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

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AnOminous said:
He probably is calling something "hacking" that isn't, like bypassing the upload/download ratios some BBSes had by uploading garbage. Or John is so shameless he might be calling it "hacking" just to have set up an account on a BBS at all.
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Don't give Wu any credit. These stories of Wu's early internet use are entirely made up, as evidenced by the entirely anachronistic mentions of acoustic couplers and suchlike. There have been dozens of other inconsistencies documented in tedious detail in her various threads. What Wu knows of the early internet has been gleaned second hand from random magazine articles and films. Johnny boy has no usenet history and has never once mentioned IRC which is a staple of 90s internet kids.

As with so much of Wu's backstory, it's all fabricated.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
Tax me harder daddy government! I don't care how much Frank has to pay, just make things better!

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No wonder the progressive movement is facing such backlash, there's virtually no national discourse on who your favourite underage girl from Final Fantasy is.

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Of fucking course he likes the women from FF8. Ones a teacher that wants to diddle her students, ones manic pixie dream girl and the other is an uWu so random <3 gurl.
 
Norvic said:
Don't give Wu any credit. These stories of Wu's early internet use are entirely made up, as evidenced by the entirely anachronistic mentions of acoustic couplers and suchlike.
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By the time WarGames came out in 1983, acoustic couplers were already on the way out. I first used a modem in 1981, and it was already an RJ11 connector, no coupler. I didn't even see one irl until I was going through the attic of a computer store and was amazed to find an unopened AT&T 1200 baud, which was probably very near the end of manufacturing them at all.

For chronology, John was born in 1977 and would have been five or six in 1983. By the time he was eight, Hayes had already started coming out with modems with the highest speed an acoustic could practically do, no coupling needed, just plug an RJ11 in the back.

So he's telling us he, whose rich parents always got him the latest and greatest everything, would get him a computer with an acoustic coupler in the '90s. Pure lies.
 
Consoom and keep consooming and never ask questions.

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hehehe I watched a macho action flick and now I'm going to spend thousands of dollars of my roommate's money hehehe socialism is great

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AnOminous said:
By the time WarGames came out in 1983, acoustic couplers were already on the way out. I first used a modem in 1981, and it was already an RJ11 connector, no coupler. I didn't even see one irl until I was going through the attic of a computer store and was amazed to find an unopened AT&T 1200 baud, which was probably very near the end of manufacturing them at all.

For chronology, John was born in 1977 and would have been five or six in 1983. By the time he was eight, Hayes had already started coming out with modems with the highest speed an acoustic could practically do, no coupling needed, just plug an RJ11 in the back.

So he's telling us he, whose rich parents always got him the latest and greatest everything, would get him a computer with an acoustic coupler in the '90s. Pure lies.
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For the hell of it, I did a search on John's Twitter for "acoustic." The lies have come up three times in the past three years.

Number one, John claims to have "hacked" into BBSes (archive) to download shareware games through an acoustic coupler, inspired to do so after watching WarGames. He spent several years doing so, no less! Never mind that there's literally no hacking involved in dialing a publicly-available number, the Godzilla of tech feminism will not be denied!
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Number two, John mocks kids these days for having it far too easy by spamming some vaguely computer-oriented words at them that he swears he heard one time (archive). He also claims that you totally would be using acoustic couplers in the 90s, long after they were out of style. A few replies in this one calling him out on this.
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Number three, from just a couple weeks ago, in response to a thread about "post a pic that says how long you've been using computers," John posts a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 and repeats his BBS hacking lies (archive). Once again, John, dialing a publicly-available number is not hacking. The only truth is that yes, a 1200-baud modem is faster than most acoustic couplers, although there are 1200-baud coupler models out there as @AnOminous mentioned, so even then it's a half-truth at best.
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I'm not well-versed on the history of acoustic couplers and modems, but I'm curious about the pricing of older acoustic models and the original Smartmodems. The very first Smartmodem 300 sold for $299 back in 1981, with the 1200 coming out the next year for $699. I dunno if a teenager in 1983 could afford either of those, unless he managed to convince his parents to buy one. I guess my curiosity is, was the acoustic coupler all Matthew Broderick's character would have likely been able to get his hands on, or was it just used for the visual of dialing in through the phone lines?

