Makes you wonder if he read how L.Ron Hubbard tried to write his faked past and thought
"Just how much more more ridiculous can I get with mine?"
Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES
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Makes you wonder if he read how L.Ron Hubbard tried to write his faked past and thought
"Just how much more more ridiculous can I get with mine?"
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I guess that's the reason why she's not content with the title of "contributor" for her "work" on that chapter.
For one thing, it's quite literally just self-insert-fanfiction in some made up bullshit bizzarro world and for the other, within 8 pages she manages to contribute nothing. Why anyone would greenlight that wall of crap as an addition to the book is beyond me. Maybe they figured the cost of those 8 pages was barely less than what they'd make in return from Flunky Flynt Fantards.
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- 10 de Nov, 2015
I wonder if Epic can revoke an Unreal licence. Also its basically slow as hell Megaman Battle Network gameplay.
The restraining order.
Tracer? Really? Like line for line?
Oh god, there's so much good stuff here. I'm going to screenshot some select bits... The take home message is it's just a puff piece on Wu's fabricated past. All empty boasting, nothing useful for anyone who reads it. Some of my favourite bits:
This is incredible bullshit. I grew up in the 80s, and EVERYONE had a computer whether they were rich or poor. My family had a BBC Micro, some people had Ataris, others ZX Spectrums. I don't think I knew anyone with a Mac, but maybe there were some. We didn't get our first IBM compatible until 1992 though, and I think we were a little behind the curve in that respect.
There's a whole section on Wu's life as a juvenile delinquent that I believe to be a complete fabrication, it's shot through with detectable lies, like this one:
This cannot conceivably be true. Wu would have been 20 years old when 56K modems first came on the market. He was not still in high school. Remember that John Flynt was a fat weirdo at time, everything about these tales screams "fiction!"
Then, of course, the obligatory lies about being a college graduate:
Hah, wouldn't getting a graduate degree first involve having an undergraduate degree, Wu? You fucking charlatan.
Remember, this book was written in April of last year and it shows. In retrospect, Wu may find this part a bit embarrassing:
"We're about to ship, guys!" "We're totally going to get millions of bucks to build our visual novel thing!" Ooops.
She sums up with "Telling you some of my life story is a deeply uncomfortable experience for me." I'll bet it is, it must be hard keeping all those lies straight in your head.
More fodder for the article @Jaimas
SOCCON's art is a massive ripoff of the manga GALS.
He also has blatantly traced Sailor Moon stuff and called it his own work, even on Twitter (it's also the only time his art even resembles competence, when he's ripping off someone who actually is competent).
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I'm not really sure someone who posed in that feminine space angel picture with his trans wife is really too into keeping up appearances. I think they're optimistically trying to make giant spacekat a success or at least get something out of it. Hey lots of people fail businesses.
I think brianna is the one who cares about appearances
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When you say tracer I think like overlay tracing lines not ripping off stuff. But if he traced the sailor moon stuff yeah thats bad
Somewhere back in this thread, Wu bragged about some Sailor Moon artwork he sketched, and was discovered very quickly (by us) it was a total trace job of actual SM artwork.
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They don't care because it has the potential to make money.
Progressive giga-feminism? That's a hot topic right? We're sold!
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Exactly when was John working at a grocery store? His parents were letting him rewire cars and be all creative and entrepreneurial by being a total geek and buying him printers and laminating machines for thousands of dollars so their son would be accepted in school by the cool kids for running a fake ID business and selling personally to Miss MTV Summer.
What did he need the pocket money for when he's already running a completely illegal side business? He mentions stopping the horrific shoe-child-beating immediately after his ID forging business, so I imagine the story is in chronological order. He says he's 16 when he was making fake IDs, and he'd have to be around 16 to get employment as a teenager, maybe a little less when Flynt was 16?
Why would such a gifted child whose parents buy him such fancy toys, let him rewire fucking cars and ruin them just for the hell of it force him to work a stifling grocery store job to pay for God-knows what?
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Ok so I was intrigued... wu could have had an old 8086 in the late 80s we could no fucking way afford a dye sub printer unless his parents were complete idiots. More likely this is some shit he learned about from his newspaper time in school. Not that it matters either because a blockbuster card felt nothing like a drivers license and a dye sub machine is going to look wrong because older DL were photographed or lithographed and not printed. Most printed licenses are not laminated anyhow.
But whatever maybe wu spent lots of money doing it wrong and broke even selling 34 licenses at 300 each and didn't get caught.
