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What are you opinions on GamerGate and Brianna Wu / John Flynt?

  • I am of no opinion towards either.

    Votes: 104 8.6%
  • I am neutral on GamerGate, but think that Brianna Wu is a bad person.

    Votes: 631 52.1%
  • I am neutral on GamerGate, and think that Brianna Wu is just trying to get by.

    Votes: 9 0.7%
  • I am ANTI-GamerGate, but still think that Brianna Wu is a bad person.

    Votes: 112 9.2%
  • I am ANTI-GamerGate, and think that Brianna Wu is just trying to get by.

    Votes: 37 3.1%
  • I am PRO-GamerGate, and think that Brianna Wu is a bad person.

    Votes: 309 25.5%
  • I am PRO-GamerGate, but still think that and think that Brianna Wu is just trying to get by.

    Votes: 9 0.7%

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Try "John W Flynt" or "John Walker Flynt" - the middle initial could be important.

And goddamnit why does it have to be a fucking "W" there's enough shit similar between Wu and OPL's existences, their middle initial is just going too far.
Egotists tend to find every small aspect of their lives to be vitally important. That middle initial is as important to John as Rev60 is to Brianna. Just like Chris was obsessed with putting CWC into everything he could.
 
Egotists tend to find every small aspect of their lives to be vitally important. That middle initial is as important to John as Rev60 is to Brianna. Just like Chris was obsessed with putting CWC into everything he could.

Including his "basically promised" daughter's name.

LOL, I just noticed something else from the resume: he did voice acting for Socially Unconscious? :lol:

Well, it was his pet project so no surprise the narcissist wanted to put himself into his festering pile of shit. Seeing as how Soc. Uncon. never actually saw release as an animation thankfully spared the world from that abomination of vocal cord rattling since R60 had professional VA work - the only quality aspect of the game oddly enough.
 
You've led us to the motherlode!
https://archive.org/stream/millsapscollegepurpleandwhite20002001
Search for "flynt" to find Socially Unconscious.
It seems like even the existence of his comic was overstated - there are only about 3 strips, and I don't see anything in the 2001-2002 archive either.
EDIT: there's a picture of him in the October 5 issue:

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Another great find. Look at that pic - teeth, hairline, crazy stare.

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Wonderful - misogyny and homophobia packed into just four panels. John is such a great warrior for social justice.
 
Not sure if this is new or not but here's John Flynt's resume from 2005. He worked for segregationist senator Trent Lott
http://web.archive.org/web/20020206005350/http://www2.netdoor.com/~jwflynt/

Good find! Rule No. 1. when encountering incriminating contnet on wayback machine: always create an archive.is backup, wayback machine are notorious for taking down content whenever asked. Archive.is on the other hand aren't such pussies. Unfortunately, archive.is was not capable of archiving the PDF documents on this page... which is why I downloaded them all, they're attached to this post. Make sure to have your own copy!
 

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She has publicly said that she made a comic called Socially Unconscious, correct? How will she acknowledge these comics that have a mans name on them?
 
Wonderful - misogyny and homophobia packed into just four panels. John is such a great warrior for social justice.
AND disrespect for church, which I can't imagine played well in Mississippi.
Plus spelling "UNCONCIOUS" wrong in huge letters XD

EDIT: and on top of that using Comic Sans, just to add "designers" to the already-imposing list of people who'd be revolted by this.
 
Another great find. Look at that pic - teeth, hairline, crazy stare.

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Wonderful - misogyny and homophobia packed into just four panels. John is such a great warrior for social justice.

Even better - compare the first and last panels. The two women on the left side magically swap places but not poses for no reason.

Also, the third panel has a black female present for almost no reason.

Good find! Rule No. 1. when encountering incriminating contnet on wayback machine: always create an archive.is backup, wayback machine are notorious for taking down content whenever asked. Archive.is on the other hand aren't such pussies. Unfortunately, archive.is was not capable of archiving the PDF documents on this page... which is why I downloaded them all, they're attached to this post. Make sure to have your own copy!
Copy the website, too - it's only a little bit, but god it's like Wu was a Golden Knight copy that (d)evolved into an alternate CWC with inverse proportions.
 
