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

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NotoriousD said:
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 Text based game format is outdated.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 Depression Quest, released in the more modern era as a game of outdated format, couldn't even hold a fucking candle to text based games made back when text based games were amazing.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her on payroll, and no doubt numerous other individuals we don't know about for any little favor, all over a shitty outdated game.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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Although I repeat myself here:
Brianna Wu is in my opinion a 9-year-old, overly excited boy who is play-pretending to be a successful woman - and does so badly. Revolution 60 is that minimum requirement Wu needs to have to call herself a "Game Developer", but it is nothing more than that. Since Wu isn't actually a 9-year-old boy she needs something to show for, before people pay attention to her as "Game Developer". It's the same with her being a journalist: She writes a shitty article once in a while, so she can call herself a "Journalist". She runs a scam of a campaign and that is her minimum requirement, so she can call herself a "Politician". She goes occasionally to some backwater college and regurgitates the same old presentation and that is another minimum requirement, so she can call herself an "Outspoken Feminist".

Every other person would put those things under "Oh, and I did this too, but it wasn't much.", but Wu completely defines herself by those things. All Wu wants is to be important, that people listen to her and it really doesn't matter what she says, as long people listen and leave her the illusion, that she is in fact that "feminist, gamer girl, politician, game designer".

Wu never wanted to make games, Wu wants to be a "Game Developer", as other people want to be a rich or famous. It doesn't matter to those people how they become rich or famous, they just want to be it. Everything Wu does, is just the minimal requirement she needs to do, to keep up her ghoulish mask and keep pretending that she is this someone she really wants to be.
 
Mostly posting this because I'm aghast that that is really the hover-over caption for these fucking faces.

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Peace and Harmony said:
Mostly posting this because I'm aghast that that is really the hover-over caption for these fucking faces.

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While I think toddlers are a bit young to be using guns, I don't really see a problem with getting young kids familiarized with fire arms so they won't have an insane fantastical view of them when they get older and start obsessing over them as some kind of grand symbol of power or something. I mean as long as the parent teaches the kids that guns are dangerous tools that shouldn't be treated as toys and supervises them whenever they're around one, I really don't have much of a problem with letting their children be comfortable around guns especially if it's a family that enjoys hunting.
 
Smutley said:
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.
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When the milo shit went down she made a big deal out of honorariums. I could be wrong but most people outside of working in education don't know what those are, its a fancy word for getting paid. She likely only knows about them from having done this. Now the ones with budget issues might see her as being free as a plus but many don't give a shit either way, its a budgetary line item they have to spend or else they lose it in the next year.

And yes a community college will pay for a no name speaker, this is pure first hand experience here, the college isn't after anything but a line on paper that says they invited a guest with x number of credits to their name for students to see. Less shitty colleges care about attendance but I don't see her going to less shitty places.

And I have no doubt this is all about her ego, she's pretty clearly got a bug up her ass about being respected by universities. I'm sure 90% of this is cause her time there was so bad.
 
Count groudon said:
While I think toddlers are a bit young to be using guns, I don't really see a problem with getting young kids familiarized with fire arms so they won't have an insane fantastical view of them when they get older and start obsessing over them as some kind of grand symbol of power or something. I mean as long as the parent teaches the kids that guns are dangerous tools that shouldn't be treated as toys and supervises them whenever they're around one, I really don't have much of a problem with letting their children be comfortable around guns especially if it's a family that enjoys hunting.
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Teaching children to handle dangerous objects safely greatly reduces the risk of an accident later in life.

Toddlers are too young to handle guns, but I first fired one at age 11, under adult supervision of course. You don't need to be that old to understand not to point the muzzle at people, and if you don't, then nothing very bad will ever happen.
 
FatNero said:
And yes a community college will pay for a no name speaker, this is pure first hand experience here, the college isn't after anything but a line on paper that says they invited a guest with x number of credits to their name for students to see. Less shitty colleges care about attendance but I don't see her going to less shitty places.
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Yeah I'll corroborate this, departments usually have a part of their operating budgets that's use-it-or-lose-it, and inviting speakers might be part of that. For four-year research universities, this line item often goes to specialists and the purpose of the visit is largely for professional collaboration on the university's dime, plus an opportunity for students to get some exposure to advanced research-level shit in seminar-style. Of course bigger/more famous universities with larger budgets can and often do invite popular academics or just famous people in general.

For a community college I assume that the focus would generally be for outreach/networking at the industry level, and yeah I can't imagine it's either a large budget or a top priority for inviting one speaker or another.

On-topic: John is a fraud and was born with a cock.

EDIT: More relevant on-topic: What John always does is use these events to make him sound like fucking Steven Pinker, being invited to elucidate on some highly advanced technical topic, when in reality it was probably some Twatter rando whispering in the department chair's ear and treated as nothing more than the equivalent of a local business owner coming in to talk to kids about job opportunities.
 
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Peace and Harmony said:
Yeah I'll corroborate this, departments usually have a part of their operating budgets that's use-it-or-lose-it, and inviting speakers might be part of that. For four-year research universities, this line item often goes to specialists and the purpose of the visit is largely for professional collaboration on the university's dime, plus an opportunity for students to get some exposure to advanced research-level shit in seminar-style. Of course bigger/more famous universities with larger budgets can and often do invite popular academics or just famous people in general.

For a community college I assume that the focus would generally be for outreach/networking at the industry level, and yeah I can't imagine it's either a large budget or a top priority for inviting one speaker or another.

On-topic: John is a fraud and was born with a cock.

EDIT: More relevant on-topic: What John always does is use these events to make him sound like fucking Steven Pinker, being invited to elucidate on some highly advanced technical topic, when in reality it was probably some Twatter rando whispering in the department chair's ear and treated as nothing more than the equivalent of a local business owner coming in to talk to kids about job opportunities.
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Someone here should actually go to one of these talks and ask awkward questions about John Walker Flynt.
 
Chemical snorfare said:
If its a community college, doesnt that mean they will all be 17-18?

I'm guessing the first question will be the most awkward one of all

"Hello Mrs <cough> Wu, what's gamergate?"
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Sadly, no. Chris was 24 by the time he graduated. He was supposed to be on a 2 year course.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
Cool another "gamer" politician, slowly we inch towards the infinite abyss of darkness.

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"uh huh ya ya uh huh sure sure sure ya sure uh huh sure ya sure sure you know, that is a GREAT question"
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The Nazis killed John, not the other way around. Embarrassing for a congressional gamer candidate.
 
Does anyone think that some of these speaking engagements might be part of a diversity/inclusiveness program, and Flu is a way to do it on the cheap? If Flu does get paid, I can't imagine it would be very much, and it would let the school check a box to qualify for funding or something like that.
 
NotoriousD said:
So she couldn't even make a text based game all on her own. What a shocker.
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There is no shame in using code from others to make your project if it's allowed to be used for such purposes.

But there is all sorts of shame for the jackass who tries to pass if off as their own work and doesn't credit the original author of the code.
 
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