Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

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Fair play: How welcome are women in games design teams?
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Through her own experiences, US-based computer programmer and game developer Brianna Wu quickly learnt that as a young female developer she wasn’t considered a true part of the team at work.

“On the run up to the release of ‘Halo 3’, I heard all the guys in the office whispering about the launch, and the day it was released they all played hooky – including my manager. The only two people left on the floor to deal with all the work that day were me, the only woman on the team, and the one gay guy who worked there. It very much sent a message that we weren’t part of their club.”

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Am I reading this correctly? Is Flynt/Wu claiming that he was a programmer on Halo 3?

It is odd that he's criticizing people for taking a day off after a major project is finished, leaving Flynt/Wu alone in the office when there was no work to do, which makes it sound as if they knew exactly how much "programming" Flynt/Wu was capable of doing.

It is not odd that Flynt/Wu is far too socially inept to realize that everyone who has ever worked as part of a team knows exactly why certain team members are not invited to the launch party. Flynt/Wu has -- unintentionally, as usual-- revealed himself to be the lazy, disliked and incompetent tranny who was left out for reasons that have nothing to do with his being a woman, which he isn't.
 
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I tried to verify this, did she ever work at bungie? I can't find proof anywhere.

Halo 3 credits, her name is not on the list:
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Halo_3_Credits
She isn't saying she worked on it. She is claiming people skipped worked to play it on the release day. Bri wasn't invited to the party, and it reminded her on every weekend in highschool and college so it hurt her feelings.
 
I tried to verify this, did she ever work at bungie? I can't find proof anywhere.

Halo 3 credits, her name is not on the list:
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Halo_3_Credits
I'm not sure if he claimed that he was part of the Halo team. It could be just that he was working somewhere else where everybody was excited about Halo which is very unlikely since he never worked anywhere. So whatever this means it is another lie.
 
I'm not sure if he claimed that he was part of the Halo team. It could be just that he was working somewhere else where everybody was excited about Halo which is very unlikely since he never worked anywhere. So whatever this means it is another lie.
Oh I see, yeah I also looked into her resume and could only find companies that she owned in some way. So maybe she was the boss they all hated.
 
She isn't saying she worked on it. She is claiming people skipped worked to play it on the release day. Bri wasn't invited to the party, and it reminded her on every weekend in highschool and college so it hurt her feelings.

I *think* that might be a reference to those weeks Wu worked at Gamestop or whatever it was. Remember the "Once I was so broke I had to work at Gamestop" tweets?
And there was no party or gathering, just dudes individually sitting at home playing Halo 3.

The lie might be the claim that a lot of peopleMEN! did this that particular day at Gamestop, there's usually not a lot of people working at the same time in such small stores, there's no need for it and hardly even space for it.
 
I *think* that might be a reference to those weeks Wu worked at Gamestop or whatever it was. Remember the "Once I was so broke I had to work at Gamestop" tweets?
And there was no party or gathering, just dudes individually sitting at home playing Halo 3.

The lie might be the claim that a lot of peopleMEN! did this that particular day at Gamestop, there's usually not a lot of people working at the same time in such small stores, there's no need for it and hardly even space for it.

It's not a reference to shit, it's just her making up a story that is convenient for the moment.
 
It's not a reference to shit, it's just her making up a story that is convenient for the moment.

She's actually told this story before, previously locating it as when she was working "devops for a small team." As I commented at the time, there are a lot of reasons this can't be true. Not least because DevOps is an extremely new job title that simply didn't exist back in 2007. That's a word Wu has picked up, probably from Randi Harper who actually was employed in DevOps, without sufficient understanding of the industry to recognise how implausible the lie is.

We know she was living in Colorado with her aunt at the time, suggesting she wasn't making much/any money. It is also about the same time as the photo of pre-dick chop Brianna Flynt at the Dick Cheney protest which also suggests she didn't have a 9-5 job and was free to go to protests during the day. I guess there's some kernel of truth to this story, possibly the other staff at Gamestop excluding her from social events because she's a weirdo or whatever, but it's clearly been seriously dramatised for use as a feminist oppression incident.
 
