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

[King Dead]

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'm doubting so hard that my X button is halfway to China. Any remotely competent tech lobbying firm would be able to tell within five minutes of reading John's Twitter that he would not be a good lobbyist. Hell, you don't even have to limit it to tech, no firm would ever want John on the payroll. The idea that even one sent him an offer is impossible to believe, let alone multiple. Ghostwriting a book or "making" another video game is at least somewhat believable since John wouldn't be doing any of the work, pawning it off on minions who he'd pay $1 plus valuable consideration, or however that was phrased.

Also, if "white straight woman" is the easiest difficulty for running for office, why did you fail at it twice, "Brianna?" I mean, you are a straight white woman, right?

 

[Water-T]

"I get offers to lobby for cybersecurity"

Sure, Jan.

Actually, I would LOVE for that to happen, because John can spew techno gobbledygook on a much more public scale. The world needs to know about Brianna Wu, Godzilla of Tech!

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

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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Wait, wait, wait . . . when did John add the "(D-Mass.)" to his name. That's Associated Press style for indicating that an elected member of the U.S. House or Senate is a Democrat who represents Massachusetts. It is never used to identify a canidate for those offices. And it's certainly never used to identify a former canidate.

 

[Grand Fucktard]

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

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But don't call John a tabletop game designer...he's a tabletop game ENGINEER!

Wait, wait, wait . . . when did John add the "(D-Mass.)" to his name. That's Associated Press style for indicating that an elected member of the U.S. House or Senate is a Democrat who represents Massachusetts. It is never used to identify a canidate for those offices. And it's certainly never used to identify a former canidate.

John was going on about twitter filtering rude words. Maybe the hyphen is just a placeholder for a U

 

[The Final Troondown]

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?
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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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Tbf he is an expert in unreal, just not in the way he means
Did r60 even use the unreal engine? It looks significantly worse than the first unreal tournament and that came out 16 years ago

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Perfect time to break in now that digital media is going through mass layoffs.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

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Would love to see John lobbying for "cybersecurity interests" by cursing and insulting randos on Twitter for 15 minutes a day. His first white paper on the topic -- every word cut and pasted from Wikipedia -- would also be a treat.

And isn't it a bit odd for a 42-year-old man to suddenly get multiple job offers when no one making those offers has seen his curriculum vitae, the CV that lists not a single college degree or a single employer or a single day of work in any field?

 

[Grand Fucktard]

And isn't it a bit odd for a 42-year-old man to suddenly get multiple job offers when no one making those offers has seen his curriculum vitae, the CV that lists not a single college degree or a single employer or a single day of work in any field?

Actually, John uses that as a demonstration of his cybersecurity acumen.
My siber sekurty is so tight, I leave no trace -- education, employment, you name it. You can't even find birth records for Brianna, I'm a ghost inside an enigma inside a riddle

...inside a joke?

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Yeah it's great that you had all this time off from being unemployed.

 

[Water-T]

"A ton of home cleaning projects".

LOL. Wiping the caked-on dust off your iPhone screen and dilating your stink ditch does not count as "cleaning", John. Your kitchen - much like your only two dresses - are fucking covered in stains.

"Expanding my skills as a cook" = eating out at Potbelly less often and ordering more from Blue Apron, and only because the 'rona has forced John to do so.

For dogs that get so much attention, they sure are fucking filthy and unkempt. How about making that your next "cleaning project", John?

 

[Eli Whitney]

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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The one thing that all of these opportunities have in common is that they are 100% fictional.

 

[Eli Whitney]

Would love to see John lobbying for "cybersecurity interests" by cursing and insulting randos on Twitter for 15 minutes a day. His first white paper on the topic -- every word cut and pasted from Wikipedia -- would also be a treat.

And isn't it a bit odd for a 42-year-old man to suddenly get multiple job offers when no one making those offers has seen his curriculum vitae, the CV that lists not a single college degree or a single employer or a single day of work in any field?

Yeah. I mean there is also an unprecedented global pandemic that has put a slight damper on a lot of hiring nearly everywhere. Actual qualified people are being let go and seeing existing offers rescinded right now across the board. It's a bloodbath. John wouldn't know this because this lockdown isn't that much different to his normal day to day.

Also, most actual lobbyists and front office policy institute people are pretty polished and persuasive sales types. Maybe an ivy league degree, some type of social skills, and a relatable personal life to talk about -- golf game, everyman hobbies, family -- to make small talk. At the very least they are people who can dress themselves in clean clothes, who don't snarl while talking over everyone around them, and are not a crazed 7' goons in a stained dress five sizes too small for them.

 

[John Flynt's Axe Wound]

Did r60 even use the unreal engine? It looks significantly worse than the first unreal tournament and that came out 16 years ago

Believe it or not, R60 was created using the Unreal3 engine. But of course, since this is a Flynt production, it looks worse than a Wii shovelware title. John is a software engineer in the same way that Chris Chan is an original character designer.

 

[John Flynt's Axe Wound]

Lets not forget getting a deep fryer to make "slugburgers" and doughnuts filled with cake frosting - - and he's celebrating that on social media
According to John, those are Mississippi delicacies

Delicacies that lead to, oh..THE HIGHEST OBESITY RATE IN THE NATION

now if John actually had a 'dispassionate engineering side' to his brain...you'd kinda think he'd maybe notice :

John is spending his time in a health crisis, by perpetuating another health crisis
and he's pretending to champion healthcare!‽?


