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

[Cubanodun]

View attachment 207384 At first I thought maybe Frank put his foot down and wouldn't let her buy a $300 NES Mini. Then I read how the whole raspberry pi setup takes work and realized she just used donation money to get one

Those things only need to insert it in the case, put the microsd and connect it to the tv, best case you don't even have to install retropie, John did the equivalent to install a plug and play machine

As with most things Wu, it seems like this incident in her life was either vastly exaggerated or entirely fictional.

Im pretty sure he was sleeping in a coach for a couple of weeks and that hurted his entitled feelings severely like always

 

[Karellen]

Those things only need to insert it in the case, put the microsd and connect it to the tv, best case you don't even have to install retropie, John did the equivalent to install a plug and play machine

I just figured he didn't because his usual DIY projects involve bragging on twitter about his engineer cred, followed up by asking for help on something simple (where do I insert BIOS?) and screaming mansplaining when he gets an answer.

 

[rugburner]

Am I missing something or does some of the stuff on Wu's page on the wiki not make a lot of sense. Wu posted an image that was on 8chan, and it's the same image, therefore Wu made it? What? Operation FalseFag II is even on the subpage for 'fake shit' that's gotten removed from her Dramatica article.

 

[Cubanodun]

I just figured he didn't because his usual DIY projects involve bragging on twitter about his engineer cred, followed up by asking for help on something simple (where do I insert BIOS?) and screaming mansplaining when he gets an answer.

or actually showing the parts and bragging in every step of the process like he did with the VR PC he was building

 

[Sissy Galvez]

To enlarge on Wu's potential homelessness, we know from the Ole Miss enrolment records that Wu's stint continued to the end of July 2006. In September of 2006 Wu became a poster at Susan's place forums (though she had apparently been a regular in their chat room for some time before that.)

From Susan's place, we certainly know that she was living with her aunt in Colarado in late September from this particularly nasty thread. She continues to live there though the livejournal era where she meets Frank and gets the dick chop. She mentions being disowned by her parents, but never mentions being homeless. If Wu's other statements are to be believed, she was working in Gamestop in Colorado in October of that year, in time for the Zelda: Twilight Princess launch.

Practically speaking, any homelessness can only have occurred during August 2006. At some point during that month she must have left MS and to travel to Colorado. Even if technically she didn't really have a home to go to, 4 weeks is a short enough length of time that you could bum a sofa or a floor from a friend to at least have roof over your head while you sort things out.

As with most things Wu, it seems like this incident in her life was either vastly exaggerated or entirely fictional.

John/Brianna's story is horrific and fascinating at the same time. Like a train wreck.

He had it all between rich and influential parents, access to politicians and businessmen, tons of opportunities and threw it all away , not by going troom, but by being a deranged moron and pathological liar.

 

[Ronald Crump]

John/Brianna's story is horrific and fascinating at the same time. Like a train wreck.

He had it all between rich and influential parents, access to politicians and businessmen, tons of opportunities and threw it all away , not by going troom, but by being a deranged moron and pathological liar.

I hope in my lifetime I get to see the made for tv movie, The Brianna Wu Story.

 

[millais]

I hope in my lifetime I get to see the made for tv movie, The Brianna Wu Story.

be grateful we already got the "Internet Ruined My Life" episode on SyFy channel

 

[Cid Highwind]

From Susan's place, we certainly know that she was living with her aunt in Colarado in late September from this particularly nasty thread. She continues to live there though the livejournal era where she meets Frank and gets the dick chop. She mentions being disowned by her parents, but never mentions being homeless. If Wu's other statements are to be believed, she was working in Gamestop in Colorado in October of that year, in time for the Zelda: Twilight Princess launch.

Do we happen to know what Gamestop he worked at in Colorado? I know he was in the Denver area...curious if it was a gamestop I had been to during that time.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

John I'll tell ya what, you've got balls of steel tagging the fucking FEC in your garbage tweets.

 

[Furina]

God, do we need computer literate people serving in the legislature

Yet another reason not to vote for Brianna.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

John I'll tell ya what, you've got balls of steel tagging the fucking FEC in your garbage tweets.

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Like people who take screenshots with their phones or edit shit in MS Paint or can't patch their broken game like you, Brianna?

 

[autism420]

John I'll tell ya what, you've got balls of steel tagging the fucking FEC in your garbage tweets.

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Is she insinuating that Adobe Acrobat opens your computer up to haxxoring? lmao

 

[MysteriousStranger]

John I'll tell ya what, you've got balls of steel tagging the fucking FEC in your garbage tweets.

What do you want to bet he's bitching about having to fill out a .pdf form?

 

[Pointless Pedant]

be grateful we already got the "Internet Ruined My Life" episode on SyFy channel

It did. Without the internet Wu's exceptionalism would never have come to our attention and he'd be working at Home Depot shouting at his colleagues about Trump and soggy knees, unknown to the wider world. It would be a better outcome for him in the end.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

Having bank vaults installed by reformed bank robbers sounds a lot like when companies hire people hackers to do their security, because they can pinpoint and fix the weaknesses in the system.

She accidentally had a good idea and writes it off as being stupid.

 

[Chemical snorfare]

She accidentally had a good idea and writes it off as being stupid.

Not in Wu world, where a leper cant shed it's spots.

 

[Mola Ram]

What do you want to bet he's bitching about having to fill out a .pdf form?

I think it's another exit strategy. "Sadly, the government requires me to compromise my safety, which I've already suffered too much at the hands of GamerGate and so I am halting my campaign. It's awful what they do to keep brave womyn out of Congress!"

Howard Stern pulled something similar during the NY Governor's race many years ago.

 

[Kosher Dill]

What do you want to bet he's bitching about having to fill out a .pdf form?

He is, and for once he's absolutely right. Adobe Acrobat is slow, buggy garbage software, and a lot of government agencies these days have fillable PDFs that refuse to work in any PDF software other than Adobe. I have Acrobat installed on an old junk laptop just for things like doing my taxes.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Who does this? If you are bold enough to claim to run for office, shouldn't you know that junior Congressmen can't godmode their way through public policy? What are you thinking?

 

[AnOminous]

John I'll tell ya what, you've got balls of steel tagging the fucking FEC in your garbage tweets.

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If you just installed software that supposedly makes your computer so vulnerable, maybe it's a stupid fucking idea to tell the entire world exactly what that software is when supposedly all the white male Nazi hackers in the world are personally after you.