Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES

[polonium]

Frank is already dead on the inside. It's more akin to rubbing two steaks against each other than actual necrophilia.

Rubbing two sausages together, surely?

 

[Luminous Being]

Oh, I just noticed that Wu has been promoted to Co-Author. That's funny, because none of the contributors are listed as co-authors. Nowhere have I seen a name other than Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack in the author's position. Co-authors are usually listed directly after the primary author.

The entire work belongs to Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack. The credits/copyrights for individual sections in the edition notice aren't dated and I have no clue if that holds any significance, but I would assume it does.



Am I missing something here or is this just more bullshit from Wu? Could a claim be made that Wu's co-authorship is a real thing in this case?

Will the ride ever end?

Edit: According to the TOC the book has 22 proper chapters, not including the Acknowledgments, Resourcs and Bibliography.



Wu wrote one chapter. That's ~4.5% of the book.

All seven contributors combined would be responsible for ~32% of the book, udner one third of the contents.

And this is assuming that all chapters are equal in length!

 

[Peace and Harmony]

If you're not listed on the cover of the book, you're not a co-author, you're a contributor. Maybe it makes no difference here but for academic papers you cannot list works on you're CV where you're only a contributor.

 

[Luminous Being]

If you're not listed on the cover of the book, you're not a co-author, you're a contributor. Maybe it makes no difference here but for academic papers you cannot list works on you're CV where you're only a contributor.

Right? I wanted to go by that logic too, contributing sources are listed after the body of the paper, but book publishing is a bit of a different matter compared to academic writings.

Spoiler

In academia there's also the fact that, if you want co-auhtorship, you would have to have had a hand not only in writing a paper but also the design, layout, drafting and revising and general interpretation of the findings.

 

[Rogue]

Every time Wu posts about working on Rev60, all I can think of is the guy who made current indie darling, Stardew Valley. He says he worked 10 hour days for 4 years, doing all the art, music, writing and programming by himself. Basically treating it like his job. He lived with his girlfriend who supported him, but he still worked at a movie theatre part time to help pitch in. Wu just fucks around on Twitter and Steam all day, maybe pulling up her game when she needs to take a picture of how "hard" she's working, but she's obviously not putting any effort into it.

End result: Wu has an unreleased joke of a shit game, and Stardew guy has a hit game and made himself a multi-millionaire in the first month he released it. If you pointed out the comparison to her though, she'd just blame it on misogyny in the video game industry rather than admitting she puts no effort into anything but jerking herself off on Twitter.

 

[Galaxy Harasser]

According to that TOC, Bri only wrote 8 pages out of 200+.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

No. What we did find is that Wu has a single traffic violation which isn't worth noting.

It is sort of related to Flynt/Wu's inability to meet deadlines since he was found guilty of driving with an expired vehicle tag. Of course, he's too important to be bothered with minor chores that are the responsibility all functioning adults.

 

[The Nameless One]

"Just two more things to fix"

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God, that looks awful. I think there are a lot of games that embody that "dark but colorful world" aesthetic, but they are actually made by competent designers. This just looks really, really amateurish, which wouldn't be a bad thing if Wu didn't have zero humility and didn't act like this was some huge blockbuster in the making. I'm sure he was this insufferable back when his pet project was SOCCON, too.

Those screenshots just look like a graphic design nightmare. There was obviously no thought put into layout, symmetry, form, anything like that, and it's just a series of run-of-the-mill camera angles on characters who are overwhelmed by the garish lights blaring in the background.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

"Just two more things to fix"

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Again, this is the Unreal engine right? What do you have to do, in order to make it look like this crap? Decompile via a 30 year old calculator and save every texture as a 15kb jpg? Jesus.

What's even the big deal with this port? Is it just a straight port of John's horrible mobile game or did they change anything?
Also kudos to @Smutley for taking one for the team by braving this insane onslaught of terrible gamedesign and allowing us to suffer with him through the game.

Speaking of which:
Damn. Watching these battles just hammers in how little strategy there is to the fights. It's just two mongoloids shuffling back and forth while awkwardly and drunkenly try to hit each other and the poor shmuck that's playing this game has to cope with unquestionably sluggish controls).
And since the combat itself is so lackluster, the fact the enemies are huge damage sponges just draws these boring as fuck fights out even more.

 

[ShittyRecolor]

God, that looks awful. I think there are a lot of games that embody that "dark but colorful world" aesthetic, but they are actually made by competent designers. This just looks really, really amateurish, which wouldn't be a bad thing if Wu didn't have zero humility and didn't act like this was some huge blockbuster in the making. I'm sure he was this insufferable back when his pet project was SOCCON, too.