Now she's in print pretending to have graduated. How embarrassing. If you've never been to college, it's totally possible to get an entire degree cooking food, watching movies, yoga and fun shit like that.
But whatever maybe wu spent lots of money doing it wrong and broke even selling 34 licenses at 300 each and didn't get caught.
Now she's in print pretending to have graduated. How embarrassing. If you've never been to college, it's totally possible to get an entire degree cooking food, watching movies, yoga and fun shit like that.
Oh god, there's so much good stuff here. I'm going to screenshot some select bits... The take home message is it's just a puff piece on Wu's fabricated past. All empty boasting, nothing useful for anyone who reads it. Some of my favourite bits:
This is incredible bullshit. I grew up in the 80s, and EVERYONE had a computer whether they were rich or poor. My family had a BBC Micro, some people had Ataris, others ZX Spectrums. I don't think I knew anyone with a Mac, but maybe there were some. We didn't get our first IBM compatible until 1992 though, and I think we were a little behind the curve in that respect.
There's a whole section on Wu's life as a juvenile delinquent that I believe to be a complete fabrication, it's shot through with detectable lies, like this one:
This cannot conceivably be true. Wu would have been 20 years old when 56K modems first came on the market. He was not still in high school. Remember that John Flynt was a fat weirdo at time, everything about these tales screams "fiction!"
Then, of course, the obligatory lies about being a college graduate:
Hah, wouldn't getting a graduate degree first involve having an undergraduate degree, Wu? You fucking charlatan.
Remember, this book was written in April of last year and it shows. In retrospect, Wu may find this part a bit embarrassing:
"We're about to ship, guys!" "We're totally going to get millions of bucks to build our visual novel thing!" Ooops.
She sums up with "Telling you some of my life story is a deeply uncomfortable experience for me." I'll bet it is, it must be hard keeping all those lies straight in your head.
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There's really no point attempting to untangle all of this save to laugh at it.
It's clear that John's entire section is one big fat fucking lie, but the saddest thing to me is that I'm left thinking why I would bother to believe anything else that's in that book if I chose to read it (which I won't). I'm sure it is possible that there are a handful of well-meaning people who might pick up that book to actually learn about female leadership in tech or whatever, and it's likewise possible that a few of those well-meaning people eventually discover that John is stacked to the eyeballs with horseshit. It really does a criminal disservice to any woman who actually did have to overcome life obstacles to get where she is today to feature alongside a PRIVILEGED WHITE MALE asshole who lies about every fucking thing. That's what gets me.
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Makes me think of that recent conference were some women were providing actually legit points about harassment while Wu was sperging about goobergrape skull-faced terrorists and making everything about Wu-self. In other words, any conference or piece of media where Wu is involved is drained of legitimacy, and that's a huge disservice to the other speakers, or in this case, writers. Some people who don't know any better might take it to face value, but still, people like Wu only manage to unintentionally sabotage anything they form part of given a minimum of scrutiny. And that's bad.
If Wu formed part of a debate instead of one-sided talks, I wouldn't be surprised if someone snapped and told the gigantic tranny to let the adults talk during the heat of it.
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Yeah, in Smutleys Let's Play, the combat looks boring as fuck. It's just two ugly character modells shuffling back and forth slowly while the player wrestles with the sluggish, unresponsive controls. There's no element of strategy or positioning, it's just leapfrogging around to dodge attacks that get telegraphed ahead like a minute beforehand and trying to hit the opponent. And this lasts forever, cause the bad guys have a shitton of HP. And then, when you think it can't get any worse, there's another guy that you have to fight, right thereafter.
I could only tolerate that bullshit up to the 4th video, but there's a rather intriguing part. Scrotumhair and RedRetard sit on a motorcycle driving through a coridor while blast doors close (which, btw got a good chuckle out of me for how fucking lame this whole thing is). Thereafter they awkwardly dodge some laser beams.
You know the game is crap when you look at that and yearn for a fucking QTE during these amateurishly animated cutscenes - cause that would be a huge step UP.
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Yeah, @Cynical is right on the nose here: ironically enough, one of the only "original" aspects (or so we thought) of John's art was the "anorexic beanpole with giant tranny-hands" aesthetic, which we all took to be perhaps autobiographical? We weren't sure. Anyway, it was discussed among kiwis that this weirdness of the art perhaps showed John's inner tranniness, due its overall awkwardness of physiognomy....
