Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES

[Solzhenitsyn]

I kind of did tell you that Brianna Wu, Godzilla of Tech Feminism was a two-man job.

This was literally always the case. Frank is a majority stakeholder in the company, bankrolled Giant Spacekat during its formative years, and is one of its two remaining employees. Frank was always going to be the one to force Brianna to shit or get off the pot, and the fact that it's happened this way is fucking hilarious.

Do you think that Frank is at least partially behind this push for release? (Obviously HoskStation's deadline is important, too.)

 

[HG 400]

 

[Luminous Being]

https://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/766264548722667520

She is going to break me

Twitter is kinder to people that babble inane shit nobody cares about because it's easy to digest. Anyone who has something to say that won't fit into the 130 character limit won't bother, because using long tweetchains and indicating every separate post in that chain as still belonging to the original thougt by using 1/ 2/ 3/ or whatever is retarded³.

Most important people that have long announcements to make or something important to share will almost always link to a piece or twitlonger they wrote off-site. Wu can't do that because nobody publishes anything of her's that isn't just a few quotes.

Nobody wants to read intelligent discussion in twitter format. It's pants-on-head .

 

[Von Clausewitz]

More for the Wu-cyclopaedia

Engineer - She seems to think, somehow, that she is a software engineer. I can't think of anything Wu has done that would actually qualify her as this.

In the time it took from when she launched her Kickstarter until now, she could have learned coding from the ground up and become decent enough programmer to finish her port two times over.

It's a well known that if you can't distil complicated ideas down to 140 characters or less then it's not a good idea.

Twitter is probably the worst thing to happen to intelligent discussion since the comment section.

The only thing Twitter teaches you is how to cut down on filler words. Just because you have less space to formulate an idea you have in your head doesn't mean it gets automatically punchy and succinct... It just means that you have lesser words to formulate it or need to break it up into several tweets, which Wu is quite familiar with.

Also, I'd piss myself laughing if there was a QTE that was broken and thus unsolveable.

Remember when Wu mentioned the last time that she was bug testing Rev 60? Me neither.

 

[Jaimas]

Do you think that Frank is at least partially behind this push for release? (Obviously HoskStation's deadline is important, too.)

Absolutely. Brianna would be content to fart around forever if allowed, and Frank is one of the only ones who can keep her on task. Since he controls the purse-strings (except for Brianna's infamous Patreon), Wu doesn't want to be cut off, so if she has to nut up and act like an adult, Frank, uniquely, can force her to.

It's rare he has to, mind, but Brianna's the sort who was content to flush roughly 700,000 bux down the toilet between Socially Unconscious and Giant Spacekat Studios, and, as such, Frank knows how to keep Brianna on a proverbial leash.

None of this would have happened without the Kickstarter backer revolt. Brianna Wu would be content to write off the backers entirely, but Frank realizes (rightly) that a fuck-up of that magnitude would blow up in Brianna's face in the worst possible way - her professional reputation would be DOA, even more so than it is right now.

 

[BriannaWoo]

I don't know much about the game dev industry but how likely is it that Frank will actually see any money from this? I'm assuming Frank will insist on recouping his investment before Wu makes any profit from it.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

It's rare he has to, mind, but Brianna's the sort who was content to flush roughly 700,000 bux down the toilet between Socially Unconscious and Giant Spacekat Studios, and, as such, Frank knows how to keep Brianna on a proverbial leash.

You know, when you put it like that it reminds me a lot of Citizen Kane.

Charles, at some point in the movie, bumps into a girl named Susan who happens to be an aspiring singer and starts meeting her despite being married. Eventually, this liaison to the "singer" (as she is referred to in the newspapers, quotation marks included) is made public and Charles suffers a terrible decline in popularity
Later on, he builds an opera house for Susan (whom he married), forcing her to perform there in a large show and it's implied that he mainly did this to get rid of the quotation marks (ie: making a real singer out of her).

It's like Franks wants to get rid of the quotation marks in "game dev", too.

I'm assuming Frank will insist on recouping his investment before Wu makes any profit from it.

At this point, They'd have to sell like a hundred thousand copies, I assume - and I'd be genuinely amazed if they even managed to break into the quadruple digits with their sales. Don't know how much Steam takes away from them per sale, but the mere thought of Frank recouping even a fraction of his money is totally unrealistic.

Monetary gain hasn't been a motivation for these two chucklefucks for the longest period, otherwise they'd closed down their little vanity studio ages ago. I don't know how much Amanda made in her GSX days, but she was employed for years, it seems, along a bunch of other people (who have been fired some time ago), so I guess the Wus managed to sink a shitton of money into that turd.

 

[Jaimas]

I don't know much about the game dev industry but how likely is it that Frank will actually see any money from this? I'm assuming Frank will insist on recouping his investment before Wu makes any profit from it.

He gave up on that a while ago, but Frank actually understands that you can try and ultimately fail.

He and Brianna are rich, they'll endure despite this and it gives BriBri a chance to re-invent herself at a later date.

You know, when you put it like that it reminds me a lot of Citizen Kane.

Charles, at some point in the movie, bumps into a girl named Susan who happens to be an aspiring singer and starts meeting her despite being married. Eventually, this liaison to the "singer" (as she is referred to in the newspapers, quotation marks included) is made public and Charles suffers a terrible decline in popularity
Later on, he builds an opera house for Susan (whom he married), forcing her to perform there in a large show and it's implied that he mainly did this to get rid of the quotation marks (ie: making a real singer out of her).