"Work Experience" is yet more poorly copy-pasted stuff - the idea he thought blurry textbook pictures was good is Chris-tier stupid - and kind of telling the only place he lasted for more than half a year is the same company he first states he's a majority stockholder in. Curiously, though, it says he has two U.S. Patents as well - get on it Kiwi's, we need to find those patents!
I just searched for all flynt patents and anything even remotely similar is all owned by a guy from lexmark who has a long history of related patents so there is exactly 0 chance it is him. I welcome kiwis to put additional effort in this, flynt may have changed the name to Wu I believe there is a form for that but holy moly I don't even wanna know how many Wu's have patents in the USA.
Given what I've seen of her I can't imagine that she would waste time getting the name changed, I also would have expected that she would tout her patents as further evidence of her claim to be an engineer. Not sure maybe a name change would be reflected on the patent and that would be embarrassing for her so maybe not.
I feel she would at least keep mentioning it. Getting a patent is a royal pain in the ass it takes like 2 to 5 years and the office keeps coming back to ask you questions unless you have an attorney so.

If I was a betting man the patents were something she applied for and forgot at most if they even ever existed.

Didn't she refused by the daily Mississippian? I thought she got tossed out twice trying to run her goofy comic.
 
Didn't she refused by the daily Mississippian? I thought she got tossed out twice trying to run her goofy comic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100624084546/http://www.olemiss.edu/news/dm/archives/97/97archive.html
Unfortunately the "COMICS" archive links all seem to be broken, but I'll toss this out there in case anyone has better archive skills.

EDIT: My God, everyone go back to the page in Millsaps where the Flynt picture is from. There's an angry letter to the editor about his comic! :lol: He managed to offend everyone with his very first comic.

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Okay, now that I've got a little more time, let's really dissect this resume piece by piece.

Cover Page

Design-wise, this looks like the cover for an early 90s computer manual. The letters are all fuzzy and blend in with the background image. Speaking of, what's the deal with the boxes?

Contact Information

Uh, pretty sure all the relevant contact information required was on the cover page. The "Just the Facts" section is all stuff that should be wrapped into the resume proper and nothing there is unique enough to warrant the extra attention given. The "Frequently Asked Questions" shouldn't be in your resume at all considering each and every one of those questions will be covered through a company's standard application process. I have no idea why there is a Socially Unconscious mini section in the middle of it all. If you want to discuss your work further, it's best to include it in a sample portfolio and not in the middle of a document that's meant to provide a summary of your skills and abilities. This page is completely useless.

Introduction & Education

Where do I even begin? I guess let's talk again about the design. The background is too busy and should be lightened significantly. Plus, I still don't get why there are boxes all over the place. Why are there two different colored margins? Hell, why does the right margin even exist in the first place except to take up room and make this thing longer? Is it for that generic quote just randomly floating out there? I feel like Brianna recently learned how to do design layouts in Word and threw it all in there without any consideration for whether or not it's necessary.

The capitalization for the objective statement header looks awkward which is kind of fitting given the phrasing on display. "Computer skills" is awfully generic and doesn't actually tell me anything. It would have been better to say something like "Business Major with Strong Media Production Skills" or "Media Production Specialist with Technical Background". Or, you know, just wrap all that together into an objective statement. First sentence is just a straight up fragment. Actually, it looks like the whole page is riddled with grammar mistakes. I guess those "computer skills" don't cover being able to find the spelling and grammar check function.

@zedkissed60 already highlighted it but I'm still kind of baffled by the statement that her "eclectic mix of skills" comes from her being goal-oriented. One does not support the other. Having a bunch of random skills listed with no context kind of leaves me with the impression that you haven't settled on what you want to do yet. Another funny statement here for oh-so-many reasons:

Brianna "John Walker Flynt" Wu said:
Once I have an objective, I will learn whatever is necessary to accomplish my objectives.
Let's just ignore the odd phrasing (again) for a moment and focus on how passive this statement feels. She's willing to learn the skills but there's nothing that directly states that she will actually accomplish what she sets out to do. Huh. That certainly does seem like the Brianna Wu we know.

