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

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I am so sorry, Blue Check Best Friend. 😥

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Marvel is not going to publish your Space Barbie porno comic, John. (Even though they should because they have nothing else to fucking lose.)

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Sonichu-choo trainwreck said:
sorry for the double post, but bullshit John you are just trying to throw terms at people to impress them.

You only have to change IRQs (interrupt request, its a way a piece of hardware like a soundboard can pre-emptively get the CPUs attention- ie interrupt the program - they run on "lines" like channels) if there is a conflict,more than one piece of HW on a line. It's not a requirement to play it.
In that era, you could usually set the IRQ channel with jumpers on the board of the hardware causing the problem - totally obviates the need for forcing an assignment in SW


So if he was having an IRQ conflict - he was likely running an aftermarket piece like a good soundcard

which leads to 2 fishy things

1) If he was running aftermarket HW enhancements...Wing commander came out about 1990....why would he be running an acoustic coupler!‽ They were largely dead technology in the 80s.
If it was because he was so poor and had to spin an exercise bike in his tin shack to power his computer, then how did he have aftermarket gaming enhancement HW?

2) if he pulled it off BBS he was pirating (it was really common, but hey John, not exactly Congressional caliber stuff of the holiest of holies. )
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Additionally, I would like to add to your autistic analysis of the situation here with some of my own 'sperging by saying:

The hayes command set was developed specifically as a standard mechanism to dial and configure modems which didn't use external handsets or couplers to operate. That was the whole point of hayes commands. Even through the 80s before the hayes command set was standard, most modems of the day did not use a coupler. Couplers fell out of use long before that because they topped out at pretty low speeds which would have been close to useless for downloading anything substantial even in the 90s. They were also mostly designed to fit the standard Bell / Western Electric style handsets -- which by the 90s were already rare. John is probably confusing his life with the popular 1983 film War Games, where the young computer savvy bad-boy Matthew Broderick uses a modem with an acoustic coupler to infuriate Dabney Coleman and nearly start WW3. I think this tale is much like John's memory of "going to Space Camp" and being "shuttle commander" which -- according to John's timeline -- coincidentally happened roughly around the time of the 1986 movie "Space Camp". In the movie a group of kids, including a young Joaquin Phoenix, go to Space Camp where one of them becomes shuttle commander during a mishap where they are accidentally sent into space.

John likes to spout off about all of this anachronistic trivia and make it out to be some kind of computer wizardry, but this is shit that pretty much any nerdy middle school kid with a computer did back in the day. So, while I'm sure John probably fucked with modems and BBSs and shit back then, his telling of the tale is, shall we say, highly stylized.
 
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Shocking. I can scarcely believe that Dr*mpf genocided 80,000 people with the coof that he injected directly into their veins. If Hilary Clinton were president, coronavirus would have been instantly cured.

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Eli Whitney said:
Additionally, I would like to add to your autistic analysis of the situation here with some of my own 'sperging by saying:

The hayes command set was developed specifically as a standard mechanism to dial and configure modems which didn't use external handsets or couplers to operate. That was the whole point of hayes commands. Even through the 80s before the hayes command set was standard, most modems of the day did not use a coupler. Couplers fell out of use long before that because they topped out at pretty low speeds which would have been close to useless for downloading anything substantial even in the 90s. They were also mostly designed to fit the standard Bell / Western Electric style handsets -- which by the 90s were already rare. John is probably confusing his life with the popular 1983 film War Games, where the young computer savvy bad-boy Matthew Broderick uses a modem with an acoustic coupler to infuriate Dabney Coleman and nearly start WW3. I think this tale is much like John's memory of "going to Space Camp" and being "shuttle commander" which -- according to John's timeline -- coincidentally happened roughly around the time of the 1986 movie "Space Camp". In the movie a group of kids, including a young Joaquin Phoenix, go to Space Camp where one of them becomes shuttle commander during a mishap where they are accidentally sent into space.

