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It's quite a feat for John to misspell Heinlein's name twice in a row, the second time after quoting a tweet in which his name is spelled correctly. John must have forgotten to wear his granny glasses, you know the ones.
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I assume the only reason why Brianna knows that Heinlein exists is Frank. Wu is trying to do this balancing act between "gaming nerd + software developer" and "nth-wave feminist" and seems to fail each time she tries to get some credit in one or the other.
I can vividly assume how the discussion that preceded these tweets must have looked like:
I can vividly assume how the discussion that preceded these tweets must have looked like:
(Wu household - Living room - Brianna is tweeting madly - Frank is gesturing in front of Brianna - The barking and whining of neglected dogs can be heard in the background. )
Frank: "...no honey. He laid the foundation for modern SciFi. Like Clarke or Asimov."
Brianna: (confused snarl)
Frank: "You haven't read him? He wrote books like: 'The Number of the Beast' a story about multiverses. Or 'The Puppet Masters', probably the first 'Body-Snatcher'-story about parasitic aliens! The one that started the trope."
Brianna: (inattentive snarl)
Frank: "Or 'Have Spacesuit - Will Travel' you might want to skip this one, the person in this one really wants to go to college..."
Brianna: (disinterested snarl)
Frank: (his eyes squinting a little with resignation) "He also did Starship Troopers."
Brianna: Snarl?!
Frank: Yes, like that movie with the giant bugs, but the movie was...
Brianna: (Shoos Frank away with another snarl, starts tweeting about 'Heinlien' right away)
Frank: "...no honey. He laid the foundation for modern SciFi. Like Clarke or Asimov."
Brianna: (confused snarl)
Frank: "You haven't read him? He wrote books like: 'The Number of the Beast' a story about multiverses. Or 'The Puppet Masters', probably the first 'Body-Snatcher'-story about parasitic aliens! The one that started the trope."
Brianna: (inattentive snarl)
Frank: "Or 'Have Spacesuit - Will Travel' you might want to skip this one, the person in this one really wants to go to college..."
Brianna: (disinterested snarl)
Frank: (his eyes squinting a little with resignation) "He also did Starship Troopers."
Brianna: Snarl?!
Frank: Yes, like that movie with the giant bugs, but the movie was...
Brianna: (Shoos Frank away with another snarl, starts tweeting about 'Heinlien' right away)
I did a little looking around the UE4 wiki, read the design documents, even got the actual editor to see for myself (I've fiddled with Unity and other similar programs before, no expert by any means) just what Wu is actually capable of, based on the tweets we've seen.
My verdict: Wu's no more competent than me, who figured out how to do basic editing shit after about an hour's work.
tl;dr: Almost all the original game code is likely untouched, Flynt's just been doing minor tweaks, fucking around, and simply rewarming over the same code for Steam as originally existed for the iOS version with what appear to be negligible changes aside from some game mechanics alterations (and even that's not a major leap)
My verdict: Wu's no more competent than me, who figured out how to do basic editing shit after about an hour's work.
All the crap about dicking around with the lightmaps, changing out meshes, and changing to a typing interface instead of QTE's: child's play.
The first is a very basic built in feature I figured out how to mess with fairly easily, and while I'm sure Wu had a few custom plugins and resources for his UE project, it's not some arcane art any asshole couldn't figure out after a little reading up on how to change lighting values in the editor. As for the meshes, assuming they were largely preconstructed by the people Wu outsourced (I refuse to believe that dumb bastard built them from the ground up, that takes lots of tedious work, and I know, fucked around with meshing before, and based on his art skills, I wouldn't believe him anyway), screwing around with them and adding minor tweaks and changing textures on them is not anything special either, any jackass that is vaguely competent in Blender and GIMP can do most of the same work easily.
As for the QTE interface, Wu simply changed out one blueprint (programming for a game feature) for another, and given there's a lot of prebuilt blueprints you can purchase and easily modify from their marketplace, I wouldn't be shocked if Wu blew some cash on one and did a little tweaking (requiring the same level of skill it takes to change some INI file values and maybe about on par with basic PHP editing, although we're almost certainly talking about C++ code here, though plugins are available for other languages) and called it a day, and given we're talking about text strings (and not altering integers or boolean values), I doubt the changeover from QTE to typed responses was that much work.
