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

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Peace and Harmony said:
Who would have thought that there were emergencies even bigger than the rise of a Fourth Reich with nuclear weapons?

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Y'know, I always find the politically-obsessed a particular kind of hilarious. They blather on about how X is "a threat to our democracy" or how Y is "literally fascism" or comparing Z to Harry Potter. They build up an image in their minds of the great freedom fighter who's doing Important Work™, who's Making a Difference™. They can't simply shut it off and relax, because that's how the Nazis win!

In reality...honestly, national and international politics are so far removed from your day-to-day life that you really don't need to be hyper-focused on them all the time. State and local governments have much more impact for their size, despite not being anywhere near as glamorous as demonstrating on the Capitol steps or getting a soundbite played on the news. While you should certainly pay attention to what's going on and speak out when you don't agree, the world isn't going to stop turning just because you didn't spend all day tweeting about those damn dirty fascists.

John's efforts are even funnier due to how meaningless they are. He makes big talk about how his ad campaigns are furthering the progressive cause, yet REEbellionPAC has backed the wrong horse every single time. If it disappeared tomorrow, there would be no measurable impact on the political landscape. John could easily drop everything and go back to his "passion," but he won't.

Beyond the surface complaints of "ugh politics," this sounds more to me like John throwing out an excuse as to why he's never going to have anything to do with game development again. He knows he has no skills of his own, and former employees have already made the rounds warning others not to get involved with him, so if he got anyone, it would be bottom of the barrel, more so than the first time around. His dreams of making another Space Bimbo Simulator are never going to come to fruition, and if anything did get made, he has such a huge target on his back from years of antagonizing the gaming community that it'd get torn to shreds immediately. So he throws up his Important Work™ as a smokescreen while also attempting to keep his woman-in-tech credentials fresh ("did you know I used to be a game developer?"). Pretty funny.
 
>"Then I'd go back to games."
>tweets about playing vidya every god damn waking hour of every god damn day

>"Life's work" is buying someone else's IP and using it to reskin a different someone else's IP
 
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...and that's how totalitarianism works Johnnie.
It's why electing John to anything at all would be a disaster for even those he pretends to be aligned with (his real position is just mercenary...how can John get into a cushy ego stroke situation - he's really a lot like what he says about Trump)

from his boxing analogy he plagiarized from snow crash to his admission he's ok with taking the low road, John wants to leverage that for his own benefit...
suspend democratic law for martial law b/c "emergency", just as long as John gets to strut in front of the troops and tell em how it is

Somehow I doubt John gets he's just voiced the whole shtick behind 1984 : The higher ups of the powers in collusion to keep the war going so they can stay in "emergency footing" to call the shots while excusing the lack of productivity.
 
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Why don't you do something useful with your fucking money for a change, like stock a garage full of luxury sports cars that you never drive?

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King Dead said:
Beyond the surface complaints of "ugh politics," this sounds more to me like John throwing out an excuse as to why he's never going to have anything to do with game development again. He knows he has no skills of his own, and former employees have already made the rounds warning others not to get involved with him, so if he got anyone, it would be bottom of the barrel, more so than the first time around. His dreams of making another Space Bimbo Simulator are never going to come to fruition, and if anything did get made, he has such a huge target on his back from years of antagonizing the gaming community that it'd get torn to shreds immediately. So he throws up his Important Work™ as a smokescreen while also attempting to keep his woman-in-tech credentials fresh ("did you know I used to be a game developer?"). Pretty funny.
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The sad part is that Wu is one of the most privileged people on the planet. She's absolutely made of time, I doubt Scam PAC would consume as much as 5 hours a week in its current form even if she did put the minimum effort that maintaining it demands. You could spend a couple of hours writing and scheduling a week's worth of social media posts, an hour or so drafting a weekly mailing list post, an hour consulting with Cenk about direction and another hour tweaking the copy of the begging facebook ads they run so that they're fresh and timely and that'd be about it for most of the time. The rest of the time is Wu's to spend as she pleases.

