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Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. ♂

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hello! My name is Josh Sawyer. I’m a video game writer, designer, and director active in the RPG genre. I directed Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2, and Pentiment.

Selfie of me. I’m a middle aged white man with graying brown hair and brown eyes. Standing in front of two posters: one for an art exhibit in Vienna, the other for the video game Pentiment.

Key art for Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity, Deadfire, and Pentiment

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 55m

tag urself im rats

pack of 3d printed minis for swarms. There are 2 Scorpion, 2 rat, and 2 snake swarms

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 4h

I didn’t say it makes it predictable; I said it ameliorates unpredictability. Yes, we cannot account for every element, I think more predictability is better.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 4h

Both France and Germany have constitutional courts, but that is their sole function, which I mentioned as being desirable (imo) in an earlier post.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 5h

It ameliorates the fundamentally unpredictable nature of court turnover, which in SCOTUS is up to the will of individual justices and/or their health.

I think more regular and predictable court turnover is good.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 5h

Can you point to any instances in countries like France, Germany, or Japan, where this has occurred?

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 6h

"with no forced retirement age" is the critical qualifier. Most other high courts either have term limits, forced retirement ages, or both. Those things do not make individual judges/members vulnerable to corrupting influence, blackmail, or threats to their financial stability.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 6h

I think it's hard to argue that lifetime appointments with no forced retirement age, a singular highest court to cover all aspects of law, and our current rules for appointment are better than the alternatives.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 6h

While it's subjective to say what works "better" in practice, I think differences like these make sense as practical safeguards against the sorts of problems we so regularly see with SCOTUS.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 6h

Procedures for appointments to the highest courts often contain better safeguards against control, e.g. France's constitutional council is primarily composed of nine members who are appointed by 3 separate authorities.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 6h

Many countries also enforce term limits and retirement ages, which creates a predictable cadence of turnover. E.g. by the requirements of Japan's supreme court, 4 members of SCOTUS would have already been forced into retirement.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 6h

Some nations split their highest courts across different areas of legal responsibility (e.g. courts of cassation vs. constitutional courts), which makes it less likely that the composition of a single court will result in widespread rulings with a specific ideological tenor.

Geoffrey Card @rangutang.bsky.social · 21h

I’m really curious which decent systems you’ve observed, and why they work better, in your estimation.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 7h

folks,

Solium Infernum screenshot showing Lilith with 191 Prestige, Conclave Fav, Regent, Mammon also at 191, Murmur at 2.

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 1d

Bonjour! こんにちは! 你好!

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22h

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22h

damn Only Skin is one of the craziest songs that e'er i heard

youtu.be/6UUe3Q54qFg?...

Joanna Newsom - Only Skin (with lyrics) [full length]

YouTube video by HaveOneOnMe1

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22h

there are probably like, 10 jnew songs that have lyrics that bowl me over every time i hear them.

He said "it's alright"
And "it's all over now" and boarded the plane
His belt unfastened
The boy was known to show unusual daring
And called a "boy"
This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceded John's fall
So we all raise a standard
To which the wise and honest soul may repair
To which a hunter
A hundred years from now, may look and despair
And see with wonder
The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
Swearing that our hair stood on end
To see John Purroy Mitchel depart
For the Western front where our work might count
All exeunt, all go out
Await the hunter to decipher the stone
And what lies under now the city is gone
Look, and despair
Look, and despair

When I called you, you, little one
In a bad way
Did you love me?
Do you spite me?
Time will tell
If I can be well
And rise to meet you rightly
While, moving across my land
Brandishing themselves
Like a burning branch
Advance the tallow-colored, walleyed deer
Quiet as gondoliers
While I wait all night, for you
In California
Watching the fox pick off my goldfish
From their sorry, golden state
And I am no longer afraid of anything
Save the life that, here, awaits

And the cities we passed were a flickering wasteland
But his hand in my hand made them hale and harmless
While down in the lowlands the crops are all coming
We have everything
Life is thundering blissful towards death
In a stampede of his fumbling green gentleness

Pa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time tonight
The way the ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of light
Squint skyward and listen
Loving him, we move within his borders
Just asterisms in the stars' set order
We could stand for a century
Staring, with our heads cocked
In the broad daylight at this thing
Joy, landlocked
In bodies that don't keep
Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being
Till we don't be
Told, take this
And eat this

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 23h

And then a slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision
While somewhere with your pliers and glue you make your first incision
And in a moment of almost unbearable vision doubled over with the hunger of lions
"Hold me close" cooed the dove, who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds

cropped photo from a big jay mcneely performance. 3 white boys freaking the fuck out at the edge of a stage.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 23h

youtu.be/8vcOvPnl7wE?...

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 23h

so yeah this stupid thing that was ill-conceived and works badly is legitimate.

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 23h

okay i wouldn't say they are illegitimate but i would say how the SCOTUS is constituted, regulated, and what they have authority over are bad and dumb, like many american institutions, and other countries have figured out better ways to do this, but we haven't, so here we are in this dumb situation.

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 1d

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 1d

having a “magic” as I am told is the custom of these people

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 1d

Soggy Bottom Boys in O Brother in front of a microphone with a speech bubble above all of them

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 1d

did someone say “Abel Ferrara’s commentary on King of New York”

youtu.be/WQRzH9BAzks?...

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 1d

Steve Buscemi, best known for his role as Test Tube in Abel Ferrara’s 1990 neo-noir crime thriller, King of New York.

Steve Buscemi and Giancarlo Esposito looking like cool dudes in King of New York