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

[Peace and Harmony]

So there really was a time when at least a handful of people took this dickhead seriously.



This is the Rebellion.

 

[LadiosSopp]

So there really was a time when at least a handful of people took this dickhead seriously.

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This is the Rebellion.

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Leave it to John to not know that the GBA Pokémon games are some of the most bootlegged out there. That fake is easy to spot a mile away, and then he tries making a stink about it on Twitter instead of doing his own damn research and keeping it between him and the seller. Fucking idiot.

Edit - grammar

 

[Particle Bored]

Leave it to John to not know that the GBA Pokémon games are some of the most bootlegged out there. That fake is easy to spot a mile away, and then they try making a stink about it on Twitter instead of doing their own damn research and keeping it between him and the seller. Fucking idiot.

I know fuck-all about counterfeit carts, but am I not seeing an incongruency in that there's "no battery" but also "good stuff on his save?"

 

[Mola Ram]

I know fuck-all about counterfeit carts, but am I not seeing an incongruency in that there's "no battery" but also "good stuff on his save?"

Believe it or not, there is a perfectly good explanation for this. That being: John is a fucking retard and a liar.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

oh lord why don't those dang dirty MALE IDIOTS just leave us alone, join the culture war on the side of good and chop off your cock, fucking racist.

 

[LadiosSopp]

I know fuck-all about counterfeit carts, but am I not seeing an incongruency in that there's "no battery" but also "good stuff on his save?"

The GBA games use an FRAM chip for storing saves and a regular coin battery for operating the real time clock. Some features of the games won't work properly, but you can still save and play it.

Edit - Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald utilize a real time clock in various ways. Fire Red and Leaf Green don't.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Haven't thought about this bastard in a while but it's amusing me that Wu is regaining some media presence again because of the one tweet in support of Strange Worlds.

So now they're forever tied to the public image of Disney's biggest animated flop ever.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

The GBA games use an FRAM chip for storing saves and a regular coin battery for operating the real time clock. Some features of the games won't work properly, but you can still save and play it.

Edit - Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald utilize a real time clock in various ways. Fire Red and Leaf Green don't.

And batteries die, that's the problem with old carts. Also the screws might be different along with some other tells in the labels and boxes.
There are guides to replace the battery, they're not soldered in but they typically have a piece of metal bent over it that needs to be bent up and probably replaced in some ways afterwards. It's supposed to be a permanent fixture. That's why sellers usually differentiate between original cart and cart with replaced battery(functioning saves).

Source: I have a pristine Gold version and looked into what it sells for and why.

 

[LadiosSopp]

And batteries die, that's the problem with old carts. Also the screws might be different along with some other tells in the labels and boxes.
There are guides to replace the battery, they're not soldered in but they typically have a piece of metal bent over it that needs to be bent up and probably replaced in some ways afterwards. It's supposed to be a permanent fixture. That's why sellers usually differentiate between original cart and cart with replaced battery(functioning saves).

Source: I have a pristine Gold version and looked into what it sells for and why.

Yup, I do a lot of repair and the occasional mods on my old games and consoles, so I'm all too familiar with dead batteries and maintaining old electronics. I also got burned on fake GBA Pokémon games at a con some years back before I knew any better, so that's instantly how I could tell John had a fake - my PCB looked exactly the same. Compare it to the real thing and it's a night and day difference.



John is a retard who doesn't know the first thing about shit he gets into. It'll be funny to see what he does when his pinball machines need maintenance. Those look like an abject nightmare to work on.

 

[Ghostse]

I know fuck-all about counterfeit carts, but am I not seeing an incongruency in that there's "no battery" but also "good stuff on his save?"

@LadiosSopp and @Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 covered most of it but:
There was a lot of counterfeit Pokemon carts for GBA, especially towards the middle of the GBA's run when the used market prices were high but new chinese boards were cheap.

