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

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Peace and Harmony said:
I'm always impressed whenever I remember that biological woman John Walker Flynt was able to overcome the extreme social pressures he faced to drop out of his fast-paced career to become a mother. Truly inspiring.

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Was that a serious misrepresentation of the representative's comment, or did he actually support Chris-style dating education with enforced couplings?
 
Norvic said:
It's utterly bizarre to me that Wu would ever get invited to speak about game development, even at a low rent community college. You only have to look at R60 and its sales figures to realise she's terrible at it. What possible insights could she offer?
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I would guess, on the whole, game developers are more concerned with developing games than publicity.
 
Norvic said:
It's utterly bizarre to me that Wu would ever get invited to speak about game development, even at a low rent community college. You only have to look at R60 and its sales figures to realise she's terrible at it. What possible insights could she offer?
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I honestly noticed a pattern myself with this. Take into account Brianna Wu, Phil Fish, and Zoe Quinn. God this turned out WAY longer than I fucking wanted it to be. Here goes:

Phil Fish stole a game he barely knew how to reverse engineer, let alone make from scratch. This game released buggy and shitty and he openly declared things like PCs aren't meant for gaming, gaming is meant to be played on a console, etc, and acted like a big shot.

Brianna Wu paid people through Craigslist to make Revolution 60, fired the crew when it was done, took credit, and it's the least selling game on Steam. Giant Spacekat still exists afaik as an official game development company on paper thanks to Frank, with its only real employee being Brianna. Despite this and despite the fact that GSK only released one game, Brianna Wu still makes tweets with wording like "I make videogames", plural, and uses the fact that he is the CEO of a game development studio(that is largely just one on paper, mind you), as another checkbox of validity on his list of professions. He goes to subpar venues either through Frank's connections or because they're low tier enough that they'd let him speak there to fill quota.

Now Zoe Quinn, she actually made a game. Didn't steal it, or have others make it for her. She made it afaik. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I'd love to find out that she couldn't even make a fucking text game. And my personal views on the matter is that text based games CAN be a type of video game. Now, this was way before my time, but I'm sure that waaaay back in the day text based adventure games were great for their time. But, at the time Depression Quest released, we had way more interesting things and today we have even more new things. Text based game format is outdated. What's more, even if it wasn't, I actually played some out of curiosity once upon a time. Depression Quest, released in the more modern era as a game of outdated format, couldn't even hold a fucking candle to text based games made back when text based games were amazing. And she gave sloppy sex to game journos for coverage, her own married boss probably to keep her on payroll, and no doubt numerous other individuals we don't know about for any little favor, all over a shitty outdated game. She made a fucking book about how much of a brave female game dev she is.

These three are all people who shit out a thing with minimal creativity and make it a point to put as little effort in as possible into its creation, then proceed to act like hot shit in the 'indie' scene. Brianna still does. I haven't kept enough track of Zoe to actually tell if she still does or just acts like a generic dangerhair now. But Phil Fish tonned down on acting like hot shit iirc now that it's basically public knowledge that he stole Fez.

But here's a fourth, lesser example:
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I don't even remember where I originally heard about this a couple years ago. But basically he makes a shitty game, gets blasted to hell for it with negative reviews, and does THAT in response.

Compare to Slain, which received many negative reviews on release for apparent problems, and was updated, enhanced, and re-released as Slain: Back From Hell Edition to much positive reception.

Compare to the above big three games like Stardew Valley, Cave Story, Treasure Adventure Game, Terraria, etc, etc. You have independent developers that actually dedicate themselves to games, and then you have people that just want money, publicity, and fondled fee fees.
 
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The other speaker at the event is a Michigan State professor (pic), who describes himself as "(Anthropologist/Researcher of)Game Developer(s)". With that job and background of study, he must know about Wu. He also develops literal Jewish games, like a farmville clone where you work on a Jewish farm and RPG where you save the temple.
 
FatNero said:
There are circuits for this shit-- and she probably mass emails schools, with the list of talking gigs she's had. They toss her a grand or two, and maybe pay for a flight. She talks, they check a box for admin saying they had X number of speakers, admin is happy that they can show on paper something happened, faculty doesn't care they didn't go or listen, no one shows up except one kid with autism who asks too many questions, the staff member who ran the event is bored and pissed that the autistic kid won't stop asking questions. And that's it, Wu adds a name to her list and sends that to another school. Rinse repeat.
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I’ve always heard Brianna gets nothing from her “speaking engagements”. That’s part of all these scams. If anything she writes off the travel and lodging on her taxes as work expenses. But no community college or campus where is going to pay anything to someone who can’t draw 20 people and is placed in a classroom. Cons have people like GRRM, they won’t pay either.

She wastes money doing this to inflate her ego, not because there’s a monetary reward for running her mouth.
 
In other words, give John your cash so he can buy more vidya.

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Peace and Harmony said:
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BuzzFeed has been cited on NPR and Reuters in the past couple of weeks, with one of the BuzzFeed "Journalists" actually invited to speak on NPR about the Bergdahl case and the NYC truck attack. Evidently click bait rag shit is now considered legitimate news.

When I'm out on a job, I listen to the radio a lot. When you're in the middle of nowhere USA, there isn't a lot on; country music, and whatever evangelical shit the local zealots like to hear is about it. You can also, almost always, pick up an NPR affiliate which is at least more entertaining than country music and Jesus radio. That said, one thing I have noticed recently is that what I once considered a relatively legitimate news source is now citing what we've been laughing at as click bait shit for quite a while. It's a kind of disturbing phenomenon, BuzzFeed, Bustle, The Daily Buzz, etc. cited by legitimate outlets as legitimate sources. I guess this could mean more mainstream puff pieces sympathetic to Flu and her ilk.

Norvic said:
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How not to develop a game?

As an aside on R60, a good friend of mine is a cheap bastard, and grabs every free game on Steam he can find, plays them a bit, gets trading cards to sell on the market and saves that money to buy games he actually wants. I've played a number of them, (keep in mind these games are free) and almost all of them are markedly better than R60
 
Buzzfeed’s trying hard to legitimize themselves and distance itself from the idea that all they post is garbage listicles. They want to become Nick Denton’s Gawker basically.

Too bad some of their biggest stories this year were filled with outright lies like the hit piece on David Auerbach. Buzzfeed’s bloggers, they’re not journalists, are scum.
 
Sissy Galvez said:
Buzzfeed’s trying hard to legitimize themselves and distance itself from the idea that all they post is garbage listicles. They want to become Nick Denton’s Gawker basically.
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I was unaware of this, I just assumed someone at NPR got lazy. Although, I suppose it's inevitable that some of the "original" clickbait sites will be trying to up their games in the near future with all the fuss over fake news and the like. Even the old people who actually did click are starting to recognize clickbait when they see it.

Do you think that places like BuzzFeed will continue to cover Flu with sympathy if they do get to be more mainstream?
 
It’s a progressive dumpster fire so yeah, they’ll continue to give positive press to John. Objective journalism is dead in this country. The new media killed it.
 
Sissy Galvez said:
It’s a progressive dumpster fire so yeah, they’ll continue to give positive press to John. Objective journalism is dead in this country. The new media killed it.
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To be fair, old media were mostly just better at hiding their bias.
 
AnOminous said:
John is stupid as fuck that he still doesn't realize that not only are all these stupid things he says permanently archived, but deleting them just draws even more attention to them.
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John thinks he has enough money and clout to make his fuck ups go away. In the beginning he was kinda right, now though? Nah.
 
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