John likes to spout off about all of this anachronistic trivia and make it out to be some kind of computer wizardry, but this is shit that pretty much any nerdy middle school kid with a computer did back in the day. So, while I'm sure John probably fucked with modems and BBSs and shit back then, his telling of the tale is, shall we say, highly stylized.
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Somehow I managed to play Doom and Doom II multiplayer (1993/1994) without dealing with any of the horseshit John's babbling about.
 
Eli Whitney said:
John likes to spout off about all of this anachronistic trivia and make it out to be some kind of computer wizardry, but this is shit that pretty much any nerdy middle school kid with a computer did back in the day. So, while I'm sure John probably fucked with modems and BBSs and shit back then, his telling of the tale is, shall we say, highly stylized.
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I think it's far more likely that his rich parents bought him top of the line PC gear just so they wouldn't have to deal with him, and John wracked up massive phone bills downloading hentai off some BBS.

Seriously, using machines back then wasn't any more complicated than it is now, they just did less stuff. So what if you have to learn a few commands or edit a text file. Everyone who wanted to learned them. It required zero intelligence.

There was probably a DOOM .wad of every middle school in America, made by some bored kid with some free time over the weekend. People who didn't give a shit about computers were making games on their TI-82s, because it just wasn't hard.

We had it so fucking easy back in the day. If anything, I feel for the kids just getting into this stuff. There's just so much out there now; languages, platforms, frameworks. Expectations are higher, and there's so much more to learn.
 
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Peace and Harmony said:
Were you doing all this while your uneducated yokel neighbours were dying of starvation in the muck, John?

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>acoustic coupler

OK who the hell was using one of those in 1993? Even C64s had better hardware than that. And you'd need the phone line on all night, which if Wu was as poor as ze claims ze was, would NEVER get the AOK from zir parents.

edit: According to Wikipedia Keen was released in 1990. My point still stands.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
Fuck you East Coast elite! Don't you know that John built his empire out of the junkyards and scrap heaps of the Deep South? He's basically Tony Stark but a feisty young black girl.

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John I know, the South is full of n,iggers, education is basically nonexistent.

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What fucking engineering career john? You made a shitty videogame that nobody bought and was late and overbudget then you hung up your gloves to live off frank's money, except for two brief runs at a senate seat which burnt through more of frank's money

When did you ever hold an engineering job john you lying wendigo
 
The Final Troondown said:
What fucking engineering career john? You made a shitty videogame that nobody bought and was late and overbudget then you hung up your gloves to live off frank's money, except for two brief runs at a senate seat which burnt through more of frank's money

When did you ever hold an engineering job john you lying wendigo
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John is the anti-engineer of his own story. Just like the similar anti-hero, he lacks the traits of normal engineer but is still devoted to the cause of wasting Frank's money. Do you know how many porchses he's killed?
 
fuckidunno said:
and no, making a videogame does NOT make you an engineer
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Wu begs to differ.
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Wu needs what Carmack's got, that's the most professional.
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This one is so full of... stuff. No iOS UE3 game shipped with custom C++ code? Infinity Blade was all Kismet? :story:
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The latest batch of amusing deleted tweets.
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I have watched almost one SMB2 speedrun and the runner mentioned how the RNG can screw things up.
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"A lot of us"
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I was born in '92 so I didn't have to fuck around with all of this old stuff as a kid interested in computers.

My question is does this actually impress anyone? It just sounds like some Boomer talking about how shit was so much better back in the day, meanwhile they can't turn their own TV on because they have two remote controls for the TV and DirecTV box.
 
How about lingerie model John I bet you got one or two calls for those too, or even fighter pilot, that would be a cinch.

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I mean I dunno, is "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" really a AAA IP?

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Peace and Harmony said:
How about lingerie model John I bet you got one or two calls for those too, or even fighter pilot, that would be a cinch.

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I mean I dunno, is "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" really a AAA IP?

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Wouldn't 'White Straight Male' be the easiest difficulty, John? Careful, your misogyny is showing.

Also, I desperately, desperately want that friend with tabletop experience to be Jake Alley.
 
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