Warren Lynch Shitpost General - TRUE and HONEST (former) John Flynt for Congress campaign worker

[Dimethyl Ketone]

I can relate to you as fellow trolls. I am very much a troll, and I have bitterness in my heart, which I love to vent upon others. These days I try to save it for the rich and powerful, corrupt officials and the very deserving. Maybe I'm happier now that I'm only SEMI poor. But back in the early 90s I would troll absolutely anyone, especially if they were happy. My hate was pretty universal.
Plus I love comedy and there's some good comedy here.
I can relate to those aspects.
I don't relate to some folks' right wing "sperg"ings out or whatever you want to call it. Although I probly do the same on the left wing side. Happy to debate about that though and nothing wrong with having different views.
I don't relate to edgelord ironic racism, sexism and homophobic stuff. I thought that was super novel when I was about 19 but I'm over it.
I don't relate to stalking really, although I have stalked Stephen Lynch and I see the appeal I guess.
Maybe if I took a look at the threads stalking right wingers I would relate even more.
IDK, I guess my answer is "sort of in some ways, not in others"?

Warren... Warren... Warren!

You had me so excited there, thinking that you were finally turning around and overcoming your tendency to reduce everything that you don't believe in, or don't understand, into a single misconstrued dimension.

I don't know of any ironic racism, sexism, or homophobic stuff. Do you know what the word irony means?
Yes, some of us here are racists.
I don't think anyone here is sexist, or at least it doesn't show
And I really don't think anyone is homophobic. We've got a couple real fags on the site, and this time I mean "fag" in the gayest way possible.

But you know what? That's their right! That's what freedom of speech and freedom of expression is all about; you don't have to hide who you are or what you believe in simply because some blue-checkmark decided for you that you need to be against it.

I am very interested in other peoples' perception -- how they see and interpret the world. I cannot for the life of me understand why some people let others define for them what's right and what's wrong, what's okay to believe in and what isn't, who I am supposed to hate and who I am supposed to love. That last one is a BIG one for me. Oh because I ate dinner with a nazi and didn't punch him in the face that makes me a nazi? Get the fuck outta here with shit like that.
That's my biggest problem with SJW and fake "progressives." They talk about how evil hate is and immorality... but the irony is they hate just the same if not more than the real-life nazis. But it's okay to hate and assault people if they believe in something different from you, so long as that difference is picked out of some arbitrary list by a twitter-verified God.

You ever heard the phrase, "I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend/support your right to say it!" ?? We are all different people with different beliefs that work best for us. I have just as much right to say "nigger" if I want to as you have to say "apples" if you want to. But you think that I'm shit for saying " n***er" because someone with a blue checkmark somewhere decided this for you? Get the fuck out of here with that. The irony here is you will turn around and call me a neckbeard ( I have no beard) who lives in his mom's basement (I don't) and is homophobic and a nazi. Why is your free speech protected but mine is immoral and evil?

That's what I can't understand man. I try to understand everybody; I put myself in the other person's shoes and try to work through their reasoning and beliefs. How can I disagree with someone if I don't even understand their position?

You've even gone so far as to put us on the same level as the monster known as Brianna Wu. You said something like "yeah, she may have called someone a sand ni**** but you guys are edgelords who say n*g*e* all the time to be ironic." What's with that? We say it in jest, like I said earlier, to add some feeling and tone to our writings. Brianna used that phrase with the only intent to hurt the editor's feelings because he didn't want to publish her bimbo cartoons.

We don't talk like we do because we are "edgelords" and trying to be oh so rebellious and kewl. This is the internet. My popularity here has no bearing on my life. My words on here cannot hurt anybody, but somebody who can't keep their cool can end up hurting themselves with them. That's what I think is going on here, you are reading all sorts of negativity that isn't there and treating us like we are 3rd graders who just learned about the word "vagina." Like we run around the playground and whisper to eachother "......VAGINA" until some little fag goes "OHHHHHH! YOU SAID A BAD WORD! I'M TELLING!!!" and runs up to the teacher, "Dimethyl Ketone said the v-word." And the teacher looks down at the kid confused and says "What? Vegetable?" ... "No, The V-word. You know, like the pee-pee on a girl!" Teacher: "Sighhh... Warren, why don't you go play with those other kids instead?"