<sperg>
When your computer generates random numbers, its not a true random number. It uses the value of your computer's system clock + some additional math, so its Random as far as you should care. Your computer has a battery on the motherboard that keeps this clock powered on.
The original GB/GBC didn't have any method of generating random numbers, since all the parts turned off. Games at the time got around it by having various arrays of pre-generated numbers. You might remember earlier Frank was talking about Monopoly for Gameboy - it was possible to know what the next player would roll based on previous rolls.
The Pokemon games for GB/GBC had clocks - called Real Time Clocks because they measured real-time instead of computer time - on the carts. These clocks were backed up by batteries. This was not new - any GB/GBC cart stores your saves in RAM that is kept active by a battery on the cart.
The batteries have 10-20 year lives, so they weren't designed to be replaceable, but you can. Open the cart, remove the board, desolder the old batter, and solder in a new one. You can buy them by the dozen on amazon, often with housings connected, bent into shape, and ready to solder.
Early-run GBA carts also used battery-backed up saves, but eventually moved to flash-memory and removed the need for batteries. (which has write endurance issues, but you'd need to save every day for decades to exceed it)
</sperg>

A counterfeit cart is nearly functionally identical to an official one. They nearly all used flash because A) at the time it was cheaper than sourcing batteries and B) using it let you use the same cart for multiple games, just change the ROM data that contained the game. The counterfeit carts would behave slightly wonky because of no RTC. IIRC they basically on power on/power off loaded/saved a number that would be incremented during game play was meant to simulate an RTC. (I have a Flash Cart for my GBA that has an RTC that you can be used with or without an on board battery, and does nearly exactly this when used without a battery). Some of the early & even more fucky carts just have a RTC that has no backup or value-load function; when you power off the system, the RTC goes back to zero, and ticks up from zero when you power on.

Pokemon purists claim the counterfeit carts are easy to detected because they end up with a lot of the same Random Numbers showing up in the same orders; I take their word for it since I have had sex at least once.


As for the second part of your question about the saves:
The blind Wu-squirrel has found a nut.
The saves between legit and counterfeit versions are cross-compatible, since they are running the same code - just subtly different hardware.
My real question is why John is bothering with counterfeit saves when he could just use a Cart-dumper and a hex editor.
But I know the answer.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

oh lord why don't those dang dirty MALE IDIOTS just leave us alone, join the culture war on the side of good and chop off your cock, fucking racist.

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I love the first tweet. Brianna, why don’t you tell us more about Elon tapping into y- into other people’s seething male anger?

 

[Peace and Harmony]

>Apple pundit
Go find the thread for yourself if you feel like ending your life - not today, Satan.

Also you've never had a career, John.

 

[Stinkyboy]

No one knows who he is after gamergate either

Spacekatgal made weird fetish stuff

 

[AirdropShitposts]

oh lord why don't those dang dirty MALE IDIOTS just leave us alone, join the culture war on the side of good and chop off your cock, fucking racist.

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This doesn't even make sense.

Also, hasn't John been telling me Elon is basically on the verge of going bankrupt and Twitter vanishing to take Tesla with it and we'll never hear from him again since he's not capable of doing anything by himself?

>Apple pundit
Go find the thread for yourself if you feel like ending your life - not today, Satan.

Also you've never had a career, John.

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"Hi, I've been an Apple pundit for a decade."

These openings on Twitter never fail to let you know the person is full of shit and about to say something stupid.

 

[King Dead]

This doesn't even make sense.

Also, hasn't John been telling me Elon is basically on the verge of going bankrupt and Twitter vanishing to take Tesla with it and we'll never hear from him again since he's not capable of doing anything by himself?


"Hi, I've been an Apple pundit for a decade."

These openings on Twitter never fail to let you know the person is full of shit and about to say something stupid.

Pretty much anyone that calls themselves a pundit is talking out of their ass, implying expertise where there is none. John is nothing more than an Apple fanboy, buying the latest iShit (with Frank's money) and sperging about how great Steve Jobs's decaying cock is. He has no insider knowledge, no experience with Apple's business dealings, no insights into their technology developments. All he does is repeat their press releases and occasionally insist that he's not going to buy whatever overpriced crap they're releasing next because it's not good enough (only to do it anyway because Frank's wallet is infinite).

Funny how all his doomposting about Twitter going down any day now seems not to have panned out in the slightest. Seems to be running as fine as ever, almost like the company had thousands of dead weight employees that could be shed without issue. Really makes you wonder how the Godzilla of Tech Feminism got it so wrong.

