Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES

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How long will Revolution 60 come to Steam?

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Sarcastic Username said:
I can't find anything that says it was ever a "staff pick" either.

So either

a) it was a "staff pick" in a way we can't see, and got upgraded to "project we love"
b) when they did the change, someone used that as a chance to flip the bit on this project
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The german translation of Kickstarter calles the badge "Team-Favoriten". I don't think that needs translation really, but it strongly indicates that the Kickstarter team "personally" loves the project.

Wether that's true or not is obviously an entirely different matter and I think @Von Clausewitz hit the nail on the head in saying that it's likely just an intern using some traffic statistic/metric to decide what to distinguish.

Edit: Hovering over the badge only reinforces the notion that Kickstarter sat together and decided that the project was worthy..
 
Peace and Harmony said:
>myself included

Release the kraken game you useless shit

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She is like the one cow who absolutely infuriates me. "Mansplaining" is the most bullshit term in the entire SJW dictionary. When she was in college, did she go to math class where her professor "mansplained" math to her? Was I "mansplained" english today? No wonder it took her fucking 10 years with all of those dangerous white male professors getting off on mansplaining things like science or history. Meanwhile, where the fuck is any of her writing? Is she offering women a choice to learn from some great feminist mecca of programming?
 
Theres no way Wu's project got favorited because of traffic. Wu posted a comment, not an update, and I don't think this notifies the backers. Even if it did Kickstarter sends entire updates via email so I can't see a reason they wouldn't just send a comment as well. Even then, Wu has 392 backers. Add on a few dozen watchers like us (most people won't check the page itself since someone else already has), maybe another couple hundred random internet people and you have a grand total of jack shit traffic compared to any other project that's actively advertising, which Wu isn't. When Wu talks about the Special Edition she never mentions the kickstarter anymore, probably because it shows how far behind she is.

@Hung Well Kickstarter isnt on the hook for refunds. They specifically say they only provide the platform, and that everything after the Kickstarter ends is between the backers and the creator. If Wu needs to hand out refunds Kickstarter keeps the portion they earned. The refund help thing actually says to provide your (the creator) credit card details so the refund can be charged.
 
SlenderManBearPig said:
@Hung Well Kickstarter isnt on the hook for refunds. They specifically say they only provide the platform, and that everything after the Kickstarter ends is between the backers and the creator. If Wu needs to hand out refunds Kickstarter keeps the portion they earned. The refund help thing actually says to provide your (the creator) credit card details so the refund can be charged.
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Ok. Maybe financially yes. But it doesn't matter. What about the image of a failed event? Again this is not an upfront quick Terra Jones fraud but a longer term one. KS has a vested interest in being a reliable marketplace for an event and anytime there is a failed event, it lowers the bar and reflects.poorly on a barely-regulated market. Look at why Anita didn't return to KS.

The percentage points invested here should be a couple hundred bucks. A few people will really make a fuss. But how many of the almost 400 backers won't invest again once they've been scammed? That's the second layer on the general that KS can't take a hit on.
 
Hung Well said:
Ok. Maybe financially yes. But it doesn't matter. What about the image of a failed event? Again this is not an upfront quick Terra Jones fraud but a longer term one. KS has a vested interest in being a reliable marketplace for an event and anytime there is a failed event, it lowers the bar and reflects.poorly on a barely-regulated market. Look at why Anita didn't return to KS.

The percentage points invested here should be a couple hundred bucks. A few people will really make a fuss. But how many of the almost 400 backers won't invest again once they've been scammed? That's the second layer on the general that KS can't take a hit on.
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The vast majority of Revolution 60's backers donated for social justice points. They don't give two fucks about Wu's neon soaked abortion and they won't demand a refund.
 
Hung Well said:
Ok. Maybe financially yes. But it doesn't matter. What about the image of a failed event? Again this is not an upfront quick Terra Jones fraud but a longer term one. KS has a vested interest in being a reliable marketplace for an event and anytime there is a failed event, it lowers the bar and reflects.poorly on a barely-regulated market. Look at why Anita didn't return to KS.

The percentage points invested here should be a couple hundred bucks. A few people will really make a fuss. But how many of the almost 400 backers won't invest again once they've been scammed? That's the second layer on the general that KS can't take a hit on.
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I dunno, Kickstarters had a number of high profile failures already and it hasn't really done anything. They make it clear they just act as the platform and it's up to the consumers to judge if a project is worth backing. Adding the 'project we love' sticker so late could backfire since it's an indirect endorsement of Wu's failure, but even then Wu hasn't failed yet and has, to a degree, posted updates about the project. Wu is also readily contactable and constantly posting 'updates' on twitter, so its not like anyone can actually claim the projects been abandoned. Kickstarter has nothing to do with enforcing the project anyway. If people think the final product is a turd that doesn't meet the standards of what they backed (which is itself incredibly vague since it was just "on PC and mac") they can complain to Wu and demand refunds but it still won't be KS's problem.