Anyway, warrenfag, I'm gonna get out of here. I'm really trying to understand you but it's hard when you're so contradictory. As I said, I can't understand at all letting someone else decide for me what is right or wrong, what I'm allowed to be mad at and what causes I'm supposed to fight. I make those decisions for myself.

Ask yourself a question: Are you free?

 

[W person cow]

Warren... Warren... Warren!
Ask yourself a question: Are you free?

OMG dude. Yes you are free to say vile things. Some are funny. The racist or etc edgelord ones are just boring AND vile. You are free to go ahead and I'm sure you won't listen and that's your right. Just ew, is all. Not worth a huge rant.

I'm quite impressed, but more information would be helpful. Is she a state trooper or is she on active duty with, say, the 1st Bengal Lancers?

Editing your book is going to be more of a chore than I initially feared.

Um, she is the "figure of speech" kind. Like a hard worker who puts up with a lot of BS.

This is hard to believe considering shit like blatant misspellings on Wu's social media and campaign sites never get corrected, despite being common Kiwi fodder.

A valid point. At least she SAYS she does anyway.

This makes throwing shade at her "inexperienced staff" even more dickish.

Yeah. Sure I'm kind of a loose cannon or whatever, but Kate would not hurt a fly. Like even a really mean fly.

The fact that you think sewing or crying has anything to do with femininity makes you come off as a Trump voter. The fact that you think femininity has anything to do with being wussy makes you come off as a weirdo fetishist. You are in no way feminine, you're simply weak willed and lack a meaningful understanding of the machinations of the world.

I don't care if I come off as a Trump voter, I probably usually do. I'm loud, mean and poor. And sometimes ignorant probably.
But I think femininity has nothing at all to do with being "wussy". It's just that I reject caring about being "wussy" all the time like some people. If I'm "wussy", sue me. I think sometimes there's more strength in being vulnerable than being some fake Rambo or something. And I think anybody who says "be a man" is just doing a crappy sales pitch to try to talk somebody into something.
"Be a man and sign up for these payday loans!"

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

You are free to go ahead and I'm sure you won't listen and that's your right. Just ew, is all. Not worth a huge rant.

Again you either don't read or can't process what I'm writing. I'm not writing these long posts for my benefit or the benefit of other Kiwis. We already know all this shit. I'm attempting to educate you.

Some "progressive" you turned out to be too! There's a reason I've been calling you a SJW, you act like you're not but you show it time and time again. "Oh Dimethyl Ketone used some words that I've been told I'm not allowed to say because I'm a privileged white male. Let me just dismiss it all as racist and edgelord so I don't have to think about it!"

At least real racists have details, data, experiences, and are able to defend their beliefs. You just dismiss everything that doesn't fit your tiny little box of "acceptable behaviour."
Frankly, it pisses me off. You hold double standards. You put yourself on a pedestal and snub your nose down at us. It's the same as if you won't listen to anything a mexican has to say because his English was mostly learned through slang working in the back of a kitchen, so they speak differently than you.

You're not better than them. You're not better than us. Stop acting like the victim and stop pretending like we are 13 year old kids who just dyed our hair black to piss off mom and say things like "Anyone wanna ass fucking go to the tits taco bell shit fag pussy? LOL!!!" That's not it at all. We are PEOPLE just like you. we may talk differently, different vocabulary and dialect, but that is no reason to dismiss and ignore what we have to say. That's YOU being an "edgelord" and a "*ist" not us.

Man I'm trying so hard to be nice to you. Look at how I talk to other people here, can you see a difference? I don't feel like I have to type up long rants like this because instead of trying to force me to talk using a list of approved words that they have given me, or insulting me because I deviated from said list, they try to understand me. I don't feel like you are giving me the same respect -- and that's why I'm spending my time typing up these long-winded responses to you: I am trying to get you to have enough respect for the other people in here that are different than you in order to have real discussion and not dilly-dally 4/5 pages of you telling us we are talking "wrong" and us trying to explain to you that there is no universal "right" way.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

I do not think it is fair that she got paid more, and I think she basically got paid more because she's a pretty girl who would let Brianna yell at her about some new random thing every morning at 8 while jogging.