And then some noble kiwi found this manga GALS....which was the actual origin of John's ersatz "unique" style.
He actually went so far as to post a face he had "sketched" on his tablet which was an exact trace of a GALS character.
We had thought his technique had actually improved....silly us.
But really, two lessons here:
1. Never give John credit for legit progress
2. John assumes everyone else is an idiot. Whether it's tracing an anime or giving Lauren Milovy this ridiculous Bond-ian last name that no actual human would ever have, John thinks he's slick enough to get his "homages" past everyone else. It actually tells you quite alot about his bizarre arrogance that John seems to be full of righteous fury every time his lies are revealed: he actually expects to get away with these grandiose untruths forever.
The funny thing is, John seems to have (at one point, at least) had some self-esteem / self-worth issues, whether evinced through his obesity (which I always wish we had more pics of) or his tranny identity; there was definitely a bit of self-hatred there. So where did this megalomaniacal ego come from?
Transitioning seems to have been, from an outside perspective at least, one of the worst possible things for John's mental stability and identity integrity, because rather than making him confront the hard realities of his life at the time, such as the spectacular failure of Soccon and his ambien addiction, the SRS allowed John to sink further into fantasy, and simply repurpose Holiday et al. in another format....rather than realizing that this IP was wholly unviable, and moving onward and upward from it.
Nope, Brianna Wu allowed John to remain "invincible": his ideas must be good, they must be commercially successful, he just needed to tart them up with long hair, fake tits, and the aftermarket urinary tract-ectomy.
It would be almost sad, really, if it was someone else's story. @Jaimas has justifiably said as much in the wiki. But then John's ego, his manipulation of those he views as "lesser" people, and his anger make it very easy to just point and laugh.
It's a tragedy of his own making, which he perpetuates day after day. Few lolcows are more deserving of a milking, in my humble.
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The best part is, those laser beams cast a shadow.
I'll see if I can dig up the screen shot again but it is hilarious when you notice it.
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Keep in mind when it comes to art theres a difference between using a picture as a reference and actual tracing. Using another copyrighted picture as a reference in is an actually legit way of improving your art style. Granted Brianna doesnt give an utter shit about that and is just looking for something cool or popular to rip off but I see it as far less nefarious. Now if shes overlaying her paper or image over the reference and actually tracing the lines and then passing it off as her own then yes thats a bad thing.
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congratulations, John. you managed to ruin Stoya for me. I hop- I'm sure you're happy.
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JESUS CHRISTUS! I wanted to read this thing and pick a few sentences apart for the heck of it. But after the first two pages I realized, that literally nearly every single sentence is distilled stupidity. It is one thing to write bad fiction, but this is supposed to be factual account (although we all know it is actually fiction).
This thing starts off with some marvelous bullshit, doesn't it? As long you are still shivering (or "twitching", I guess) you have at worst a mild/Stage-1 Hypothermia. Since Wu was already on the shore by that point (you freeze to death faster in water) she was fine. Also, because it was pitch back outside, it wasn't obviously that cold. Snow makes the night rather bright. In short: Boo-Wu just felt really, really cold.
Besides, who writes a prologue for about 12 short pages? The people already bought the freaking book.
Please note that she omitted the reasons why she 'one of the the most well-known developers'.
[BAD WRITING INTENSIFIES]
I won't comment here on the utter madness that is the sentence itself, but:
Wu already wrote in the sentence prior to this, that she is going tell her life story. This is a book where women write about their lives. The only effect (and reason) this sentence has, is to underline once more how utterly awesome Wu thinks she is. A badly photoshopped image of her saving a kitten out of a burning building, all while dodging alligators and ninjas would have the same effect.
But... this is exactly what is Wu doing right now, you just need to replace "message boards" with "Twitter".
I think the no-self-awareness-singularity has just been reached.
'A river'? The one next to the 'B'-River or what?
If this isn't completely made up, why doesn't she just tell the name of the river?
Even assuming that this hogwash is true:
Wu was only 21, burned $250,000 on a startup, was to embarrassed to tell friends and family (implying that she got the money from them, as either a gift or sold them equity) and then, DESPITE costing them a quarter of a million Dollars, she slacked off for a year. Furthermore, at the end of that year she even had enough money to make a boating trip alone down a river.
In that light the accident feels like a too mild punishment.
Besides, if her "entrepreneurial need for adventure had started to flicker again" why go on a boating trip? Do the fishes buy stuff?
