Thursday, December 1, 2016

Well, just discovered someone I contacted was a former sex offender

Over the past few days, I have been writing about a scam charity called "Trans Lifeline", and while doing so, I and another blogger named Sebastian found out a guy by the name of Nelson Garcia had written about these scammers themselves.

Not long after contacting them to let them know why we wrote about this tire fire of a scam, information dropped on the Kiwi Farms that this guy was a likely former sex offender, which I found confirmation for some time after my first response to the guy's blog here:

https://ngequality.blogspot.com/2016/11/debunking-debunkery-surrounding.html

I'll be frank. I fucking hate pedophiles and ardently crusade against child rapists, and I'll admit I was highly disturbed to find out about Mr. Garcia's past. Had I known, I likely would not have commented on his blog to begin with.

However, it's too late for regrets, and now that Mr. Garcia himself confirmed the allegations are true in a response to me, I shall no longer do so. In fact, he actually recommended as much to me.

That said, I do have to admit I find something sad about all this. If he really is genuine in being an activist against deplorable crap happening in the LGBT world, then he would be better served by being upfront about his past and, to make reference to the Bible, publicly proclaim he went "from Saul to Paul" and is now speaking out against the very abuses he once perpetrated.

While his crimes were despicable, I could find a bit of redemption in a former criminal speaking out against the very crimes they committed and those that still commit them. It would be an honorable act of redemption on his part, much like a former wife beater repenting of his domestic abuse and becoming a crusader for the dignity of battered women would be a similar act of redemption.

However, Mr. Garcia said he would no longer be commenting on the scam we had discussed, citing upset his listing on a sex offender registry (which he referred to as entrapment) had caused him to come under scrutiny, especially because it had '"undone all the good work he had tried to do", as he further elucidates here:

https://ngequality.blogspot.com/2016/12/what-tangled-web-we-weave.html

My take on this is that Mr. Garcia chose to post under his own name, and I was able to confirm he was a sex offender by matching up his public information on his social media accounts with the New York sex offender registry after being clued in he had a likely history as a sex offender, so he knew he was risking his past being exposed and used against him, so if he knew this and sincerely regretted the circumstances that made that happen, he should confess it to the world and make clear he crusades against those who made the same mistakes.

That is, if he truly feels guilt for those actions.

If not, I cannot pity him. He knew the risks and decided to play with fire, now he's been burned.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Trans LifeLife is Greta Martela's con, and has shilled for Zoe Quinn's CON

In an earlier article, I described a fraudulent "transgender suicide help line" called Trans LifeLine, run by one Greta Martela, and I elucidated on its recent uncovering as a  scam that preys on the vulnerable and frightened members of the transgender community, promises them interventional services should they be considering ending their own lives, and instead fleeces huge amounts of money from the gullible, puts it in the pockets of the founders, and they proceed to blow the money on all sorts of questionable personal expenses that cannot be properly accounted for.

Meanwhile, the "hotline" is but a mere shell at best, horribly understaffed at the best of times, and there have been confirmed reports from former callers that the service proves incredibly hard to reach even at the best of times, and many of these reports have been openly posted in response to the TLL on social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

The response to these accusations has been anything but mature. Greta has confirmed, via a post on Medium no less, that they paid a visit to the owner of the Kiwi Farms website (who they have publicly accused of murder) while fully armed in what they describe as an attempt to reason with its founder, and what their founder describes as an attempt to intimidate him and his family, given his mother was present at the time.

Worse, when a former caller of their service ended their own life, they immediately tried to blame the Kiwi Farms for perpetuating the tragedy, even though one of their own members actually tried to prevent this person's suicide by contacting the authorities prior, a fact that meant nothing to Greta, who via official TLL channels continued to push this narrative.


(Except for the names of Greta and the widow of the deceased, all the other parties names are whited out of the above linked screenshot. The latter has been included due to having received word the widow wishes to spread the word about this incident via trusted sources.)

When even the widow of the departed divined the truth for themselves, they asked TLL to stop spreading such a patent falsehood, an act that not only got the widow unpersoned by TLL, but also got them attacked by TLL and its defenders, who even had the audacity to attack the widow, as if she had played a role in their former spouse's suicide as opposed to be a grieving victim of a tragedy.

So far, TLL has already proven to this point to be pretty vile even without outside help.

However, in the midst of all these heinous acts, they would go on to shill an even more insidious scam:


The "Crash Override Network" (abbreviated, rather appropriately, CON) is another scam that claims to be an organization to help prevent online harassment, hence the link cited above to their Tumblr, but who have provably been linked, from founder Zoe Quinn on down (formerly Chelsea van Valkenburg), to having been engaged in determined efforts to commit the very acts they decried, including doxing, harassment of perceived enemies, and even attempting to prop up the scams of other interested parties whom they saw as useful auxiliaries to their own misdeeds.

It bears mentioning again Greta has openly admitted to visiting someone's personal residence while fully armed to have a "peaceful discussion", has called on people to attack a website that can exonerate itself as innocent of bloodshed (quite the reverse in fact, one of their own members even reported a suicide notice) while spreading a false narrative they were guilty anyway, and even attacked a grieving widow and used the body of their departed spouse for their own greed.

And now we have them citing another organization with no credibility and guilty of all the crimes they allegedly fight in an attempt to gain a moral high ground.

Needless to say, much like CON met public disgrace when its own sins came to light, the TLL is an organization that abuses the trust of the transgendered community in the pursuit of greed and the ego of its founder, and in my view should also be disgraced, preferably by the truth of their indiscretions being laid bare before the public.