You have chanced upon a glimmer of truth here friendo. I have no reason to believe that Kate is not exactly the person that you describe her to be. However, the key difference between you and Kate is that Kate has a vagina, and that is the most important thing in the world to John Flynt. John is not attracted to women, mind you, but merely fetishes them.

John is a sexist on both horns. He hates men because he is an irrational idiot and he objectivises women in the purest sense of the word because he likes to rub his minced penis to the thought that he is one of them. If Kate had stayed on the staff any longer, I have no doubt that she would have been the target of emotional abuse of the highest order because she would probably have been far more competent than both John and Frank combined. I shudder to think what they might have done to her in that situation.

 

[MMX]

If I'm "wussy", sue me. I think sometimes there's more strength in being vulnerable than being some fake Rambo or something. And I think anybody who says "be a man" is just doing a crappy sales pitch to try to talk somebody into something.
"Be a man and sign up for these payday loans!"

What's wrong with being a Rambo type ?
You get the entire point of his character is that whilst being a macho male he's also vulnerable due to his experiences yet refuses to be defined by them. He's a man forged by violence and failed by society yet sticks to a pacifist approach even when folks tried to hunt and kill him. He sees no glory in violence and feels honest regret for taking lives of those who were trying to kill him. He's the ultimate expression of a abuse survivor going on to prevent further abuse and aiding other victims.
It's like the term "He-man" being a bad thing, well sure he was butch but he also liked collecting butterfly's and drinking tea with his sister.
You seem very much of the opinion that simply being a "typical" alpha male somehow blocks off access to emotions and liberal thinking, very stuck in the 80s attitude bro.

 

[Norvic]

But Kate is now on to better things, and I hope she finds good political work. She is a very hard worker, very optimistic and positive, has good social skills, follows directions amiably to do just about any given random thing, and is very good with extremely demanding bosses.
I'm not sure she really knew what TF she was doing, but hey, neither did I. One good thing about Brianna is that she gave some amateurs a chance. But yeah, not so pleasant to work for, in the end. I hope my other friend has a better time with it. I'm sure you'll dig up his name too in next quarter's filings

Wow, working for Wu sounds like a living hell.
Is your other friend Chris Reardon by any chance. or is he another one of your buddies who used to work for her and quit? I notice he's another big Bob Massie fan.

It sounds like her only connection to real people in MA is through people you've gotten to know over the years from Our Revolution. Basically she'd have done absolutely nothing without mining resources you handed her. Do you have any further thoughts on why Wu tried to run for congress at all now that it's pretty clear she's never made any sort of allies beyond people you've introduced her to? I mean, we here have followed Wu for years and it's still somewhat of a mystery why Wu decided to embark on this doomed venture in particular.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Stuff about the culture here and racism and stuff

You know Warren, I feel kind of the same way. There's some stuff that goes on here that's kind of gross to me too. I don't dig the casual racism and sexism, personally. But there's a reason I came here to discuss issues, despite the gross stuff I didn't like. And that reason is, the stuff I do want to discuss is not hindered here. If I want to dig way down into some weird conservative theory, I can, and people will engage in good faith. Despite the open racism and what not here, it's not allowed to derail threads.

I've said the same thing before, when all the civil venues stop allowing the real issues to be discussed you either stop discussing the issues or you change venues. With the way censorship is ramping up in the mainstream, I'm forced to come to a pretty crazy place.

When I got here I said some of the same stuff you are. I said it was troubling that the one place I found to discuss conservative viewpoints was so full of the negative stereotypes of conservatives. I can't exactly link to a thread here to try to convince someone of something if they're not already somewhat on board, because there's so much to get snagged on. I'm pretty good at digging through the nonsense to get to the kernel of truth, but a lot of people aren't willing to put in that effort, especially to prove themselves wrong.

Unfortunately, there is no place like this except without the gross stuff. And I don't think that's an accident. On most parts of the internet, you have to stick with the "Right" side, or find yourself banned. That has pushed people to places like this. And now it's easy to paint people here as racists. At least here you can generally avoid the gross stuff though. Your thread might not be the greatest example of that, since it's so meandering it covers a lot of topics, and Wu is pretty damn infamous around here.

My point is, that viewpoint is not universal. Some of us come here to read HK47's analysis (He's pretty good at digging up articles and having an interesting viewpoint on the matter). Then you've got GethN7, another regular poster with lots of insight into various communities and a talent for getting his point across. Neither of those two say racist stuff, that I've seen.