Please don't tell us any specifics on that accident you wrote a flash-forward-prologue about, to lure us in... ON THE PAGE BEFORE THIS!
Again, please don't elaborate on any near-death experiences you might have had, or give us at least a glimpse of what had happened...
Perhaps it's not that bad, if Wu doesn't try to describe how she was saved from the brink of death, because I don't think she could make that story sound interesting - even if her life would have been saved by Ron Swanson.
So, after Wu died from hypothermia and had to be resuscitated by the Department of Wildlife (who for some reason didn't decide to put her down like any other sick animal), she left the ER in a hospital gown? She wasn't at least kept a day or two for observation? Really?
Yes, because this is how things work in the real world: You move to DC and get a job in politics.
In other words: Her parents made her go there, because she burned their money.
So, and how did that work out for you, Ms. 'After I burned 250k, I wasted one year of my life waiting for the pain to go away'?
'Believe me, I am someone important! I won't tell you why, but I am!'
Why would Wu even mention that Mississippi is the poorest state in the United States, when it obviously didn't effect her life at all? Because Wu had to look at more bums in her life than other people?
As we will see later: I believe without a doubt, that if you are the parents of the person, who will grow up to be "Brianna Wu", trips to the lawyer are probably somewhat of a routine for you.
No. Not even if everyone at the table is a tax-consultant.
I guess Wu refunded that one.
As opposed to what other place? What possible place could she have as comparison?
This is how Wu imagines how homophobes talk about gays and lesbians: They pull their dark hoods down, then they start to whisper and their voices gets all raspy and full of darkness, as if they try to summon Cthulhu from the depths R'Lyeh.
Because this:
...and that would be large scale forgery of documents. This is probably why Ms Flynt had to visit the lawyer with her future daughter several times.
...and that is another trip to a rather expensive lawyer. Also notice how Wu is trying to pass 'stealing official paper to forge report cards' and 'creating counterfeit IDs' off as 'silly things youngsters do'. Although I doubt any of these things really happened. This, and the bit with the 'fake christian conference', makes this entire thing sound as if Wu lifted it from the plot of a bad 80s-Comedy.
And the man? Adolf Hitler.
And as I looked down to the child, I realized that it wasn't a child, but Mahatma Ghandi, clutching the only vial with the cure for cancer in his hands, which had nearly slipped from his hands.
Oh, we laugh, no doubt about that.
No, that's called "professional development".
Wu sure likes the word 'hell-bent' a lot.
...and you couldn't do one first and then the other because...?
Said the person who got a few women to make a downloadable iPad-only-game for her, which isn't even available right now. A person who twitters and games all day, travels around the US to address 5-10 people per conference room, so she can repeat over and over how much non-existent harassment she receives and who is over 12 months overdue with the steam port of her game. Truly a "leader" in tech.
Renovating any house is disgusting and backbreaking, but it took hundreds of hours for the wallpapers only? Do you live in a maze? Wait... did the Gorgon live in a maze?
'Glad that didn't change.
How nice of Wu to piss all over her husband for being a stupid male, who didn't see the beauty of Amandas art style. It's not like Frank knows how to paint or something.
Don't you mean "the four heroines and the villainess"?
Everyone in Rev 60 is trans! Deal with it!
...I think Wu want's us to imagine, how she rides her motorcycle at full speed through hordes of GamerGate-Shocktroops. She is heading to the big Steam-Tower, where she needs to plug in the USB-Stick with her master-copy of "Rev 60 - This Is Not How Hypothermia Works Edition". With the stick between her snarling teeth, a Katana in one hand and an assault rifle in the other, she shoots and beheads GamerGaters left and right, who try to harass her with pre-prepared bad reviews.
Wasn't that: "Lie, Lie, Lie until it hurts!"?
How has that worked out for you so far?
I bet, because it is a really poor attempt at making Wu look cool. All she did accomplish here is to prove, that she was an entitled brat at a young age, made bad decisions in school by forging documents, then burned 250k as she was 21, then - after a boating accident - she had a revelation and went to DC, because she was 'hell-bent to get a job in politics'... which she never got, otherwise she would have mentioned that. Then a lot of nothing happened - for about ten years - and suddenly she wanted to make a game with no idea of how 3D works.
I guess 'hell-bent' is a Wuism for 'not wanting at all'.
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My theory is, that while trying to sell his stuff John developed an affinity to large bodies of water in order to make sale talks go over more smoothly - basically, whenever John tried to get someone to pay for his shitty
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