Anyway, John's dumb.
 
King Dead said:
Number three, from just a couple weeks ago, in response to a thread about "post a pic that says how long you've been using computers," John posts a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 and repeats his BBS hacking lies (archive). Once again, John, dialing a publicly-available number is not hacking. The only truth is that yes, a 1200-baud modem is faster than most acoustic couplers, although there are 1200-baud coupler models out there as @AnOminous mentioned, so even then it's a half-truth at best.
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Now this is an ABSOLUTE FUCKING LIE. You would not use "Hayes codes," you know, that ATDT shit (possibly after some previous commands to set it up), with an acoustic coupler, because acoustic coupling modems were MANUAL, you set one of those old Bell style telephones into it and dialed the number manually.

Hayes modems, you just plugged an RJ11 into it and either typed the command to dial manually, or more likely used a program like Procomm Plus to script for the things you connected to. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Hayes NEVER EVER had anything that used an acoustic coupler. They were the company that obsoleted them.
 
King Dead said:
For the hell of it, I d I guess my curiosity is, was the acoustic coupler all Matthew Broderick's character would have likely been able to get his hands on, or was it just used for the visual of dialing in through the phone lines?
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It's for show...I think they wanted to dramatic pay-off for scenes like when david, in a panic, rips the handset out of the coupler and hangs up

remember when david sets his computer up to dial numbers til he finds the computer? well consider that the modem would have to go on-hook/off-hook to redial (that's actually a shorting resistor across the twisted pair..an actual electrical switching -- you can do it through the jacks b/c that's an electrical connection, but an acoustic coupler is ACOUSTICALLY connected)
 
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The very first Smartmodem 300 sold for $299 back in 1981, with the 1200 coming out the next year for $699. I dunno if a teenager in 1983 could afford either of those, unless he managed to convince his parents to buy one.
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As @AnOminous mentioned, John was five years old on June 3, 1983, when Wargames was released. His parents were probably still trying to potty train the little sped. They certainly weren't buying him computer gear.

As always, it's funny that John didn't even pause to think about how old he was in 1983 when tweeting his demented lies.
 
Sonichu-choo trainwreck said:
remember when david sets his computer up to dial numbers til he finds the computer? well consider that the modem would have to go on-hook/off-hook to redial (that's actually a shorting resistor across the twisted pair..an actual electrical switching -- you can do it through the jacks b/c that's an electrical connection, but an acoustic coupler is ACOUSTICALLY connected)
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This kind of shit continues to this day. How many times have you seen some computer mumbo-jumbo on the screen while someone (like Abby Sciuto on NCIS) is hacking some super cyber criminal, but the actual shit on the screen is just an apt-get of some basic package, or something compiling?
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
As always, it's funny that John didn't even pause to think about how old he was in 1983 when tweeting his demented lies.
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He's used to just being able to pull some strings with some trannies at Twitter so that nobody criticizes his absolute bullshit, or they just get instabanned. That's why it's always fun to see him run up against someone who actually does just call him out on his bullshit, and can't be banned because they're higher on the progressive stack, or the real world stack.
 
His bullshit about how far he walks and runs is fucking hilarious if you're an actual runner.

7.0 mph sounds impressive. After all, that's a 8.5 minute mile.

But that's on a treadmill. And they looked it up.

A serious runner, one who's used to pounding the pavement and training for actual marathons and events, they're pushing for a bit faster than that. They'll tear a treadmill up.

There's no way that Wu runs enough to maintain the in-shape to run 8.5 minute miles for an hour. They're trying to tell you they run seven miles a day.

LOL.

No.

But, if you look at Wu's body type.

They're not a runner. They wouldn't have that gut, their legs would have definition, and they wouldn't look skinnyfat.
 
King Dead said:
For the hell of it, I did a search on John's Twitter for "acoustic." The lies have come up three times in the past three years.