To be honest with you though, if you do want to hang out here, I'd make a new username and be anonymous if I were you. When you're posting as Warren Lynch people are going to want to talk to you about Wu, and you don't seem to like where those conversations go.

 

[ZKWNordman]

Why were you not allowed to talk to Frank directly? Weren’t you the one attending events with him for a long time while Brianna stayed home?

 

[W person cow]

Again you either don't read or can't process what I'm writing. I'm not writing these long posts for my benefit or the benefit of other Kiwis. We already know all this shit. I'm attempting to educate you.

No, you're trying to defend your ego. You know your edgelord crap is unpleasant, that's why you do it.
You asked me what I can relate to and what I can't, and you got an honest answer. I relate to the insight and much of the humor, but not that part. Your making it into some crusade is absurd.
Edgelord all you want, I just find it unpleasant. That's my right, and what's the big deal?

Some "progressive" you turned out to be too! There's a reason I've been calling you a SJW, you act like you're not but you show it time and time again. "Oh Dimethyl Ketone used some words that I've been told I'm not allowed to say because I'm a privileged white male. Let me just dismiss it all as racist and edgelord so I don't have to think about it!"

No, I've responded to all kinds of questions. You just didn't like one of my answers, when you asked me "can you relate to us or not". Yes I can relate to the trolling and the humor, I just don't like certain kinds, they're a bit alienating and despicable. So sue me, lol.

At least real racists have details, data, experiences, and are able to defend their beliefs. You just dismiss everything that doesn't fit your tiny little box of "acceptable behaviour."
Frankly, it pisses me off. You hold double standards. You put yourself on a pedestal and snub your nose down at us. It's the same as if you won't listen to anything a mexican has to say because his English was mostly learned through slang working in the back of a kitchen, so they speak differently than you.

Because your "true identity" is to be an edgelord, lol?

You're not better than them. You're not better than us.

I'm not better than anybody. But some things I relate to, and some I don't.

Stop acting like the victim and stop pretending like we are 13 year old kids who just dyed our hair black to piss off mom and say things like "Anyone wanna ass fucking go to the tits taco bell shit fag pussy? LOL!!!"

Hey you said it, not me, lol.

That's not it at all. We are PEOPLE just like you. we may talk differently, different vocabulary and dialect, but that is no reason to dismiss and ignore what we have to say. That's YOU being an "edgelord" and a "*ist" not us.

Lol wait what?

Man I'm trying so hard to be nice to you. Look at how I talk to other people here, can you see a difference? I don't feel like I have to type up long rants like this because instead of trying to force me to talk using a list of approved words that they have given me, or insulting me because I deviated from said list, they try to understand me. I don't feel like you are giving me the same respect -- and that's why I'm spending my time typing up these long-winded responses to you: I am trying to get you to have enough respect for the other people in here that are different than you in order to have real discussion and not dilly-dally 4/5 pages of you telling us we are talking "wrong" and us trying to explain to you that there is no universal "right" way.

I didn't say anything was universal anything. I said what I relate to and what I don't. I don't think you're doing much of a very good job at being the "relating to things police", lol. I appreciate you "trying to be nice to me" but let's just be different people who relate about some things and not others. Is that okay with you?

What's wrong with being a Rambo type ?
You get the entire point of his character is that whilst being a macho male he's also vulnerable due to his experiences yet refuses to be defined by them. He's a man forged by violence and failed by society yet sticks to a pacifist approach even when folks tried to hunt and kill him. He sees no glory in violence and feels honest regret for taking lives of those who were trying to kill him. He's the ultimate expression of a abuse survivor going on to prevent further abuse and aiding other victims.
It's like the term "He-man" being a bad thing, well sure he was butch but he also liked collecting butterfly's and drinking tea with his sister.
You seem very much of the opinion that simply being a "typical" alpha male somehow blocks off access to emotions and liberal thinking, very stuck in the 80s attitude bro.

Rambo is strong enough in himself to accept being vulnerable then. It's some of the guys *pretending* to be Rambo I have a problem with. Or not a problem exactly. I just don't really want to be around it so much. I don't think it's very courageous to try to prove you're the best all the time. Am I wrong?
But I guess we're all human. I don't think it's wrong to be macho, I just don't want to be.