The first is a very basic built in feature I figured out how to mess with fairly easily, and while I'm sure Wu had a few custom plugins and resources for his UE project, it's not some arcane art any asshole couldn't figure out after a little reading up on how to change lighting values in the editor. As for the meshes, assuming they were largely preconstructed by the people Wu outsourced (I refuse to believe that dumb bastard built them from the ground up, that takes lots of tedious work, and I know, fucked around with meshing before, and based on his art skills, I wouldn't believe him anyway), screwing around with them and adding minor tweaks and changing textures on them is not anything special either, any jackass that is vaguely competent in Blender and GIMP can do most of the same work easily.
As for the QTE interface, Wu simply changed out one blueprint (programming for a game feature) for another, and given there's a lot of prebuilt blueprints you can purchase and easily modify from their marketplace, I wouldn't be shocked if Wu blew some cash on one and did a little tweaking (requiring the same level of skill it takes to change some INI file values and maybe about on par with basic PHP editing, although we're almost certainly talking about C++ code here, though plugins are available for other languages) and called it a day, and given we're talking about text strings (and not altering integers or boolean values), I doubt the changeover from QTE to typed responses was that much work.
tl;dr: Almost all the original game code is likely untouched, Flynt's just been doing minor tweaks, fucking around, and simply rewarming over the same code for Steam as originally existed for the iOS version with what appear to be negligible changes aside from some game mechanics alterations (and even that's not a major leap)
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As time goes on, all I get is the sense that John simply cannot release the game for Steam because it's going to be immediately obvious that it's nothing more than the same game with cosmetic changes and basically delivering none of the amazing things that John promised. And @Cynical I definitely agree that the majority of the work done on the original must have been by interns whom John burned through and shat on, and he no longer has an infinite gold horde to go through because he blew that shit on NyQuil and Final Fantasy figurines. It's just going to be a spectre that hangs over his head forever.
Not that that's going to stop cocksuckers from continuing to believe that he's a TRUE and HONEST game developer.
Not that that's going to stop cocksuckers from continuing to believe that he's a TRUE and HONEST game developer.
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Not that I've seen. Back on Usenet not too long ago, the mere mention of Heinlein started huge political arguments instantly any time he came up, some going on months. I think it's just that these tumblrinas don't read much.
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The only people I've met who say "nothing is impossible" are managers and idea men, not the actual workers.
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Yes Wu! Nothing is impossible! It can be done!
(Except you want to implement a Field of Depth-shader in your shoddy game without DirectX 11.)
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From actually working in tech, it's more common to say that it can be done, but that you shouldn't. Wu strikes me as being that person who insists that network shares can be placed randomly about the boot volume, and that you can clean a blender without first disconnecting it from mains power. Just consider the following bullet points used to illustrate the Dunning–Kruger effect in describing traits of incompetent people:
- fail to recognize their own lack of skill (I'm a software engineer/head developer/games developer/Palm OS development expert/text file haxxor)
- fail to recognize the extent of their inadequacy (I'm an expert in Unreal 3)
- fail to recognize genuine skill in others (stop mansplaining!)
- recognize and acknowledge their own lack of skill, after they are exposed to training for that skill
Accel_Rider
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It's very easy to disagree with someone without calling them names and sending a flood of harassment every day. I do it every day. It's called the block button
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Well, that sure is a fountain of stupid.
Also, bitch, you literally did an ad hominem attack on someone trying to help you yesterday!
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But yet Wu is the King of Harassment.
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She sends her army of (fake) pussy whipped cucks and screeching feminist after anyone who even so much as tries to fucking reason with her, and here she is talking down to other people for doing the same. Wu's lack of self awareness is almost at Aspie levels.
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I believe "Clown Prince of Harassment" is the formal title.
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Yeah, and don't think for a second that these guys won't be after you eventually. All that needs to happen is the right person need to pay attention.
Edit: Apparently flynt deleted the tweet in mid post, luckily I had the twitter window up and had it screen capped.
Edit: Apparently flynt deleted the tweet in mid post, luckily I had the twitter window up and had it screen capped.
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Did she delete that one already or is it just not showing up for me? It's really nice to know that no matter how much she tries to change her body and her images, she's still always going to be John Flynt the angry spoiled ritch brat that has no speech filter.
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You know, out of all the Wusonas I've seen, Jedi Wu is probably the most amusing and infuriating one. I mean, the hypocrisy level is over 9000 and all of his "advice" can easily be shot back at him.
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So long as it is a male title, I'm fine with it.
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