 

[Ghostse]

Funny how all his doomposting about Twitter going down any day now seems not to have panned out in the slightest. Seems to be running as fine as ever, almost like the company had thousands of dead weight employees that could be shed without issue. Really makes you wonder how the Godzilla of Tech Feminism got it so wrong.

I remember seeing all the articles and (lol) tweets about the people fired or who took the severence about how twitter was totally going down in 4 days with no one doing their super important work.
Thus far the only real effects are Japan/SEA users are super stoked western shitlib politics aren't getting shoved down their throats and hashtags are organically propagating based on real things that interest them (anime tiddy) instead of tranny rights.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

"Hi, I've been an Apple pundit for a decade."

How dare you tamper with the writing of Professional Journalist John!

He actually wrote: "Hi. I'm been an Apple pundit for a decade."

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Just a final bit on this, googling it this Etsy listing was the second result.

Absolutely identical.

I bet Wu overpaid for that knockoff as well.

 

[LoverofPi]

Remember, John is not the fastest Peach-only SMB2 speedrunner in the world. He's the fastest Peach speedrunner in a port of SMB2 that virtually nobody plays (40 players and 207 runs, compared to SMB2's 391 players and 1702 runs), and SMB2 isn't all that popular to run to begin with. Further, he tops the leaderboard that has a whopping two entries, a leaderboard that was only created because he bitched about it until a mod caved. There are at least a dozen SMB2 speedrunners with better Peach-only times that could probably best his time by a minute or more if they bothered to try. And that's not even including the dozens more that have better times in other categories.

But please, John, do go on about your non-achievement. How's that campaigning for Warnock in Georgia going? Surely you didn't just bullshit about how you were going down there to help out and instead stayed home to play SMA over and over again like a fucking autist.

To just drive home how much WuFlynt is eliding over the actual truth here, he's never once held the time of fastest Peach runner in the world. Even now, when he's competing in categories made explicitly for him and he's barely winning against someone doing it just fucking because, his time is 9 minutes, 37 seconds. That's with several features of the GBA version that make it quicker to run, like the Save and Quit function. Even using that specific cart, John is the 17th fastest peach speedrunner. 7 of those are playing without the save and quit and still have times 30 seconds faster. John isn't as utterly incompetent at speedrunning SMB2 as he is at many of his other pursuits, but even at his personal heights, JohnBri is completely mediocre.

For the sake of pure clarity, one of the other runs is tied with John's time, but I gave the edge to that one because it was playing on original NES without save and quit and is thus more impressive.

If you look at his singular run without save and quit, it becomes far more dire, as there are 67 people faster at playing Super Mario Bros 2 with just peach and without the save and quit option that he is.

Okay, I watched both of those runs out of morbid curiosity. The other guy dies 4 times due to sloppy platforming and Wu still only beats his time by 5 seconds.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

To just drive home how much WuFlynt is eliding over the actual truth here, he's never once held the time of fastest Peach runner in the world. Even now, when he's competing in categories made explicitly for him and he's barely winning against someone doing it just fucking because, his time is 9 minutes, 37 seconds. That's with several features of the GBA version that make it quicker to run, like the Save and Quit function. Even using that specific cart, John is the 17th fastest peach speedrunner. 7 of those are playing without the save and quit and still have times 30 seconds faster. John isn't as utterly incompetent at speedrunning SMB2 as he is at many of his other pursuits, but even at his personal heights, JohnBri is completely mediocre.

For the sake of pure clarity, one of the other runs is tied with John's time, but I gave the edge to that one because it was playing on original NES without save and quit and is thus more impressive.

If you look at his singular run without save and quit, it becomes far more dire, as there are 67 people faster at playing Super Mario Bros 2 with just peach and without the save and quit option that he is.

Remember that's he thinks "hacking" is superior to doing anything normally. He doesn't mention that he's in the Wu Sped category for the GBA version because he "hacked" the system. "Hacking" in this case is always synonymous with cheating in some way or paying for shortcuts that allows him to cheat and lie. Prime example is the "I did (pay some to do) this!". That's the red thread throughout his life.