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

I'm guessing I know the answer, but can any 3d artists confirm?...

I tried searching: 3d art "alpha blades," 3d modeling "alpha blades," 3d rendering "alpha blades," 3d graphics "alpha blades."

Each search returned five or less pages of results. The ONLY two out of any of them that referenced "alpha blades" in the actual context of a 3d rendering principle, were, totally shockingly, 1) a 2014 Debug podcast interview with... Brianna Wu, and 2) a 2014 Cult of Mac guest post on the Metal API, submitted by... Brianna Wu.

Is the term "alpha blades" a thing? I'm guessing "no."

ETA: Here's a high-res pic of RE2M Ada. Yeah, that totally egregious faceting is just disgusting. How could they not cram a Pixar rendering farm inside a PS4 case? Sony are fucking amateurs.
By alpha blades I think John's just trying to jargon up like 3d characters that have separate pieces of waving hair. For example final fantasy games where it looks like everyones hair is made up of seperate clumps that move independently. Sounds like some rètarded thing someone pushing the newest jrpg at a conference saying something like "check out the detail we've added to his hair, see those alpha blades?"
 
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Yeah since we're cancelling sports lets go ahead and cancel summer too while we're at it and get it all out the way.

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I'm guessing I know the answer, but can any 3d artists confirm?...

I tried searching: 3d art "alpha blades," 3d modeling "alpha blades," 3d rendering "alpha blades," 3d graphics "alpha blades."

Each search returned five or less pages of results. The ONLY two out of any of them that referenced "alpha blades" in the actual context of a 3d rendering principle, were, totally shockingly, 1) a 2014 Debug podcast interview with... Brianna Wu, and 2) a 2014 Cult of Mac guest post on the Metal API, submitted by... Brianna Wu.

Is the term "alpha blades" a thing? I'm guessing "no."

ETA: Here's a high-res pic of RE2M Ada. Yeah, that totally egregious faceting is just disgusting. How could they not cram a Pixar rendering farm inside a PS4 case? Sony are fucking amateurs.

ETA2: For comparison, this post showcases some of John's faceting expertise in all its glory at only 1/3 the resolution.
3D artist I know has never heard the term outside of Power Rangers, but they only work on games. 🤔
 
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I'm guessing I know the answer, but can any 3d artists confirm?...

I tried searching: 3d art "alpha blades," 3d modeling "alpha blades," 3d rendering "alpha blades," 3d graphics "alpha blades."

Each search returned five or less pages of results. The ONLY two out of any of them that referenced "alpha blades" in the actual context of a 3d rendering principle, were, totally shockingly, 1) a 2014 Debug podcast interview with... Brianna Wu, and 2) a 2014 Cult of Mac guest post on the Metal API, submitted by... Brianna Wu.

Is the term "alpha blades" a thing? I'm guessing "no."

ETA: Here's a high-res pic of RE2M Ada. Yeah, that totally egregious faceting is just disgusting. How could they not cram a Pixar rendering farm inside a PS4 case? Sony are fucking amateurs.

ETA2: For comparison, this post showcases some of John's faceting expertise in all its glory at only 1/3 the resolution.

Your search parameters were too narrow.

I'm almost 100 percent certain that this is a classic example of Wu misunderstanding something someone said and, because it sounds cool, misusing the term in a spectacularly reeetarded manner.

Alpha blades are actual, physical shears used by actual human hairdressers to achieve certain layering effects on the hair of their actual human clients.

John, the premier moron of our galaxy, heard someone use the term "alpha blades" to refer to the layered appearance of a game character's hair, and John's diseased brain decided it was a rendering technique.

Just FYI -- and so my research time will have been better spent -- hairdressers also use what they refer to as beta blades and gamma blades. Can't wait till John learns about those 3D rendering techniques.

ETA: As far as my further research can determine, you are correct -- John is the only person on the planet using this term to describe random clumps of characters' hair moving independently.
 
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I'm guessing I know the answer, but can any 3d artists confirm?...

I tried searching: 3d art "alpha blades," 3d modeling "alpha blades," 3d rendering "alpha blades," 3d graphics "alpha blades."