Those screenshots just look like a graphic design nightmare. There was obviously no thought put into layout, symmetry, form, anything like that, and it's just a series of run-of-the-mill camera angles on characters who are overwhelmed by the garish lights blaring in the background.

You could give Flyntzilla and co the latest version of Cryengine and their game would still make early 3D games like Deathtrap Dungeon look appealing by comparison. Hell, even games like Bioforge or Cyberia are a lot more pleasant to look at!

 

[The Grimace]

Cryengine

I read this as "cringe engine" for some reason.

 

[Cynical]

Again, this is the Unreal engine right? What do you have to do, in order to make it look like this crap? Decompile via a 30 year old calculator and save every texture as a 15kb jpg? Jesus.

What's even the big deal with this port? Is it just a straight port of John's horrible mobile game or did they change anything?
Also kudos to @Smutley for taking one for the team by braving this insane onslaught of terrible gamedesign and allowing us to suffer with him through the game.

The problem, if you can read between the lines, is that Wu has discovered it runs like shit if you actually try to play it. He fucking around with minor shit because, it's its current state, it runs worse than Dobson's attempt to run Skyrim on Mac, and he's too fucking stupid and proud to either fix it or ask for help.

He releases the turd in its current state, and the whole world will get the garish Powerpoint presentation it really is, and he's fucked.

It's quite telling all he shows are editor screenshots, not live gameplay tests, something he should be able to do at this point if it were reasonably playable.

 

[TipsyTurnip]

"Just two more things to fix"

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He's still making excuses for the fact that he doesn't understand dynamic lighting. Even in the realm of static lighting, what was done in Rev60 is so simplistic it would run on a Riva TNT2 circa 1998.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Yeah, you're clearly struggling to make it day-to-day.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

The problem, if you can read between the lines, is that Wu has discovered it runs like shit if you actually try to play it. He fucking around with minor shit because, it's its current state, it runs worse than Dobson's attempt to run Skyrim on Mac, and he's too fucking stupid and proud to either fix it or ask for help.

He releases the turd in its current state, and the whole world will get the garish Powerpoint presentation it really is, and he's fucked.

It's quite telling all he shows are editor screenshots, not live gameplay tests, something he should be able to do at this point if it were reasonably playable.

I guess the two issues that need to be solved:
1) The game runs like shit...
2) ...and noone knows how to fix that


Yeah, as soon as these two minor kinks are ironed out, the game will be on Steam and Wu will need a Scrooge McDuck-type vault for all that sweet, sweet Dosh.

 

[Hellfire]

The problem, if you can read between the lines, is that Wu has discovered it runs like shit if you actually try to play it. He fucking around with minor shit because, it's its current state, it runs worse than Dobson's attempt to run Skyrim on Mac, and he's too fucking stupid and proud to either fix it or ask for help.

He releases the turd in its current state, and the whole world will get the garish Powerpoint presentation it really is, and he's fucked.

It's quite telling all he shows are editor screenshots, not live gameplay tests, something he should be able to do at this point if it were reasonably playable.

@Jaimas How many employees besides John and Natalie are left at Giant Spacekat?

 

[Count groudon]

Always making that childish scream face in photographs certainly says something about his mentality.

Wasn't there a point during one of Wu's boring podcasts where Frank suddenly screams at the top his lungs for no earthly reason, and everyone just ignored it like it was a common occurrence?

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Major Updates:

Brianna Wu is John Flynt - Evidence and Subsection Added
Background Check Incident - New Section

More when I get home.

In the "Brianna Wu is John Flynt" article, the ludicrous Barbarella photo is used and identifies the participants as "Brianna Wu and Frank."

But the person who took the photo at EasterCon in March of 2008 identifies the participants as "Barbarella (Brianna Flynt) and Frank Wu." Here's the link.

The two of them also registered for Denvention in 2009 as Frank Wu and Brianna Flynt. Link here. (In his typically well-organized manner, Flynt/Wu registered twice for the con, once as "Bri Flynt" and again as "Brianna Flynt."

It might be fun to identify him in the photo under the name he was using at the time. After all, "Brianna Flynt" isn't his dead name; it's his maiden name.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Wasn't there a point during one of Wu's boring podcasts where Frank suddenly screams at the top his lungs for no earthly reason, and everyone just ignored it like it was a common occurrence?

Don't worry, that was just Frank's "medication" running low, making him realize the exact details of his existential situation.

 

[女鬼]

In the "Brianna Wu is John Flynt" article, the ludicrous Barbarella photo is used and identifies the participants as "Brianna Wu and Frank."

But the person who took the photo at EasterCon in March of 2008 identifies the participants as "Barbarella (Brianna Flynt) and Frank Wu." Here's the link.

This remains one my fav pictures of Johnny-boy because look at that profile.

such feminine, much cis, very woman wow