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.
Regardless of what you believe Ms. Wu experienced, do you truly not know any women in software or gaming who've experienced the kind of awful "boy's only club" attitudes and sometimes downright literal sexual harassment?
In other words, you recognise trannies under their claimed "gender identities". Thank you for signalling your progressiveness and open-mindedness. Most of humanity respectfully disagrees.
In my experience most people are supportive of transsexual, just not those who are lying assholes.
Wu, how do you justify your claim of being a feminist when your game has females depicted as an adolescent boy might draw them, play the victim card all the time, have been caught exaggerating and outright lying so often and then hiding behind claims of sexism, etc.
Follow-up question: your male past is easily found by anyone doing a cursory search. Do you refuse to talk about it because you are afraid that others won't see you as a "real woman?" Wouldn't a real feminist embrace their trans experience to provide a more inclusive view of, and insight into, the female experience from the viewpoint of a transsexual?
note... I was outed on Slashdot a decade ago, and overall the experience was very positive. Being open about it has presented opportunities to help others reach a better understanding of who we are.
I have a suggestion of a transsexual I would actually like reading an interview about in Slashdot. Sophie Wilson (ARM chip designer). I respect that work.
What I do not respect is reading about people who make their career around politically correct bullshit and produce nothing of value. This isn't news for nerds and it isn't stuff that matters.
MULE was one of the best games ever. Really there is a Q and A I would of loved.
How do you manage to pack the game logic and graphics into an 8k cart ? Are there any triicks you have to use in getting the 6502 a barely 8 bit processor to handle the program ? Does this crimp your work ?
This whole topic reminds me of a line from mule
"Your investment in artificial stupidity has paid off"
Dani Berry is survived by her three children, who now operate a company which trades under the name Ozark Softscape (Berry’s old development studio), and which manages her IP and "digital legacy".
Not the same, but maybe we could get an interview with them?
Wilson described herself as a feminist and has spoken in interviews about women's difficulties in tech. She would be ripped to shreds by the MRAs just like other women who have done the same.
In my experience most people are supportive of transsexual, just not those who are lying assholes.
note... I was outed on Slashdot a decade ago, and overall the experience was very positive. Being open about it has presented opportunities to help others reach a better understanding of who we are.
That's interesting that that's your experience. I've found it interesting that it seems like many religious conservatives don't object to trans* the way they do to homosexuality. Iran, for instance, punishes homosexuality but performs a huge number of transexual surgeries every year. Being trans is seen as being preferable to being gay.
In the US, even Rick Santorum, poster child of the (IMHO) nutbag religious conservatives, said that if Bruce Jenner said he was a woman, then she was a woman. Santorum has be
That's interesting that that's your experience. I've found it interesting that it seems like many religious conservatives don't object to trans* the way they do to homosexuality.
Strange world we live in
It is not strange. Every trans person assumes a very well defined *hetero* sexual identity.
It is not strange. Every trans person assumes a very well defined *hetero* sexual identity.
That's not true at all. Caitlyn Jenner is dating a woman. She is both a transwoman and a lesbian.
More to the point, if religion claims that you are created in God's image and also proscribes a particular way to live (e.g. as a heterosexual even if you experience homosexual urges), why is it ok for you to ignore homosexual desires but embrace a desire to change your body and gender. Both are doing things that your body as constructed by God wasn't originally intended for.
What repulses conservatives is the fact of someone not being hetero normative. As I said before, a trans person is one who adopts (through a lot of work) a very defined hetero normative sexual identity.
If a gay person wants to be "cured" i.e. adopt an hetero normative identity he will be accepted and congratulated. I know, it is not the same, but the common thing here is being hetero normative.
Some trans persons could pass as a perfectly *normal* person, regarding th
... As I said before, a trans person is one who adopts (through a lot of work) a very defined hetero normative sexual identity.
I really think you are way out of line here. Of the relatively few trans people I can think of.
Burger Heineman [burgerbecky.com], a transwoman, is married to a woman. There's actually another programmer I remember--and I can't for thel ife of me remember her name, or find her page via google--who ported a lot of games to Mac over the years (and worked at one of the porting companies) who transitioned quite awhile ago and also identified as a lesbian.
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> boy's club
Incredibly ironic, since briana wu aka john walker flynt is actually a man.
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Why is this modded down? It reveals a fact: that "Brianna Wu" was born "John Walker Flynt," and was born male.
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What you originally said and what you said in this post are two different things. Once you figure that out you'll understand the downmod.
