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

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Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
One of the things I like best about Flynt/Wu's unending avalanche of lies is the fact that he can't keep himself from gilding the lily by adding stupid details to his fantasies. In this example, he claims that a bunch of airmen are just hanging out on a street corner -- OK so far -- in their "full dress uniform" -- and anyone familiar with the military immediately thinks "bullshit."

And at the beginning of the story the guy is an airman hanging out with his buddies; at the end of the story, all of his buddies are, for reasons unexplained, in the Navy. Again, the reader thinks "bullshit." (Later in the thread, someone actually calls Flynt/Wu on this point. His response unintentionally makes it pretty clear that he made the whole thing up.)
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Yeah I've noticed that as well. There's always some detail or flourish added to show off knowledge/skill that accidentally makes the whole thing obviously bullshit.

Like that thing about black people pleading up to felony, good posts by the people that explained why that's horseshit by the way, but Wu could just say that black people got a worse plea or a rougher deal in general and it would slide but that story was too boring and didn't have enough expertise and whoops the whole thing is fucked up.

Fucking things up in that way is impressive, managing to do it in a single tweet, again and again for years, is awe-inspiring even for a mythomaniac.
 
proteus4994 said:
Zoe is infinitely more qualified to be on that list than Brianna.

Not that I'm saying Zoe is qualified, just moreso than Brianna.
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We can at least prove that Zoe actually did 'work' on her most amazing game ever /sarcasm

Not a lot of work, but work.
 
A lot of people on the list seem to be founders of stuff I've never heard of, for all I know they're "businesses" in the same way Giant Spacekat is a "business."
Also, how does founding a website make you a tech person? I looked at one of the women (an actual cis woman, too) and her bio has nothing about tech on it, it's all fashion stuff. Maybe she did some coding on the website she owns, but I don't know that. You don't really need to know anything about tech to have an ecommerce site. Everyone knows websites exist and that you can hire people to make them. Like, if I hired someone to build a brick and mortar store for me, I'm not qualified to give lectures on architecture.
The whole thing seems insulting, like when people post lists of stuff women have invented and it includes stuff like Barbie and chocolate chip cookies on it.

Edit: this person, Jameson Lovelace Hampton, is on the list twice :story: it's nonbinary if that wasn't obvious by the fake middle name:
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AngeloTheWizard said:
We can at least prove that Zoe actually did 'work' on her most amazing game ever /sarcasm

Not a lot of work, but work.
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Hey now, John did plenty of work on Rev60. He did all the lighting in the Special Edition :cryblood:
By the way, speaking of his creations, I only recently realized that "Holiday" must have been named after the Madonna song. :late::late::late:
 
melty said:
A lot of people on the list seem to be founders of stuff I've never heard of, for all I know they're "businesses" in the same way Giant Spacekat is a "business."
Also, how does founding a website make you a tech person? I looked at one of the women (an actual cis woman, too) and her bio has nothing about tech on it, it's all fashion stuff. Maybe she did some coding on the website she owns, but I don't know that. You don't really need to know anything about tech to have an ecommerce site. Everyone knows websites exist and that you can hire people to make them. Like, if I hired someone to build a brick and mortar store for me, I'm not qualified to give lectures on architecture.
The whole thing seems insulting, like when people post lists of stuff women have invented and it includes stuff like Barbie and chocolate chip cookies on it.

Edit: this person, Jameson Lovelace Hampton, is on the list twice :story: it's nonbinary if that wasn't obvious by the fake middle name:
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Jfc! Bill Burr was right, we need a plague desperately.
 
Intelligent Calcium said:
Honestly, writing a list of "1000 qualified women in tech" and putting Brianna Wu on it, someone who has done nothing but fuck up over and over again with the resources other people provided her with (her parents, her husband, her patrons), is just insulting to women.
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It would be trivially easy to actually find 1000 women employed in technical fields without a single troon in sight; it would be much harder to find 1000 troons who were gainfully employed at all.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
It would be trivially easy to actually find 1000 women employed in technical fields without a single troon in sight; it would be much harder to find 1000 troons who were gainfully employed at all.
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Which is probably the dirty secret of this list: it's a troon employment signup sheet.
 
Mola Ram said:
Which is probably the dirty secret of this list: it's a troon employment signup sheet.
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I think everyone's reading too much into that list. For once I think there's no "rat king" behind the scenes, it was just a signup sheet passed around among women in the precarious lower rungs of tech, who identify with internet feminism purely out of inertia.
 
Kosher Dill said:
I think everyone's reading too much into that list. For once I think there's no "rat king" behind the scenes, it was just a signup sheet passed around among women in the precarious lower rungs of tech, who identify with internet feminism purely out of inertia.
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John isn't on the lowest rung of tech, whatever that means. The cleaners at a rocket factory are higher up than he is.
 
John that's perfect, then you can paint your campaign logo on the side and drive around and promote your platform! I mean, you are still campaigning, right? Right?

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Quick check in @RepStephenLynch; looks like this fucking dumbass decided to stop drinking paint thinner for a few minutes to talk about some boring-ass financial legislation that would protect retirees in his district or some shit like that. Stevie-boo, let me make one thing perfectly clear: you're wasting your fucking time unless you're driving around town in a gold-plated car. In fact, I bet you can't even drive unlike your up-and-coming challenger John Flynt who is a professional street racer and investigative journalist.

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The number of middle aged women in the world who care about vintage German and Italian sports cars: 0

The men: endless
 
Peace and Harmony said:
John that's perfect, then you can paint your campaign logo on the side and drive around and promote your platform! I mean, you are still campaigning, right? Right?

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Quick check in @RepStephenLynch; looks like this fucking dumbass decided to stop drinking paint thinner for a few minutes to talk about some boring-ass financial legislation that would protect retirees in his district or some shit like that. Stevie-boo, let me make one thing perfectly clear: you're wasting your fucking time unless you're driving around town in a gold-plated car. In fact, I bet you can't even drive unlike your up-and-coming challenger John Flynt who is a professional street racer and investigative journalist.

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I mean, clearly John has his priorities straight. He's trying to appeal to the "men in a mid-life crisis" demographic of District 8.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
John that's perfect, then you can paint your campaign logo on the side and drive around and promote your platform! I mean, you are still campaigning, right? Right?

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A 6-carburetor v12. Boy howdy if Brianna thinks his TT is a difficult to maintain heap of crap... :lol:

At least he would have a car that he could actually call a sports car and not be laughed out of the room over, I guess. At least until everyone looks inside the car anyway...
 
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