Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

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Is the bug that prevents people from beating R60 a universal one? Does Steam have any kind of policy in terms of something like that or is there a whole graveyard on Steam filled with games nobody touches because they're definitively abandoned and broken? This sounds like something where a refund should be allowed regardless of playtime. Not that it matters because nobody is buying it. I'm more curious as to how Steam handles it when a game-maker shits the bed and refuses to clean it up. I'm not talking buggy (VTM Bloodlines, Deadly Premonition, etc) but impossible for anyone to finish due to bad programming.
 
Sissy Galvez said:
Wasn't it proven he's not talking at Google?
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If he's talking at "Google", it will be either at their Cambridge or Waterloo location.
https://www.google.com/about/company/facts/locations/

I'd guess Waterloo, because I doubt a little campus gaming club would pay to fly him up there and comp his food and lodging.

Logistically, he couldn't be talking at Google HQ without grabbing a redeye to Toronto and having only two hours to spare before talking to the gaming club. Plus a flight from SFO is ridiculously expensive compared to flying him in from Boston.

He pulled this same dumb move last year when he gave a lame talk at Google's Cambridge office.
https://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/641973192467333120
https://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/642016084019814400
 
John is trying to be cute and hint that he's ordered the new Google Pixel phone with google assistant or whatever baked into the OS and by talking 'at' it he'll be ordering a pizza delivery using the device.

It's not cute though because nothing about John Walker Flynt ever has been.
 
zedkissed60 said:
He pulled this same dumb move last year when he gave a lame talk at Google's Cambridge office.
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Top kek. Check out the awkward as fuck handshake at the 30 second mark. I couldn't make it much further as that's when John starts to talk with that bizarre Kermit-esque delivery punctuated by exasperated sighs and random, mad eye darting and snarling like someone jacked up on meth and LSD.

Can't wait for the new sound after the throat op John. Someone should get a poll going for what the post, post-op John sounds like.

Options should include:

Kermit on helium
Something out of the Clangers
John truly does become Batman, communicating at frequencies outside human perception
Frank Wu
Hillary Clinton
Blanka from Street Fighter
Jessica Rabbit
A damp fart on a windy night
 
The Flynt's Stones said:
Top kek. Check out the awkward as fuck handshake at the 30 second mark. I couldn't make it much further as that's when John starts to talk with that bizarre Kermit-esque delivery punctuated by exasperated sighs and random, mad eye darting and snarling like someone jacked up on meth and LSD.

Can't wait for the new sound after the throat op John. Someone should get a poll going for what the post, post-op John sounds like.

Options should include:

Kermit on helium
Something out of the Clangers
John truly does become Batman, communicating at frequencies outside human perception
Frank Wu
Hillary Clinton
Blanka from Street Fighter
Jessica Rabbit
A damp fart on a windy night
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Add

Deadite
Cylon
Martian Sheen
 
Imagine you booked some "woman game developer" to something that actually mattered, and then John Flynt showed up stinking of cigarette smoke and failure and started snarling and ticcing at the audience.
 
AnOminous said:
Imagine you booked some "woman game developer" to something that actually mattered, and then John Flynt showed up stinking of cigarette smoke and failure and started snarling and ticcing at the audience.
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And scratching his phantom ball itch while carrying around a backpack sized asian man with a permanent scream of agony etched on his face.
John really needs to lay off the bath salts, reality is going to hurt when they eventually have to face it.
 
The Flynt's Stones said:
Top kek. Check out the awkward as fuck handshake at the 30 second mark. I couldn't make it much further as that's when John starts to talk with that bizarre Kermit-esque delivery punctuated by exasperated sighs and random, mad eye darting and snarling like someone jacked up on meth and LSD.

Can't wait for the new sound after the throat op John. Someone should get a poll going for what the post, post-op John sounds like.

Options should include:

Kermit on helium
Something out of the Clangers
John truly does become Batman, communicating at frequencies outside human perception
Frank Wu
Hillary Clinton
Blanka from Street Fighter
Jessica Rabbit
A damp fart on a windy night
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They fuck up the surgery and he ends up sounding like Gilbert Gottfried.
 
