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

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Elbe said:
People like Wu don't really give a shit about social justice.

For them it's just a way to treat people like shit while believing they're occupying the moral high ground. A bit like fundies.
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Never forget that Wu was a die-hard right-winger before switching sides.

Being a shithead knows no political ideology.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
God, that's a terrible song parody. And a shitty joke in general.
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Yes. Also, if Disney buys Twitter the song would be more like:
We don't want you jews here
Greedy, nit-picky, stingy
Tell me, Schlomo, now what will
Your last meddlesome tweet beeee?
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Norvic said:
Everybody can see this game is a clunker, and hardly any of the kickstarter backers cared enough even to redeem their keys, let alone to complain about the things that were promised and never delivered.
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So Revolution 60 is the digital equivalent of "that one thing you ordered off Amazon, which wasn't quite right, but it was too cheap and unimportant to send it back, so you just ordered a different one"?
Norvic said:
Just 9 months ago, Wu was saying shit like this:
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You got your red flag right here:
What gets me up in the morning is I completely believe it is a good and moral thing to give jobs to people in the industry who are typically not treated well.
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This implies that she is giving those poor people jobs they deserve, while most others don't. The thing is, that the people who feel the need to stress how 'good and moral' they are in comparison to all others, when they talk about 'the problems society has', are most likely the biggest bigots. People who actually want to help others and try to better society don't walk around and point at them selves to tell everyone how awesome they are.
 
Norvic said:
Wu's pretending to be a programmer again, and once again I am triggered.

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Can't even keep her story straight. Last time she told this tale, she got her first computer in the late 80s and nobody had computers then. Now she was hacking BASIC in elementary school.

This is exactly the same MO with game engines. She dismisses everything she has no personal experience of as "toys." I'm more than ever convinced that Pascal is the only language she's ever tried to learn, and that only because it was a lesson at school.

This Turbo Pascal 4 anecdote is always the one she trots out, and she never even tries to talk about any other language even in the "this is a thing that exists" depth that she talks about Pascal.
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Then fix your buggy, broken piece of shit game John!

Should be easy for a hardcore programmer, if you're not lying about any of your background.....
 
kcbbq said:
Turbo Pascal was more of a toy language than BASIC really was. At least BASIC had a place at the table.

I've cracked open my FORTRAN 77 book more in the last 20 years than my Turbo Pascal book.

Then again, to be fair, we know how technologically illiterate John is.
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John has never written a lick of actual code in his life.
 
Jaimas said:
Never forget that Wu was a die-hard right-winger before switching sides.

Being a shithead knows no political ideology.
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John still is a right winger at heart. He just knows what side his tranny bread is buttered on. He gives absolutely zero shits about anyone not John and anyone not in the top 1%.
 
Eli Whitney said:
John has never written a lick of actual code in his life.
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You guys remember this gem, right?
https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/15/07/22/1317222/interviews-brianna-wu-answers-your-questions

I'm interested in what development languages you excel in and how you mastered them - as head of development for a gaming company, I think that's my first question. Follow-up side-points would be when you transitioned from journalist to game developer, and why game development? Was it related to some of the 'sparks' and 'movements' by some other females 'in the gaming community' - and seen as an easy way to jump on a bandwagon that was clearly going to make waves? Journalist to developer just seems like a very strange transition to me, so I'm curious about the particulars. Do you have a github account where you publish some of your code?

Brianna: I’ve had many jobs over the course of my life. I’ve worked in politics and well as media. Both have been very helpful backgrounds for me in running a studio, which is a very political job. One of my greatest frustrations as a developer is that I don’t get to spend as much time doing gamedev as I used to. The truth is, I can hire another engineer - but I can’t hire someone to replace me.

I feel like my entire life has prepared me for this moment. There’s very little I would change about the choices that brought me to this point.

I can’t help but read your question and feel like you might not have the best of intentions. I read it as you are feel that I need to prove to you that I’m a legit developer. I think my record as someone whose first game won several game of the year awards speaks for itself. I think my two popular shows on Relay.FM where I am an industry analyst on technical issues speaks for itself.
 
Eli Whitney said:
You guys remember this gem, right?
https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/15/07/22/1317222/interviews-brianna-wu-answers-your-questions
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Heh, I remember that one. Later she suggests she does have a Github account where she publishes code, but it's under a super seekrit name because harassment. I pointed out a while back that when she would have set up the account, it would have been before Gamergate ever started and she would have had no reason to conceal her identity. After all, she was perfectly happy to have every other web presence she's ever had under the spacekatgal name. It's just like how Natalie is a pseudonym to avoid the evil gators, and how Lauren was camera shy and needed a model to stand in for her.

I wonder if she feels like her game of the year awards are actually genuine, rather than favours from friends? I mean, even if she had the worst case of ugly baby syndrome ever, surely the sales figures speak the quality of your product in bright red ink?
 
@A Small Loan your username will never get old

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Norvic said:
This Turbo Pascal 4 anecdote is always the one she trots out, and she never even tries to talk about any other language even in the "this is a thing that exists" depth that she talks about Pascal.
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A lot of high schools used Pascal in their "Intro to Computers" classes back in the 90's. Guessing he took the class back then and tries to use it for some e-cred.

Eli Whitney said:
You guys remember this gem, right?
https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/15/07/22/1317222/interviews-brianna-wu-answers-your-questions

I'm interested in what development languages you excel in and how you mastered them - as head of development for a gaming company, I think that's my first question. Follow-up side-points would be when you transitioned from journalist to game developer, and why game development? Was it related to some of the 'sparks' and 'movements' by some other females 'in the gaming community' - and seen as an easy way to jump on a bandwagon that was clearly going to make waves? Journalist to developer just seems like a very strange transition to me, so I'm curious about the particulars. Do you have a github account where you publish some of your code?

Brianna: I’ve had many jobs over the course of my life. I’ve worked in politics and well as media. Both have been very helpful backgrounds for me in running a studio, which is a very political job. One of my greatest frustrations as a developer is that I don’t get to spend as much time doing gamedev as I used to. The truth is, I can hire another engineer - but I can’t hire someone to replace me.

I feel like my entire life has prepared me for this moment. There’s very little I would change about the choices that brought me to this point.

I can’t help but read your question and feel like you might not have the best of intentions. I read it as you are feel that I need to prove to you that I’m a legit developer. I think my record as someone whose first game won several game of the year awards speaks for itself. I think my two popular shows on Relay.FM where I am an industry analyst on technical issues speaks for itself.
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Never seen that before but it's hilarious. If he wanted to make the interviewer look bad he'd go in-depth on his programming knowledge and mention his gitbub account. It's not a difficult question to field if you know how to program. But instead he points to a podcast where they talk about iPhone features instead. As if being an analyst makes you a programmer. If that's the case the guys on sports radio are all professional athletes.

I would have paid to see the panic on his face when that question was asked though.
 
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That isn't too much more than you got handed to you Briana, don't you wish you were smart enough to make something with it?
 
Norvic said:
how Lauren was camera shy and needed a model to stand in for her
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So many pages into the Brianna Wu thread and I'm still learning hilarious tidbits about them.

Didn't see Natalie's name mentioned in the credits sequence either.
 
Superfly Johnson said:
So I just asked my phone, "OK Google, how old is Brianna Wu?" And I shit you not, it said back to me, "According to some information I found on lolcow wiki, age is 39." :heart-full:
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I tried it too and got the same result; absolutely hilarious.

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Which is funny because she was paying Google to suppress these results. Guess she didn't keep up the payments?
 
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