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John. Lurking on Leddit is not an "amazing meeting".

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On the other hand, he does have a job.

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Wu has participated in a $600-course that should cover shit like this and she has still not the faintest idea, that she needs to tell people whom she meets and talks to, if she tweets stuff like this.

...of course she can't do that, otherwise people would figure out that she either lies, or had this conversation on whatever troon-forum she frequents.
I think this paragraph is intentionally misleading.
Of course one would assume, that Wu is talking about working at Bungie (although never really stating that).

Look at the context:
It is an article about women in the games industry and you expect Wu's anecdote to have something to do with that. Who else would ditch a day of work collectively in order to play Halo 3, except maybe the team that created it? Wu doesn't even tell where she worked. For all we know she could've been doing data entry in some soulless insurance office.

If it happend, it probably happened like this:
It is the 27th of September in 2007, it's sunny and the entire floor wants to meet for a BBQ before the weather turns cold. However, no one wants that crazy troon around, who is fucking up everyone's mood. So they all collectively decided to reduce overtime on this Friday afternoon without telling Wu, so Brianna (who is most likely also the gay guy in that story) stays at the office. Incidentally it is the same week as Halo 3 came out, and since Wu was blathering about the game for the last 3 months - going on everyone's nerves - no one felt guilty for not telling Wu about the BBQ.
 
I *think* that might be a reference to those weeks Wu worked at Gamestop or whatever it was. Remember the "Once I was so broke I had to work at Gamestop" tweets?
And there was no party or gathering, just dudes individually sitting at home playing Halo 3.

The lie might be the claim that a lot of peopleMEN! did this that particular day at Gamestop, there's usually not a lot of people working at the same time in such small stores, there's no need for it and hardly even space for it.


Yeah, either Wu is stretching the truth farther than ever and talking about Gamestop (LOL @ use of "in the office" because it sounds better than "in the store") or the journalist is misattributing this quote.

Wu was never a "young computer programmer." She learned everything she learned, which isn't much of anything, in order to launch Giant Spacekat and to pay someone else (Maria Enderton) to program the entirety of Revolution 60.

She has no training. She has no degree. Apart from a few weeks at GameStop, she has never once held a job.

If she's pushing this new lie, she's flying close to the sun. Some decent or even just "ok" journalist somewhere is going to start asking her simple questions about her past and these claims, and she'll start stammering again.

What a delusional psychopath.

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Holy shit. She really IS committing to this story. Never mind that if it were remotely true, she'd be Tweeting about it every 6 months. It's one of those disprovable lies that she keeps floating in interviews so that it becomes "truth" much like the bulk of the rest of her narrative.

  • You were never run from your home.
  • No one broke your window.
  • You never worked a job that wasn't at a GameStop store.
  • You were never a journalist.
  • The lack of degree aside, you have no experience or knowledge that qualifies you to call yourself a software engineer.
Jesus, she's like an annoying, drooling, insane version of Saul Goodman in a way.
 
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Wow that $600 course really taught John some next-level shit.

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Lynch is smart to avoid discussing Wu. Saying her name only gives her relevance she doesn't deserve. When she was trying to get famous off of Quinn during GamerGate she trolled a number of mid- and high-profile people. Adam Baldwin was foolish enough to engage and as I recall, she accused him of harassment and of sending armies of his Twitter followers to "scream" at her.


Also how did I miss this little bit of comedy gold?

I'm on the fence about whether this actually happened. On the one hand, Wu has no friends and would not have been at a college party. On the other, it's Wu. Maybe she hit the Smirnoff Ice too hard while dancing with her dog to Madonna at 3 am.
 

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I guess there's some kernel of truth to this story, possibly the other staff at Gamestop excluding her from social events because she's a weirdo or whatever, but it's clearly been seriously dramatised for use as a feminist oppression incident.

Nothing John says is ever true. Ever. It's amazing when anything he says is even partially true, but it is not at all uncommon for every single word in a sentence John says to be a separate lie, or even for him somehow to pack more lies into a sentence than there are words. I'm almost impressed by his Olympic Gold Medal level mendacity.
 
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