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

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ForgedBlades said:
jfc, who had "speedrunner" in the "What's next for John" poll?

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Peace and Harmony said:
John W. Flynt University now offering PhDs in Yard Work (online only of course).

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Not the only thing that John “shaved off”
Optimus Prime said:
Holy shit, actual confirmation that the bike still exists in Flu's possession.

Also: this person owns two porches and a bike (and then there's whatever Frank drives, I think a Dodge Challenger?), how the fuck has this house not been robbed given it's in a less-then-stellar neighborhood?
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I like that how, despite footing the bill for the house, cars and all absolutely everything else, Frank still has to park his car out in the driveway because John's hot rods take up the whole garage. I can just imagine him having to go out there in the cold bitter Boston winter and scrape the ice off of his windshield each morning before he drives to off work while a garage full of luxury vehicles sits as idle.
 
Eli Whitney said:
Frank still has to park his car out in the driveway because John's hot rods take up the whole garage. I can just imagine him having to go out there in the cold bitter Boston winter and scrape the ice off of his windshield each morning before he drives to off work while a garage full of luxury vehicles sits as idle.
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Fuck him. That's the life he chose. I hope it's worth it.
 
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
And when has he ever engaged in discourse?
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He's using the word correctly in its Twitter sense, where "the discourse" means the woke echo-chamber, which is universally recognized as stressful and unpleasant to participate in, even for true believers. And John is emphatically not a true believer.
 
Gee I wonder if investigative journalist John Walker Flynt ever got on the case, or if he just ignored it and covered up for rapists like he normally does.

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Mola Ram said:
Fuck him. That's the life he chose. I hope it's worth it.
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A while back in this thread, a question was posed: if you could learn anything about John's life, no bullshit, what would it be? At the time, I answered that I'd want to know more about his life pre-college and what happened during his formative years to make him the shambling ghoul he is today. Upon further consideration, I think I'll change my answer: I'd rather know just why Frank decided to shackle himself to John.

From an objective standpoint, it truly makes no sense. He's wasted countless dollars fulfilling John's every whim: funding his game dev studio that produced one failed game ($400k+), being the primary funding source for his scampaigns ($100k+), buying him multiple sports cars and a motorcycle ($200k+ when you factor in all the repairs needed), paying for countless surgeries (no idea but I'm sure at least $100k, probably more), and shelling out for his anime figurine and vidya addictions (definitely thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars), along with tons of other expensive purchases like the Peloton. At least he's actually riding that daily now, so hey, at least he's finally getting some use out of it. I mean, we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars thrown down a money pit, probably over a million by now, and what does Frank really have to show for it? An abomination for a "wife," his retirement fund drained, a house filled with unused junk, and an abundance of failures.

We've theorized before as to why Frank did it, with the most plausible to me being that he wanted a "wife" he had ultimate control over after his last wife left him for trying to ruin her sci-fi career, coupled with a fetishistic desire to play god and build his dream wife. And if that last part sounds absurd, remember that he's also written about wanting to fuck cephalopods before, so he's definitely into some weird shit. But I want to know the truth straight from the screaming paypig's mouth. With all the cash he's blown, he could at least find a biological woman to marry and probably spend a hell of a lot less in the long run. But instead, he chose John, and I want to know why.
 
King Dead said:
We've theorized before as to why Frank did it, with the most plausible to me being that he wanted a "wife" he had ultimate control over after his last wife left him for trying to ruin her sci-fi career, coupled with a fetishistic desire to play god and build his dream wife. And if that last part sounds absurd, remember that he's also written about wanting to fuck cephalopods before, so he's definitely into some weird shit. But I want to know the truth straight from the screaming paypig's mouth. With all the cash he's blown, he could at least find a biological woman to marry and probably spend a hell of a lot less in the long run. But instead, he chose John, and I want to know why.
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My working assumption is that Frank is a deeply closeted gay man, and picking up a chick with a dick and paying for him to be moulded in to a "woman" is the closest he can come to admitting the truth to himself that's compatible with his conservative Christian upbringing. I have no doubt his parents are hardcore Christians, converts of that sort always are.
 
King Dead said:
We've theorized before as to why Frank did it, with the most plausible to me being that he wanted a "wife" he had ultimate control over after his last wife left him for trying to ruin her sci-fi career, coupled with a fetishistic desire to play god and build his dream wife
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It's the only answer that makes even an iota of sense, but even that's got a rather gaping hole in it (and not just John's surgical wound!). Namely, how in control is Frank really considering the jaw-dropping piles of cash he's poured into John for no return on his investment? Add everything you mentioned together, and you might be getting close to seven figures -- definitely over seven figures if you add in the house, which was bought to establish residency for John's obviously hopeless run for Congress, to say nothing of a man in his 50s taking on a mortgage. Add to that the fact that John ain't getting any younger, and even if Frank were into transwomen, surely he could have a younger, infinitely more passable one. There are Victorian mansions infested with termites and sitting on crumbling foundations that aren't as big a money sink as John Flynt.