Number one, John claims to have "hacked" into BBSes (archive) to download shareware games through an acoustic coupler, inspired to do so after watching WarGames. He spent several years doing so, no less! Never mind that there's literally no hacking involved in dialing a publicly-available number, the Godzilla of tech feminism will not be denied!
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Number two, John mocks kids these days for having it far too easy by spamming some vaguely computer-oriented words at them that he swears he heard one time (archive). He also claims that you totally would be using acoustic couplers in the 90s, long after they were out of style. A few replies in this one calling him out on this.
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Number three, from just a couple weeks ago, in response to a thread about "post a pic that says how long you've been using computers," John posts a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 and repeats his BBS hacking lies (archive). Once again, John, dialing a publicly-available number is not hacking. The only truth is that yes, a 1200-baud modem is faster than most acoustic couplers, although there are 1200-baud coupler models out there as @AnOminous mentioned, so even then it's a half-truth at best.
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I'm not well-versed on the history of acoustic couplers and modems, but I'm curious about the pricing of older acoustic models and the original Smartmodems. The very first Smartmodem 300 sold for $299 back in 1981, with the 1200 coming out the next year for $699. I dunno if a teenager in 1983 could afford either of those, unless he managed to convince his parents to buy one. I guess my curiosity is, was the acoustic coupler all Matthew Broderick's character would have likely been able to get his hands on, or was it just used for the visual of dialing in through the phone lines?

Anyway, John's dumb.
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Let also remind that as Miss'ippi John has reminded us many times, he grew up poor. Super poor. So poor they could only afford the basics - very little food, having to have the power shut off, and $500 modems to attach to $1500 computers to use $0.25 a minute BBSes.
The absolute bare minimum for human survival.
 
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"Your bloodline is weak" says the man who is married to a man and has no functioning genitals. Their bloodline may be weak, but his is a dead end.
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
As @AnOminous mentioned, John was five years old on June 3, 1983, when Wargames was released. His parents were probably still trying to potty train the little sped. They certainly weren't buying him computer gear.

As always, it's funny that John didn't even pause to think about how old he was in 1983 when tweeting his demented lies.
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When I was 5, my friend had the nintendo glove and we pretended we were hackermen with it.

the glove was broken, but we didn't care.
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Let also remind that as Miss'ippi John has reminded us many times, he grew up poor. Super poor. So poor they could only afford the basics - very little food, having to have the power shut off, and $500 modems to attach to $1500 computers to use $0.25 a minute BBSes.
The absolute bare minimum for human survival.
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That's why they were poor. The black natal woman, John, refused to let them save money or buy food. He needed his consoomer shit. Even as a kid, he wouldn't be happy untill he had the newest acoustic dialer in the 90s.
 
Statute of limitations my ass...

But the two posts complements each other very well.
198X - "I saw Wargames as a kid and immediately wanted the thing the main character had!"
2021 - "I saw Fast and the Furious yesterday and now I want the car the main character had!"
 
Ghostse said:
Let also remind that as Miss'ippi John has reminded us many times, he grew up poor. Super poor. So poor they could only afford the basics - very little food, having to have the power shut off, and $500 modems to attach to $1500 computers to use $0.25 a minute BBSes.
The absolute bare minimum for human survival.
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And Space Camp, like every poor black girl. He even had to restore his own sports car, he was so poor.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Statute of limitations my ass...

But the two posts complements each other very well.
198X - "I saw Wargames as a kid and immediately wanted the thing the main character had!"
2021 - "I saw Fast and the Furious yesterday and now I want the car the main character had!"
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It pretty much sums up John

He doesn't have an actual personality or identity, he's just a collage of pop-culture references he doesn't understand

(BTW the fiero is a piece of shit, although it is fire prone, so I can see why it would appeal to John -- he can drive it around in the dark)
 
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Particle Bored said:
All true and honest mechanics "wrench" in lycra.
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What is wrong with these "women"? I just did an oil change on my husband's car, what did I wear in order to keep my clothes clean? Fucking coveralls, like a normal person. Especially for people who apparently work on cars constantly.
 
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