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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%
  • Total voters
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Ravana said:
Has Brianna shown anything like "Here's so and so working on the crotch bulge for character3" or anything at all regarding the development to her thing? I donate to RedLetterMedia and they're always emailing me behind the scenes stuff
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As in updates for the people who financially backed Rev60 on Kickstarter? Well. . . kind of? She (and by "she", I mean Natalie O'Brian) posted a Kickstarter update on the game about a month ago that was more or less a collection of the random screenshots of Wu reworking the models (all of which were shots she had posted on Twitter months ago) and explaining that the game will be on Steam by October. This came after the project had zero activity from her for over six months and, even then, it was some generic "hey guys we're all hard at work and this totally isn't dead because I lost interest in being a game developer".

For the sake of comparison, I'll talk about my experience with projects I've backed on Kickstarter. Each and every one of them had at least monthly updates discussing everything from how development is going, shipping concerns, pics of the product as it's being worked on, etc. As the project nears completion, I usually get two updates that month with delivery details or something about a survey for final confirmation of my info before shipping. The "worst" one was with a board game I backed that had multiple delays that kept driving back the delivery date but the team was always responsive and kept all backers informed on what was happening. Just based on what I've dealt with on Kickstarter and how long this has been drawn out, I would have reported Brianna Wu months ago. Especially if I had been following her on Twitter.
 
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zedkissed60 said:
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Quit slapping real game designers in the face, John.
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Fitting, because Rev60's sound design is fucking atrocious. Great music, all right voice acting, but terrible sound mixing and audio quality. Whoever was in charge of Giant SpaceKat's audio mixing for Rev60 did a job that rivals Sonic Adventure 2's.

Francis York Morgan said:
As in updates for the people who financially backed Rev60 on Kickstarter? Well. . . kind of? She (and by "she", I mean Natalie O'Brian) posted a Kickstarter update on the game about a month ago that was more or less a collection of the random screenshots of Wu reworking the models (all of which were shots she had posted on Twitter months ago) and explaining that the game will be on Steam by October. This came after the project had zero activity from her for over six months and, even then, it was some generic "hey guys we're all hard at work and this totally isn't dead because I lost interest in being a game developer".

For the sake of comparison, I'll talk about my experience with projects I've backed on Kickstarter. Each and every one of them had monthly updates discussing everything from how development is going, shipping concerns, pics of the product as it's being worked on, etc. As the project nears completion, I usually get two updates that month with delivery details or something about a survey for final confirmation of my info before shipping. The "worst" one was with a board game I backed that had multiple delays that kept driving back the delivery date but the team was always responsive and kept all backers informed on what was happening. Just based on what I've dealt with on Kickstarter and how long this has been drawn out, I would have reported Brianna Wu months ago. Especially if I had been following her on Twitter.
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I've kickstarted two things this year: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero. The former has updated rougly every two weeks. The latter has updated weekly.
 
Jaimas said:
I've kickstarted two things this year: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero. The former has updated rougly every two weeks. The latter has updated weekly.
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Sounds about right. The point of all that really was to give perspective on what a shitty job Brianna is doing on managing her project. It's just been couple of vague updates, no transparency to investors on where the funds are going, no due date for the deliverable (until recently and who honestly knows with that since I think the initial promise was early 2014), and absolutely nothing that would give someone a clue as to how close the project is to completion (save her word which is provably meaningless). I know that some of the Kickstarter backers were cronies of hers but a few appear to just be people from the early days of this debacle who drank the Kool-Aid. For those people, I don't know what the hell to say except, damn, hold this woman accountable for her actions. It's your money that she's using for shit like her motorcycle that she was autistically obsessed with, games she can play instead of making yours, speaking tours and conventions where all she talks about is herself, and so on.

It has become so frustrating to see Brianna Wu escape any form of accountability.

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Who the fuck is Ed Zitron? If his schtick is PR he's doing a shit job of it because he looks like a total fucking douchebag and if he's associated with something, I want to have nothing to do with it.
 
“Revenge porn king” Hunter Moore runs a website just for this purpose, and publishes the nudes without the subjects’ consent, alongside links to their social media profiles, real name, address, and sometimes workplaces.
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The website in question was shut down three years ago and Hunter Moore is in prison. Come on now
 
That sperging brought up the architect vs builder analogy was brilliant, despite game designer being much more like an architect she just had to push and push so that her job role would be the equivalent of the more respected role even if it didn't really make sense.

Not sure why she's so keen on being "Head of Development" when Creative Director is a better and more respected role when it comes to games and creative work in general. But she's never worked in the field outside of her office so she'd never know that.
 
AnOminous said:
Who the fuck is Ed Zitron? If his schtick is PR he's doing a shit job of it because he looks like a total fucking douchebag and if he's associated with something, I want to have nothing to do with it.
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He some self promoting hack who basically thinks he's a kickass PR consultant, based on what I looked up.
 
Cynical said:
He some self promoting hack who basically thinks he's a kickass PR consultant, based on what I looked up.
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Does he understand that PR involves looking good, not like a total mongoloid? Or that associating with Brianna Wu isn't exactly good PR?
 
You know what? I figured something out. Why Wu hates MGSV so much.

Because she is basically Huey Emmerich terms of personality.

Search your feelings. You know it be true.
 
Jaimas said:
You know what? I figured something out. Why Wu hates MGSV so much.

Because Huey Emmerich is basically him in terms of personality.
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With one difference: Huey actually succeeded at getting something (more than once) built, produced, and liked.
 
AnOminous said:
Does he understand that PR involves looking good, not like a total mongoloid? Or that associating with Brianna Wu isn't exactly good PR?
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And according to Wu, "smart critic of the excesses". Correct me if I'm wrong here, but that is the opposite of what a PR is supposed to be.
 
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