What could Wu do? The sky's the limit really.
She could actually run Scam PAC legitimately. For example, find the lowest predicted turnout safe Republican seat in the senate that's up for grabs in 2022, and pour every day in to trying to turn out people to vote Democrat. It'd be a lot of tedious work every day, but it would be a use of what limited resources Scam PAC commands that might actually make a real difference. Certainly it wouldn't be a total waste like the current scattershot approach of producing worthless video ads for Democratic primaries that no one will ever see, and if by some miracle they actually flipped a senate seat then it would provide Wu with real, earned clout for the first time in her miserable life.

Or, she could actually turn her programmer Wu fantasy in to reality. Sit down and really learn how to program instead of just telling people on twitter you can do it. Produce some little indie games with weird and wonderful mechanics and put them up on the web for free. Find some compelling mechanics and invite some collaborators to work on it with her, then put out another game that's actually a passion project rather than trend chasing.

Or she could have a piano tutor in every day, or do stock car racing, or run every 5K race going, or, or, or.....

ANYTHING but listlessly browsing the Playstation store for new releases, screaming DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM? at randos on twitter and finding new toys to consoom. Anything.
 
Norvic said:
The sad part is that Wu is one of the most privileged people on the planet. She's absolutely made of time, I doubt Scam PAC would consume as much as 5 hours a week in its current form even if she did put the minimum effort that maintaining it demands. You could spend a couple of hours writing and scheduling a week's worth of social media posts, an hour or so drafting a weekly mailing list post, an hour consulting with Cenk about direction and another hour tweaking the copy of the begging facebook ads they run so that they're fresh and timely and that'd be about it for most of the time. The rest of the time is Wu's to spend as she pleases.

What could Wu do? The sky's the limit really.
She could actually run Scam PAC legitimately. For example, find the lowest predicted turnout safe Republican seat in the senate that's up for grabs in 2022, and pour every day in to trying to turn out people to vote Democrat. It'd be a lot of tedious work every day, but it would be a use of what limited resources Scam PAC commands that might actually make a real difference. Certainly it wouldn't be a total waste like the current scattershot approach of producing worthless video ads for Democratic primaries that no one will ever see, and if by some miracle they actually flipped a senate seat then it would provide Wu with real, earned clout for the first time in her miserable life.

Or, she could actually turn her programmer Wu fantasy in to reality. Sit down and really learn how to program instead of just telling people on twitter you can do it. Produce some little indie games with weird and wonderful mechanics and put them up on the web for free. Find some compelling mechanics and invite some collaborators to work on it with her, then put out another game that's actually a passion project rather than trend chasing.

Or she could have a piano tutor in every day, or do stock car racing, or run every 5K race going, or, or, or.....

ANYTHING but listlessly browsing the Playstation store for new releases, screaming DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM? at randos on twitter and finding new toys to consoom. Anything.
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Being totally honest here, I wouldn't even begrudge John if he just wanted to sit on his ass and play video games all day for the rest of his life. As you mentioned, he can more or less afford to do anything he wants to do, without having to work a day in his life to do it. Frank's income is apparently enough to pay for a sizable home, multiple sports cars, all the latest tech gadgets, oodles of video and board games, shelves full of plastic crap, and any other whim that crosses John's mind, to say nothing of all the...ahem, "surgeries" he's gotten over the years. John fell ass-backwards into a pile of money and is completely blinded to how privileged he is. But it's his money (or rather, Frank's money), and if he wants to buy a bunch of shit he doesn't need and spend every day doing nothing at all, he's within his rights to do so. Lord knows there are plenty of idle rich out there.

