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Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate
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Mark my words.
When he loses it will be because Russian hackers aka gamer gate rigged the election.
By the way is there a Russian translation of his wiki? Even a google translate would fool him.
When he loses it will be because Russian hackers aka gamer gate rigged the election.
By the way is there a Russian translation of his wiki? Even a google translate would fool him.
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Call me obsessed, but a single point resounds in my mind whenever John starts banging the game designer drum: Toby Fox had himself, an artist, a copy of Gamemaker and a can of coke, and whether you like Undertale or not, Undertale can be called a game without your gag reflex going off. Brianna had a WHOLE GODDAMN STUDIO of competant developers, voice actors (who doubled as writers), Unreal Engine, and all the Soylent she could choke down, and still manages to fuck up to the point that Rev60 is listed on TvTropes's Game Breaking Bug page (and likely has no other listings, nor does it have a main page of its own).
Every day, their are devs doing more with less while Bri continues to do nothing with more. In a way, i pity her. No one i know has reached that level of failure. Even the most dismal of failures have something in there that say the creator put their heart into it. Not Rev60. Not anything Wu does. There's no spark, no soul, every thing she does is just dead air.
Every day, their are devs doing more with less while Bri continues to do nothing with more. In a way, i pity her. No one i know has reached that level of failure. Even the most dismal of failures have something in there that say the creator put their heart into it. Not Rev60. Not anything Wu does. There's no spark, no soul, every thing she does is just dead air.
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Better example would be Eric Barone. He was the Programmer, Designer, Artist, and Composer of Stardew Valley. Worked on the game ten hours a day for four years and made over £11 million in two months before you take away publisher fees. (So still walked away with at least half that, and that's being generous to the publishers).
The problem Wu has is... frankly, money. She's never had a "near zero" start point in order to realise that it's a massive fucking mountain to climb and you need that ability to sniff out a niche that might work. Time and again she's tried to make stuff like Rev 60, Election Eve, Socially Unconscious characters work without sniffing out that niche. Even if you do suspect there's a niche there's still a pretty massive chance of failure.
The same can be said of Wu's Congress run. If she was sensible or serious about congress she'd run for MA's house first because that's actually where all the nuts and bolts per state works. She could change things in MA and then be able to "lead by example" with an actual congress run in say, ten-fifteen years after learning how the system works better.
Sensibly she'd run on the lists for somewhere like Barnstaple County or Hampshire County which have a decent, more friendly attitude to LGBT citizens and thus a voter bloc she could more easily exploit and rally out during an election.
But this wouldn't be enough for John's ego.
David_cadbury
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Look, rate me optimistic if you will, but I think politics is probably the best possible avenue for Wu, and I understand certain users have a vendetta against her because she made a shitty game, may have let a dog die due to neglect, tanked her own animation studio back when she was a man named John Flynt using his adopted parent's money($200,000.00), lied to one or more men about her biological sex before sleeping with them, said she was going to write a hit piece on Milo and never delivered, false flagged an attack against herself, and never did a Q&A on her own lolcow thread, by all accounts is a nightmare to work with, fired all the women in her studio, and looks horrifying in an Ada Wong costume, but I think we should support her in this endeavor.
Sure, she lacks the patience to understand that it might take decades for her as a senator to make a small impact and she will probably spend all her donations on micro transactions, but who are she to stomp on this brave woman's dreams?
I stand with Wu*
*Though I stand with Wu I will not be voting for her because I dont Live in her district. And I work 50 hours a week and have my own side business so I really don't have time to effectively volunteer. I would try to signal boost Wu as well but but she is extremely off brand for the social media vibe I try to push out there.
Sure, she lacks the patience to understand that it might take decades for her as a senator to make a small impact and she will probably spend all her donations on micro transactions, but who are she to stomp on this brave woman's dreams?
I stand with Wu*
*Though I stand with Wu I will not be voting for her because I dont Live in her district. And I work 50 hours a week and have my own side business so I really don't have time to effectively volunteer. I would try to signal boost Wu as well but but she is extremely off brand for the social media vibe I try to push out there.