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Heh. "Respectfully." Right.
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Wu, how do you justify your claim of being a feminist when your game has females depicted as an adolescent boy might draw them, play the victim card all the time, have been caught exaggerating and outright lying so often and then hiding behind claims of sexism, etc.
Follow-up question: your male past is easily found by anyone doing a cursory search. Do you refuse to talk about it because you are afraid that others won't see you as a "real woman?" Wouldn't a real feminist embrace their trans experience to provide a more inclusive view of, and insight into, the female experience from the viewpoint of a transsexual?
note ... I was outed on Slashdot a decade ago, and overall the experience was very positive. Being open about it has presented opportunities to help others reach a better understanding of who we are.
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I have a suggestion of a transsexual I would actually like reading an interview about in Slashdot. Sophie Wilson (ARM chip designer). I respect that work.
What I do not respect is reading about people who make their career around politically correct bullshit and produce nothing of value. This isn't news for nerds and it isn't stuff that matters.
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PS: I would have also liked to read an interview with Dan Bunten but she's dead now. RIP.
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MULE was one of the best games ever. Really there is a Q and A I would of loved.
How do you manage to pack the game logic and graphics into an 8k cart ?
Are there any triicks you have to use in getting the 6502 a barely 8 bit processor to handle the program ?
Does this crimp your work ?
This whole topic reminds me of a line from mule
"Your investment in artificial stupidity has paid off"
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From a Kotaku article [kotaku.com]:
Dani Berry is survived by her three children, who now operate a company which trades under the name Ozark Softscape (Berry’s old development studio), and which manages her IP and "digital legacy".
Not the same, but maybe we could get an interview with them?
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Oh hey stalker dave,
Maybe you can figure out how to use the proper reply to buttons
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Or Burger Heineman, an excellent programmer and person who has accomplished a shitload in the gaming industry.
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Wilson described herself as a feminist and has spoken in interviews about women's difficulties in tech. She would be ripped to shreds by the MRAs just like other women who have done the same.
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In my experience most people are supportive of transsexual, just not those who are lying assholes.
note ... I was outed on Slashdot a decade ago, and overall the experience was very positive. Being open about it has presented opportunities to help others reach a better understanding of who we are.
That's interesting that that's your experience. I've found it interesting that it seems like many religious conservatives don't object to trans* the way they do to homosexuality. Iran, for instance, punishes homosexuality but performs a huge number of transexual surgeries every year. Being trans is seen as being preferable to being gay.
In the US, even Rick Santorum, poster child of the (IMHO) nutbag religious conservatives, said that if Bruce Jenner said he was a woman, then she was a woman. Santorum has be
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That's interesting that that's your experience. I've found it interesting that it seems like many religious conservatives don't object to trans* the way they do to homosexuality.
Strange world we live in
It is not strange. Every trans person assumes a very well defined *hetero* sexual identity.
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It is not strange. Every trans person assumes a very well defined *hetero* sexual identity.
That's not true at all. Caitlyn Jenner is dating a woman. She is both a transwoman and a lesbian.
More to the point, if religion claims that you are created in God's image and also proscribes a particular way to live (e.g. as a heterosexual even if you experience homosexual urges), why is it ok for you to ignore homosexual desires but embrace a desire to change your body and gender. Both are doing things that your body as constructed by God wasn't originally intended for.
Like I said, I don't get it.
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I would think that Jenner is an outliner,
What repulses conservatives is the fact of someone not being hetero normative. As I said before, a trans person is one who adopts (through a lot of work) a very defined hetero normative sexual identity.
If a gay person wants to be "cured" i.e. adopt an hetero normative identity he will be accepted and congratulated. I know, it is not the same, but the common thing here is being hetero normative.
Some trans persons could pass as a perfectly *normal* person, regarding th
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I would think that Jenner is an outliner,
... As I said before, a trans person is one who adopts (through a lot of work) a very defined hetero normative sexual identity.
I really think you are way out of line here. Of the relatively few trans people I can think of.
Burger Heineman [burgerbecky.com], a transwoman, is married to a woman. There's actually another programmer I remember--and I can't for thel ife of me remember her name, or find her page via google--who ported a lot of games to Mac over the years (and worked at one of the porting companies) who transitioned quite awhile ago and also identified as a lesbian.
Here's an article for you: http://mic.com/articles/74169/trans-women-can-be [mic.com]
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Right on. I don't care what she/he was/is on the gender front. I do care about being manipulated and lied to.