Brianna Wu / John Flynt - Original Thread

[GREEDY FIREMAN]

That's more than a little bit hard when they constantly demand attention and victim points. They must have misconstrued the term "fight fire with fire" pretty badly.

"Fight fire by dousing yourself in gasoline? BRILLIANT!"

 

[tehpope]

Oh poor Brianna. Her husband works for a large pharmaceutical conglomerate and probably brings home six figures a year. She gets to follow her "dream" and be a independent "game developer" full time. Boo fucking hoo!

Spoiler

 

[Jaimas]

some things can be purged from the internet, but you need to be under the radar to do so. Even that is a maybe thanks to our friendly neighborhood archivers at the archive team and the waywayback machine. Once you've caught the ire &/or the interest of the interwebz there is not a snowballs chance in hell of being successful.

For every post you make, if it is something you wouldn't feel comfortable seeing on the front page of the paper don't post it on the internet. Everything you say or post can and will be over analyzed

These people, if called by any of their various names, be they SJWs, Anti-GGers, or as my mom called them, DOWPs (Dumpy Old White People) all have the same MO: They are complete and total attention whores. They try to use literally anything to bolster their own presence and enrich themselves. They'll come across as open, understanding, and helpful towards any cause they think they can exploit whilst offering no real help whatsoever. It's all about them, as is any cause they decide to help.

The fun part about this is that they need to maintain a balance to self-victimize properly, and if they're exposed as the whores they are, the whole game falls apart. Like I said in my earlier post about the Northport Arts Coalition (NAC), these people have been around for years - same mindset, same ideology (and it's not even political), same endgame objective (enriching themselves and giving themselves power and prestige at the expense of everyone else). The difference is that the Internet's given these people access to the most important resource they'd ever have in the form of an infinite supply of useful idiots, whom, not knowing any better, are easily grabbed up from the likes of Tumblr, wound up like toys, and sent forward, told not to question what's behind the curtain. They're very good at being loud and controlling space, so they seem way bigger than they actually are.

But though the internet's given them their biggest boon, it's also given them an Achilles Heel. They're easier to expose, track, and take down than ever before, and because so many of them are inveterate assholes with long criminal records and even worse things they've done as human beings (Brianna Wu's repeatedly tried to exploit the dead, Vade-style; Randi Harper ditched her newborn child on her parents and moved with her boyfriend so she could keep doing Meth and living it up; Chelsea Van Valkenburg has almost 20 aliases and an extensive criminal record; full McIntosh is Geordie Tait-level fucking insane and was recently revealed to have possible political viewpoints that make /pol/'s look moderate in contrast), they tend to leave a trail. Because of their sheer, balls-out arrogance, they never try to hide their involvement, so they're ridiculously easy to track. Their egos will not allow them to go low-profile, and, almost to a man, they have no marketable skills beyond hyping themselves.

 

[Lord RainbowDash]

 

[MayMay]

So... what's the wager that she's lying? There's literally nothing important she's ever done and if they wanted some feminist shill they'd just get quinn or anita. Who gives a shit about Wu?

Oh shit now I've made this comment she'll have to flee to another home with a completely identical interior and location! That's really all she's got.

 

[Hodor]

If she isn't lying about going to France, she's sure as hell lying that people 'felt [her] accomplishments were worth investing'. Last I heard, 8chan found out her game flopped like hell and the investors were pissed off.

Rev60 is barely a game. Much less one that needed four fuckin' years of development. I like a full dev cycle and all, but holy shit. The quality of Rev60 looks like something slapped out in half a year.

 

[MiloWuCollusion]

Maybe she pulled out a Anita Serkesian and got a gig as consultant in Ubisoft. After the Nightline segement, it seemed obvious to me that the big corps could careless about actually improving diversity and more like "looking like they" care. I can give Anita the benfit of doubt but Wu is just insane.

