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

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JSGOTI said:
Ooh, ooh! Good timing to bring up my next point.
I did some hunting to look at all that Wu has bought on Ebay over the past month, and it breaks down as follows....

Money spent on the car, so far (That I know of)
  • NEW Front/Rear OEM floor mats ($54.99)
  • NEW Center Console ($290.91)
  • H-Gate Shifter and LED Surround ($135.68)
  • 1.8L Turbo Catalytic Converter ($205.94)
  • Overhead Dome Map Light ($60.12)
  • OEM Upstream Oxygen Sensor ($71.68)
  • SONY XAV-AX100 Stereo ($499.00)

Grand Total(From Ebay): $1318.32


This one might be a little bit harder to break down, but I'll give the best answer that I can come up with, given what we know about the world that Wu lives in.
  • Story came out at some point that a tree had fallen on Wu's car and totaled it(not true, as proven by recent pictures)
  • Back in January, Wu was posting about how franks car was 15 years old, and he was looking at getting a new Challenger(which my pictures prove was true).
  • Frank gets new car, Wu immediately starts screeching and hollaring because 'equality' and demands a 'new' car, too.
  • Frank convinces Wu to look outside of new cars, settles on shitbeat Audi that he can rice out for 'street racer' cred
I couldn't tell if the registration sticker on Wu's Honda was still valid or not, but I know for a fact that the Audi still has the NY plates on it and has not been registered in MA.
I'm still not sure where the motorcycle has gone to, it's -possible- that it might be in the back yard or in storage somewhere, but I remember seeing it out in the snow in a tweet at some point this winter.
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...Is this tacit acknowledgement that Wu intended to respond to Jace's street race throw-down?
 
that car is a metaphor for her political campaign: going nowhere but making a lot of noise.
 
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YOU SIGNED THE CONTRACT, SO I'M PAYING YOU $1, GET TO WORK SANDNIGGER!
 
Optimus Prime said:
How in hell is too much oxygen a BAD thing in this context?
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It's worth remembering that an internal combustion engine runs off precisely controlled explosions. The explosion is caused by air and fuel mixing and being ignited by spark plugs.

The reason high performance engines run higher octane fuel is not because the fuel is MORE explosive, it's actually less explosive. The harder it is to make the higher grade fuel explode under identical circumstances to say, 87, the more consistency you can rely on during operation and thus the more aggressively you can tune the engine. That factoid seems unrelated but it's important to remember because it alludes to how air fuel mixture has a huge impact on how the engine runs.

The air fuel mixture is extremely important to monitor for optimal running as too much air causes the car to run "lean" which causes the car to run hot (this was alluded to in previous posts), and cars running too hot increase the operating temperature around where the air+fuel is injected and explodes. The higher the temperature is around the air fuel mixture, the more likely a given air fuel mixture will explode, so if the temperature gets too hot this can cause the air fuel mixture to detonate too early, which can and usually will severely damage engine internals, either due to actual damage from the heat, or because the components that normally do not meet hit each other (many modern engines are an elaborately choreographed dance of components getting out of the way of other components, so one misstep can cause a cascading effect where one thing hitting something it's not supposed to hit just destroys the majority of the inside of an engine given the energy involved in a device powered by controlled explosions).

The flip side of "lean" is "rich", which means too much fuel. Engines running rich run much cooler due to the excess fuel and as don't get damaged in the same way as leaned out engines and the damage is usually much easier to repair (prematurely gummed up spark plugs, for example) but rich is still bad because the fuel economy and performance is awful due to a lot of your gas just flying out the back of your exhaust pipe and not being used to make you actually go places. You can always smell a car running rich because it smells like a gas coming out of the back.

Bringing this back to the sensors, engine management computers nowadays use sensors (the O2 sensor mass airflow sensor, for example) to determine how the engine is running at any given time and make adjustments based on calculations it makes to ensure the car isn't running too lean or too rich, so if a sensor goes bad the car will suffer as the computer is only as good as the information it's getting.[/sneed]

See below for why you'd actually replace the O2 sensor.:oops:

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Optimus Prime said:
The fuck is an oxygen sensor even for?
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Everyone is explaining what a mass air flow sensor does. An oxygen sensor is part of your exhaust. It measures the oxygen content of your exhaust before and after the catalytic converter for the sake of environmental regulation and detecting a faulty catalytic converter.

It is a little rare to change the O2 sensors at the same time as the cat, so she probably went to a local auto parts shop, had them scan her check engine code, and explained to her that a P0420 code could either be a bad catalytic converter or bad 02 sensors. Not knowing what either of them do, she changed all of them. 9 times out of 10 it would just need a new catalytic converter.
 
What gets me about Engineer John is the job that actually needs doing, the cable harness, has possibly not been done.

The TT forum I found claimed it was a job that needed time and patience, and wasnt for the faint hearted. So, John hasnt done it himself. He claimed earlier that it would cost around the $1500 mark so maybe he has had it done at a garage.

If he has had it done professionally , the TiTty has now run in at approx $5000 purchace price+ $1500 harness+ $1500 bling = $8000 total for a shitty 16 year old hairdresser's car (UK term for a car that is over priced for its style rather than any substance).

