Oh yeah, that reminds me. There's this bit where he claims to have done freelance graphic design work to pay rent during and after college:
How this is supposed to square with the BriBri who instantly became homeless when her family cut her off for trannyhood I have no idea. One of these tales is bullshit, and I strongly suspect it's the one where Wu claims to have earned money.
Calling it now "R60 is a proper game for proper gamers and requires a proper gaming machine to run, PCMR!" heck switching your ideology to PCMR is probably easier than making the thing run at a non-dobson framerate right?
>Gamer boss
I seem to remember Bridget, Birdo, Poison and Kaine being pretty popular with 4chan GG ground zero… maybe because they were just trans and this Mizhena character sounds like an insufferable faggot.
This cannot conceivably be true. Wu would have been 20 years old when 56K modems first came on the market. He was not still in high school. Remember that John Flynt was a fat weirdo at time, everything about these tales screams "fiction!"
Oh god, there's so much good stuff here. I'm going to screenshot some select bits... The take home message is it's just a puff piece on Wu's fabricated past. All empty boasting, nothing useful for anyone who reads it. Some of my favourite bits:
This is incredible bullshit. I grew up in the 80s, and EVERYONE had a computer whether they were rich or poor. My family had a BBC Micro, some people had Ataris, others ZX Spectrums. I don't think I knew anyone with a Mac, but maybe there were some. We didn't get our first IBM compatible until 1992 though, and I think we were a little behind the curve in that respect.
There's a whole section on Wu's life as a juvenile delinquent that I believe to be a complete fabrication, it's shot through with detectable lies, like this one:
This cannot conceivably be true. Wu would have been 20 years old when 56K modems first came on the market. He was not still in high school. Remember that John Flynt was a fat weirdo at time, everything about these tales screams "fiction!"
Then, of course, the obligatory lies about being a college graduate:
Hah, wouldn't getting a graduate degree first involve having an undergraduate degree, Wu? You fucking charlatan.
Remember, this book was written in April of last year and it shows. In retrospect, Wu may find this part a bit embarrassing:
"We're about to ship, guys!" "We're totally going to get millions of bucks to build our visual novel thing!" Ooops.
She sums up with "Telling you some of my life story is a deeply uncomfortable experience for me." I'll bet it is, it must be hard keeping all those lies straight in your head.
Oh my God its literally just her preening and boasting about herself, and then remembering "Oh yeah this is a book designed to help others lol" and writing that fucking pitiful two sentence conclusion.
Why? Just why? It is a high-fantasy setting! Just, go to your local witch, arcanist, or something and ask for a gender change. There is even a cursed item in Baldurs Gate that does that!
Why would you keep the CDs of your old Adobe Programs in a Tupperware container and not in the boxes they belong to? So either Wu has pirated them and it makes no sense that she kept the burned CDs of old Adobe Products around, or she didn't burn them and threw the boxes away... both of which make them anything but "treasured possessions".Oh yeah, that reminds me. There's this bit where he claims to have done freelance graphic design work to pay rent during and after college:
How this is supposed to square with the BriBri who instantly became homeless when her family cut her off for trannyhood I have no idea. One of these tales is bullshit, and I strongly suspect it's the one where Wu claims to have earned money.
Ha, if I remember correctly, they would thrown that in for free, if you bought a dye sublimation printer in the 90s.
Brianna SpaceFlynt Wu said:
I actually had a 8086 back in the day, it was this thing:
I actually had a 8086 back in the day, it was this thing:
This model was produced in 1988. I actually learned to code in this thing, after being taught the basic notions of BASIC by my aunt* in her ZX Spectrum. It ran an earlier version of MSDOS, and could run GWBASIC (the one with line numbers) and microsoft's QBASIC/QuickBASIC. It ran at the magnificent speed of 9.54mhz in top speed, and was able to display 4 glorious colors in CGA mode: black, white, baby blue and bubblegum pink (with an alternate palette of piss yellow, puke green and crimson red). Pascal and C were available if you managed to find a compiler in the pre-internet era, and they performed faster than BASIC at the cost of being much harder to learn and requiring compiling, which was incredibly slow and tedious.
*Yeah, I owe my ability to code to a woman. So much for a misogynistic cis shitlord. Also, oh my god, there were women doing code as a hobby in the 80s! go figure!
Now, you can write this off as powerleveling, but I am aiming for informative here. It is possible Wu actually owned one based on those specs and time. However, I call bullshit, if you learn to code in such a restricted environment, you learn to optimize, because every single wasted instruction was noticeable. Just a simple for loop to initialize an array of say, 200 integers, would take a couple seconds to complete, as opposed to fractions of a milisecond like today. RAM was also very limited and a large portion of it was eaten by MSDOS and stuff like the mouse drivers. Documentation for those languages was written for professional adults and required huge nerd-om to make sense of them, often in massive books that acted as pretty much an API reference. Since there was no internet or Stack Overflow, it was difficult to find more information or help. You were on your own and there was no sugar on top.
Now, we know Wu doesn't know how to properly browse Unreal Engine's class documentation, as seen somewhere in this current thread, and asks for help constantly. We also know he doesn't know how to optimize, throwing dynamic lights into scenes with models with huge polygon counts in a game that already runs slowly in the intended hardware. He doesn't use the proper tools for the job (mac's notepad to edit xml instead of a code editor with syntax highlighting, or paint for screenshots, etc). Not to mention, the bizarre choice of a cinematic, badly optimized, fully 3D game for a platform such as the iPhone circa 2013.
Now, let's throw the jargon away and say it blunty. All evidence about Wu's ability to code, points to not having any idea of what he's doing. If that story was true, he'd be far more wise, would have made more sensible choices, and more importantly, would have elaborated on his coding skills over time, because in that age, if you had the commitment to learn with the limited resources, that means you were serious about it. It just doesn't check out, and his interest in creating games seems rather recent given his (mis)use of jargon and general lack of wisdom in the field. My bet is that he just hogged the house computer to play old DOS games, if at all. It's most likely he was just playing his Nintendo (which he said he did in other stories, the Mario 2 story). It simply doesn't match.
That's so much bullshit, it hurts.
"We're about to ship, guys!" "We're totally going to get millions of bucks to build our visual novel thing!" Ooops.