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Why the hell didn't i think of Stardew Valley, i love that game...
But yeah, there's our point exactly. People with vision who start from near nothing and make themselves into legends by what they build. The thing is, they built it. They carefully crafted it into their vision. Everything John does is slapped together with almost no thought about the end result. The political campaign proves he can't see the end, he has no vision. "What will i do if elected? Gamergate! Misogyny!" No mention about what they'll do for average Joe and Jane walking down Main Street, no mention what he plans to build.
I firmly believe humanity's purpose is to build and create, and it's plain as day that there ain't no blueprints on Johnny's table.
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"Sarcastic and relatable" gee what a revolutionary personality choice for a female superheroine who kicks everyone's ass.
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So in other words "bitchy" just like Wu's fetish characters?
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Only an idiot would publicly tweet 'I can't talk about X because I'm running for congress'.
This campaign is such a joke.
This campaign is such a joke.
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Oh wow, it's every 90s kid show hero personality. How bold and new. Totes, you guys.
I laughed at "Now that I'm running for congress". So now that you're a "politician" you can't act like the nerd you so desperately want to be?
I think Brianna is at a difficult phase of her life. John spent so many years wanting to be Brianna, the motorcycle-riding, hardcore techno-badass and he finally came within arm's reach, only to be denied by a combination of bad timing, misplaced loyalties and his own blinding stupidity. Now he is trying to be Brianna the Lawmaker, but his fantasy woman persona is still strong. He needs to move past her, but he never will. Brianna is John's dream and nightmare.
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Also, the encroachment of middle-age, where, even in a relaxed culture, a fortysomething woman flouncing around conventions and pinballing between careers is less "You go, girl," and more "Settle the fuck down."
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Sorry to disagree, but you're just wrong about John having no vision. He does indeed have a vision, a driving idea, and Rev. 60 was in fact a passion project. One need only realize that these characters have existed, in some iteration or other, for almost 20 years....and that's assuming John wasn't doodling them in high school.
The problem is that John's vision is compelling only to John. Nobody else finds these castrating, bitchy, smart-aleck characters remotely relatable as protagonists...because no one else has fetishized this idea of female competence as John has. Rev. 60 is, as Null so rightly said, John's fetish. To understand it, one needs to be driven with the anger to get back at a world of mean men by becoming a conquering amazon anorexic.
So you could see where that theme would fail in terms of mass appeal.
All your other points are spot on, however.
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John has a vision, it's just a bit blurry, hence the whole thinking he's a woman thing. And also revolution 60 as explained by the post above me
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Cheong hits another home run.
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His vision also depends entirely on other people to fulfill it because he's lazy as fuck. He wasn't going to learn to code, wasn't going to test the game, wasn't going to do legitimate marketing.
The same will happen with the "campaign". Frank will do all the grunt work and then Frank will pay others to do the rest. Brianna will sit around tweeting and playing video games.
The same will happen with the "campaign". Frank will do all the grunt work and then Frank will pay others to do the rest. Brianna will sit around tweeting and playing video games.
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There's so much dirt in John's history that his opponent will have a fucking field day. this won't be like Hillary vs Trump either.
John's going to do what he does best, blow more of Frank's money.
John's going to do what he does best, blow more of Frank's money.
Richard Stabone
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Funniest part so far is Brianna acting like she's running for President weeks before the election. This is a primary that won't be remotely competitive that's almost 2 years out. Still don't think she'll stay in till the election. Just raise some money and milk the publicity for awhile.
And while I know it'd be hilarious if she got called out on her bullshit by the incumbent, I doubt that happens. He'll just ignore her candidacy like most incumbents who are enormous favorites do. Although I guess this would lead to some funny chimping out on Twitter.
Seems like Frank is the one who filled out the paperwork and threatening people over domain names.
And while I know it'd be hilarious if she got called out on her bullshit by the incumbent, I doubt that happens. He'll just ignore her candidacy like most incumbents who are enormous favorites do. Although I guess this would lead to some funny chimping out on Twitter.
Seems like Frank is the one who filled out the paperwork and threatening people over domain names.
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Bullshit!
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