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

[Winnie the Poohnani]

You'd think someone with such awesome Jedi-level knowledge and pooter skills would have managed to not shit the bed so thoroughly with Revolution 60. Something doesn't add up.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Ignoring the dangerous lack of self awareness, it's pretty telling how John considers Wikipedia and Ars Technica the be-all end-all sources of knowledge.

Does John really believe that, when discussing an area in which they have expert knowledge, anyone ever begins a sentence with "According to Wikipedia"?

Also, every legitimate news organization I've ever heard of -- and everyone who teaches freshman English -- flat out forbids reporters -- and freshman English students -- from citing Wikipedia as a source. Why doesn't Journalist John know this?

 

[AnOminous]

It's really too bad that Erskin Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, and Harper Lee are all dead. They were the most qualified authors to write John's biography.

Faulkner could have done it. Perhaps he did. Mississippi John is a character so bizarre and outrageous he could be an outtake from the Compson clan.

(Also, Faulkner was actually from Mississippi, come to think of it.)

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Faulkner could have done it. Perhaps he did. Mississippi John is a character so bizarre and outrageous he could be an outtake from the Compson clan.

(Also, Faulkner was actually from Mississippi, come to think of it.)

If The Misfit from "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" had married into the Compson family, the first-born offspring of this abominable union would be the unnatural, sociopathic creature we know as John Walker Flynt.

 

[Winnie the Poohnani]

Faulkner could have done it. Perhaps he did. Mississippi John is a character so bizarre and outrageous he could be an outtake from the Compson clan.

(Also, Faulkner was actually from Mississippi, come to think of it.)

I see John as one of the less savory Snopes relations. "Yup, thet there's John Snopes, but everyone jest calls him 'Ladyboy'. He ain't been quite right ever since he got kicked in the head by a mule. Thinks he a damn girl or somesuch, keeps runnin' around in a dress he stole offa his geemaw's clothesline, and cries like a little bitch whenever the boys tease him about being a sissy. We figger he'll probably run for office some day, that's how fucked up he is."

 

[Peace and Harmony]

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Tweet baleeted due to Ambien wearing off, better take another hit John.

 

[MyOtherNicknameIsAPun]

Yes, I'm sure a extra GPU thrown in with some games made ARM what it is, and not the very popular Acorn computers who ARM was designed for. The A in ARM used to stand for Acorn. The computer who used ARM from early 80s vs. a some game cartridges from 90s.

I'm sure Wu's right.

As an excercise I invite you to take a peek at this Wikipedia's page,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_general-purpose_CPUs

and try to find any callbacks to Nintendo. And there's an ARM subsection on that page.

I dunno, I'm losing confidence in Wu.

EDIT

The SuperFX chip came out the same year as the Psion 3 series and Apple Newton, both Arm powered mobile devices

fftopic:I have Psion 3 right next to my desk. That and Atari Portfolio were my dream computers from my youth. I still sometimes fuck around with them.

 

[Norvic]

I think one of the more regrettable gaps in the Wu lore is that we don't really have an account of what it was like to interact with her personally before 2014 feminist Wu.

We know that Johnny boy behaved incredibly weirdly and occasionally insanely, but we only have accounts from people who had casual contact with John rather than friendship/professional relations.

I really want to know how much Wu's road to Damascus conversion to feminism has given her license to behave like a complete dick to everyone vs. how much she was already a complete dick and feminism has just given her new vocabulary to justify it. Again, her lost App.Net history would have been a wonderful resource.

We know she's gone off on Warren for mansplaining previously, so this isn't just an internet thing. I wonder if it's just men she has an innate distaste for.

 

[ZKWNordman]

I think one of the more regrettable gaps in the Wu lore is that we don't really have an account of what it was like to interact with her personally before 2014 feminist Wu.

We know that Johnny boy behaved incredibly weirdly and occasionally insanely, but we only have accounts from people who had casual contact with John rather than friendship/professional relations.

I really want to know how much Wu's road to Damascus conversion to feminism has given her license to behave like a complete dick to everyone vs. how much she was already a complete dick and feminism has just given her new vocabulary to justify it. Again, her lost App.Net history would have been a wonderful resource.

We know she's gone off on Warren for mansplaining previously, so this isn't just an internet thing. I wonder if it's just men she has an innate distaste for.

Look at the App.net archives or forum posts on IGN. Still a narcissist and blowhard, but with less of a filter. My favorite story on App.net was the “TRUE BRIANNA STORY” of 35 year old Brianna harassing a mentally ill former college classmate. The classmate invented a husband. Brianna made a sock puppet that she pretended was the husband’s brother. She only backed down when people told her how tasteless it was.

 

[Mola Ram]

I think one of the more regrettable gaps in the Wu lore is that we don't really have an account of what it was like to interact with her personally before 2014 feminist Wu.

We know that Johnny boy behaved incredibly weirdly and occasionally insanely, but we only have accounts from people who had casual contact with John rather than friendship/professional relations.

I really want to know how much Wu's road to Damascus conversion to feminism has given her license to behave like a complete dick to everyone vs. how much she was already a complete dick and feminism has just given her new vocabulary to justify it. Again, her lost App.Net history would have been a wonderful resource.

We know she's gone off on Warren for mansplaining previously, so this isn't just an internet thing. I wonder if it's just men she has an innate distaste for.

I'm willing to bet a whole lot of Brianna Wu's hostility is driven by, ironically enough, penis envy.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

I wonder if it's just men she has an innate distaste for.

Because I don't have enough Islamic Content and Horrifying ratings, I'll point out that John actually has an isatiable hunger for men, but hates them because they would not let John -- and will not let "Brianna" -- anywhere near their genitalia.

