Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES

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How long will Revolution 60 come to Steam?

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millais said:
I like how near the end of the chapter, Wu can't help but jump at one more chance to scream about misogyny even at the expense of Frank's reputation. "Frank cruelly rejected Amanda Warner's resume because her art portfolio was too girly, but luckily John Flynt's progressive feminist ideals selflessly carried the day and generously gave Warner a foothold in the male dominated video game industry"
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Wouldn't surprise me if Frank hated women. He's married to John, after all.
 
This conversation must have been scintillating, assuming it actually took place.

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I'm starting to think Wu lives in some sort of alternate universe where the south won the civil war and bigotry/racism is considered the norm. I run into a racist/sexist maybe once a month. Wu seems to run into them twenty times a day according to his tweets.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
This conversation must have been scintillating, assuming it actually took place.

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I would actually like to see this happen sometime.
From what we've seen so far, Wu is actually fucking terrified of any kind of IRL confrontation. It's a pretty common trait among spoiled trust fund kids. They don't grow up learning how to handle conflict, so they avoid it at all costs. She tossed a guy out of a room because he posted a pic and disagreed with her. I sort of doubt she'd feel comfortable engaging.
People who live in hugboxes don't do conflict.
 
Jaimas said:
Additional major evidence holes:


1. Wu knows nothing about hardware in the 80s
In the 80s, this was still the dominant home PC in the US (and it and its successor would remain the front-runners until 1989):

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It had no hard drive compatibility by default and most of the time used disc or tape drives. The reason for the Commodore 64's supremacy was cost, compatibility with TV sets, and sheer, balls-out availability; the Commodore had massive production runs which dramatically lowered its unit cost and made it marketable in electronics shops. The more-or-less comparable Apple II and Atari 800 weren't as powerful and also cost more. Even better, the Commodore had been around for over a decade and had a thriving market for literally everyone, making it one of the only platforms to emerge from the gaming crash of 1983 unscathed. It was common enough that everyone had one. If you didn't, you knew someone who did, or had one of its predecessors like the hilariously-named WANG, or the Commodore PET.

I bring this up because the 8086 wasn't anywhere near as prevalent or utilitarian. PCs as we know them didn't really start to take off until the early 90s with the likes of the IBM 286, with the 8086 being mostly the purview of veteran tech-nerds who either needed it for business or had the time/patience/autism to learn how to use the thing on their own. Wu provably barely knows what the fuck she's talking about in regards to current technology. If you think Wu actually had the time or patience to use a 8086, I'll sell you ADF's totally-not-still-attached-to-him balls.

2. Blockbuster "Going Out of Business"
Blockbuster Video was at one point the largest rental place in the US. As a franchise, it started to die off around 2004, and was outright dead by 2008. What killed it was the profusion of Redbox machines and the Internet; between Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and more, Blockbuster's ridiculously inconvenient nature and steadfast attempt to only stock the newest movies led to it being DOA thanks to the Internet. The only rental places to survive the proverbial apocalypse were local mom-and-pop chains, which could stock pretty much anything, and still do so; you can find them especially in rural areas.

So, about Blockbuster's use of laminators. It wasn't unique, a lot of video stores had laminated cards for membership. So what's the problem? Well, Blockbuster was a franchise. That means when one fails, the assets other than the movies aren't sold off (the movies are, it's cheaper and easier), they're returned to the company, who helped acquire them in the first place. So all the cash registers, laminators, laser readers, etc all go back to the parent company as part of the closing.

This is also important because of the cost. A fairly-standard laminator in the 1990s went for around $2000-3000, minimum. Assuming Wu got it for 75% off, that means she still spent over 600 on the fucking thing if true, and I believe that about as much as I believe that Wu has a degree.

3. Revolution 60, it's Awards, and Similar Shit.
I've covered this. Countless times. The only people giving Wu's shitty game glowing praise are people Wu is personal friends with.

All in all, @Norvic's reveal is a great example of just how divorced from :reality: Wu is.
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AnOminous said:
Other computers I remember from early 80s. The TI-99/4A. Also had the TV thing, was barely functional. The Timex Sinclair. The Coleco Adam, or the Aww-Damn as it was called. TRS-80 (Trash-80). The color version, the CoCo. My parents did have an actual IBM 8086 machine, but it was an office machine. The first computer porn I saw was ASCII tits printed out on a daisy wheel printer from this.

And of course the Apple Macintosh existed by this point, although a lot of people still had Apple //e-based systems, the last glorious remnant of this line of systems that I think was the last one they still manufactured after the Macintosh graduated from being a mere overpriced novelty.

But even in the late 80s, if you had an Intel based architecture, it was way more likely to be an 80286 or 80386, and that's what the kind of person who would get top of the line stuff would get. (Quick fact check, the 486 was actually introduced in 1989 so there was that too.)
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At around this time period, I remember having had a Commodore 64 for several years, as well as a 128. We actually did get a Commodore Colt somewhere around '88ish, iirc. That was a PC that had an 8088 CPU, which was a variant of the 8086, and apparently my parents had some feelings of brand loyalty. So it isn't impossible for Wu to have had one, only very unlikely

At the time, I remember thinking that it was a huge step down from the C128, because it only supported CGA (4-color) graphics, and had no sound until we finally went out and bought a soundblaster card.
 
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Wu's first computer was supposedly a Tandy 1000. It was a respectable machine in the mid to late 80s:powerlevel:.
 
Dr. Boe Jangles Esq. said:
I would actually like to see this happen sometime.
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This is why I would love to see Wu in a deposition or being cross examined. Almost any controlled setting where Wu couldn't leave would be fine, but a court would be really great.

Imagine Wu unable to flounce off, to have her interlocutor thrown out of the room by goons, and to have to answer real questions under the penalty of perjury by a guy (it would have to be a BRUTE MALE) with a stack of exhibits to impeach whatever bullshit lies she tried to spout.
 
AnOminous said:
This is why I would love to see Wu in a deposition or being cross examined. Almost any controlled setting where Wu couldn't leave would be fine, but a court would be really great.

Imagine Wu unable to flounce off, to have her interlocutor thrown out of the room by goons, and to have to answer real questions under the penalty of perjury by a guy (it would have to be a BRUTE MALE) with a stack of exhibits to impeach whatever bullshit lies she tried to spout.
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Correct me on this if I'm wrong, but couldn't anyone file suit over something like that book crap John lied in, claiming it has several clear untruths and citing evidence why it was perpetrating a fraud? It would be a civil claim I'm sure, but I doubt it would be thrown out if you bring a lot of evidence to the table when filing the suit and Wu would be forced to deal with it.
 
AnOminous said:
This is why I would love to see Wu in a deposition or being cross examined. Almost any controlled setting where Wu couldn't leave would be fine, but a court would be really great.

Imagine Wu unable to flounce off, to have her interlocutor thrown out of the room by goons, and to have to answer real questions under the penalty of perjury by a guy (it would have to be a BRUTE MALE) with a stack of exhibits to impeach whatever bullshit lies she tried to spout.
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The whole trial would just be the TRIGGERED image macro of Wu. Glorious!
 
That must be what happened to Lauren Milovy's web presence!

Now that she has established herself as "one of the most well known game developers in the industry" she will surely be able to tell Google to mess with their billion-dollar search algorithms.
 
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