Brianna Wu / John Flynt - Original Thread

[Fareal]

I thought that by making him a comic book hero, it would make him more real and relatable

IT'S TIME TO STOP TALKING NOW

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Jesus, that fucking diatribe. It's about as infantile and offensive as the one where the guy photoshopped MLP into the pictures of Jews being led away to concentration camps to make the image "more relatable". Holy shit, this bitch.

 

[ChuckSlaughter]

A lazy do-nothing who relies on everyone else to do her work in a position she only has because of gender politics.

This is ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE!
She got her position by latching onto a man and draining him of resources like a strong woman.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Your correct, Wu's not just a lolcow but a basket case and all around nut job.

This makes it better! Between her crazy feminism and her victim profiteering she's always producing something cringe-worthy.

I think other people have said this, but she's literally a Chris-tier lolcow with money and better white knights.

 

[Sarcastic Username]

use big words for big ideas

Okay.

 

[Wulfgar Von Heltzer]

Question (possibly off topic for which I apologise)

I play videogames. I did it before it was cool because I was not ever cool. I got my Genesis the year it came out, motherlovers. I identify as a feminist. I consider myself well-educated and well-informed in feminist thought and feminist issues. I have had some exposure to the Gamergate coverage, and I believe I possess the basic facts regarding the original Zoe Quinn incident, plus some of the following coverage.

I find myself unable to give a single fuck about anything relating to Gamergate. Can someone explain to me why the fuck this is supposed to be important to me? I see that I am supposed to belong to the group that are very angry about Zoe's ex boyfriend posting their relationship drama on the internet, but I find my fucks-given counter holding steady at zero.

Can someone from either side of this farrago enlighten me what the big fucking deal is supposed to be?

Personally the whole issue of disclosure is meaningless to me, since you should, by default, regardless of whether or not it's disclosed, never trust anyone's opinion on a product. Whether they're telling you to buy something or not buy something, you should always assume they could have a bias that's affecting their opinion, or they're outright lying to you. So disclosure is unnecessary, just don't trust any reviewer.

All I see important in Gamergate is protecting creative freedom in video games, so developers aren't forced to push gender/racial/etc quotas in their games, or take stuff out that people find "offensive" (like sexualized women, dark humor, etc.). And that people in the video game industry, either journalism or development, aren't fired or blacklisted for not agreeing with people's opinions/politics, or refusing to self-censor to appeal to sociopathic authoritarians.

That's why I see it as a big deal. It's a freedom of speech, freedom of expression issue. The "disclosure" aspect that a lot of GGer's push is really a pointless topic, and I can see why some people are like "lol ethics in games journalism". Honestly, you'd be better off advocating for journalists/youtubers to stop shilling altogether and be completely honest about the product, but honestly, I don't think you ever can unless you make it illegal. Either way, if some journalist or youtuber recommends a broken, shitty game, then a bunch of his or her audience finds out that the game is borked, their credibility is then destroyed completely.

 

[Executive Impact]

Who exactly is Wu's target audience? A lot of the anti-Gamergate community has made a conscious effort to distance themselves from her and most hardline feminists tend to be pretty hostile to transsexuals.

Surely the average SJW, regardless of how silly their political views are, would be capable of seeing just how deluded and unstable this person is.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Who exactly is Wu's target audience?

Wu.

 

[TheMonkeyMan]

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Holy shit. For someone who is supposed to be feminist, he can't draw a single woman that isn't a hypersexaulized Bratz doll. For a group that absolutely freaked out over the Spider-Woman and Spider-Gwen commission covers, why do they give him a pass on this?

Edit: I am Brianna Wu, why don't you know who I am? I am important! Notice me! Tell me I matter!

 

[Kosher Dill]

"Do you know who I am?!?!?!?!"

Brianna's pretty good at spotting Bankids, who knew?

EDIT: Just noticed that she's acting like she's going to the Columbia in NYC, the world-class research university. But no.
https://www.colum.edu/
I wonder if she knows there's a difference. Maybe she's headed to Harford next.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

And of course, if he had been apologetic and offered to clean up, she would have accused him of "manhelping" or whatever and automatically assuming that she needed his assistance.

Also good job getting upgraded to first class for free. I wish I could be that oppressed.

 

[AnOminous]

Either way, if some journalist or youtuber recommends a broken, shitty game, then a bunch of his or her audience finds out that the game is borked, their credibility is then destroyed completely.

I don't know. Even "unbiased" outlets like Metacritic have been effectively flagrantly rigged for years and haven't gone under. Kotaku literally got away with this shit for years. It wasn't until a rabid pack of gamers started going directly after their advertisers that some of these outlets actually started losing money as a result of some pretty scummy and dishonest practices.

 

[A Random]

"Y'all should know me by now, but, if you don't, I am Brianna Flynt Wu, the original creator of Holiday, the Revolution 60 Protagonist, back on March 17th, 2000. Any dates earlier are void. I present this open message because...I have a whole bunch of people on the Internet [shakes hair dramatically] give me hate...show me a lot of hate...and I do not appreciate it. Ticks me off."

 

[AnOminous]

Who exactly is Wu's target audience?

Anyone who might somehow either directly give money to Wu or do something that results in Wu getting money.

 

[XH 502]

Every time someone posts Wu's tweets I make sure to carefully read the username because there's always a moment where my only logical conclusion is that it's a parody account. I refuse to believe that anyone could be so clueless, and yet there she is in all her self-absorbed glory.

"Y'all should know me by now, but, if you don't, I am Brianna Flynt Wu, the original creator of Holiday, the Revolution 60 Protagonist, back on March 17th, 2000. Any dates earlier are void. I present this open message because...I have a whole bunch of people on the Internet [shakes hair dramatically] give me hate...show me a lot of hate...and I do not appreciate it. Ticks me off."

I keep trying to figure out how Wu managed to forge professional connections with anyone when her personality is almost a carbon copy of Chris'. The only possibilities I can come up with are 1.) people tolerate her because she has money and 2.) she's just barely competent enough socially to find other toxic individuals who also tolerate her because she has money.

 

[Smutley]

shitthatdidnthappen.txt

I have never, in my entire life, heard a story that included "Do you know who I am?" and have the person who said it not be an asshole.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

I have never, in my entire life, heard a story that included "Do you know who I am?" and have the person who said it not be an asshole.

I think my favorite part of Wu's Twitter fairy tale is her expecting an elderly gentleman to know anything about an indie game developer who made a game for the iPhone that hasn't even sold 300 copies.

 

[Daario Naharis]

and most hardline feminists tend to be pretty hostile to transsexuals.

Off topic and I really shouldn't pull this into feminism sperging but... That's debatable. Feminism isn't a hivemind, yes? There is a sizable faction where having the label TERF applied to you is social poison.

That being said, the feminists you are thinking of would be just as hostile to Brinna Wu's slender, wide-hipped, busty blonde characters as they would be to Wu herself. So they certainly aren't her audience.

 

[MACH-IV]

I think my favorite part of Wu's Twitter fairy tale is her expecting an elderly gentleman to know anything about an indie game developer who made a game for the iPhone that hasn't even sold 300 copies.

The 60 something banker responds:
"You mean to say you're the Brianna Wu? Famed feminist and top-tier game developer with hits like Revolution 60? I read on Kiwi Farms that you're really a detestable tranny narcissist, but it's 186 pages of pure misogyny. We all know how those Kiwis are!"