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

John in 1996: "Boy it's great having a penis"

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purepowerlevel said:
Does John think that they didn't have automatic transmissions when he was in middle school/19 years old/definitely a girl?
There are so, so many better examples. They would still all be lies the moment that they came out of his mouth.
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But would any of those examples tell the world that Wu is a cool gearhead with a love and appreciation for cars that rivals any mechanic?

But you're right. John was a grown-ass man in '96 when automatic vehicles were already becoming the most popular transmission type. Methinks the reason he's hung up on the manual thing is because he's deeply insecure about his own inability to operate one.
 
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Francis York Morgan said:
Not if the pics I've seen are actually John's mom. It's less apparent than Joel, but he does have some resemblance to his mom especially during his younger, chubby John days. Additionally, when he's not demonizing her, John hints at having a closer relationship with his mom than his dad. In the (admittedly dubious) stories of his childhood, it's his mom that fosters his love of technology. Maybe I am being cynical, but I just can't see any woman being close to her husband's illegitimate love child and giving them the millions of opportunities that Brianna squandered.

I think the affair subplot of the adoption story is one part an unnecessary addition to the story that habitual liars like Brianna are prone to throw in and one part John cooking up this delusional fantasy that he might be a secret illegitimate child to some powerful figure.

Anywho, that's a lot of theorizing and armchairing over one lie from a person who seems physically incapable of telling the truth. But it was a little more fun than commenting on whatever talking points from Buzzfeed Brianna decided to parrot in the last hour.
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You’re right, of course. It’s just a typical Wu embellishment on par with the tall tales kids tell.

But if I were to continue musing, I’d argue that in this narrative, Joel would have hidden that he was the father.
 
neural said:
This is a snippet of the show Brianna was on this week, and you can see how much Bri knows about computer chips:

Interestingly enough, TWiT and its founder can be quite hilarious even without Wu being there, there's an A-Logging community that is dedicated to "expose" Leo Laporte, who is quite the lolcow IMO.
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Wu barely says 10 words but still manages to come off like an idiot AND he has time to cram in some technobabble he doesn't understand. "has it been in that long, the ring 1, ring 0, executions of it?" jesus christ
 
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Kroster said:
My friend sent me screen shots of a bunch of Brianna's FB posts and most are a little boring or also made on Twitter, but here are some gifts for you.

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It's great that John live tweets his rationalizations, and attempts to emulate a human being. It's a great look into the mind of a delusional, narcissistic, mentally ill person.
 
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RandomNobody said:
just once I wish someone would ask John a basic undergrad computer science question like "what is average performance of the quicksort algorithm?" or a basic math question every engineer would know like "What is a derivative?" or "What is an integral?".
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In a live interview. Not in a Twitter dialog, because he'll just Google that shit. I want these reporters that interview John to have him explain his background a bit, and not mention Gamergate. His engineering degree, or anything really. No one ever questions him about anything.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Wu barely says 10 words but still manages to come off like an idiot AND he has time to cram in some technobabble he doesn't understand. "has it been in that long, the ring 1, ring 0, executions of it?" jesus christ
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This bugs the hell out of me. Why would she even attempt to do this? It's a podcast. Even if you were a real software engineer, no one is expecting you to go off in to the weeds of explaining how cache timing attacks work live on air. Wu's technobabble is doubly out of place, in that she doesn't understand what the fuck she's on about and even if she did it wouldn't be the right venue to bust it out.

Wu is even bad at being a phony, which is inexcusable considering how much practice she has at it. Why do people persist in thinking she has any idea about technology whatsoever?
 
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