Why were you not allowed to talk to Frank directly? Weren’t you the one attending events with him for a long time while Brianna stayed home?

Yes but then I was told not to do that, and to stay home and get on the phone and try to raise money. Which I was terrible at. Avoiding constituents in order to beg for money from rich donors is a hard road for a Bernie Bro, lol. I didn't really raise any. So I kept trying to do endorsements. For the last several weeks I couldn't book any events because Brianna wanted me to use iCal for all events, didn't tell me that the campaign phone did not support iCal, refused to look at the nice pretty Google calendar I made for her full of dozens of events because "Google is not secure", and expected me to just "get on iCal".
Without any explanation of how to do that. I am completely mac-illiterate. But asking her how to do it is "wasting her time making her do tech support". So I floundered for weeks not knowing what to say or how to figure it out, while dozens of events went by I wasn't allowed to attend alone but she wouldn't look at the calendar of.
Finally I asked Kate for help, and she kindly tried to talk me through the impossible task, until Stee came in the room and was like "Warren, give me your phone". And she looked something up on Google and found out the phone doesn't support iCal, you can't use iCal on a PC or Android, and "just get on iCal" was not, like, a thing. Yet I'd been berated as "lazy" for not doing it forever.
Correct me if I am wrong and you can somehow use iCal on a PC. But yeah, effectively all events were banned due to Brianna not fricking... due to Brianna being Brianna. And then Brianna was mad that I'd wasted Kate's time with that, and talked through the endorsement process with Kate, etc etc. And that I had called up Frank to get paid even what I did get paid. Which wasn't as low as what y'all painted it as, but still, pretty dang low considering in April I was doing 16 hour days for a good two weeks, maybe more. But by June I was down to a few hours of just like staring at the computer in frustration. Banned from attending events. Unable to book events without impossible iCal task. And door after endorsement door mysteriously closing in my face with no explanation.
Meanwhile 2pm wakeup call from Brianna every day demanding to know why endorsements weren't working, why I wasn't raising money, why I wasn't "getting on iCal". Then staying up late nights writing 10 to 100 page endorsement applications. Which never got responded to.
I like going to stuff and meeting people. I can relate to them as humans usually and I'm good at it when I believe what I'm saying.
But then I discovered Kiwifarms and started wondering if I could believe anymore. Then I couldn't really do anything.
Kind of a long slide into doom.

 

[MMX]

Rambo is strong enough in himself to accept being vulnerable then. It's some of the guys *pretending* to be Rambo I have a problem with. Or not a problem exactly. I just don't really want to be around it so much. I don't think it's very courageous to try to prove you're the best all the time. Am I wrong?
But I guess we're all human. I don't think it's wrong to be macho, I just don't want to be.

I'm not trying to be mean Warren but isn't Brianna a great example of someone "trying to prove their the best all the time". The self declared "godzilla of tech" and head of a all female game development studio (conventionally ignoring Frank) with a single broken title. We may be a bunch of shitLords but atleast we acknowledge it.
Like I said not trying to be a dick but when your offered any criticism you resort to "I'd rather be X than Y" when X and Y aren't mutually exclusive. You don't have to be macho but you don't you to be a pussy either (just an example not name calling).
There's nothing wrong with trying to PROVE your the best IF your actually trying to be better but people hate someone who decides their the best even after they fail.

 

[ZKWNordman]

