Dudes Being Pals. Birthday Gift, Fineliners And Markers On Cotton Paper.

this guy on the battlefield wont stop blowing his gay little trumpet

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

nothing could prepare you for the opening of the second paragraph (source)

400 million years of wizardry and the 'counterspell + fist-sized rock' strategy has yet to be meaningfully improved upon

is there a term for "miserable misanthropic loser with a comfortable life that grossly exaggerates society's role in their self-fulfilling prophecy of being a miserable misanthropic loser" because I notice this archetype of person always hijacks labels like "NEET" and "incel" (the latter of which was originally coined by a bisexual woman in good faith)

which of course never accurately describes them or their lifestyle because their problem is just that they're so angry and self absorbed they can't even realize that 90% of it is just them. and then they always try to gatekeep these labels from people who aren't as angry and miserable as them despite having similar (or the exact same, or even worse) problems because then that means it's actually possible for them to realistically improve themselves and it's not all society's fault that they're the way they are

I think it sucks that these people always take over such communities and labels because they can be useful and they could be good communities to encourage people to get better but these fellas always want to turn it into a misery circlejerk where they pretend that willingly not going outside and being unable to relate to healthier people is the worst thing ever, they're such based loners, and no one else knows true suffering

I have sympathy towards people who have been screwed over in life and are struggling mentally but it's really obvious that a lot of these people are actually the architects of their own misery. They're just in denial of it, but instead of trying to work on it, they lash out at everyone else

me if my car battery didn't die

my friend gave me this funny meme, but it had knight AI art, so I replaced it with art from the public domain instead. It removed the smug tone of a toxic straight male Instagram user in the process but I consider this to be the better version

A Maiden Embraced by a Knight in Armor by Sir George Hayter

Cashiers should not only have chairs, they should have raised platforms to sit on so they can look down at anyone who purchases anything