She goes on to discuss her skills with digital media but doesn't state what these skill are or how she's applied them. Rather, it's just a list of various areas where she's worked. Same goes with the technical skills that follows where she gives vague examples but doesn't talk about what she did, what process she followed, what knowledge she drew on, what the equipment was, etc. However, she did feel the need to mention outsourcing for some reason.

She (finally) closes her introduction by attempting to tell us what sets her apart from other candidates. Naturally, she fails to say anything that wouldn't fall under the "I majored in business at college" umbrella and babbles about her experiences without saying anything in particular. If you are going to dedicate a paragraph to your education background on your resume, you had better be a Rhodes Scholar PhD candidate with multiple published works from one of the top 10 schools in the country. It can be worth noting academic accomplishments if you actually have any but usually it can all be discussed in one line. Doesn't seem like Brianna had any real academic accomplishments otherwise she would have thrown together another paragraph just for it.


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And that's all I've got for now. Unlike Wu, I have to actually do my job.
 
OK, that pic of Wu with the headphones is Wicked Witch-level scary, but...is that a MULLET in the Soc. Un. pic? Party in the back, Wu-Wu?

And jeez, nice to see Holiday getting drunk, but...is this why the arab (don't remember the name, Dr. Hassan or something?) from the original Ole Miss thread story didn't want to publish the comic, because Wu is essentially making fun of the Greek lifestyle, and mocking the "hypocrisy" of these very moral, conservative southerners?

Wu's resume is streeeeetching the hell out of her meager accomplishments. She has that same, super-obnoxious tendency to toot her own horn that we all find so uber-irritating in the tweets...why can't she tell how obviously that rubs people the wrong way? Confidence is one thing, but Wu's a straight braggart, through and through.

One more thing: a little gem from the resume: Wu promises to "be your company's Swiss Army Knife". I don't know why, but ewwwww.

edit: after I posted, that letter to the editor confirmed my doubts about the reception of the comic. Is he just tone-deaf? no matter how much you hate everyone, you can't just flip a big middle finger to the audience of the paper that PAYS YOU to draw your ugly, mean-spirited little comic. It's funny, the comic mocks these sorts of "delta delta delta can I helpya helpya helpya?" girls, but the perky little boobs are drawn with such care that....you know Wu is, more than anything else, truly jealous of such girls who Unconsciously succeed at being Social.
 
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I just searched for all flynt patents and anything even remotely similar is all owned by a guy from lexmark who has a long history of related patents so there is exactly 0 chance it is him. I welcome kiwis to put additional effort in this, flynt may have changed the name to Wu I believe there is a form for that but holy moly I don't even wanna know how many Wu's have patents in the USA.
Given what I've seen of her I can't imagine that she would waste time getting the name changed, I also would have expected that she would tout her patents as further evidence of her claim to be an engineer. Not sure maybe a name change would be reflected on the patent and that would be embarrassing for her so maybe not.
I feel she would at least keep mentioning it. Getting a patent is a royal pain in the ass it takes like 2 to 5 years and the office keeps coming back to ask you questions unless you have an attorney so.

If I was a betting man the patents were something she applied for and forgot at most if they even ever existed.

Didn't she refused by the daily Mississippian? I thought she got tossed out twice trying to run her goofy comic.

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Even better - compare the first and last panels. The two women on the left side magically swap places but not poses for no reason.

Also, the third panel has a black female present for almost no reason.


Copy the website, too - it's only a little bit, but god it's like Wu was a Golden Knight copy that (d)evolved into an alternate CWC with inverse proportions.

Done. Also, found some more John Flynt articles and cartoons. I don't feel like going all over it at the moment, but there's some SU comics in there and likewise an article about the Lewinsky scandal in which Flynt calls Monica a whore. He's a slut shamer extraordinaire.
 
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