Those who've been following the thread doubtlessly remember my earlier discussion with
@BOLDYSPICY! - specifically, when I mentioned why Wu got a Net Yaroze and where the core of her understanding of Video Gaming lies. Short version: Wu was the 1990s version of the kid who got a super-expensive ultra-next-gen system (whether it was a success or dismal failure) and hipstered the fuck out of it.
Wu being a tech elitist on top of this is not a new event; those familiar with her work on
Socially Unconscious will remember when she attacked the math department of Millsaps for daring to have computers that were over a year old:
The
response by the math department, making fun of Wu's spelling, was glorious.
Wu has two beliefs that meet in her tech advocacy: A sort of barely restrained tech-hipster-ism - a love of being the early adopter who lords over the plebs - and a love of flash over substance. Nowhere is this more clear than in her shameless love of Apple products, which basically exist to cater to both markets simultaneously. With Wu, it's
all about the combination of prestige and early adoption. Hence she gets expensive $1200 Macs that can barely handle stuff a $500 out-of-the-box business PC from Staples could handle effortlessly, and buys into every stupid worthless iDevice that is custom-designed to feed her sort of Autism.
Apple Watch that essentially has no purpose when you already have an iPhone and iPad? Wu has one (and every model of iPhone and iPad to boot). Apple TV that is trying to fight a battle years after Smart TVs won it by default? Wu wanted to make a version of
Revolution 60 specifically
for it. Every single one of these Wu is a shameless early adopter for. Wu's advocacy of Oculus and similar is along the same lines.
And it's all about stroking her own ego. She
desperately wants to be the cutting-edge go-to gal who gets to say: "See, I told you this was gonna be huge. You should bow down before my impressive skills at early adoption and wealth. Because I have a finger on the pulse of this industry." Unfortunately, Wu has no sense of taste and really poor common-sense, so this happens approximately
never. The one time it did was when she got the Net Yaroze and the PS1 became the dominant console of its generation.