Yes but then I was told not to do that, and to stay home and get on the phone and try to raise money. Which I was terrible at. Avoiding constituents in order to beg for money from rich donors is a hard road for a Bernie Bro, lol. I didn't really raise any. So I kept trying to do endorsements. For the last several weeks I couldn't book any events because Brianna wanted me to use iCal for all events, didn't tell me that the campaign phone did not support iCal, refused to look at the nice pretty Google calendar I made for her full of dozens of events because "Google is not secure", and expected me to just "get on iCal".
Without any explanation of how to do that. I am completely mac-illiterate. But asking her how to do it is "wasting her time making her do tech support". So I floundered for weeks not knowing what to say or how to figure it out, while dozens of events went by I wasn't allowed to attend alone but she wouldn't look at the calendar of.
Finally I asked Kate for help, and she kindly tried to talk me through the impossible task, until Stee came in the room and was like "Warren, give me your phone". And she looked something up on Google and found out the phone doesn't support iCal, you can't use iCal on a PC or Android, and "just get on iCal" was not, like, a thing. Yet I'd been berated as "lazy" for not doing it forever.
Correct me if I am wrong and you can somehow use iCal on a PC. But yeah, effectively all events were banned due to Brianna not fricking... due to Brianna being Brianna. And then Brianna was mad that I'd wasted Kate's time with that, and talked through the endorsement process with Kate, etc etc. And that I had called up Frank to get paid even what I did get paid. Which wasn't as low as what y'all painted it as, but still, pretty dang low considering in April I was doing 16 hour days for a good two weeks, maybe more. But by June I was down to a few hours of just like staring at the computer in frustration. Banned from attending events. Unable to book events without impossible iCal task. And door after endorsement door mysteriously closing in my face with no explanation.
Meanwhile 2pm wakeup call from Brianna every day demanding to know why endorsements weren't working, why I wasn't raising money, why I wasn't "getting on iCal". Then staying up late nights writing 10 to 100 page endorsement applications. Which never got responded to.
I like going to stuff and meeting people. I can relate to them as humans usually and I'm good at it when I believe what I'm saying.
But then I discovered Kiwifarms and started wondering if I could believe anymore. Then I couldn't really do anything.
Kind of a long slide into doom.

The biggest surprise here is that Brianna made you use an Android. You’d think she’d find some dented 4S for you so you wouldn’t have to use inferior android.

 

[W person cow]

I'm not trying to be mean Warren but isn't Brianna a great example of someone "trying to prove their the best all the time". The self declared "godzilla of tech" and head of a all female game development studio (conventionally ignoring Frank) with a single broken title. We may be a bunch of shitLords but atleast we acknowledge it.
Like I said not trying to be a dick but when your offered any criticism you resort to "I'd rather be X than Y" when X and Y aren't mutually exclusive. You don't have to be macho but you don't you to be a pussy either (just an example to name calling).
There's nothing wrong with trying to PROVE your the best IF your actually trying to be better but people hate someone who decides their the best even after they fail.

I don't think that's mean.
I'm not sure I understand your question but if you are asking if Brianna is arrogant, then yes. Very.
If you are asking is Brianna macho or does she pick on her friends, I would say no.
Yes nothing wrong with trying to be the best and prove it that way. If you have to tear somebody else down to feel good, meh. I'm that way sometimes but when I am it doesn't seem very brave or admirable.
Nothing wrong with being manly, however you define that as. But I don't really much care if people think I am "manly" or not.

The biggest surprise here is that Brianna made you use an Android. You’d think she’d find some dented 4S for you so you wouldn’t have to use inferior android.

No she made me use an old series iPhone. My personal phone is an Android because I am poor. iCal worked on neither one.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Finally I asked Kate for help, and she kindly tried to talk me through the impossible task, until Stee came in the room and was like "Warren, give me your phone". And she looked something up on Google and found out the phone doesn't support iCal, you can't use iCal on a PC or Android, and "just get on iCal" was not, like, a thing. Yet I'd been berated as "lazy" for not doing it forever.

It's anecdotes like these that really demonstrate how fucking petty and stupid John really is, holy shit. I would have slapped a bitch.

Warren, after having gone through shit like this, what do you think about people - especially luminaries in the tech and social justice world - who still suck John's cock and give him their unabashed support? What do you think about mainstream media still running article after article about how tough and inspiring John is to """"women in tech"""""?

 

[W person cow]

It sounds like her only connection to real people in MA is through people you've gotten to know over the years from Our Revolution. Basically she'd have done absolutely nothing without mining resources you handed her.

I do like to think of it that way, and so does my girlfriend, lol. But I could just be being arrogant.
Only two people were through Our Revolution. Everybody else came just by showing up to shit and being friendly. The snowball effect

 

[Norvic]

Without any explanation of how to do that. I am completely mac-illiterate. But asking her how to do it is "wasting her time making her do tech support". So I floundered for weeks not knowing what to say or how to figure it out, while dozens of events went by I wasn't allowed to attend alone but she wouldn't look at the calendar of.
Finally I asked Kate for help, and she kindly tried to talk me through the impossible task, until Stee came in the room and was like "Warren, give me your phone". And she looked something up on Google and found out the phone doesn't support iCal, you can't use iCal on a PC or Android, and "just get on iCal" was not, like, a thing. Yet I'd been berated as "lazy" for not doing it forever.