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Do these people not have access to the internet? Google's workforce is 57% female and any one of them is more qualified to give a talk on tech issues than Wu.
 
randomfarmer said:
John really needs to lay off the bath salts, reality is going to hurt when they eventually have to face it.
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You know, bath salt abuse would explain a lot but I'm more convinced of something cheap and available to spice up the cigs, like crack rock. John Flynt's of the generation that would have been all over that in college, it would explain where a lot of the parents money went to instead of churning out stuff during the incorporated socon era before bankruptcy.

But damn, that bath salt zombie end for Frank would be perfect as a coda to how shitty he was to the other woman he was married to come to think of it, it's tough to decide between my head and my sense of irony in deciding which drug Flu is so wrecked on most obviously . . .
 
Sissy Galvez said:
Maybe it's sponsored by google.

You know John, he loves to obfuscate the truth and try to make his irrelevant appearances seem more important than they really are. Remember when he claimed he was going to WWDC and instead he was nowhere near it and at an alternative/clinger conference for wwdc.
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If he knew about CS he'd know uwaterloo's cs program is regarded highly and he'd be trying to play it up.

He probably assumes it's a shit school because he was invited to speak there.
 
Batman VS Tony Danza said:
Is the bug that prevents people from beating R60 a universal one? Does Steam have any kind of policy in terms of something like that or is there a whole graveyard on Steam filled with games nobody touches because they're definitively abandoned and broken? This sounds like something where a refund should be allowed regardless of playtime. Not that it matters because nobody is buying it. I'm more curious as to how Steam handles it when a game-maker shits the bed and refuses to clean it up. I'm not talking buggy (VTM Bloodlines, Deadly Premonition, etc) but impossible for anyone to finish due to bad programming.
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There is kind of a policy but it's when people notice a game breaking issue like that, like there was a game that had an unbeatable first level and the dev just said it was really hard but there was an answer, then inspecting the files people proved him wrong and steam allowed refunds regardless of playtime and I believe the game was pulled. Most times however when a game breaking bug is found devs either release a patch or if they're too lazy to do that then they pull the game from sale because they don't want the bad reputation from people buying it and it not working, hence why you get some developers pulling older games that dont work on newer machines at all these days.

So the key things to take from this is that Wu is too lazy to patch and fix the bug, doesn't care about her reputation enough to pull the broken game, and nobody has really bought it so there's not enough of an outcry for steam to notice and pull the game.

I think bigger than the game being broken is how the special edition dlc advertises trading cards but there aren't trading cards or backgrounds or emoticons, even though Wu posted a picture on twitter showing her submitting them to steam and having done work on them. Meaning Wu didn't press a check box or some shit to make them active. It's not a big thing but developers do get money from trading card sales on the steam market, so there's another example of Wu not caring about getting any money from this game.
 
Beats cutting off your own cock I guess.

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Shaftie said:
There is kind of a policy but it's when people notice a game breaking issue like that, like there was a game that had an unbeatable first level and the dev just said it was really hard but there was an answer, then inspecting the files people proved him wrong and steam allowed refunds regardless of playtime and I believe the game was pulled. Most times however when a game breaking bug is found devs either release a patch or if they're too lazy to do that then they pull the game from sale because they don't want the bad reputation from people buying it and it not working, hence why you get some developers pulling older games that dont work on newer machines at all these days.

So the key things to take from this is that Wu is too lazy to patch and fix the bug, doesn't care about her reputation enough to pull the broken game, and nobody has really bought it so there's not enough of an outcry for steam to notice and pull the game.

I think bigger than the game being broken is how the special edition dlc advertises trading cards but there aren't trading cards or backgrounds or emoticons, even though Wu posted a picture on twitter showing her submitting them to steam and having done work on them. Meaning Wu didn't press a check box or some shit to make them active. It's not a big thing but developers do get money from trading card sales on the steam market, so there's another example of Wu not caring about getting any money from this game.
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I bet John ragequit when Frank released the game before he could do his "ad blitz."
 
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