Brianna Wu / John Flynt - Original Thread

[Cynical]

Sure didn't bother you before:


http://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/664295080157560832

You know how Anita's views on the new Tomb Raider are a 180 compared to Wu's?

This is the catspaw of Anita that delivered the dissent:

https://www.patreon.com/carolynpetit?ty=h

Transcript here:

http://feministfrequency.com/2015/11/08/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-review/

Wu described the violence as justified, Lara as having good character, and a lot of other glitter blown up the devs butt. Compare the transcript above, Wu and Anita's takes are a total 180 in almost all regimes.

And on the violence thing, Anita/Petit bitch Jack Thompson style Lara isn't retching and sobbing every time she has to kill someone, so the segregation between the gameplay encouraging killing and the story discouraging the enjoyment of doing so makes it so.....PROBLEMATIC.

Wu on the other hand said the game perfectly justifies it.

They disagree on a lot of other stuff that Wu's backpedaling would be funny as hell to watch as well, but that's the biggest point they disagree entirely.

 

[Count groudon]

You know, it's really fucking telling that Wu (and all these other pseudo-feminists) have said zip about Indivisible. A game featuring a diverse cast of women, with multiple women (and men too!) working on it.

These people talk a big game about supporting games with women or getting more women into games, but it ends up always being more about themselves and their ego. When push comes to shove, Wu is looking out for Wu.

Honestly knowing Wu, if she heard about Indivisible she'd become all pissy and start talking down to the makers and everyone who backed it like she's better. Because Wu can't stand it when people debunk her "women and PoC's aren't accepted in tech" bullshit.

 

[zedkissed60]

 

[tepid]

I also can't wait to see Wu backpedal like a motherfucker.

She wont she's been given a pre-release copy and probably some perks to sweeten the deal as is the usual case with game journos as she always says she's a capitalist first feminist second, Wu has a bunch of spiel to reel off in situations like this, it's like when people bring up that Rev60 doesn't have any non-skinny or non-white women in it she always just says "I like sexy kickass women being kickass, there is nothing wrong with that"

Instead of listening to the 3rd keynote speaker, Jennifer Tejada, John felt compelled to rudely ignore an important woman in tech to make his 13th tweet from the judges table.
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Edit #2: The person mentioned in John's tweet is schizophrenic. How nice of John to demonize someone with mental illness, even though John is rubber room crazy himself.

wow... how neuronormative of her, what a shitlord.

 

[XH 502]

She wont she's been given a pre-release copy and probably some perks to sweeten the deal as is the usual case with game journos as she always says she's a capitalist first feminist second, Wu has a bunch of spiel to reel off in situations like this, it's like when people bring up that Rev60 doesn't have any non-skinny or non-white women in it she always just says "I like sexy kickass women being kickass, there is nothing wrong with that"

Since when has Wu ever upholded her end of a bargain when her SJW street cred is on the line?

 

[ChuckSlaughter]

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She should try finishing regular college even.

Is there anything that Anita actually enjoys?

It's not really her job to enjoy things. She has a list of things she's allowed to complain about and it's her job to go about her day trying to find things that can be made to work on that list.

Holy fuck that chick is making a device that fits in your pocket and can detect HIV a few weeks out. Wu is busy thinking about how she might feel like a woman if a robot spraypaints GSK logos on her nails.

 

[Furina]

John's putting on a stellar "feminist" display today, in front of a very large and influential group of people.

Edit: He's now up to 14 tweets while he's supposed to be paying attention.

Edit #2: The person mentioned in John's tweet is schizophrenic. How nice of John to demonize someone with mental illness, even though John is rubber room crazy himself.

Yep, nothing says "male" "entitlement" like smashing someone in the head with alcohol-filled glass.

It's Zoe on her phone at the UN Women meeting all over again. They all seem to have this "Is it my turn to speak yet?" kind of attitude. They only want to hear their own voices and will ignore everyone else until it's their turn to talk. Brianna doesn't give a fuck what other (real) women have to say, she just wants to be heard.

 

[soliloquyR]

Is there anything that Anita actually enjoys?

This is a serious question.

I also can't wait to see Wu backpedal like a motherfucker.

Well, there is that one 8bit RPG thing with a female protagonist that has the personality of a spoon is what Anita calls "a blank slate" and is apparently good because she can project all of her insecurities on her. I think it was called "The Scythian".

 

[Accel_Rider]

John has a "press department". A whole "department". "They" (i.e., plural) "make the call".
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And amazing, attentive judge of women in tech that he is, John got the name of the winner wrong. It's "Privail", not "Preveal".
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The winner is trying to make health care affordable for all. The only project John got excited about was robots doing your nails.

"WELL FAG"
The positioning of the two women on the left of the picture is just amazing. Maybe they did it on purpose, since John's in the building.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Wasn't John working on a video game at some point?