For future reference, the reason she refused to waste her (precious pokemon go) time doing tech support is that she's no more computer literate than you are. She had no idea that what she was asking you was impossible.

This "cybersecurity expert" uses google apps for domains for all her email, but somehow since google is "insecure" demanded you use iCal for your scheduling as if the contents of her calendar are more important than her email.

You can actually sync mozilla thunderbird's calendar with shared iCal calendars, but the process to set it up is kind of obscure. This is the kind of thing Wu might be able know if she were actually a software engineer like she claims rather than a Apple obsessed fanboy wannabe.

 

[Jaimas]

Warren, if you're still reading this, I'm gonna give it to you flat on Waste Wars.

It's not an awful idea but good god you need better execution. You need a general synopsis of what units do in tooltips, you need to make it so zerg rushing swarms of units is not an instant win tactic if one unit does not have a flamethrower, and you need to up the balance so a pair of dogs doesn't have more melee punch than a full squad of basic infantry. Also explain the difference between the COs and factions beyond a one-sentence blurb that tells you nothing about them.

You also need to make the backgrounds less of an eyesore and maybe tighten up your lore. Do that and you're actually well on your way to getting off the Jaimas Plays a Terrible Game (JPATG) top ten, and into a realm where I will recommend your game rather than smack it for the amusement of this forum. For your reference, here's the current bottom ten:

Spoiler: JPATG Bottom Ten

10. Waste Wars
It crashed multiple times, completely rips of Warhammer 40K's rules, and had at least one background that made it impossible to tell what the fuck was going on, but it had some heart and is pretty impressive for a solo project. Essentially unfinished, there's potential here if actually worked on, but if left as-is is pretty shit and absolutely worthy of a title on the worst list.

9. I Get This Call Every Day
I want this game off this list. I really do. Compared to half the titles on this list David Gallant shows actual effort and actual care for the medium, which is more than 89% of his fucking associates. Unfortunately, he's done nothing with it since release and has pulled the game from Steam multiple times in what apparently is some kind of Autistic protest against a hashtag that died in 2015. As it stands, the game's just too short and too ugly to justify its placement. With some improvement, you'd have something actually laudable.

8. Demon's Forge
Rani made this game in twine. It's functional but not particularly good and a lot of stuff doesn't work right. @BOLDYSPICY! and I only beat it because we tried literally everything everywhere and the game has dozens of ways you can fuck up and make the game unwinnable. It's not any higher than this because it's got a few enjoyable bits and we did get some amusement out of it, and it did lead us to Rani's actually enjoyable games like Dead Gods. Like the above titles, it desperately deserves to be off this list, but can't until it's fixed or something worse comes along.

7. Revolution 60
Brianna Wu's magnum opus is actually enjoyable to mock, and as a subject of ridicule it never gets old. I love and hate this game so much; it's legitimately shit and yet there's so many elements trying desperately to make a good game trying but which can't get past the crazy idiot at the helm it's great. A fucking treatise on squandered potential could ship with this game; it's that much of a gigantic fuck-up. You can very much enjoy this game the same way one can a Neil Breen movie; the concept looks like it wandered off the set of a Tim and Eric skit, and the fact that this game ultimately saw the light of day is solely due to the Kickstarter Backers threatening to leave Brianna Wu's asshole in ruins.

6. Emergence
Emergence defies the pack by being well-written, but it's awkward, stilted, and loaded with issues. It basically has the same "gameplay" as the frontrunner of this list, but is sufficiently better than it that it deserves some credit. The inexplicable self-torture is unsettling and there's some issues with the story progression but if this was improved and lengthened you'd have something worth taking a look at, at least.

5. T-Runner
A terrible game. 256 megabytes for a game you could probably program in Flash for 3, with one redeeming feature: the game's unintentional view into the tortured pscyhe of Mark Boyd is fucking hilarious, and I will hear no argument. The fact that you must dodge things like the word "dude" and the male bathroom symbol, as well as footballs, beer, and disembodied penises, lest your trans warrior be TRIGGERED and DIE, comes across like a fucking parody game, a-la Truck of Peace.

