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Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question
Brianna Wu is the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a company specializing in cinematic experiences using the Unreal engine. She’s also a frequent speaker on women-in-tech issues and was one of several women subjected to a campaign of attacks in Gamergate. Wu has worked as a journalist and politico. She currently has a patreon campaign which helps to offset the costs of doing speaking engagements and work to further the goals of feminism and women in tech. Brianna has agreed to give us some of her time and answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
Congratulations slashdot, you just jumped the shark for me. A front page story about a scam artist with a victim complex and a direct link to a Patreon account so people can give her more money. Time to go find another tech news site.
If you haven't heard it enough yet, you and your fellow devs'/critics'/gamers' example of not letting these regrettably small-minded folk drive you away from your passions is truly inspiring. Now the question:
How has what you experienced / currently experience affected your dev and planning processes? Does it enter into your spitballing/design sketch/engineering phases at all? Are you making certain decisions to emphasize your position(s) or expose theirs?
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
Just curious, Why did you Slander Brad Wardell? StarDock
And call for a Boycott of His efforts?
When you aren't one ?
Hello Brianna, Can you explain why you tried to get TheRalph kicked from the whole convention for simply taking a picture of you while doing a conference? It would seem he really rustled your jimmies https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Ms. Wu, when sending yourself harassment over steam or twitter and faking having to leave your house over harassment in response to trolling people, do you find TOR or a more traditional anonymous proxy to be more effective?
(Ob Disclaimer: Disagreeing with someone is not harassment. Asking people hard questions or holding them accountable to their own actions is not Harassment. Disagreeing with a woman (or in this instance, a transwoman) is not misogyny. Transmisogyny is not a real word. Treating women with kid gloves because they are female is sexism. Brianna Wu is a known con artist, and should never have been invited on Slashdot Interviews.)
What qualifies you as a self-appointed leader for diversity in the game industry? You have a single known title at a self-made studio. You don't appear to have any unique connections or pull in the AAA scene.
What actual, tangible, structures effort have you made towards progressing diversity in an industry that was already moving forward on its own? What lasting value have you added?
When spouting off your mistaken and deceptive rants about Privilege -- male privilege, race privilege, cis privilege, et cetera -- why do you and other Social Justice Warrior demagogues ignore Class Privilege, arguably the most important and influential privilege?
An example of Class Privilege would be being given several hundred thousand dollars by parents who are "millionaire entrepreneurs" to start a sub par indy games studio, no questions asked.
What do you think about the feminists in the tech industry who are actively breaking the law by discriminating on the basis of gender and race, being that the case laws and states statues explicitly prohibit such discrimination, and the supreme court itself think that the use of "diversity" is a weasel word for discrimination?
Why do you continue to believe that GamerGate is a hrassment campaign, when a study by Women Action Media! on Twitter harassment indicated that 88% of people reported as harassers had no connection to GG, and of accounts that do have a connection to GG, only 0.66% were even alleged of harassment?
Karma: Terrifying (mostly affected by atrocities you've committed)
Not accusations, demonstrations. When in every single thread having anything remotely to do with GamerGaters being assholes, we see GamerGaters providing extensive amounts of evidence that they are in fact assholes, it sets the stage for "If it walks like a duck..."
It's been many many months since there have needed to be any accusations. The proof is in the figgy pudding you all leave behind wherever you go.
Do you understand my point?
You are welcome on my lawn.