Ninja'd a bit by @Mola Ram.

 

[The Gagh Whisperer]

I was on App.net at the time, which is where I first encountered Wu before gamergate.

Wu came out of fucking nowhere. Basically, any Apple commentator with any following or influence, Wu was suddenly up in their mentions. Every single one of them. Any conversation and there was Wu either sucking up or trying to shitstir some feminist drama.

Motherfucker must have been on that thing 24x7.

 

[GaryGrey]

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Tweet baleeted due to Ambien wearing off, better take another hit John.

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How long until Wu claims to be an ASIC designer and know how to code in VHDL and SystemVerilog? Didn't realize that Software Engineers were proficient in hardware design and manufacturing. Would be interesting to hear Wu's thoughts on power gating vs. clock gating or how to deal with the increasing effect parasitic capacitance and current leakage play into the power consumption of modern processors or SOC.

 

[Eli Whitney]

Please take your medication, John.

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John, as usual, is full of shit.

There are more than one RISC based architectures. ARM is one, Power PC was another, SPARC and Alpha were also RISC. The thing in the SENS cartridge might have been RISC based, but had nothing to do with ARM being used in the iPhone. By the time the iPhone came out ARM based CPUs including ones from qualcomm, Intel (xscale) and TI had already been in RIM/Blackberry mobile devices and Windows Mobile and were fairly mature things. The other thing is that this Super FX chip was not used as a general purpose CPU. It was configured to do one thing: pump out graphics quickly, kind of like a FPGA is sometimes used for signal processing or what not. It's more akin to a modern GPU than a CPU. Additionally, unlike a mobile phone, it was always connected to a console while in use, which was powered from an AC outlet, so despite being small, as John mentions, it didn't have any of the power limitations that something designed for mobile would.

John is a fucking moron.

 

[AnOminous]

I was on App.net at the time, which is where I first encountered Wu before gamergate.

Wu came out of fucking nowhere. Basically, any Apple commentator with any following or influence, Wu was suddenly up in their mentions. Every single one of them. Any conversation and there was Wu either sucking up or trying to shitstir some feminist drama.

Motherfucker must have been on that thing 24x7.

Did anyone call him out on the constant idiocies he perpetrates whenever he discusses any technical issue? Or did they just more or less ignore the babbling freak in the corner?

How long until Wu claims to be an ASIC designer and know how to code in VHDL and SystemVerilog? Didn't realize that Software Engineers were proficient in hardware design and manufacturing.

Like John would be satisfied just to claim to be adequate in something. He'd claim to be the world's foremost expert in shit he doesn't know the first thing about. John is literally the ultimate expert, on every single thing.

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

Man, do we have a thread on that Rich Felker guy? I swear, I see him posting on every person with a thread here's twitter just brown nosing like his life depended on it, or gleefully telling people who aren't even talking to him that he's blocking them.

I've noticed this too. Is it some sort of a-log trying to integrate and collect dirt? (whoopse! sorry if I exposed you, buddy...) I haven't looked beyond Twatlicker, but at least there it was just retweeting. Like trying to build up a presence... I haven't seen her/(him?xie?) tagged or anything or mentioned explicitly, so unfortunately I don't think it's a real lolcow. But maybe I'm right and one of the cows will fall for this a-log and there will be much salt and lulz to be had.



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Hang on, which one is you?

As A Software Engineer, BriBri optimizes even talking on twitter. She has optimized and simplified these steps:

1. Read article on arstechnica or buzzfeed which tells you what you're supposed to care about
2. Read wikipedia and write down a couple words that sound cool
3. Find some fringe domain-specific wiki and appropriate someones comment about an obscure detail
4. Post on twitter, if the latest enemy is important enough that they would never waste their time replying, tag them to look more badass. Otherwise, don't. It's best to control the flow of your tweet as much as possible.
5. Buy "promotional retweets" so it looks like anybody cares, and it bumps you to the top of the list of people tweeting whatever garbage #AIDStag, so mayeb you get more drones.


It is working well for her. She is skilled too, she doesn't want to give away her (open) secret, so she is pretending to give out the secret to twitter "success", but this is misdirection. [sun_tzu_quote_sunrise.jpg]

 

[ZKWNordman]

Did anyone call him out on the constant idiocies he perpetrates whenever he discusses any technical issue? Or did they just more or less ignore the babbling freak in the corner?

I recall her clutching her proverbial pearls and telling someone he was gaslighting her and to never “darken her door again” when I think he tried to apologize? Her posts were as stupid as they are on Twitter, but with even less of a filter.

The IGN posts are still there. She does the same thing everywhere: make a few allies and piss most people off. When people call her out, the few friends stock up for her.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

I see John as one of the less savory Snopes relations. "Yup, thet there's John Snopes, but everyone jest calls him 'Ladyboy'. He ain't been quite right ever since he got kicked in the head by a mule. Thinks he a damn girl or somesuch, keeps runnin' around in a dress he stole offa his geemaw's clothesline, and cries like a little bitch whenever the boys tease him about being a sissy. We figger he'll probably run for office some day, that's how fucked up he is."

I’ve got an extremely peripheral character in something I’ve been working on that’s pretty much exactly this, but his name is Flint.

Brianna is also the inspiration for a flesh eating ghoul creature.

 

[NQ 952]

I can't even. I just can't giving even. Starfox = iphone? How the fuck are you this ignorant?

 

[Eli Whitney]

I recall her clutching her proverbial pearls and telling someone he was gaslighting her and to never “darken her door again” when I think he tried to apologize?

I’m afraid I have some bad news about John’s “pearls”.