Seriously, as much as we and others talk about her Wu is nobody. She has some buddies that get her into events, and she has some contacts that know they can rely on her to comment on literally anything to throw in some 'harassed women in tech' clickbait. Wu might be backchanneling with someone at KS headquarters but they aren't going to try and silence backers over a tiny project that's years overdue and 'almost finished'.
 
Francis York Morgan said:
It is a completely meaningless tag for a project that has long since ended its funding period so, yeah, I can buy that Brianna threw a fit to get it not realizing that it doesn't really mean shit and she doesn't get any additional benefit from it.

As for why she wouldn't publicly acknowledge this distinction on her project, it's because Brianna wants to remain as distant from the Kickstarter page as she can in order to plead ignorance to the comments and lack of project updates (after all, those are the responsibilities of the totally-not-a-fake-employee Natalie). I'm guessing the reason Wu thinks she needs it now is close to what @Luminous Being suggested - it's something that she hopes will keep the backers from complaining.
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If you were suing for being ripped off, the fact that this scam operation (Kickscammer) put a gold star on an obvious scam even after it was obvious it was a scam, thereby endorsing the scam, would be a good argument they were actually endorsing the scam themselves in return for a cut of the scam bucks.

And to avoid looking like an aggressive moron, which I kind of am, okay, but to avoid looking stupid, at least, this isn't likely to amount to anything.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
>myself included

Release the kraken game you useless shit

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Of course it's mansplaining. None of those YouTube videos, blogs, forum post, etc. could have been by someone who just likes helping others or who likes this branch of technology and wants to it reach it's full potential. Nope, every single one is some man proudly displaying his epeen.

Quit projecting, Wu.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
Either way, I feel the Geisha-Bots are a ripoff from Ghost in the Shell, specifically the second movie Innocence (the entire plot revolves around why some sex-gynoids go on a rampage) and maybe an episode of Standalone Complex, where some Geisha-Bots get hacked and attack some politicians.
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It'd be a good bet but i'd put my money on them being a rip-off of the Boomers (catch-all term for androids) from Bubblegum Crisis (and to a lesser extend A.D. Police), i just think the style would resonate with Wu more than Ghost in the Shell.
 
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Furina said:
That face will never not creep me out. It's the eyes I think.

It's such a fake, forced look that reeks of her disingenuous nature.
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Agreed. It's actually terrifying. Wu has this weird thing going in which she has many vastly different really bad pictures, but most of them are horrifying in different ways. I had thought that the "glowering next to my monitors with Jace / skullface" was the worst I'd seen, other than her own, non-candid, deliberately taken "shrieking with hands sexily in hair" from the GSX "photo shoot" with her and Warner, but this face from "The Internet Crack-a-lacked My Life" is genuinely the worst I've ever seen.

Is it the results of her late-life, post maturity, SRS-related facial plastic surgery?

Whatever it is, Wu is a very bizarre looking person, male or female. There's a lot of crazy that's under the surface, but skin deep is pretty fucked up, too.
 
Part of what makes her unsettling to look at are her eyes. They never reflect what she is saying or trying to convey - just a cold emptiness or anger.
 
My guess is that Bri has screwed up something in the UnrealScript which is causing the game not to compile/work properly, and resorted to Stackoverflow and (lollll) YouTube for help. It's funny, the game was started in 2011 and it's 2016 now. I imagine in the 5 years, Bri could have taken a few courses online or locally to learn game development and basic coding skills for her "masterpiece", but instead chose to rant and screech on Twitter. What a fucking moron. I cannot wait until this piece of shit is on Steam and absolutely destroyed.
 
OldDayz said:
My guess is that Bri has screwed up something in the UnrealScript which is causing the game not to compile/work properly, and resorted to Stackoverflow and (lollll) YouTube for help. It's funny, the game was started in 2011 and it's 2016 now. I imagine in the 5 years, Bri could have taken a few courses online or locally to learn game development and basic coding skills for her "masterpiece", but instead chose to rant and screech on Twitter. What a fucking moron. I cannot wait until this piece of shit is on Steam and absolutely destroyed.
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If that's the case, then it would make good sense to toss aside his pride and pay a competent programmer to look at it. Hell, he could just claim some unexpected code faults came up he's been trying to fix, is utterly perplexed, so he hired an outside consultant. Actual game companies are not above doing this, and there is no shame in the programmer community to have someone else backcheck your code. In fact, that's standard practice, especially if you plan to let the public use the end result.

And if the dumbass is worried it will make him look stupid, seasoned programmers (know a few) do this all the time, because sometimes they fuck up their own work and need thrown a rope despite how smart they are because no one is perfect.

If anything, he looks dumber for not tossing aside his pride and admitting he needs help.
 
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