Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES

[AN/ALR56]

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I literally can't even. I just can't.

She's right.
Most dogfights, submarine vs submarine combat has been won by the first to detect the enemy and fire first.

 

[Jaimas]

Any reason why Wu wears that belt all the time?

Near as I can tell to give the illusion that thus is where her waist lies.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

So is Brianna Wu the gay reboot of John W. Flynt?

 

[that1guy]

Is this a tranny or @Thundersteam 's twin sister?
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Sidebar to say that this lovely image of transdom is also a severely talented individual:

 

[millais]

Is this a tranny or @Thundersteam 's twin sister?

lol looks like Penn Jillette in drag

 

[Arietis]

She's right.
Most dogfights, submarine vs submarine combat has been won by the first to detect the enemy and fire first.

While I admit it's true, Wu fails to see the point. If you produced a scifi show that relied on those rules, battles would be having to rely exclusively on the tension of sneaking (or cloaking, but that'd open a completely different can of worms in terms of defying realism), and it'd also have to be accompanied by very specific, less appealing designs and behaviors. It'd be really boring unless the writer is downright brilliant at it.

Fiction is fiction, it only has to make sense to a degree. A lot of tropes exist merely to appeal to the eye or make things recognizable to the audience. For example, a lot of writers actually know you can't make big, noisy explosions in space, but if you don't do it, it loses a lot of "feel".

 

[Tookie]

Really, Flynt, no gay people?
Way to erase Mirror Kira and Jadzia from existence. And completely ignore the Trill.
And that non-binary female presenting race that Riker fell in love with. Before they lobotomized it for breaking their code.
:autism::autism::autism::autism:

Maybe they've cured it in the future.

 

[Cynical]

While I admit it's true, Wu fails to see the point. If you produced a scifi show that relied on those rules, battles would be having to rely exclusively on the tension of sneaking (or cloaking, but that'd open a completely different can of worms in terms of defying realism), and it'd also have to be accompanied by very specific, less appealing designs and behaviors. It'd be really boring unless the writer is downright brilliant at it.

Fiction is fiction, it only has to make sense to a degree. A lot of tropes exist merely to appeal to the eye or make things recognizable to the audience. For example, a lot of writers actually know you can't make big, noisy explosions in space, but if you don't do it, it loses a lot of "feel".

Also, Wu is getting some sci-fi shit mixed with reality.

Radiation weapons wouldn't be half as effective as he thinks in most sci-fi shows, as, in space, there is no oyxgen, so while it would definitely do EMP damage, the blast effect would not occur, which relies on oxygen. Radiation weapons might disable a ship, but killing it is not likely to occur unless it penetrates the hull and detonates inside the ship.

However, he seems to think radiation weapons would actually harm the ship, when, in both sci-fi and real life, spaceships are made of materials that are radiation resistant or reflective, assuming the show doesn't also add in other forms of shielding.

 

[CervixHammer]

While I admit it's true, Wu fails to see the point. If you produced a scifi show that relied on those rules, battles would be having to rely exclusively on the tension of sneaking (or cloaking, but that'd open a completely different can of worms in terms of defying realism), and it'd also have to be accompanied by very specific, less appealing designs and behaviors. It'd be really boring unless the writer is downright brilliant at it.

Fiction is fiction, it only has to make sense to a degree. A lot of tropes exist merely to appeal to the eye or make things recognizable to the audience. For example, a lot of writers actually know you can't make big, noisy explosions in space, but if you don't do it, it loses a lot of "feel".

I was going to say something about how The Expanse, which Wu is a fan of, is a great example of how boring "realistic" space combat is, but the episode with a space battle was probably the best one. Good thing Wu took this a step further, though:

- it's "nacelles", you fusstrating individual.
- you're trying to give the Ex Astra Scientia guy an aneurysm, aren't you, John?
- why does anything in Revolution 60 look or behave the way it does? in-universe explanation, not just that the creator is a .

also everything @Cynical just said.

edit:

Spoiler: spess battle clips from The Expanse

Is Wu that lolcow-worthy?

Yes.

 

[selere]

How do you people get 400 pages in less than 3 months?

Is Wu that lolcow-worthy?

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Wu is the most unintentionally amazing trekkie troll I have ever seen.

 

[Hyperion]

Pointing out that Star Trek isn't terribly realistic isn't very intellectually challenging but this is Brianna Wu so whatever.

 

[selere]

Ah, shit, is Briana really transgendered or was it all a well-made troll? I've never seen if there was enough proof of that.

Because she denies it, and they'd never deny something that could have made them gain more patreon bucks.

 

[Florence]

I was going to say something about how The Expanse, which Wu is a fan of, is a great example of how boring "realistic" space combat is, but the episode with a space battle was probably the best one. Good thing Wu took this a step further, though:

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- it's "nacelles", you fusstrating individual.
- you're trying to give the Ex Astra Scientia guy an aneurysm, aren't you, John?
- why does anything in Revolution 60 look or behave the way it does? in-universe explanation, not just that the creator is a .

also everything @Cynical just said.

edit:

Spoiler: spess battle clips from The Expanse

Yes.