I dunno, maybe findom is one of Frank's kinks too.
 
Mola Ram said:
It's the only answer that makes even an iota of sense, but even that's got a rather gaping hole in it (and not just John's surgical wound!). Namely, how in control is Frank really considering the jaw-dropping piles of cash he's poured into John for no return on his investment? Add everything you mentioned together, and you might be getting close to seven figures -- definitely over seven figures if you add in the house, which was bought to establish residency for John's obviously hopeless run for Congress, to say nothing of a man in his 50s taking on a mortgage. Add to that the fact that John ain't getting any younger, and even if Frank were into transwomen, surely he could have a younger, infinitely more passable one. There are Victorian mansions infested with termites and sitting on crumbling foundations that aren't as big a money sink as John Flynt.

I dunno, maybe findom is one of Frank's kinks too.
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I think the answer can be summed up in the Denvention photo of John and Frank dressed up in Barbarella drag. They both see nothing odd in publicly presenting John as a young Jane Fonda and Frank as a young John Phillip Law. They are clinically insane. Frank just happens to be clinically insane and upper middle class.
 
Mola Ram said:
It's the only answer that makes even an iota of sense, but even that's got a rather gaping hole in it (and not just John's surgical wound!). Namely, how in control is Frank really considering the jaw-dropping piles of cash he's poured into John for no return on his investment? Add everything you mentioned together, and you might be getting close to seven figures -- definitely over seven figures if you add in the house, which was bought to establish residency for John's obviously hopeless run for Congress, to say nothing of a man in his 50s taking on a mortgage. Add to that the fact that John ain't getting any younger, and even if Frank were into transwomen, surely he could have a younger, infinitely more passable one. There are Victorian mansions infested with termites and sitting on crumbling foundations that aren't as big a money sink as John Flynt.

I dunno, maybe findom is one of Frank's kinks too.
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Again, this is why I'd like to know the truth, because rationalizations are difficult. Perhaps Frank is fine with putting up with John's bullshit because deep down he knows who wears the pants in the relationship. John is a moron with no skills, someone who couldn't even get a pity degree after a decade of college, and without Frank's wallet he'd be stuck at some dead-end retail job with no hope for anything better. Frank deals with John making fun of him on Twitter and flaunting "his" wealth because he knows he could take it away in a heartbeat. It helps that they're both middle-aged nerds with similar interests, so buying things for John is basically the same as buying them for himself. If he dumped John at some point, he'd still have a house full of toys that are right up his alley.

Or maybe it's as simple as @Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said: they're crazy.
 
King Dead said:
Or maybe it's as simple as @Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said: they're crazy.
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However repulsive and unwholesome the real world finds them, they seem to genuinely enjoy each other's company (always allowing for the edited nature of social media) ... which certainly suggests that, yeah, they're both crazier 'n a shithouse rat.
 
King Dead said:
With all the cash he's blown, he could at least find a biological woman to marry
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He already tried that twice.

I think the thing that over-mystifies Frank and John's relationship is the "money sink" notion. There's this idea that John is burning all of Frank's money on his stupid hobbies, but really, the stupid hobbies are as much or more Frank's as they are John's. The campaign burned cash, but who was actually more interested in the campaign? Who dressed up in the Godzilla suit, did the arts and crafts, appeared in all the ads, and wrote everything that wasn't done through an Ambien haze?
Same with the cars. Who's actually doing all the work? If Frank didn't enjoy this stuff he'd just send the missus off to whatever the Massachusetts equivalent of "Pimp My Ride" is, hand him the credit card, and say "Go nuts". But instead he's out there spray-painting the car on his lawn.

Really, I think they're just a couple of manchildren with similar tastes.
 
Only sort of on-topic, but I finally found one of my favorite Frank stories again, the one where he made an ass of himself winning his 4th Hugo in 2009.
See page 38 here: https://efanzines.com/File770/File770-157.pdf

Putting it another way, Frank won his 4th Hugo. I guess I can’t blame him for being elated, but I took his victory dance rather badly. He swooped around the stage, playing with his Hugo as though it were a toy rocket, raising more than one eyebrow among the other winners who preferred more reserved expressions of satisfaction.
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