 

[Cosmos]

I'm glad that Brianna has so much free time to spare. It would be bad if she were overdue for something, but that's clearly not the case.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

You know how Anita's views on the new Tomb Raider are a 180 compared to Wu's?

This is the catspaw of Anita that delivered the dissent:

https://www.patreon.com/carolynpetit?ty=h

Transcript here:

http://feministfrequency.com/2015/11/08/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-review/

Wu described the violence as justified, Lara as having good character, and a lot of other glitter blown up the devs butt. Compare the transcript above, Wu and Anita's takes are a total 180 in almost all regimes.

And on the violence thing, Anita/Petit bitch Jack Thompson style Lara isn't retching and sobbing every time she has to kill someone, so the segregation between the gameplay encouraging killing and the story discouraging the enjoyment of doing so makes it so.....PROBLEMATIC.

Wu on the other hand said the game perfectly justifies it.

They disagree on a lot of other stuff that Wu's backpedaling would be funny as hell to watch as well, but that's the biggest point they disagree entirely.

From Petit's review:

The story is predictable and derivative [...] It’s all very familiar, standard adventure story stuff.

Then, in the very next paragraph,

Like Lara, Trinity will stop at nothing to find the divine source, but Lara’s obsessive quest for it is good because she’s a good person and Trinity’s obsessive quest for it is bad because they’re bad people. I really wanted a villain at some point to say to Lara, “We’re not so different, you and I,” because in this case, it’s absolutely true.

The game encourages us to hate Trinity by showing them killing innocent people, which in turn makes us feel good about killing them, but the game never encourages us to consider the morality of what Lara is doing by choosing to be here and kill all these people herself.

This ... is a weirdly stated sentiment. The character's motivation includes rescuing innocents from being killed. That pretty much sums up the whole morality issue. If Lara was killing the bad guys for profit or some kind of personal gain, that's one thing, but here, she's risking her life to help others. I mean, look, I'm not even saying that Petit doesn't have a point, but is Lara supposed to go all Hamlet every time she pops a dude?

What more do these people want?

 

[Furina]

From Petit's review:



Then, in the very next paragraph,





This ... is a weirdly stated sentiment. The character's motivation includes rescuing innocents from being killed. That pretty much sums up the whole morality issue. If Lara was killing the bad guys for profit or some kind of personal gain, that's one thing, but here, she's risking her life to help others. I mean, look, I'm not even saying that Petit doesn't have a point, but is Lara supposed to go all Hamlet every time she pops a dude?

What more do these people want?

I read that third quote about three times and I think I understand what they're saying. "the game never encourages us to consider the morality of what Lara is doing by choosing to be here and kill all these people herself" seems, to me at least, to mean that Lara should be getting someone else to do it. Lara has to kill them because they are evil and if she didn't no else would, thus they would escape punishment. What the writer seems to be suggesting is that no one comes along to punish the Trinity on Lara's behalf. Are they complaining that they are the ones who are forced to punish the wrongdoers rather than some third party? They are not detached from the violence like a civilian staring at a news feed of a drone bombing. They are on the ground, facing the reality of what an ugly, dirty thing it is to kill a man.

 

[Accel_Rider]

From Petit's review:



Then, in the very next paragraph,





This ... is a weirdly stated sentiment. The character's motivation includes rescuing innocents from being killed. That pretty much sums up the whole morality issue. If Lara was killing the bad guys for profit or some kind of personal gain, that's one thing, but here, she's risking her life to help others. I mean, look, I'm not even saying that Petit doesn't have a point, but is Lara supposed to go all Hamlet every time she pops a dude?

What more do these people want?

Funnily enough, what you said reminded me of this review:

Specifically, the part about the human boss battles. "What kind of monster, etc, etc"

 

[Francis York Morgan]

The winner is trying to make health care affordable for all. The only project John got excited about was robots doing your nails.

Just wanted to highlight this again. Think about all the things being presented. Think about what won. But the project Brianna wanted to highlight on her Twitter was the most superficial thing out there and I don't say that to slight the women who worked on it at all. I bet there is some amazing tech involved with it but Brianna didn't give a shit about that. She only cared about the most stereotypically feminine thing.

What a fucking great feminist crusader you are, Wu. I hope whoever put this together paid attention to your behavior and never calls you back.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Oh boy here we go

 

[zedkissed60]

Oh boy here we go

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Few things more desperate than saying "Please RT" some self-promotion.

 

[AnOminous]

I mean, look, I'm not even saying that Petit doesn't have a point, but is Lara supposed to go all Hamlet every time she pops a dude?

Don't these clowns get their marching orders on how the review is supposed to go before they even play the game?

It sounds contrived because giving it a bad review was predetermined anyway.

 

[Accel_Rider]

Oh boy here we go

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I'm sorry, wot? I thought she already was a gaming icon?

 

[Furina]

I'm sorry, wot? I thought she already was a gaming icon?

She was. She just was an icon to the kind of people they hate and therefore badwrong. Now she's cool because they say so!