It's like Franks wants to get rid of the quotation marks in "game dev", too.

A fitting analogy.

 

[AnimuGinger]

Beautiful.

It's registered in Delaware. No way to see anything unless you pay for Supporters.

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Think there's anything there worth paying for?

 

[Henry Bemis]

Charles, at some point in the movie, bumps into a girl named Susan who happens to be an aspiring singer and starts meeting her despite being married. Eventually, this liaison to the "singer" (as she is referred to in the newspapers, quotation marks included) is made public and Charles suffers a terrible decline in popularity
Later on, he builds an opera house for Susan (whom he married), forcing her to perform there in a large show and it's implied that he mainly did this to get rid of the quotation marks (ie: making a real singer out of her).

It's like Franks wants to get rid of the quotation marks in "game dev", too.

Worth pointing out that Kane goes to those lengths less to establish Susan as a legitimate singer and more to marvel at his own power to "make" people.

How this analogy applies to Frank Wu? You decide!

 

[Von Clausewitz]

Think there's anything there worth paying for?

Founder / CEO: Frank Wu ?

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Think there's anything there worth paying for?

My gut tells me no, but with Brianna Wu, we never know. What kind of information could we even expect? Maybe just a list of people who have worked there and for how long could be interesting, seeing how that might finally prove undeniably that there never was a Natalie.
Some additional information might help round up the image of GSX.

If anything, it might lead to a chimpout when Bribri is confronted with these new infos - though I can't say if that would be worth 10 to 20 bucks.

Founder / CEO: Frank Wu ?

Haven't even thought about that. Hell yeah, that would be hilarious, when people can start mocking Bribri for not even being the TRUE and HONEST CEO of her supposed studio.

 

[Quasar]

At this point, They'd have to sell like a hundred thousand copies, I assume - and I'd be genuinely amazed if they even managed to break into the quadruple digits with their sales. Don't know how much Steam takes away from them per sale, but the mere thought of Frank recouping even a fraction of his money is totally unrealistic.

Not having released anything on Steam myself, this is completely based on what I've read from others, but I believe that Steam takes ~30%.

That being said, I can't wait until Wu starts bitching about Steam for something (we all know she will). Gaben has already shown that he is more than willing to delist things and say "sell your product on one of competitor's platforms" with a big evil grin on his face. Come to think of it, at this point that's probably what Wu wants. It would both give her an out for not keeping her buggy game available on Steam, as well as give her stuff to bitch about on Twitter for ages.

 

[AnimuGinger]

Nothing good. Oh well.

 

[Mike Hunt]

That pretty much says it all, doesn't it?

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I know this was a couple of pages back, but I only got back today to catch up. I'll have to bust Flynt's ghost balls and call bull on this one. I've helped a couple of friends set up iTunes Connect accounts for their own indie games and I know that you can pay those yearly fees with someone else's card yet still register the account under your own name. So Flynt is lying about the account having to be named under the credit card owner paying for the fees.

Pretty sure Frank decided to name the account under him mostly because the account owner has to look at and agree to a number of contracts and stuff. Frank probably knows that Flynt is too stupid to be entrusted with understanding and signing off on actual, legally-binding documents.

It could also be that it is Frank's way of telling Flynt that he owns everything, dunno.

Tl;dr - Flynt is once again lying, but we already knew that.

 

[Jake's Piercing]

If I was Wu and literally had no skill, I would save up all those Patreon bux into a lump sum of $10-$15K and pay a trio of fresh out of college programmers to port my IOS crap to Windows crap. That would've been a good 3 to 6 months work and the Patreon money would've covered that all.

In the mean-time, I'd be doing a lot of panels, presentations and interviews for large crowds where I'd rake in more money in stipends and fees.

It would've been a lucrative affair and I've had all my kick starter backers covered, made a name for myself and would have cash to spare on buying retro SNES stuff.

 

[Luminous Being]

Nothing good. Oh well.View attachment 125537

What a shame. I was hoping there'd be details on who own the shares and whatnot.

for paying.

 

[Kiras left nipple]

If I was Wu and literally had no skill, I would save up all those Patreon bux into a lump sum of $10-$15K and pay a trio of fresh out of college programmers to port my IOS crap to Windows crap. That would've been a good 3 to 6 months work and the Patreon money would've covered that all.

In the mean-time, I'd be doing a lot of panels, presentations and interviews for large crowds where I'd rake in more money in stipends and fees.

It would've been a lucrative affair and I've had all my kick starter backers covered, made a name for myself and would have cash to spare on buying retro SNES stuff.

but you forget that the godzilla of techs ego wouldnt allow others to share in the credit...

 

[Luminous Being]

That's not how this works.

Refraction != something being extremely white. All a higher albedo does it REFLECT more light, making you potentially more visible.

Refraction = light bending because it passes from one density into another density. It's why a straw looks crooked when it's in half-way submerged water.

Engineer indeed.

https://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/766283102574481408

 

[AnimuGinger]

That's not how this works.

Refraction != something being extremely white. All a higher albedo does it REFLECT more light, making you potentially more visible.

Refraction = light bending because it passes from one density into another density. It's why a star looks crooked when it's in half-way submerged water.

Engineer indeed.

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https://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/766283102574481408

For someone that runs so much, they must never do it outside, if their skin is bordering on Twilight-level pale.