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

[Particle Bored]

Okay so Elon Musk donating to the GOP is going to plunge America into a devastating civil war, got it.

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Or... or... or... the government goes entitlement and regu-nuts, goes into crazy debt paying govt employees and gibmedats, drives taxpaying businesses offshore (and maybe letting infrastructure degrade and devalue, depending on corruption levels in said government), and then ends up having to sell off their territory and/or infrastructure to billionaires & banks.

And of course any Hillary "Haitian slush fund" Clinton supporter portending the dangers of "disaster capitalism" can just get right fucked.

 

[BlueArmedDevil]

Okay so Elon Musk donating to the GOP is going to plunge America into a devastating civil war, got it.

So is this him trying to counter George Soros.

 

[Winnie the Poohnani]

Okay so Elon Musk donating to the GOP is going to plunge America into a devastating civil war, got it.

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Interesting that people who throw around phrases like "disaster capitalism" and "late stage capitalism", while promoting socialism/marxism, are those who have not even a rudimentary knowledge of economics, much less any real world empirical (successful) experience in business. Their grasp of the subject is strictly limited to the talking points they were given in Oppression Studies 101 at some shitty liberal college.

Why would anyone give the slightest bit of credence to someone who is a perpetual economic failure? Without Frank the Wallet subsidizing John's batshittery, he'd be living in a refrigerator box and begging for Patreon bux to keep himself fed.

This is the irony of the anticapitalists -- they survive only because of the excess bounty of capitalism, something that doesn't even exist in those awesome socialist/communist "utopias".

 

[Karl Franz]

I agree. What the fuck does test driven development have to do with a "one letter typo." Was that a syntax error (wouldn't compile)? It's a big name franchise game so it can't possibly be written in like javascript or anything.

It's probably some kind of in-game thrown-together script language that silently assumes new variable name should be initialized with zero or something.

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

It's probably some kind of in-game thrown-together script language that silently assumes new variable name should be initialized with zero or something.

I was thinking probably some reference table with pre-#define 'd indexes, and two had the same slot

like:

/* Flags array */
char flags[256];

/* Flag offset positions */
#define IS_DEAD_FLAG 0x48
#define WEARING_FLAK_JACKET_FLAG 0x49
.....
#define IS_UNDERWATER_FLAG 0x48

Of course simplified a bit, since you wouldn't use a byte when you could mask a bit, but for discussions sake...

And they never tested what happens when you go underwater, but the main loop checks the slot that's supposed to be calculated by the "taking damage" subroutine (IS_DEAD_FLAG), but because you're underwater it kills you. And there's one map with deep enough water that you can submerge yourself.

That's at least a professional game code (C/C++) error that I could see happen because of a single letter typo and not found without adequate testing. I did not actually care enough to look into what the error was any more than reading that tweet summary Bribri quoted.

 

[AnOminous]

Siri, show me how to make a tweet while on Ambien and then delete it two minutes later.

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This Siri thing seems pretty smart. I wonder. . .

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

This Siri thing seems pretty smart. I wonder. . .

She really is a video game, isn't she? "Tranny Wars 5000."

Instead of exp you get "virtue signal points"

Your mana is constantly draining, you have to spam twitter to fill up the "Social Justice Warrior Points bar." When this bar is full, you can cast Tranny Shriek. Brianna hovers 6 inches above the floor, wind comes out of nowhere blowing her hair around (like Storm from x-men), she looks like she's about to go Super Saiyan, being filled with Energy until it all burts out in a high-pitched trill "GAMERRRRRRGAATTTEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!" then all that energy shoots out from her body crippling the minds (casts silence) on all the mages in the room, and drops everyone to 1hp. Fills Brianna's MP bar.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I agree. What the fuck does test driven development have to do with a "one letter typo." Was that a syntax error (wouldn't compile)? It's a big name franchise game so it can't possibly be written in like javascript or anything.

It was a typo in an .ini file, so it didn't get parsed/initialized but the game chugged along despite that. It's very weird that the game was released like that and never "patched" in the loosest sense of the word, but the Colonial Marines release was one big "eeeeeeh fuck it" event.

It's very similar to Rev60 in that way, the miscarriage that after being 24 months overdue flopped out on Steam with a similarly embarrassing bug(someone didn't change a number).

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Yeah why don't we help needy institutions like Porsche and Nintendo and the DNC instead.

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

Yeah why don't we help needy institutions like Porsche and Nintendo and the DNC instead.