Each search returned five or less pages of results. The ONLY two out of any of them that referenced "alpha blades" in the actual context of a 3d rendering principle, were, totally shockingly, 1) a 2014 Debug podcast interview with... Brianna Wu, and 2) a 2014 Cult of Mac guest post on the Metal API, submitted by... Brianna Wu.

Is the term "alpha blades" a thing? I'm guessing "no."

ETA: Here's a high-res pic of RE2M Ada. Yeah, that totally egregious faceting is just disgusting. How could they not cram a Pixar rendering farm inside a PS4 case? Sony are fucking amateurs.

Geometry isn't the limiting factor for hair, it's shading and fillrate.

The "alpha blades" probably comes from thinking of the hair like blades of grass.

On the top of the head there's no individual strands of hair, just strips layered on top of each other, geometry wise there's not a lot going on compared to her face and geometry is cheap.
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Alpha textures or their equivalents will be jagged/aliased, that's just how it is, the only way to make them less aliased is to increase the resolution and that won't actually affect the geometry. Same with the shadows it casts. It's all about resolution.
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Here's some Final Fantasy hair, couldn't find anything better.
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The limitations won't be geometry, add more triangles to the hair above and it won't stop it from aliasing.

Capcom and everyone else is doing some fancy stuff way more advanced than what I just mentioned. Rendering hair, like teeth and eyeballs, was almost a field of its own.
 
I know what Bri is talking about here though no one really calls them alpha blades.
When you you need to have transparency in a texture for things like hair, fray, or anything else like that (Think the hey in assassin's creed), you have to add an alpha channel to the texture in photoshop or whatever image editing software you use. This is a black and white channel where white shows where the texture will be solid and black indicates where the texture will be opaque. Most grass in games is done this way.

I think she is calling them blades here because they are like strips or blades that stick off of the main model.

Its funny because this teqnique was not used in revolution 60 at least from what Ive seen.
 
Well just in case your lockdown days weren't repetitive enough, here is another picture of an aging Cambodian homosexual screaming at his toys. Motherfucker I'm like a machine learning AI trained on John's gay ass pictures, fucking unplug me

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What the fuck is that chair in the mirror with the lion lampant? That's the real question here. Have we ever actually seen this chair in regular photos? It looks like some weird game of thrones branded gamer chair.

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I found it.
 
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What the fuck is that chair in the mirror with the lion lampant? That's the real question here. Have we ever actually seen this chair in regular photos? It looks like some weird game of thrones branded gamer chair.

Shit, that's exactly what it is! That's a Lannister lion. I'm not sure if it's a full chair or just some sort of covering. That shows a surprising amount of common sense. God knows I wouldn't want John sitting for hours in unprotected furniture, unless I was planning to burn it.
 
Oh that's cool John I didn't know that you had a luxury sports car, lemme shell out $6000 on frivolities right now because I'm not a poorfag who has to worry about faggoty shit like paying pills, a mortgage, or raising kids.

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Jacking your car up incorrectly can kill you, and that's why I let this Chink midget slave scream at the equipment while I stand fifteen feet safely away.

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Oh that's cool John I didn't know that you had a luxury sports car, lemme shell out $6000 on frivolities right now because I'm not a poorfag who has to worry about faggoty shit like paying pills, a mortgage, or raising kids.

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Jacking your car up incorrectly can kill you, and that's why I let this Chink midget slave scream at the equipment while I stand fifteen feet safely away.

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A: They're jackstands, not jacks
B: Eight 3-Ton jackstands on a 2900 pound car is just a waste of money by someone who can throw stupid amounts of money at the dumbest things
 
Well just in case your lockdown days weren't repetitive enough, here is another picture of an aging Cambodian homosexual screaming at his toys. Motherfucker I'm like a machine learning AI trained on John's gay ass pictures, fucking unplug me

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Someone was asking recently how much John and Frank's autism cost them collectively. For you, I did the math. These are the retail prices for everything I could see and identify in these images:
Basic Stuff:
Core Set: $90
Extra Dice Pack: $15 (although I wouldn't put it past John to demand a second core set)
Desert Junkyard/Ruins Game Mats: $80 (two mats, $40 each)

Imperial:
Krennic: $13
Death Troopers: $25
TX-225 Occupier Tank: $60 (it won't surprise you that John misspelled it)
Shoretroopers: $30