Please, Wu, tell us more about how glowing spaceships are unrealistic and impractical.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

I like its tribal tattoos

 

[AnOminous]

Two days of Tweets that tell us nothing but that Wu, like a child, thinks "you have a penis" is actually a rebuttal, even though he was born with one himself and, in fact, he still has a penis, albeit turned inside out and tucked into his body as a fake snatch he has to dilate regularly with dildos lest it pop back out again.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Maybe they've cured it in the future.

I didn't know Sonichu was in continuity with Star Trek.

 

[CWCissey]

Maybe they've cured it in the future.

Or maybe no-one gives a shit.

 

[Kerfuffle]

Wu is becoming some sort of embodiment of everything wrong with the LGBT movement as it is now and I'm happy that I now have her Twitter feed to show people whenever I need to illustrate a point. I don't get why people are so concerned with every series getting some sort of gay representation these days. To me, it always felt like pure tokenism - most of the characters introduced to a popular series as part of some LGBT outreach existed solely to be the "gay" character there (ex. Northstar in the X-Men comics). What's the point in it? I don't feel represented by those characters. More often than not, I feel insulted by it and disappointed that the community then heralds these things as some sort of great breakthrough for the movement. We deserve better and, you know, we have gotten better representation when you actually bother to look for it. I'd rather have people create compelling, fully realized characters that happen to be gay rather than forcing their hand to write something they may not really understand well enough to handle. Then again, Brianna lacks depth as a person so I can understand why she would be into these sorts of things.

Besides, there's already a gay reboot of High School Musical. It was called Glee.

I've never seen Star Trek, but I seem to be more aware of its role in televised diversity for America than Wu is, even though he seems to view himself as some massive fan/expert on it. The major civil rights issue at the time was obviously the one that ended up just being known as the fucking civil rights movement, which from my understanding, Star Trek was fairly brave and pioneering for a television program in its support and pushing of those issues.

“I did very privately bring up the issue of gays and lesbians,” said Takei, who played Sulu on the long-running sci-fi series. “And he was certainly, as a sophisticated man, mindful of that, but he said — in one episode we had a biracial kiss, Captain Kirk and Uhura had a kiss.”

That episode was “Plato’s Stepchildren,” which aired in 1968. The characters played by William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols locked lips while under the psionic thrall of controlling aliens. “That show was literally blacked out in the South — Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia didn’t air that; our ratings plummeted,” Takei continued. “It was the lowest-rated episode that we had. And [Roddenberry] said, ‘I’m treading a fine tight wire here. I’m dealing with issues of the time. I’m dealing with the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and I need to be able to make that statement by staying on the air.’ He said, ‘If I dealt with that issue I wouldn’t be able to deal with any issue because I would be canceled.’”

http://time.com/3990410/george-takei-lgbt-star-trek/

The one thing I know about Captain Kirk as a character is the guy tried to fuck everything that moved, yet his character kissing a black woman while being fucking mind controlled was apparently too much for numerous Southern states to broadcast. Yet Wu is expecting there to have been open gay relationships? He might be talking about the later series, but from googling the most recent ended in 2005. The US only started to show majority support for same-sex marriages in 2010, and I'm pretty sure even in 2005 seeing two gays kiss on TV would be enough to cause a shitstorm - when did Madonna kiss Britney?

(I wrote half this post and then remembered there actually were later series of Star Trek, sorry)

While I admit it's true, Wu fails to see the point. If you produced a scifi show that relied on those rules, battles would be having to rely exclusively on the tension of sneaking (or cloaking, but that'd open a completely different can of worms in terms of defying realism), and it'd also have to be accompanied by very specific, less appealing designs and behaviors. It'd be really boring unless the writer is downright brilliant at it.

Fiction is fiction, it only has to make sense to a degree. A lot of tropes exist merely to appeal to the eye or make things recognizable to the audience. For example, a lot of writers actually know you can't make big, noisy explosions in space, but if you don't do it, it loses a lot of "feel".

I get the feeling Wu is parroting something she's seen someone else say. That line of argument is not really anything novel when it comes to sci-fi space combat.

Ah, shit, is Briana really tranny or was it all a well-made troll? I've never seen if there was enough proof of that.

Because she denies it, and they'd never deny something that could have made them gain more patreon bucks.

Wu doesn't actually deny being trans, she just dodges it. https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/2ug4jt/brianna_wu_why_i_dont_respond_when_gamergate/

The reasoning for not coming out is probably because Wu has constantly represented themselves as a natural-born woman in tech and alluded to life experiences and a history of gender discrimination that he clearly didn't experience.

Edit: oh, and Jaimas got definitive proof: https://lolcow.wiki/wiki/Brianna_Wu_is_John_Flynt and in particular https://lolcow.wiki/wiki/Background_Check_Incident

 

[selere]

... Is she trying to make a joke? I stopped being able to tell like 9 months ago.

Wu's whole life is just a big joke she still hasn't finished telling