Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES

[Butta Face Lopez]

Wait, the ENTIRE staff?!

 

[FatNero]

I guess the big question is why? Why do that for a game that doesn't need them. Did John ever fess up to why he overruled on this decision?

Because bigger is better, and at 6ft and a million inches, shes the biggest woman of them all and wins.

 

[breadandcircuses]

Is it just me, or is the only flattering picture of her that weird, camgirl/myspace/dutch angle picture she has up for her Patreon? Like even in that blogher video, we could see just what a rat faced woman she is...

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Ya know... I remember when the Wii came out and it was only going to be 128 bit again like the previous Gen Gamecube and Nintendo's argument was "nobody would tell the difference."

Welp. We did. I moved more permanently to PC after being Ninty fan for over a decade. Mostly because the graphics were moving ahead there while remaining static on the Wii.

I also remember seeing a 4k TV running 4K videos for the first time a couple of years ago and being stunned by how they somehow had got something even crisper than HD up and running. 4k isn't just about the clarity of the image but the depths of colour and increased screen size with zero loss of quality.

 

[harry]

Wait, the ENTIRE staff?!

I'm sure these were posted when they were fresh but... being Wu one hardly has to speculate about anything because it's all on Twitter. Here she is bragging about ignoring their advice and creating 4096x4096 maps: http://archive.is/neiE5

As a bonus, 5 months later Wu blames GamerGate for spreading the "flagrant falsehoods" that they were using 4096x4096 maps: http://archive.is/o0TB7

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

I'm just shocked she has the strength of will to override SO MANY dissenting voices is all

 

[Luigi]

I'm just shocked she has the strength of will to override SO MANY dissenting voices is all

This is the John Flynt / Brianna Wu thread, what did you expect?

 

[Jake's Piercing]

Wait, weren't some of Wu's textures in the iOS version of R60 4096 x 4096?

Textures need to be high res because you don't want all that pixelated shit up your face when you get close to objects. Ergo, you don't want your shit to look like Minecraft.

FYI, since 2007 the IdTech4 can use 32,768×32,768 textures and the original Crysis also has huge texture files. Total war uses 1K^2 and 2K^2 textures for units (and you have a lot, I mean A LOT of those on screen) and every building has a 2K^2 texture map.

4096^2 is okay for a mobile game.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

As long as they are any still alive, the answer is no.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Textures need to be high res because you don't want all that pixelated shit up your face when you get close to objects.

True, but we're talking about, like, giving Holiday's shoulder pad its own 4096x4096 texture, on a screen that's about 1100 pixels in the longer direction. You'd have to get preeeeettty close. Not to mention that since this is a non-interactive game, the developers can control the camera angle and just not put themselves in situations where you're smack up against a low-res object. Wu shot her team in the foot on this one.

 

[Cid Highwind]

I'm guessing some mix of hairplugs? Or does one need to be completely bald first?

I can, um, speak from experience on this.

A transplant looks completely natural...at least it has since the mid 80s. You can only tell a transplant from non-transplanted hair by looking very closely. The hairs are taken from the back of the head and put on the front. These hairs will be much thicker than the thinner hairs on the hairline, but you can only see this less than 2 feet away. You do not need to be bald to have one. If Brianna Wu / John Flynt's hair looks strange, that's because it's a wig. At 38, you know John has experienced some significant hair loss. And he looks more like the white man he is the older he gets.

 

[Jake's Piercing]

True, but we're talking about, like, giving Holiday's shoulder pad its own 4096x4096 texture, on a screen that's about 1100 pixels in the longer direction. You'd have to get preeeeettty close. Not to mention that since this is a non-interactive game, the developers can control the camera angle and just not put themselves in situations where you're smack up against a low-res object. Wu shot her team in the foot on this one.

I can imagine the spaceship interior being of the 4kx4k variety, but other objects in this game do not warrant textures like this, especial since all the characters have pretty low-res textures (512x512?) and they use basic shading to hide the rest.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Did you know that Wu grew up in Mississippi?

 

[Francis York Morgan]

I wish more people would call Brianna out on the way she talks about growing up in the South. Especially since it's known that she grew up in an environment where she never experienced any of the hardships that people normally associate with growing up in the area.

 

[Luigi]

If there we were to play a drinking game for each time Mississipi is mentioned, it would cause death on a daily basis.

 

[Furina]

If there we were to play a drinking game for each time Mississipi is mentioned, it would cause death on a daily basis.

She never misses a chance to talk about her favourite topic: Herself.

 

[Human Institute Director]

Wu being Wu.

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How is it courageous to make a statement if all critics are invalid and dismissed under misogyny? No obstacles on that one-way road.

 

[AnimuGinger]

If there we were to play a drinking game for each time Mississipi is mentioned, it would cause death on a daily basis.

Unless you lived in Wu's version of Mississippi. Then it'd just be another day of beating trannies to death.

 

[Ruin]

John grew up in an extraordinarily wealthy household in the deep south, I can almost guarantee his parents had domestic servants. Wouldn't that drive his sjw buddies insane?

 

[Peace and Harmony]

John grew up in an extraordinarily wealthy household in the deep south, I can almost guarantee his parents had domestic servants. Wouldn't that drive his sjw buddies insane?

Not any more so than the knowledge that he is a wealthy white man speaking daily about women's issues.