Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES

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How long will Revolution 60 come to Steam?

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Jaimas said:
How the fuck did I not notice this?

I made a hack of FF1 back in the dark ages, so I know the NES coding and more than a bit about how and why the game's mechanics do and don't work at specific times. Little-known fact: The levels of the NES version are fixed; every character gets the same levels, more-or-less, with minor variation, based on class. Given that, we can easily see that to have that much HP, based on class, Brianna would need to have each character:

Fighter: 35
Black Belt: 40
White Mage: 41
Black Mage: 44

Why is this important? Because it is virtually impossible to get higher than level 38 or so through regular gameplay, and beyond 40 or so with bog-standard grinding. You start requiring around 30,000 XP a level around level 35, which means that while the actual level hard-cap is 50, it's an absolute chore for a character to reach with normal gameplay. The only people who would even try are those insane enough to try a Four Thieves run (the hardest thing in the entire game), where the level matters.

There's so many things in the final dungeon that can fuck you up as well. Gorgimeras have a party-wide petrify, Iron Golems have a party-wide instant death, Evilman can cast both Flare and Death, Lich in the second encounter casts Flare constantly, Dark Fighter and Dark Mage can spam offensive magic and the latter another instant death spell, an encounter with a pack of Green Dragons can be over before it starts if they get a surprise round, you have to fight the Death Tyrant (Super version of the Beholder boss that spams both petify and death spells and packs a tougher punch than the final boss in melee), and of course, Mind Flayers, which are the worst enemy in the entire game. You can do everything right and Chaos can still murder your ass if you're not careful by virtue of casting Flare repeatedly.

Brianna Wu clearly didn't just level-grind - she Game Genie'd hard, essentially removing all challenge from the game.
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In addition to all of the above mentioned, there's also this fucker;
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Seriously, fuck him.
 
Furina said:
Brianna's trying to pull one of those "Have your people call my people" things that high-end sophisticated people do. Just making casual plans is for the little people.

Once more we see John trying to inflate his bloated sense of self-importance.
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Yet John doesn't understand the reasoning behind why it exists. Important people tend to be hard to access BECAUSE their time is important. Meanwhile Wu is putting the cart before the horse and thinking that having the appearance of an assistant will make her time seem important which in fact it's obvious you can send anything directly to her and she'll read it. She won't respond all the time but she'll read it because what else is she going to do?
 
By the way, Spur Festival (the incredibly awesome and important event that was really important to Wu) offered lower prices on ticket sales for everyone that registered for the free opening event.

Looks like they begged people to stay by offering discounts after having making them sit through the panel that featured Wu. :story:

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HarblMcDavid said:
10 Years in College: Failed repeatedly, though not on paper so far as I can tell. After all, dropping out 3 times isn't failing, right? ;) This one definitely fits the pattern if each time he returned to a college it was for a different major (which I can see on the wiki page is confirmed for 2 of the 3 times he went).
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I looked at her colleges trying to figure out how to coast through and nearly all of the programs that should be easy have one or two gotchas that would stop wu dead in her tracks. That doesn't count whichever professors know their course is easy so they have extremely high standards.
It was funny picking easy looking programs and then over and over seeing shit wu talked about studying in college. I'm pretty sure that if she'd came up with a definitive plan to graduate they could have scheduled wu's classes so that a well paid tutor could walk wu through doing a select hard class every quarter until graduation as long as the classes used memorization or writing assignments for the bulk of her grade.
Norvic said:
No one would ever ask someone to email their fucking secretary to organise meeting for coffee.
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It could be that wu just wants the reminder in her inbox, of course she has 15 email aliases so that it looks like there are tons of people working for her though.
Luminous Being said:
By the way, Spur Festival (the incredibly awesome and important event that was really important to Wu) offered lower prices on ticket sales for everyone that registered for the free opening event.
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I looked at this. Man it looks awful.
 
Catgirls are Love said:
Well, last week has gone by and to nobody's surprise, despite Brianna stating on Tuesday that "IOS version will go out this week too" the iOS version of Revolution 60 is still not available in the app store for the U.S. region. Should that get added to the list of missed deadlines?
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Looking on an old ipad, there are a bunch of things that match "revolution 60" on the app store, but the only one related to the game is the lexicographa. Which isn't even authored by Wu.

I did update the imgur album a bit. Speaking of the command line, Wu was so "look at me" about using it for Steam that her password is almost entirely visible in the screenshot. Another Kiwi helped refine the image but we couldn't get all the characters. (And 2FA would defeat any real attempt to break in.)