 

[namazuros]

I wish she would say what games do I could avoid them. More than likely, she's talking about some horrendous mobile garbage anyways.

 

[Hodor]

I'm not gonna lie, I'm assuming it's Quantic Dream or whatever the fuck David Cage's studio is.

Wu isn't at all out of place there, if it's true.

 

[pickledance]

What? Different places have different language needs? Who would have thought?

 

[Positron]

The Windows key is very triggering to him.

 

[MayMay]

What? Different places have different language needs? Who would have thought?

So our GOTY developer misses the fact that keyboards are basically made for language convenience (despite how odd the arrangements are, they work) and that such an arrangement might need to be different for the French Language.

Though being triggered by a keyboard ad a few pages back, might explain it.

 

[plautistic]

What? Different places have different language needs? Who would have thought?

Maybe she'll accidentally write something decent.

 

[Henry Bemis]

Maybe she'll accidentally write something decent.

No, that's a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. Wu is not nearly as smart.

 

[MayMay]

No, that's a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. Wu is not nearly as smart.

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."

 

[Jaimas]

Maybe she pulled out a Anita Serkesian and got a gig as consultant in Ubisoft. After the Nightline segement, it seemed obvious to me that the big corps could careless about actually improving diversity and more like "looking like they" care. I can give Anita the benfit of doubt but Wu is just insane.

I like that Ubisoft's response to me not having any interest in their games was to do something that would lead to me having even less interest.

 

[Cosmos]

What really annoys me about the whole giving Anita/Zoe/Brianna gigs as "consultants" thing is that they really don't deserve them. There are tons of women in the industry who are very knowledgable and experienced about what they do and could offer great insight as consultants. But do we hear about them? No, we don't, because they're professional and hardworking; they don't whine on Twitter all the time because they aren't professional victims. That's why Anita and the like get so much attention; they spend 80% of their time on social media trying to get people to rally behind them.

Companies like Ubisoft hiring people like Anita is all just one big publicity stunt. Anita's not going to give any worthwhile criticism (because she's incapable of saying anything that's not ripped directly from TVTropes or feminist blogs) and Ubisoft's not going to listen to it.

 

[Handsome Pete]

What really annoys me about the whole giving Anita/Zoe/Brianna gigs as "consultants" thing is that they really don't deserve them. There are tons of women in the industry who are very knowledgable and experienced about what they do and could offer great insight as consultants. But do we hear about them? No, we don't, because they're professional and hardworking; they don't whine on Twitter all the time because they aren't professional victims. That's why Anita and the like get so much attention; they spend 80% of their time on social media trying to get people to rally behind them.

Companies like Ubisoft hiring people like Anita is all just one big publicity stunt. Anita's not going to give any worthwhile criticism (because she's incapable of saying anything that's not ripped directly from TVTropes or feminist blogs) and Ubisoft's not going to listen to it.

The one good thing I'll say about GG: it's given me an excuse to say "Roberta Williams was fucking OG" in a conversation.

 

[AnOminous]

What really annoys me about the whole giving Anita/Zoe/Brianna gigs as "consultants" thing is that they really don't deserve them. There are tons of women in the industry who are very knowledgable and experienced about what they do and could offer great insight as consultants.

Anita, the closest to anything resembling success simply by dint of having actually appeared in mainstream media as a "credible" source, is at best a source of facile, trivial "commentary" on games she obviously does not understand or play. Anyone who has played games she has "criticized" can tell this. The most she has ever done is seize on a couple obvious tropes and point out that the game contains them, often missing the actual plot or substance of the game. Case in point, Ocarina of Time having a "damsel in distress" trope that actually subverted the trope.

And that's at best. At worst, she's the consummate flim-flam artist she appears to be.

Hiring someone like that is solely to make a press release about it, because she has absolutely no actual knowledge to bring to the table.

 

[GREEDY FIREMAN]

Did I miss something? When did Ubisoft hire Sarkeesian?