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Brianna dissing Apple as a "waste of money?" [implied] ???????

That's like... 40%-60% of her annual non-car budget.

Whatsa matter? As An Engineer, did she break the new porsche by trying to install Apple Carplay again?

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EDIT: Since Wu lost those 200 "confirmed bots" in the latest purge, all of her comments seem to be trolls. Was SHE paying 200 bots to promote all her garbage? Is that why she was so excited about it, as misdirection?

 

[Herbert Hoover]

Okay so Elon Musk donating to the GOP is going to plunge America into a devastating civil war, got it.

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Yeah why don't we help needy institutions like Porsche and Nintendo and the DNC instead.

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Too bad Elon Musk gives money to both parties then

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

What a grotesque representation of self-closing forceps.
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(aka "the doctor's roachclip," although some surgeons are known to prefer the locking forcep)

"As an engineer" indeed.

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The forceps John is describing are an old, ineffective design that was intended to let the user lock them in place when they were partially closed to retain a grip on, for example, an insect without crushing it, which the self-closing models will do unless you maintain constant, even pressure on the handles. The problem with the old design is that the metal rings slip out of position easily.

Nowadays people mostly use adjustable locking forceps similar to these -- a vastly superior design. There are also models that use a set screw to lock the forceps in a partially open position.

I couldn't even find any of the old slip-ring forceps on the Interwebs, but while I was looking for them I did see a lot of ads for tit clamps that use the design John is looking for. Has Frank been a bad boy?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I couldn't even find any of the old slip-ring forceps on the Interwebs, but while I was looking for them I did see a lot of ads for tit clamps that use the design John is looking for. Has Frank been a bad boy?

urgh.

My assumption is that Brianna had been a bad boy and fiddled the Porsche and now needs tools to remove something that shouldn't have gone where it went.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

urgh.

My assumption is that Brianna had been a bad boy and fiddled the Porsche and now needs tools to remove something that shouldn't have gone where it went.

Oh, I agree.

In which case engineer and auto restroation expert John needs one of these, something even the most amateur of mechanics will buy very early in their life as an auto hobbyist. Once the forceps John is looking for are inserted into a hard-to-reach spot, you can't slide the ring down far enough to close the jaws. They're useless.

 

[AnOminous]

Oh, I agree.

In which case engineer and auto restroation expert John needs one of these, something even the most amateur of mechanics will buy very early in their life as an auto hobbyist. Once the forceps John is looking for are inserted into a hard-to-reach spot, you can't slide the ring down far enough to close the jaws. They're useless.

So that's what those things are. I've had one of those for 20 years and had no idea what it's even called, and it was already old when I got it.

 

[360NoTrope]

Okay so Elon Musk donating to the GOP is going to plunge America into a devastating civil war, got it.

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My, how things have changed.

 

[Norvic]

Still no FEC report. I trust Wu will get to that some time today, or at least whine at Frank enough that he'll do it for her.

In the mean time, I compared the pre-election coverage of Ocasio-Cortez with that of Wu, and there's a distinct difference in character between what's been written about them. Wu somehow got write ups in the more prestigious end of the market, but what was written about her was oddly perfunctory. Cortez on the other hand got several long pieces written, focusing heavily on biography and her politics.

To be sure, a lot of this is doubtless due to the proximity to the elections when each was written. Wu's press all happened last year during the off season, when she was a political novelty to fill pages in what was likely a slow news period. Cortez was a serious political candidate running a popular campaign. Wu has only really appeared in the press as a footnote since then attached to articles about Ayanna Pressley, basically just "Brianna Wu is also running."

I can't help but wonder though, is it generally the case that unsuspecting reporters get sent out to cover what they think is a real candidate and quickly discover she's a political lightweight with nothing worthwhile to say? A lot of the Wu articles have the feel of journalists who owe their editors 300 words, and can't bring themselves to scrap a day's work. I guess it doesn't help that Wu really can't be forthcoming about anything in her life because she's a total fraud.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

My, how things have changed.
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If you found out about Musk's plan to take over the world by dropping moon rocks, you'd change your tune pretty quick too.

 

[Norvic]

Wow. Still no FEC filing. Do I have to break out the Majora's mask memes again?

 

[ZKWNordman]

She’s likely too busy seething over Warren to work on it. Just the excuse du jour. It’s funny that frank doesn’t do these anymore. Brianna is hopeless