Wu's mental image of a secretary is just like Chris's.
 
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sikotik said:
I wish there was a means to force him to finish his own game.
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Kickstarter backer lawsuits.
Norvic said:
Yeah, no. I'm now 100% convinced Natalie doesn't exist.

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No one would ever ask someone to email their fucking secretary to organise meeting for coffee. It's guaranteed to involve a round trip back to you to actually schedule, plus any sane person would think this task beneath their dignity. It'd just be a huge hassle for everyone concerned.

That email just goes straight to Wu, there's no other sane explanation.
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That's rude of John. Shoving off the organization of his coffee date to a woman in her 48th trimester!
 
Regrettably, a Lawsuit from Kickstarter Backers wouldn't actually forced Wu to finish the game.

There are basically three possible outcomes, in order to most to least likely:

1) Wu shows in court, and is able to make a further deal with these people.
2) Wu doesn't appear - default judgement against her.
3) Wu shows in court, but there is no deal and the court demands that Wu refund their money.

Wu can't be forced to create the game. She can be forced to issue refunds--but the amount of money in question is really small ($12,000?) and she's going to get bailed out by Frank. Of course, this sort of lawsuit makes Brianna Wu look horrible, but read this sentence again and consider if that's actually a problem or simply reality today.

I think that Wu would want to ride the crazy train a little bit further if she could; she doesn't want to admit to the courts that she's a failure at law, and the people suing her don't really have huge demands--they're going to want transparency, perhaps financial figures, perhaps to actually meet people like Natalie (I Hope Wu has figured out where Natalie is). A deal would also probably be the best way to continue the Lolmilk, as Wu will basically be cornered in a few more ways over Rev 60.

Ultimately, though, I think this is more like a Greek Play, where the stupidity has already happened and the whole plot is the discovery of just how bad this all is. Unless Wu is going to get to the point where she's going to cancel Rev 60 outright and try to blame Gamergate for it, she's going to find her little fascade busted.
 
Norvic said:
Yeah, no. I'm now 100% convinced Natalie doesn't exist.

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No one would ever ask someone to email their fucking secretary to organise meeting for coffee. It's guaranteed to involve a round trip back to you to actually schedule, plus any sane person would think this task beneath their dignity. It'd just be a huge hassle for everyone concerned.

That email just goes straight to Wu, there's no other sane explanation.
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Don't the Wus live around the Boston area? There is no reason at all to involve "Natalie" or any part of her pretend business to go meet someone on her personal time in that case. Imagine how wretched Brianna must have been when she still had employees.
 
i can never understand people getting their dicks cut off then ending up pegging their hubby's ass with a strap-on
 
Jaimas said:
How the fuck did I not notice this?

I made a hack of FF1 back in the dark ages, so I know the NES coding and more than a bit about how and why the game's mechanics do and don't work at specific times. Little-known fact: The levels of the NES version are fixed; every character gets the same levels, more-or-less, with minor variation, based on class. Given that, we can easily see that to have that much HP, based on class, Brianna would need to have each character:

Fighter: 35
Black Belt: 40
White Mage: 41
Black Mage: 44

Why is this important? Because it is virtually impossible to get higher than level 38 or so through regular gameplay, and beyond 40 or so with bog-standard grinding. You start requiring around 30,000 XP a level around level 35, which means that while the actual level hard-cap is 50, it's an absolute chore for a character to reach with normal gameplay. The only people who would even try are those insane enough to try a Four Thieves run (the hardest thing in the entire game), where the level matters.

There's so many things in the final dungeon that can fuck you up as well. Gorgimeras have a party-wide petrify, Iron Golems have a party-wide instant death, Evilman can cast both Flare and Death, Lich in the second encounter casts Flare constantly, Dark Fighter and Dark Mage can spam offensive magic and the latter another instant death spell, an encounter with a pack of Green Dragons can be over before it starts if they get a surprise round, you have to fight the Death Tyrant (Super version of the Beholder boss that spams both petify and death spells and packs a tougher punch than the final boss in melee), and of course, Mind Flayers, which are the worst enemy in the entire game. You can do everything right and Chaos can still murder your ass if you're not careful by virtue of casting Flare repeatedly.

Brianna Wu clearly didn't just level-grind - she Game Genie'd hard, essentially removing all challenge from the game.
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This is just sad, even for Wu. She cheated even before getting class change. You could easily just go to the Peninsula of Power and overlevel there and it would be considered legit.

Anyway, game out yet?
 
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