Rebels:
Jyn Erso: $13
Landspeeder: $50
Tauntauns 2x: $50

Scenery/Terrain Pieces, from Legion Terrain (all prices pre-painted because of course they didn't paint these themselves):
Downed AT-AT: $137
TIE Fighter: $30
X-Wing: $30
Rebel Hideout: $55
Tractor Beam Set: $45
Com-Tower Set 2x: $140
Walkway: $10
Throw in another $50ish for anything I might have missed, and the grand total comes to about $900. It's probably safe to assume that this isn't even all they own, so they're easily past a grand on this one game, if not more. And I know they've also dropped hundreds of dollars on the X-Wing miniatures game, if not past a thousand there too.

Any time John tries to do his "wu-man of the people" schtick, one need only look at pictures like these to figure out the truth. I don't think it's even possible for him to post a picture that doesn't have him flexing his wealth on the plebs, made all the funnier by the fact that his entire life is bought and paid for by his screaming Asian paypig.
 
What the fuck is that chair in the mirror with the lion lampant? That's the real question here. Have we ever actually seen this chair in regular photos? It looks like some weird game of thrones branded gamer chair.

oh, that "just happened" to make it's way in the photo oops!

ugh, all the photos are so annoyingly staged and posed. It's a perfect example of the shitty part of social media with these super-curated, contrived, fake-candid "lifestyle" glimpses.

 
Oh that's cool John I didn't know that you had a luxury sports car, lemme shell out $6000 on frivolities right now because I'm not a poorfag who has to worry about faggoty shit like paying pills, a mortgage, or raising kids.

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Jacking your car up incorrectly can kill you, and that's why I let this Chink midget slave scream at the equipment while I stand fifteen feet safely away.

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No just no. The car isnt made to do this... 8 jack stands? How many jack points does the car have? I'm guessing 4. And the placement... just fuck up my frame bro. you never just put the whole car up like that on those and get under it unless you have a death wish... so much I'm too hungover to go through all this. Bragging about getting a 22mm socket wrench, if you dont have one already have you ever even taken off a tire? Fuck me
 
Or worse than FOUR GamerGate genocides

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Wu, there is a reason whenever 9/11 is brought up it's always to mention how horrible it was, but never focusing on the number of people that died. Despite being a tragedy, the number of people who died in the September 11 attacks is just not that big in the grand scheme of things.

9/11 only became as etched into people's memories as it did because:
1) The sheer shock it caused on the USA and overall brutality of the attack. Nobody expected something like that to happen and the way the victims lost their lives are horrifying, be it suffocating, burning, dying from the crash itself or throwing themselves from the building.
2) It was a big terrorist attack on the United States of America in it's own territory. It becoming that infamous in America eventually made it become known in the whole world, as american culture is exported to everywhere one way or another.

Don't misunderstand me, it was an horrible tragedy in which a lot of innocent people lost their lives and an entire nation was left afraid and in mourning. But looking at it with emotions aside, from a strictly numerical perspective, the amount of victims pales in comparison to other events that have happened both before and after it and are not even given a passing mention because they didn't stick on people's memories as 9/11 did.

And yes, let's gather everyone, hold our hands and sing Kumbaya as a memorial service for the departed while the easily spread disease that killed people is still going strong. What could possibly go wrong there?

Even if Trump declared a national day of mouring for people to pray in their homes for the ones who died, people like Wu would just attack him for it. I can already see Twitter:"YOU ARE THE CAUSE OF THESE DEATHS, YOU DIDN'T HELP THOSE PEOPLE AND NOW YOU PRETEND TO CARE? FUCK OFF." "THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS WILL REALLY HELP NOW. DRINK BLEACH YOU IDIOT. #IMPEACH" and other assorted REEEEEEEEing.
 
Oh that's cool John I didn't know that you had a luxury sports car, lemme shell out $6000 on frivolities right now because I'm not a poorfag who has to worry about faggoty shit like paying pills, a mortgage, or raising kids.

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Jacking your car up incorrectly can kill you, and that's why I let this Chink midget slave scream at the equipment while I stand fifteen feet safely away.

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Is that a dent in the body underneath the left taillight?
 
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