But John views wealth as his baseline, so it's not exciting to him. He wants fame, he wants to see people talking about him, he wants to make his hacker-biker-gamer-journalist-politician LARP a reality. He doesn't want to be a filthy normie, he wants to be cool. So instead of doing the smart thing and going home to play with his toys until the internet moved on, John spazzes out everywhere, all the time, anything to keep himself in the news. He'll give an interview to anyone that wants a soundbite, he'll throw out some incendiary tweets to reap backlash and paint himself as victimized, and he'll keep making a big deal out of how great a person he is. Never once will he realize how much better his life would be if he just logged off.

On the bright side, it continues to give us a lot to make fun of, so there's that.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
Why don't you do something useful with your fucking money for a change, like stock a garage full of luxury sports cars that you never drive?

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I dont know shit about NFTs but I'm think theyre just "made" by the creators, theyre not "mined" (thusly not burning the energy of 10,000 suns like that dirty BTC except when it isnt when John wants to brag about his 10000000x gainz), correct?
 
Peace and Harmony said:
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...and that's how totalitarianism works Johnnie.
It's why electing John to anything at all would be a disaster for even those he pretends to be aligned with (his real position is just mercenary...how can John get into a cushy ego stroke situation - he's really a lot like what he says about Trump)

from his boxing analogy he plagiarized from snow crash to his admission he's ok with taking the low road, John wants to leverage that for his own benefit...
suspend democratic law for martial law b/c "emergency", just as long as John gets to strut in front of the troops and tell em how it is

Somehow I doubt John gets he's just voiced the whole shtick behind 1984 : The higher ups of the powers in collusion to keep the war going so they can stay in "emergency footing" to call the shots while excusing the lack of productivity.
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how long till the left eats Johnny
 
Particle Bored said:
I dont know shit about NFTs but I'm think theyre just "made" by the creators, theyre not "mined" (thusly not burning the energy of 10,000 suns like that dirty BTC except when it isnt when John wants to brag about his 10000000x gainz), correct?
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I think this is simply another case of John being a fucking moron.
 
Particle Bored said:
I dont know shit about NFTs but I'm think theyre just "made" by the creators, theyre not "mined" (thusly not burning the energy of 10,000 suns like that dirty BTC except when it isnt when John wants to brag about his 10000000x gainz), correct?
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John should turn his severed penis into an NFT so you can buy and sell it.
 
AirdropShitposts said:
No, dummy, because intelligence agencies have actual sovereign immunity already:
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John's concept of how the legal system works is basically on the level of a fourth-grader telling another fourth-grader on the playground at Nathan Bedford Forrest Elementary School (home of the Fightin' Kluxers) that he's going to sue over being called, in John's case, a mincing, limp-wristed faggot. (This almost certainly happened.)
 
Particle Bored said:
I dont know shit about NFTs but I'm think theyre just "made" by the creators, theyre not "mined" (thusly not burning the energy of 10,000 suns like that dirty BTC except when it isnt when John wants to brag about his 10000000x gainz), correct?
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what John's o about is that NFTs use blockchains to validate the ownership.so it participates in the bloackchains the same way currency does (the blockcains are kind of abstracted, so for example it's common to use Etherium)

A couple things about that though
It can be a bit difficult to calc what the individual impact is in that sort of distributed and comingled market...sort of like figuring the exact footprint of Jon taking a plane vacatin to the magic kingdom is

John also fails to mention (because the article in whatever rag he's listening to through audible) didn't really cover Etherium and BTC are using proof-of-work systems , but blockcains like Flow use a "proof of stake" system...which isn't the brute force calculation of PoW that the older systems are using. Flow was actually developed in response to the NFT stuff getting popular.

There is also Chia which uses a proof of space (storage) system instead of proof of work, but again, John doesn't know about that

FWIW Etherium is moving toward proof of stake validation too.


The tech changes, running proof of work in the near future will be like running an old car with primitive emissions control from th 1980s

I wonder why someone doesn't just quote john with his 'I hate to break it do ou, but... it really would require government action to really do anything'...line like he says to excuse himself from any personal responsibility for his choices


I think the long and the short of it is he's trying to grandstand to distract from his own anti-environmental hobbies
 
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