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What’s the statistic for Mississippi dick choppers?

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Lets not forget getting a deep fryer to make "slugburgers" and doughnuts filled with cake frosting - - and he's celebrating that on social media.

Can't wait for John's first tweet about using the deep fryer. It will be sent out after he regains consciousness in the burn unit at Mass General.

 

[King Dead]

Wait, wait, wait . . . when did John add the "(D-Mass.)" to his name. That's Associated Press style for indicating that an elected member of the U.S. House or Senate is a Democrat who represents Massachusetts. It is never used to identify a canidate for those offices. And it's certainly never used to identify a former canidate.

John didn't put that on his Twitter, as much as he'd probably want to. That's just formatting from the Politiwhoops website, identifying John as a Democratic candidate from Massachusetts. Funny that they're still cataloging his deleted tweets even after he ended the scampaign, making that (D-Mass.) after his name all the funnier.

Though I get a kick out of @Grand Fucktard's explanation:

John was going on about twitter filtering rude words. Maybe the hyphen is just a placeholder for a U

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Wait, wait, wait . . . when did John add the "(D-Mass.)" to his name. That's Associated Press style for indicating that an elected member of the U.S. House or Senate is a Democrat who represents Massachusetts. It is never used to identify a canidate for those offices. And it's certainly never used to identify a former canidate.

If I recall from earlier in the thread, the siste that posts those deleted tweets posts both the party affiliation and home state of the candidate making the deleted tweets. It's not something Wu added themselves.

Edit: Ninja'd by @King Dead

So, Wu wants to return to software development. The possibilities for projects that are failed, incomplete, or end with an app-breaking bug are endless -- assuming Wu doesn't first make another abrupt jump to something else unrelated.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Tbf he is an expert in unreal, just not in the way he means
Did r60 even use the unreal engine? It looks significantly worse than the first unreal tournament and that came out 16 years ago

Mentioning Unreal Tournament is appropriate. They used UDK, Unreal Development Kit, it's Unreal Tournament 3 with the game stripped away leaving the modding SDK and editor. Remember the types of mods people used to make for UT? UDK is better than past versions but Rev60 could still be considered a mod. One of the big changes was that Epic allowed whatever was created with the UDK to be sold, they took a percentage of revenue(5% maybe) when the product broke $10,000 in sales. I don't remember if that was the correct amount or if it was before or after platform fees.

Spoiler: spergatory

UDK was free on PC but cost money on the at the time new mobile platforms, I don't remember exactly why but I think it had to do with the middleware used, there would be new licensing agreements for the new super hot platforms. Unity was always cheap on PC but like UDK the mobile version really bumped the price, initially, with time that eased up and the basic version is now free for iOS and Android, same with UE4 and that one includes full source code. So something has changed over the years.

UDK doesn't include any source code for UE3 though, that's pure Wu hyperbole. Not that UDK is bad if the developers are competent, here's one of the dudes behind Hawken talking about it, it's from Epic's own site so it is a puff piece but it clearly points out that Wu is full of bullshit:

When it comes to working with UDK instead of the full source code version of Unreal Engine 3, Le and his team were impressed with UDK’s flexibility in spite of early concern.
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And while the team was somewhat skeptical about using only UDK and UnrealScript, that changed through the course of development.

The UE3 license with the full source code included started at ten times what Frank paid. Wu's own words when deciding on an engine was "let's go with the most expensive one!" which is standard behavior for him - except they didn't have 300k+.



The Unreal engine expert also managed this for the PC release:

The executable for the game is called UDK.exe with the default UDK icon and the process is called UDKGame. Sad!

The full UnrealScript code for Rev60 is right there in the release, with comments and notes. "for baby wrangling" is one comment and is connected to showing credits, don't know what that's about.
Most of the code looks like this.

It just fires off animations.

This is the type of super-advanced Kismet, the node based scripting language he's talking about, taken direct from one of the levels.

The whole level in its entirety(R60_Mon_map)


Zoom in and it looks like this.


Unreal expert Wu couldn't figure out what the system requirements was on PC and only provided minimum requirements with the added note "The minimum specs are set by Unreal Engine 3, not GSX. Please follow their guidelines. "

Ok, this is pretty cool. Rev60 had a demo on iOS that required purchasing it to continue after a certain point.

CurrentFullGameUnlockStatus near the top is the one of interest, 0 means false and it throws up the paywall.

Changing that one variable to '1' unlocks the entire game. But to be able muck around with memory it requires jailbreaking the phone right?

No, the perpetual moron released the game as a succession of debug builds with the console enabled, just change it there with a simple command. If someone bothered finding this out at the time then Wu being Wu wouldn't know how to stop it and Apple would have pulled it from the Appstore.


Don't know what this is about, was he at one point planning for romance and sex scenes between his horrible bimbos?

 

[Kosher Dill]

Don't know what this is about, was he at one point planning for romance and sex scenes between his horrible bimbos?

R60's hard mode was called "Girlfriend Mode", I don't remember if you had to unlock it though.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

R60's hard mode was called "Girlfriend Mode", I don't remember if you had to unlock it though.

Ah, you're right, I was confused because it was unlocked when I checked. Checked and saw this.
" CurrentGirlfriendUnlockStatus; // girlfriend mode is unlocked (0: locked, 1: unlocked); for Special Edition and beyond, always UNLOCKED "