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

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Jaimas said:
This is a gift that's been a long time coming, Kiwis.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mWNBrm4F_7M
I did a clipshow of every death Brianna Wu suffered in the Tutorial level of WNC. Enjoy.
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You might want to work a little bit on your "Cheap Shot 101", though. ;)
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TIL that Brianna doesn't realize that sarcasm doesn't translate well to Twitter.
 
andr0id psycho sho(ker said:
I know this might be a hard question to ask or even a dumb one but how does anyone here see the Saga of wu "ending?" I do see her going at what she's been doing to the grave myself, dying a martyr in her eyes and an idiot to the rest of the world
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High speed collision with a parking bollard outside of whole foods, mass casualty event when the pieces of what was once a Porsche held together with prayers and bondo shrapnelize and tears through a panicked crowd. A projectile shaped strangely like an Asian man is observed to be jettisoned from the carnage. The final destination of this projectile is lost to the ages, as the only evidence at the calculated point of impact is a greasy smear that smells strongly of potbelly and some yellowed teeth. An obituary in the paper the next day blames gamergate, Donald Trump, and Stephen Lynch for the entire incident. A tribute website is set up, but crashes two days later. A remastered edition of revolution 60 is attempted posthumously by fan(s), but manages to corrupt the hard drives of every computer it is installed on. Elon Musk drops a moon rock on London, there are no survivors. Somewhere a child cries in the distance.

See you spacekatgal...
 
andr0id psycho sho(ker said:
I know this might be a hard question to ask or even a dumb one but how does anyone here see the Saga of wu "ending?" I do see her going at what she's been doing to the grave myself, dying a martyr in her eyes and an idiot to the rest of the world
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We've already seen what end of the "saga" looks like, and it's the Porsche forum. Once his dreams of celebrity are definitively dashed, John will continue dabbling in expensive hobbies on Frank's dime, and poorly roleplaying online as a savvy practitioner, until either he or Frank shuffles off this mortal coil.
 
Hellfire said:
Lynch is "enabling" "Nazis" by not screeching and streaming himself dying on a Wolfenstein game like John.

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John wants to buy $100 worth of Girl Scout cookies.
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I like how one of the big problems for the Dems in 2016 was part of them were way too far from center and Wu just says "no u"
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"Impeachment"

I'm gonna drown in salt when this never happens
 
Mola Ram said:
At this point I'm not even rooting for Trump's reelection because I support him. I'm just rooting for it to watch heads explode all across the fruited plain.
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I'm of two minds. He can choke on a cheezeburger and die, the media would return to normal, people will regain their senses, actually news can be reported again, electrocute the gays is now acting president but that will be glossed over. I will be content.

OR he can ramp up his shit, go 100% at it and Thelma & Louise the entire concept of presidency and somehow get re-elected.
That's something I'd like to see, that's history.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
the media would return to normal
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This is the new normal for the media. The mainstream media will largely support their candidate, and an opposition fringe media will spring up on the side to support the other candidate. Twitter, blogs, and the like have lowered the bar for what a "journalist" is so much that sensationalism is the norm moreso than ever before. Constant content delivery and altered expectations mean every little thing has to be manufactured into something big and important.

I hate to sound too partisan in a kiwifarms post but if you remember the Bush years and contrast them with the Obama years you will see what I mean. Every week Newsweek and time had a front page article about how awful Bush was, although they tried to portray him as incompetent rather than truly evil. Google changed the search term for "miserable failure" to redirect to the wiki page for Bush. Bush had his followers to be sure, especially after 9/11, which was probably the most solidarity I can recall ever seeing in news media. Bush's image was always that of an honorable man except in the eyes of his strongest detractors; many thought he was an idiot (especially after iraq) but he was not generally seen to be incendiary personally and typically acted very even tempered.

The Obama years were practically nonstop fawning from the mainstream press at large. Of course fringe media belittled him for eight years, some valid, some simply racial in nature, and some insanely conspiratorial and beyond belief. That said fringe media sometimes did do something noteworthy - after all it was the national fucking enquirer that broke the John Edwards story!

The Obama years were also when everyone including your grandparents really got into the internet and social media. Smartphones became commonplace. The quaint blogs of the Bush years seemed to largely give way to media aggregators and alt media outlets. However the overwhelming support in popular media was for Obama and his policies. I don't think many people, especially those who didn't personally support his policies, cared for that. As such we saw fox news, despite the constant portrayals as ultraconservative, become the most popular news outlet, probably because it was the only place to go and not feel totally marginalized by msnbc tier reporting. Even then I think many felt underserved, which has contributed to the total lack of confidence Americans have in the media today. A lack of confidence that I personally believe is warranted...

Even if Trump were gone I wouldn't expect the media to gladhand Pence like Obama or even treat him with the relative dignity afforded to Bush (and at the time many people complained about how universally negative that coverage was, despite a solid economic recovery later in his term).

The cat is out of the bag and while news media in general isn't dead, it's definitely hurting. The constant hunt for the newest and most outrageous Trump news is causes serious fatigue for viewers. I think it's becoming more decentralized as people find the outlets they agree with rather than the big corporations which really aren't representing the average person- and which aren't really telling the news, just essentially retreating Trump tweets. But everybody still wants to scoop everybody and I do not see the situation improving.
 
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