4. Hackers Vs Banksters
Only enjoyable in a "this game is fucking awful, and that's hilarious" way. While several games on this list feature shit writing, this is the only one with levity and writing bad enough that it actually circles around and becomes hilarious. With a pair of completely unlikable protagonists who you must micromanage the likes of and which must be protected from the consequences of their own actions, the main amusement from this game boiled down to how easy to make fun of it was and I can at least respect that.

3. Depression Quest
Fittingly, a game about depression is one that's also bad enough to make me ponder the feasibility of suicide. Terrible jokes aside this game is fucking dreadful, and the fact that so many journalists were clearly on the take to promote is fucking laughable. As a text game akin to a CYOA Book, it establishes very quickly that Zoe Quinn is a fucking awful writer and this work leans on tell, don't show like it's its fucking Waifu. It's especially aggravating because there's potential here, but the developer and her team were simply counting on their cozy relationship with the press to carry them through and that's not going to tread water with the likes of me. Absolute shit and worthy of nothing.

2. ReGiCiDe
A game that barely works and may as well be surmised by "A lesbian gets raped in a shitty game made by some asshole who doesn't know how to use RPGMaker to the point where the game chugs at 4 frames a second," this game was a fucking nightmare to suffer through. Bad RPGMaker games are a dime a million but one so technically inept that it has literally nothing of value or substance and became unplayable save for me rebooting the game dozens of times is an experience I can liken to smashing your head into your desk to see which breaks first. An awful experience that I cannot recommend.

1. Patriarchy Simulator 2000
Zero interactivity and zero gameplay, basically a powerpoint presentation done in Twine, does nothing but establish that Nora Reed feels she's a victim because she got talked into having sex with a boy once and now feels that's rape, and establishes that Nora has systemically undermined every relationship she's ever had and will die alone and unloved. Notable for being the only JPATG title I was unable to make funny, to the point where I booted up a Touhou fangame and pretended that's what I was reviewing.

 

[W person cow]

What do you think about mainstream media still running article after article about how tough and inspiring John is to """"women in tech"""""?

I think everybody hates Nazis and they hate edgelords almost as much. If I hadn't waded through 10 pages of patient "really Warren we're not nazis, just trolls, some of whom are edgelords" I'd be in the same boat. Heck I was in the same boat for months. I didn't even look on here, even though I heard about it.
I'm not trying to police anybody's speech but there's something the socialists call "praxis". If you want to be convincing, you kinda have to use it. Aka "the art of meeting people where they are at".
The lolcow wiki looks like some desperate paint huffing nut wrote it.
As do other things. So it's lucky for all concerned that there were also some patient people here.

 

[MMX]

I don't think that's mean.
I'm not sure I understand your question but if you are asking if Brianna is arrogant, then yes. Very.
If you are asking is Brianna macho or does she pick on her friends, I would say no.
Yes nothing wrong with trying to be the best and prove it that way. If you have to tear somebody else down to feel good, meh. I'm that way sometimes but when I am it doesn't seem very brave or admirable.
Nothing wrong with being manly, however you define that as. But I don't really much care if people think I am "manly" or not.

I wasn't saying Brianna is macho though I would certainly say she's trying to capture certain elements of "tough gamer girl" by posing with fast bikes in leathers or bragging about how she can field strip an m-16 what I'm saying is she's a personification of "person trying to prove their the best all the time without doing anything to be the best".
Humble people don't start a line of thought with "speaking as a engineer, game dev, natural born woman, strong feminist, biker, petrol head etc" they don't shit on an opinion just because it doesn't have a blue check mark and they don't counter being proven wrong as "mansplaining".

 

[Peace and Harmony]

I think everybody hates Nazis and they hate edgelords almost as much.

What the fuck kind of response was that? What does the fact that we are a Nazi shithole have to do with John treating you like utter garbage and no one on the outside seeming to give a fuck?

 

[W person cow]

What the fuck kind of response was that? What does the fact that we are a Nazi shithole have to do with John treating you like utter garbage and no one on the outside seeming to give a fuck?

I don't know. I don't think you are a Nazi shithole. But you, y'know, appear like one. Media people are lazy like anybody and they take stuff at face value.