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

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MarineTrainedTard said:
Holy shit, Wu really can' t stop being a cow, huh? Anyone who gives a fuck about gamergate in 2021 is a fucking lolcow
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Oh it’s still good for laughs. I still watch old DN shit and chuckle for example. Besides my gf though I haven’t even tried to explain any of it to anyone after the fact. These people holding grudges are the worst though, on both sides.

The best fictional series about this would satirize both sides. The main character would be some Mary Sue Game Developer (a mash up of Quinn, Sarkeesian, and Flynt. Maybe some Ana Kasparian thrown in) that was super obnoxious and always beat everyone at every argument but still manage to never actually succeed at anything - with her supporters being her loving husband who has otherwise no personality, some quirky pink haired pan sexual gamer girl, a Black and well-spoken Lawyer who cares about women’s rights (lol), Jewish CEO who wants to promote diversity (also lol), some Tranny that beats everyone at games, and an oafish white guy who starts off as part of GG but gradually enters a polyamorous relationship with the tranny and pink haired bitch who looks like a jock still but acts soy filled.

The antagonists are of course some sneering fat Englishman who’s a closet case, a dudebro edgy gamer who’s secretly a white nationalist, a greedy white businessman just getting into the video game industry who appeals to sexist sensibilities (Trump parody), a rival Lawyer who’s also an angry white man, the Reformed Gamer Guys best friend who’s still an asshole (and I dunno, Asian?), and some guy who chains smokes cigarettes and makes fun of all of it on podcasts but still gets owned by the main character.

Then in the last episode, some guy claiming to be the leader of GamerGate street races the Englishman and the main character, beats them both and then shoots them all and blows it all up in a blaze of glory.
 
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KingOfGains said:
Yeah, I just saw this. All I can say is "Here we fucking go again."

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"You can trust me" "Tell the truth" Mmhmm...

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OH boy. Oh fucking boy. :story:
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>it will NOT be a feminist melodrama
>it's about evil far-right extremist nazi bigots taking over the game industry
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Jackie Puppet said:
So who's going to play Wu in this True Fiction crime drama? Mitch McConnell isn't an actor so he's out. Maybe they could ugly up Tina Fey enough to play the role?
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I’m banking on him being completely delusional and casting some 10/10 bombshell to play his Gary Sue self insert.
 
All of the retardation aside, there's not enough material to even make a movie, let alone a series.

You can only do so much with Twitter activism, and some mean messages being sent.

I know theoretically they can just make shit up, but then even a made up boogeyman young male organization would do. No need for gamergate. There's bigger and realer (perceived) threats out there, like the proud boys or atomwaffen.

No network is gonna buy this. Nobody would watch it. Game dev, journos and big companies going against some angry nerds. Yeah, that's amazing and thrilling TV there, John. I bet people will rather see that than Squid Games!

If, god forbid, I am wrong, I hope they get someone resembling John to play the main chick. Not TV ugly, disformed ugly.
 
Next Task said:
The Greater Theory About GamerGate that John has always pushed, and has said would be the central part of the show, boils down to 'straight white men are angry that other people exist and want them gone'.
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I attended several face-to-face GamerGate meetings in the UK where I met, among other people, Samuel Collingwood Smith - an odd fellow, but then I can hardly talk. One thing that stood out was how diverse the attendees were, not only in terms of race and gender, but also in regard to their age, profession, politics, etc. Whatever GamerGate became later on, in its early days it was a rallying point for a vast assortment of disaffected individuals who would probably never have met under any other circumstances.

By comparison, the sparsely-attended meetings that were held by those who had defined themselves as the opposition, comprised a few morbidly obese, danger-haired women, accompanied by a handful of broken men, whose haunted expressions told the world of the many occasions when they had stood obediently in the corner of their bedroom and watched their girlfriend get bare-backed by one or more strangers.

Of course it all went to shit. You could see the rising stars who were going to end up as liabilities, Sargon being the most obvious. Milo, at least, had the decency to be entertaining.
 