I dont know if crap german cars are significantly more expensive in US than over here , but you could by two, maybe even 3 second hand Audi quattros for what Wu has laid out on his.

https://www.gumtree.com/cars/uk/audi/audi+tt+225
 
Chemical snorfare said:
If he has had it done professionally , the TiTty has now run in at approx $5000 purchace price+ $1500 harness+ $1500 bling = $8000 total for a shitty 16 year old hairdresser's car (UK term for a car that is over priced for its style rather than any substance).
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It's like Brianna isn't good with money! ;)
 
AngeloTheWizard said:
In this context, I'll let Steam Powered Giraffe answer: "Fire, Fire, burns much brighter, when oxygen, is the supplier."

Too much O2, whole thing goes BOOM, and you're dead.
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HarblMcDavid said:
It's worth remembering that an internal combustion engine runs off precisely controlled explosions. The explosion is caused by air and fuel mixing and being ignited by spark plugs.

The reason high performance engines run higher octane fuel is not because the fuel is MORE explosive, it's actually less explosive. The harder it is to make the higher grade fuel explode under identical circumstances to say, 87, the more consistency you can rely on during operation and thus the more aggressively you can tune the engine. That factoid seems unrelated but it's important to remember because it alludes to how air fuel mixture has a huge impact on how the engine runs.

The air fuel mixture is extremely important to monitor for optimal running as too much air causes the car to run "lean" which causes the car to run hot (this was alluded to in previous posts), and cars running too hot increase the operating temperature around where the air+fuel is injected and explodes. The higher the temperature is around the air fuel mixture, the more likely a given air fuel mixture will explode, so if the temperature gets too hot this can cause the air fuel mixture to detonate too early, which can and usually will severely damage engine internals, either due to actual damage from the heat, or because the components that normally do not meet hit each other (many modern engines are an elaborately choreographed dance of components getting out of the way of other components, so one misstep can cause a cascading effect where one thing hitting something it's not supposed to hit just destroys the majority of the inside of an engine given the energy involved in a device powered by controlled explosions).

The flip side of "lean" is "rich", which means too much fuel. Engines running rich run much cooler due to the excess fuel and as don't get damaged in the same way as leaned out engines and the damage is usually much easier to repair (prematurely gummed up spark plugs, for example) but rich is still bad because the fuel economy and performance is awful due to a lot of your gas just flying out the back of your exhaust pipe and not being used to make you actually go places. You can always smell a car running rich because it smells like a gas coming out of the back.

Bringing this back to the sensors, engine management computers nowadays use sensors (the O2 sensor, for example) to determine how the engine is running at any given time and make adjustments based on calculations it makes to ensure the car isn't running too lean or too rich, so if a sensor goes bad the car will suffer as the computer is only as good as the information it's getting.
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ForTheHoard said:
Everyone is explaining what a mass air flow sensor does. An oxygen sensor is part of your exhaust. It measures the oxygen content of your exhaust before and after the catalytic converter for the sake of environmental regulation and detecting a faulty catalytic converter.

It is a little rare to change the O2 sensors at the same time as the cat, so she probably went to a local auto parts shop, had them scan her check engine code, and explained to her that a P0420 code could either be a bad catalytic converter or bad 02 sensors. Not knowing what either of them do, she changed all of them. 9 times out of 10 it would just need a new catalytic converter.
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lol I got the whole part about how it manages oxygen levels in car engines.

My intended joke was that Wu's little TT going BOOM wouldn't be such a bad thing. For us, since Wu would scream to the high heavens on Twitter about it.
 
So why don't we ever see Brianna actually doing any of this work? We see the work half done and then we see it finished (with Frank in driver's seat again). Why doesn't Brianna at least pose with a screwdriver for a bit? The closest we've seen to her doing the work herself is when she held that one screw and we all say her gnawed thumb nail.
 
Furina said:
So why don't we ever see Brianna actually doing any of this work? We see the work half done and then we see it finished (with Frank in driver's seat again). Why doesn't Brianna at least pose with a screwdriver for a bit? The closest we've seen to her doing the work herself is when she held that one screw and we all say her gnawed thumb nail.
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because the only thing he actually knows is that he is a disgusting looking freak.
 
Furina said:
So why don't we ever see Brianna actually doing any of this work? We see the work half done and then we see it finished (with Frank in driver's seat again). Why doesn't Brianna at least pose with a screwdriver for a bit? The closest we've seen to her doing the work herself is when she held that one screw and we all say her gnawed thumb nail.
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I don't think she does any.

Or she knows she has fallen into a trap where she can't show any work in progress: She wants everyone to believe she can fart into the general direction of something 'tech' and then the magic happens. Wu is always an expert in whatever she does, she can't just claim that she only has a vague idea and tries it just to learn something. If she would make pictures of her progress, everyone could see how she's bumbling around, what mistakes she makes and people could how long something takes her.
 
Von Clausewitz said:
I don't think she does any.

Or she knows she has fallen into a trap where she can't show any work in progress: She wants everyone to believe she can fart into the general direction of something 'tech' and then the magic happens. Wu is always an expert in whatever she does, she can't just claim that she only has a vague idea and tries it just to learn something. If she would make pictures of her progress, everyone could see how she's bumbling around, what mistakes she makes and people could how long something takes her.
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Worse still they might offer her advice.
 
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