Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

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stupid moron said:
You’re checking the wrong category. She said “princess” which either means all stars princess or any% princess. Still in those categories she isn’t even in the top 10 so idk what she’s talking about
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He's lying. It isn't that hard to figure out. I understand people's desire to prove that he's lying, and an autist's love of speedrunning, but it really is that simple. John lies about everything. Why wouldn't he lie about this?
 
MyOtherNicknameIsAPun said:
At first I was as taken aback as you. But then my Wu-to-competence translator kicked in. What Wu wanted to say is "SDK", SDK and Android Studio come bundled in for ease of use, but there's nothing stopping you from bumping your SDK version without pulling new IDE. You can grab it by hand, or just tell IDE to grab it: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platforms
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I had a whole big rant about this typed out, but deleted it since it would be too off-topic. Partially recreated in spoiler.

There's two SDKs involved in building an Android app: the Java SDK you need to run the IDE, and the Android SDK you need to build your actual app with. Updating the IDE requires updating the Java SDK, increasing the version of Android you are targeting requires updating the Android SDK.

You can target any version of Android you want, but the newer versions of Android only show up with the newer Android SDKs. Latest SDKs will also accomodate older Android versions, there is rarely a discrepancy between SDK versions because the minor Android updates don't change entire components.

So the IDE and SDK used to build the Iowa caucus app doesn't really matter too much, as long as the recent versions of Android were selected as a target, because making that selection forces the Android SDK to update in order to build the project. It will also force an IDE update if needed to handle the SDK, which will force a Java SDK update if needed. So both will be kept up to date, or else your app won't build.

I'm not currently on my dev machine to do a screenshot, so I'll steal one from a blog that explains it well enough to let John fake expertise.

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That's using Android Studio, but any IDE will need to include the SDK targets in the app's build manifest.

In theory, you could build an app which targeted really old Android versions, but even so those versions aren't deprecated; they are just unsupported on newer phones. Certain design elements would be deprecated, but if you had a phone that still runs that version of Android, it would work fine. (That's the point of this setup, to let devs target older hardware and newer hardware at the same time.)

Now, we could be lenient to John, and assume he meant to say an old SDK was targeted by the app, and old means deprecated and SDK means IDE. But he explicitly sperged about tooling, which wouldn't be the issue:

"Deprecated toolchains have no support. Nobody patches them for cybersecurity vulnerabilities"' quoth yon ogre.
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No, John, it's the same IDE, and the patches are required by the build process itself. You can't have an out-of-date, unsupported tool build and deliver the app that was used in Iowa.

(Note: this is all on the Android side of things, I'm not an expert on the iOS side but I believe they're even stricter about version compliance.)

TL;DR There's no way to spin this into John knowing what he was talking about, unless you assume he got every single word wrong as a typo.

MyOtherNicknameIsAPun said:
Oh, and from what I read that Idaho app was piece of shit, designed by frontend "engineers" in React and shitted into APK. No amount of newly minted dev libraries could save it.
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Yep. Indian-Polish frontend devs, who may not have graduated college yet. No, that's not an elaborate joke setup. I'm not as funny as reality.

Considering the app was using Auth0 logins and storing election results in publicly available Google Drive storage, you would think John ZOMG TEH CYBERSECURITIES Walker would have something real to opine about. But I guess he needs to import humble Kiwis to do the jobs that True and Honest Womyn won't do.
 
Norvic said:
Wu's been posting super low quality videos of her "speedruns" trying to get on to the leaderboard. Example:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uZ2fU6UdfAQ
It's a terrible, completely unoptimised run that any real speedrunner would be ashamed of. She even dies at one point. Here's Wu's speedruns account. She's submitted a run and checks every day to see if it's been verified, but nobody has given her the time of day so far because there's no info about how she was playing, no timer, no splits or anything you'd expect in a real speedrun video.

The thing is that the category Wu is competing in, All Stars Princess Only, is a bullshit category nobody runs. There's only 33 runs total registered over the last 3 years. Nobody cares about it because it's not a run worth doing. Wu only runs it because it's princess and she's a totally real girl, you guys.
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27 views and 6 subscribers, he's really that irrelevant?

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break these cuffs said:
He's lying. It isn't that hard to figure out. I understand people's desire to prove that he's lying, and an autist's love of speedrunning, but it really is that simple. John lies about everything. Why wouldn't he lie about this?
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Oh I know, it’s just you’d think for someone who compulsively lies so much he would understand you can check this stuff out. Bri Bri never learns
 
stupid moron said:
Oh I know, it’s just you’d think for someone who compulsively lies so much he would understand you can check this stuff out. Bri Bri never learns
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John has learned. People will either take what he says at face value or not call him out on his lies if they do fact check because it supports the narrative they are pushing. The only people who will call him out are irrelevant internet weirdos like us. John has long learned how to game the system, maybe not well, but not so poorly the system will call him on it. John's learned he can lie with near impunity.
 
Norvic said:
Wu's been posting super low quality videos of her "speedruns" trying to get on to the leaderboard. Example:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uZ2fU6UdfAQ
It's a terrible, completely unoptimised run that any real speedrunner would be ashamed of. She even dies at one point. Here's Wu's speedruns account. She's submitted a run and checks every day to see if it's been verified, but nobody has given her the time of day so far because there's no info about how she was playing, no timer, no splits or anything you'd expect in a real speedrun video.

The thing is that the category Wu is competing in, All Stars Princess Only, is a bullshit category nobody runs. There's only 33 runs total registered over the last 3 years. Nobody cares about it because it's not a run worth doing. Wu only runs it because it's princess and she's a totally real girl, you guys.
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Scrubbing through the video I noticed that he does a save-quit(@2:37) back to the All Stars game select and then the level counter rolled back when loading the save, weird. So I played up until that point myself, it seems like it's something with the japanese cart that glitches you to another level after a specific warp. He's just slavishly copying the movements of other runners but doesn't seem to understand why in some cases, he just mimics what they do. At one point he stands on an object in front of a birdo that shoots fireballs, waiting, because he knows that he is supposed to lift the object when the fireball comes so it passes through him. He would have been able to get a hit in and he could take a potential hit himself, the exit is right there and it replenishes his health, but he is supposed to lift the object when the fireball comes, that's the pro-move for fire birdo.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Scrubbing through the video I noticed that he does a save-quit(@2:37) back to the All Stars game select and then the level counter rolled back when loading the save, weird. So I played up until that point myself, it seems like it's something with the japanese cart that glitches you to another level after a specific warp.
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It's not a glitch, all versions of All-Stars let you do level-select from the save screen, back to any level before the furthest you've been.
 
Anyone who buys hand sanitizer for $70 deserves to buy hand sanitizer for $70.
 
Actually in my experience Fantasy Flight games have quite elegant rules (especially the Star Wars RPG), so if John and Frank can't figure it out they really must be a couple of morons.
 
America's Giggling Gigolo said:
Actually in my experience Fantasy Flight games have quite elegant rules (especially the Star Wars RPG), so if John and Frank can't figure it out they really must be a couple of morons.
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I wonder if they ever play Arkham Horror, what with Frank being married to one of the Masks of Nyarlathotep.
 
Because as we all know John has to get up at 5 AM and do his make up before his morning commute. Just kidding he's been unemployed for 25 years.

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John you shit.

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Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
This moral code seems a bit arbitrary to me.
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John's moral code is roughly of the same calibre as his computer code.
 
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