravan

The only planned possible "romance" was getting elvis-weddinged to Cass

His rules for music: nothing past 1964, mostly country, some ratpack, more down tempo and mellow songs

John Gonzalez did the writing for Benny, and the Tops characters

THE POWDER GAMERS

Sunny Smiles was never supposed to be a companion

Ulysses' dialog was so big it wouldn't fit on the disc to be a vanilla companion

Cass was the second largest companion

"The ghosts in Baja" are an intentional mystery

Fallout Berlin. Fallout Midwest 2. Fallout New York. Fallout Quebec

Camp Forlorn Hope was a lot of work, mostly by Charles Staples

It’s so crazy how you can measure the shifts in culture based on which race Ariana is pretending to be

When dad sevika helps with homework

Tell the class what you learned today.

You know what I'm just gonna confess right here and now, I love Erebus, I simp for Erebus, I venerate Erebus, he's the greatest Astartes to ever live and he is the sexiest man alive, and if loving Erebus is wrong then I don't want to be right. Am I screwed in the head or what?

Functionally speaking it's about on par with wanting to sleep with the briefcase from Pulp Fiction, but you do you!

People are judged by physical traits and I can't get over that

Not in the blackpilled-incel-grr-women-will-never-fuck-me way, I mean, in general, you're truly limited by your physical appearance and physical traits

There is simply nothing you can do to remove those traits from people's perception of you without being in a situation in which they are entirely removed in the first place -- e.g., posting anonymously on the internet

Even on the internet, you can see how people's perception of each other shifts based on what information they have on how they are physically in real life ("oh, that person is probably white," or, "oh, that person is probably a 40 year old man," or, "oh, that person is probably trans")

I've been guilty of this too, but it's kind of insane

how much of a sin it is to simply have a certain body, to have certain genetics, to look a certain way

I even see this in LGBT spaces to an extent

People going for "masc"/"fem" looks and wondering why they don't pull it off

Because you lack the physical traits associated with the look you're going for. that's it. that's what people are judging you by.

Trans people being obsessed with "passing"

again, it's about these arbitrary physical traits associated with the gender you're transitioning to

it's endless

it's literally just how we are as a species

what was that study?

we judge people within 5 seconds of meeting them?

how do you judge a person that quickly without basing it on entirely off of their physical characteristics?

you don't

even things like how they carry themself are arguably physical characteristics and don't tell that much about personality or how they think or what they've done in life

that's all

we're obsessed with looks and aesthetics as a species and that's not changing

it kind of makes me feel a bit unironically transhumanist at times

or even thinking that something like people opting in to an ideal simulation with other people would be kind of a good idea

but until all physical characteristics are choices for people in some way we're always going to have this problem because humans have brains that specialize in pattern recognition

You know, you're different. You're the first woman I've met that I actually liked. As a person, you know? All of the other women were just flesh to me. Just meat. Raw, ground meat that I can toy with like putty and throw around like a disgruntled toddler at dinnertime. You're the first woman that's not just meat to me! Isn't that great? You're the first human woman I've ever known.

You should feel special, really. I could be eating you right now, or worse, but luckily I don't see you that way. Hahahaha.