Brianna Wu / John Flynt - Original Thread

What are you opinions on GamerGate and Brianna Wu / John Flynt?

  • I am of no opinion towards either.

    Votes: 104 8.6%

  • I am neutral on GamerGate, but think that Brianna Wu is a bad person.

    Votes: 631 52.1%

  • I am neutral on GamerGate, and think that Brianna Wu is just trying to get by.

    Votes: 9 0.7%

  • I am ANTI-GamerGate, but still think that Brianna Wu is a bad person.

    Votes: 112 9.2%

  • I am ANTI-GamerGate, and think that Brianna Wu is just trying to get by.

    Votes: 37 3.1%

  • I am PRO-GamerGate, and think that Brianna Wu is a bad person.

    Votes: 309 25.5%

  • I am PRO-GamerGate, but still think that and think that Brianna Wu is just trying to get by.

    Votes: 9 0.7%
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Peace and Harmony said:
And obviously TFA's gross takings have literally nothing to do with the fact that it's the first new live-action Star Wars movie in ten years.

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Kind of a case of "post hoc ergo propter hoc". New SW movie comes out after a decade, has female lead/jedi. Movie is successful, must be because female lead/jedi.

What i want to know is: Wu is very liberal with saying things like "my good friend(s)" right? Implying he's meeting a ton of people all the time that he knows personally and whatnot.

How often does Brianna actually leave the house? Wu appears to twitter from the house all day when there's no unimportant speaking gig at some con planned.
 
Luminous Being said:
Kind of a case of "post hoc ergo propter hoc". New SW movie comes out after a decade, has female lead/jedi. Movie is successful, must be because female lead/jedi.

What i want to know is: Wu is very liberal with saying things like "my good friend(s)" right? Implying he's meeting a ton of people all the time that he knows personally and whatnot.

How often does Brianna actually leave the house? Wu appears to twitter from the house all day when there's no unimportant speaking gig at some con planned.
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Not very often I think. Maybe once and a while she takes the bike out for a spin but I really feel like it's more of a photo decoration than anything else.

Of course Brianna plants the success of the movie 0n the casting. It really didn't matter who they cast, the movie would have been a success because its freaking Star Wars. If anything, the negative reaction to the movie might have hurt it. In the same way that stomping on a hill flattens it, but you get my point.
 
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Peace and Harmony said:
And obviously TFA's gross takings have literally nothing to do with the fact that it's the first new live-action Star Wars movie in ten years.

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Adjusted for inflation, TFA is ranked 15th for all-time US box office (not 1st, "Econ" John), beaten by a shark, a tiny space creature, spotted dogs, and a demon girl.

TFA is still behind ESB and will almost certainly never pass the original "Star Wars".

Adjusted for population, TFA does even worse. "Gone with the Wind" grossed more than double TFA with only 40% of today's US population - at the tail end of the Great Depression, no less. And of course "Gone with the Wind" starred a woman.

John is being his typical uninformed, asspat-seeking self.
 
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Peace and Harmony said:
And obviously TFA's gross takings have literally nothing to do with the fact that it's the first new live-action Star Wars movie in ten years.

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It wasn't that long ago that Will Smith was the highest paid screen actor. As recently as MiB3 actually.

Yet more of Wu crowing about old shit.
 
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AnOminous said:
It wasn't that long ago that Will Smith was the highest paid screen actor. As recently as MiB3 actually.

Yet more of Wu crowing about old shit.
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Studios are some of the most statistic driven institutions on the planet. They're making decisions as best they can based almost completely on numbers. Numbers they're not pulling from their ass. So when someone says "I want to spend sixty million dollars of your money," they take a lot of time trying to figure out what names sell, what types of movies sell, what fucking color combinations sell, and what (mostly in international markets) races sell.

Not every fucking movie gets to be Star Wars, where the name overrides the statistics-- Racist ass China doesn't like black people, they just don't go watch those movies, and so many movies need China's ticket sales to be profitable. It sucks to be sure, but go change China Wu.
 
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John's relationship with virtual reality is the same as Phil's relationship to riding a bike.

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God almighty, almost 1,000 pages of Brianna Wu. It feels like ... well, like 1,000 pages of Brianna Wu. My head hurts.

Honestly, though, I wouldn't make fun of her if she was actually taking all this extra time to FIX the damned game. Tweak the script, add some more gameplay, give us a reason to actually care about the story. But no, all she does is mess with the lighting over and over again. Is it because the lighting is the only thing she can change, since her lead programmer is gone? Or is she just convinced it's already perfect and is deliberately changing only little things just for an excuse to delay the release? Maybe a little from column A, little from column B.

Shine on, you crazy hag-diamond.
 
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Peace and Harmony said:
And obviously TFA's gross takings have literally nothing to do with the fact that it's the first new live-action Star Wars movie in ten years.

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Also, I did a bit of research for you, John. When taking inflation into account, other common movies usually cited for being the highest grossing ones are Avatar, Titanic, and Gone With the Wind, with Wikipedia being listing the last of these as being the highest grossing when taking inflation into account. Avatar is indeed quite male-oriented (and also a shit film), so I'll give you that one. Titanic, on the other hand, is essentially a romantic movie, making Rose integral (even if annoying) to the plot, while Gone With the Wind is centered almost entirely on Scarlett O'Hara - a woman-centered film that is often regarded as one of the best movies ever made...and made in 1939.

Other prominent top-grossers from recent years include Frozen (woman-centered), Furious 7 (praised by some for a diverse cast - I haven't seen it so I can't say), and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (shit film but woman-centered all the same). So John, who exactly has been telling you that woman-centered mass media doesn't sell? Or are you just parroting siege mentality beliefs that are completely unsupported by even the most cursory research? Incidentally, the fourth highest grossing movie of all time adjusting for inflation is the original Star Wars - but I'm sure the success of TFA was precisely because there's a black dude and a girl in it.
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I'm sure that was the only reason, Wu. -_-
 
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