Gimmick Account said:
Hard disagree. I don't know jack shit for certain but I was deep in the dev community at ground zero, though I didn't speak regularly to the central people involved (but close enough for a friend to leak stuff from the famous secret journalist list thing), and the whole deal always felt incredibly inorganic to me. The hooks of identity politics got into everyone's brain right there
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Being a part of the dev community you should already know that identity politics was already there for years, bled over from college universities and etc. which all champion various forms of Critical Theory. If it wasn't then gaming wouldn't have undergone the massive changes it did which in turn incited the blowback that underpinned Gamergate. It was there from the start.
You probably didn't recognize it for its face because you hadn't had people expose it to you and no one was openly Marxist yet, at least not with any influence. This was even before Antifa got imported to the USA from abroad. Until then "Antifa" was basically just a crazy violent movement Americans heard about from UK news articles on rare occasions.
Gimmick Account said:
and the ethics of videogame journalism issue had been a widely known problem for decades ready to pop the moment anybody wanted it to.
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It wasn't just the ethics. It was the politics, the entire worldview that moved the current which changed the flow of the entire industry from development to journalism.
Gimmick Account said:
Naive, disposable creatives in a rapidly growing sector of the industry were perfect amplifiers for it, and what was up until that point a rebellious, open and tightly-knit group with an amazing sense of camaraderie were effectively neutralised at the same time.
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What are you talking about? These hopeful creatives which were at indie game conferences and the like were already biting each other over minor infractions like a pit of angry snakes. You might've been blessed with a nice group you belonged to but that group was gonna splinter and crack at some point because of the entire push and atmosphere of the industry as a whole. Gamergate didn't start the Cancel Culture kinda deal, as an example. That was already beginning long before that.
Does no one remember #CancelColbert?
Gimmick Account said:
Nobody really cares about that part but I got to hear about the five guyz days before everyone else then in miniature of what was to come saw all these cool artists who had all gotten along five minutes ago turn into Twitter assholes and scatter to the wind months before it happened to the entire rest of the Internet.
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Again, that was always gonna happen. It was organic. Not inorganic. It wasn't planned or funded like BLM but rather was the natural consequence of the cool artists' brains being infested with the politics implanted into them from college and peers. They were always assholes. Twitter just helped prove it.
Gimmick Account said:
Along with certain other events that happened to the platforms we used directly afterwards that guaranteed it, it felt like a deliberate systematic dismantling in retrospect.
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It was afterward, certainly, but by then the trauma of the great harrassment sexist beast Gamergate was so severe that they set about making sure it could never happen again (like after Trump won), and that also meant making sure to sift out anyone who wouldn't virulently toe their political cult's line.
Gimmick Account said:
And given what it became a launchpad for which nobody thinks is organic... maybe people behind that stuff were just expert opportunists, but I don't believe so.
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GG wasn't a launchpad for BLM if that's what you mean. Trayvon Martin's case being blown up in the media and by the President was the launchpad. GG was just the homework Soros & Friends copied off of, at least as far as I know.
 
At least John isn't pretending to be a game developer anymore?
Now he can pretend to be a relevant tv producer or something.
There are kids playing Fortnite who were born after Gamergate.
 
When I said I wanted a documentary series about GamerGate, I didn't mean one produced by one of the people involved.
 
Its a fictional gamergate series because if it was real it would show the world that these people are actually fucking retarded
 
KingOfGains said:
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Regardless of the fact that muh gamuhgatezz was already overplayed 5 years ago, this just sounds like a shitty show.

A fictional story set in the gaming industry about the efforts of "an institution" (whatever a "gaming institution" is...I guess maybe Steam/Valve would be one?) to stop an "extremist fringe" from taking the institution over, which the institution fails to do.

First of all, what fucking gaming "institution" was taken over by Gamergate? Seriously, tell me so I can give them my money all these years later.

Second, so this is a story about the protagonists failing? How is that something worth watching? You can of course inject drama and meaning into any story, but if you're building up a big baddie as the antagonist and he/she/it actually ends up winning, it kind of leaves all that unresolved catharsis just sitting there.

Finally, how is this "extremist fringe" going to be portrayed so as to be believable? Remember, people actually "lived through" Gamergate. Making some weird Trump-cum-game dev that never actually existed who has weird Zuckerburg-esque power over consumers' minds is just unbelievable to anyone who isn't ideologically motivated. Will ~anonymous~ show up and firebomb a Firaxis studio? If this is an "extremist fringe" because it is subtly corruptive and forwards socially wrong behaviours, it has to be presented with a light touch so as to not be parodical. And I think subtlety is a virtue entirely lacking from SJWs and Brianna Wu.

tl;dr the show sounds like some effete urbanite got high and watched the Newsroom and thought "We can do that but for gaming!!!!!"
 
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