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While this would be funny, it's typical Ali. Because we know that whore won't stand and fight. At the same time, it's funny to see John get his just desserts.
Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate
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While this would be funny, it's typical Ali. Because we know that whore won't stand and fight. At the same time, it's funny to see John get his just desserts.
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Ready to hit the campaign trail HARD (Hyrule is in District 8, right)
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She is hitting the campaign trail HARD. It's just the campaign of a video game.
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Wait, she's just NOW getting to the new Zelda game? And tweeting as if people have been waiting on bated breath for her opinion of it? Sad!
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You're describing Generation X, which was a fairly short-run Marvel comic...?
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John does that, too.
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She had a tantrum about the Switch build quality and cancelled her preorder claiming she was going to wait for a hardware revision. Then didn't wait and just bought it anyway because she doesn't even value her own opinion about anything.
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If you think about it, the closest Brianna's ever actually got to being a "video game creator" is her single-player campaign.
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That's because she won't value the opinion of a white man.
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I was actually mistaking New Mutants for X-Force, but no, both X-Force and Generation X were both whinefests. I kinda felt that way about most of the X-Men books though.
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Yes because that's exactly what Congress needs: someone who drops a cause in favour of frivolous instant gratification.
Brianna Wu said:
Wouldn't change a damn thing.
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Can't tell if this has been posted yet or not, this thread is getting as hard to follow as its subject's reasoning. Late tag away as needed...
First She Fought GamerGate—Now Brianna Wu Is Taking On Congress
First She Fought GamerGate—Now Brianna Wu Is Taking On Congress
The statistics aren't good. According to recent estimates, women make up just under 20 percent of Congress and less than 25 percent of all state legislatures. Only six of our nation's governors are women. But we are 51 percent of the population. And the research shows that when women participate in government, we make it run better, more collaboratively. Historically, women have needed to be convinced to enter politics. But within weeks of the 2016 presidential election, thousands of women announced they plan to run. And we want them to win. So we're giving them a weekly example of a woman who has run. The point: You can, too.
Brianna Wu is running for Congress in Massachusetts, but most are used to hearing her name in a very different context. Wu is the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a gaming company she co-founded in 2010. She was also the target of a GamerGate smear campaign in 2014 after criticizing how the gaming industry treated and represented women. Death threats drove Wu and her husband out of their own home for almost a month. In December 2016, Wu announced her congressional campaign.
I was at Hillary Clinton's headquarters on election night. I was about 20 to 30 feet from where I expected her to accept the presidency—and she didn't. Back in Boston the next day, I had a business meeting about my game studio. I couldn't help but think about how completely unimportant a video game is in relation to the Trump administration; that was the moment I realized I would not feel great about making pleasant distractions for a living. So that night I sat down with my husband and said, "I'm really thinking about doing this. But it's going to mean something like another GamerGate. It's going to mean our family will be targeted. It means we will start getting death threats and rape threats again. Do we want to do this? Can you be my partner in this?" And he said yes.
I have people calling and threatening to kill me. I get email threats. It's all back. I try my best to not look at it and just stay as well aware of it as I can. Part of that is having people screen my email for me.
Wu with Giant SpaceKat co-founder Amanda Warner
I was adopted into an extremely right-wing religious family. I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and it took me getting out into the real world and understanding what I faced as a woman in my career to really open up my eyes. But something I'm very grateful to my parents for is they always taught me that it was up to me to make my own dreams come true. Anything I ever wanted to learn, they would go out and buy me the tools to learn it myself. So they got me programming classes at a college level when I was only 12. They bought me a PlayStation development kit in the late '90s.
With my company, Giant Spacekat, I was very angry about the lack of games that portrayed women positively in the video game industry, so I launched my own studio, gave a lot of very talented women jobs, and we made some of the most awesome, empowering games in the business.
The game industry is such a shitshow for women—you do have to develop very tough skin. It's everything from men talking over you in business meetings, it's going to professional events and having people there talk to your husband and not you. In politics, I am facing a lot of structural sexism. Here in Boston, I feel like there is an assumption that it's an all-boys network. I have had to stop journalists on several occasions and say, 'Would you ask a man the same question you just asked me?'
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I could have sworn it had been posted months ago but I think it's just that every one of these fluff pieces (this one is called 'an interview' but it's literally nothing of the sort- it's just a platform for Wu) looks exactly the same. Wu just takes the same outline and plugs in a few newer Star War references.
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I thought so, too, but it is dated May 10, archived May 11. I Did do a thread search and nothing came up. Also did a scan through the past few days of shit posting and didn't see it there, either. Sure did feel like something I've read before, though, must admit that.
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Wouldn't change a damn thing.
I'm not sure what you mean there. The main reason the United States gives massive military support to Saudi Arabia is because they're their second biggest source of foreign oil after Canada, and it's therefore important to keep a compliant government in place there. Wu is an exceptional individual, but the United States ceasing to be dependent on foreign oil would change geopolitics, possibly drastically.
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Here's the auction she left feedback on.
Why campaign when Frank can pay someone on Fiverrr to put up flyers all around Boston?
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*stare off into space reminded that your life is a giant lie*
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A toast to all the brave kids who broke up with their toxic parents who paid their way through college three times and also gave them $200,000 to piss down the drain on a failed startup. Also if you read this your mother will die in her sleep tonight.
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Looks like a fat woman leading her gimp around.