Sunday, November 27, 2016

PSA: If you are the victim of internet threats and harrassment, please do this to protect yourself

If you find yourself the target of a stalker or harasser who has threatened your life and plans to post personal information about you or related parties that could bring you or anyone you care about harm, do the following.

1. Leave a report with your local law enforcement about the incident. Even if it comes to nothing, you can sleep easy at night knowing the police are aware you have been threatened and you can provide them updated information should your situation change at any time.

2. Leave a report with the FBI or the equivalent organization in your country of residence. If the party in question has done these acts primarily via means of the Internet, you can report their activities here.

https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx

3. Keep archives of all the threats you have received and be prepared to add them to any existing reports you have submitted or provide them to proper law enforcement officials. DO NOT respond to them, merely archive them if at all possible, and keep copies of everything.

4. Do whatever you can to avoid antagonizing or responding to further abuse from the harasser. If they are stalking you via social media, do not respond to their provocations and ignore any attempts they make to further threaten you. Report them to the appropriate parties at these services and have them deal with it.

5. Keep as much personal information as you can safe from their reach. A common tactic of those who attempt to stalk people is to spread their personal information far and wide to deny them privacy and to have them live in fear as a result, so if you can prevent them from discovering your real name, face, and location especially, take any and all means needed to make sure this information does not fall into their hands.

6. If you believe you are in imminent danger, dial 911 or whatever your country's equivalent service is.

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Trans Lifeline: A So-Called Transgender Suicide Help Line That Is Really A Scam To Line It's Owner's Pockets

NOTE: In the interests of protecting certain parties who are currently being harassed by the subject of this article, I have elected to withhold their names from this article, especially since they have a young child and are still in mourning.

I have recently gotten wind of another idiot transgender type who is running a massive scam, and while I'm a tad leery to fire any shots across the bow of this con artist scheme given they have already threatened at least one person at their own home at one point, the fact this scheme has real human lives it has affected has roused my indignation.

Worse, this scam has at least two dead bodies to its credit directly, and a few more people are dead because of indifference and/or incompetence, and that number could rise the longer this scam goes unnoticed, so it's time for me to shine a light on Greta Martela's scam parody of a suicide help line for the transgendered, otherwise known as Trans Lifeline.

Trans Lifeline is supposed to be an alternative to standard suicide hotlines for those who are planning to end their own lives, tailored for the needs of the transgendered population, and is registered as a non-profit organization. However, examination of their public financial information has turned up some worrying discrepancies, and coupled with other public information as found on the personal and professional social media accounts of the owners and operators as well as related fora, has led many to believe their organization is little more than a scam in the vein of Anita Sarkeesian's Tropes vs. Women, except in Sarkeesian's case, at least Sarkeesian can point to having actually done more for her money grab, and unlike Greta's scam, at least Sarkeesian doesn't have people dead as a result of their grift.

A Tumblr post by someone who was greatly concerned about this organization taking advantage of the transgendered was posted to warn other about the dangers posed by this scam organization.

In response to this post, which brought up many worrying facts, the founder of this scam responded with this Medium post.

I had become aware of this due to browsing random threads on the Kiwi Farms one day and seeing this organization discussed in one of their threads, and while I was fairly convinced the evidence against this organization was pretty damning even before reading the response, I was pretty sure they were caught red-handed when I read the reply, so, since I wanted to see just how badly they were triggered by having a light shone on their organization, I left a polite dissent to their official reply here.

I made it clear I had biases up front but wanted them to consider taking the advice I gave them to focus less on appeals to emotion and more on cold, hard fact to clear their names, and from what I was given to understand, my response was hidden from view, the founder of this organization disabled viewable responses to the story on Medium, and I got some desultory commentary from the white knights for this scam on social media, to which I frankly could care less.

However, I had my say, I considered my input sufficient, and decided to go back to passively observing the situation.

What spurred me into deciding I needed to post this message would be the death of someone who had at one point contacted this hotline and had decided to end their own life anyway. Their widow had been led to believe by certain rabble rousers (such as Greta and another party who has a noted grudge against the Kiwi Farms) that the Kiwi Farms had goaded their now late husband (who had apparently regretted transitioning) into killing themselves, and quickly learned quite the opposite was true when they arrived there.

In fact, they found out that one of the members of the Kiwi Farms had called legitimate authorities who could intervene in the event of a suicide to save the now departed's life (in direct defiance of Trans Lifeline's apparent policy to NOT intervene on some strange concept of  "consent"), and had briefly discussed this party at one time but had decided not to pursue the matter.

To mine and the Kiwi Farms horror, the widow was smeared as a monster even though all they wanted was the facts straightened out and to be shown a little compassion during their time of grief, which the Kiwis nigh unanimously elected to do, and the attacks on this poor woman grew so vicious they were unpersoned when they asked Greta and their compatriots to cease and desist spreading when they knew to be falsehoods.

The widow mentioned they needed expenses to pay for the funeral, but was reluctant to ask anyone for them, which the Kiwis elected to either contribute to or spread the word to others who might wish to contribute, and Trans Lifelife only elected to later do the same to avoid being perceived as the enemy, and even Sarah Nyberg elected to do the right thing at one point and also spread the word about this poor woman's plight.

To my understanding, Trans Lifeline is doubling down on all the crap they have pulled to this point and have attempted to get Kiwi Farms' site verification rescinded, as well as repeatedly accusing them of having blood on their hands when all objective evidence at hand suggests quite the reverse.

And so, I have decided to pen this article about the situation to raise awareness that Trans Lifeline is more about it's own greed and public image than providing a legitimate service to the transgendered, transgendered people would be much better served by contacting more legitimate organizations like the National Suicide Prevention Hotline or the Trevor Project, and if I get put in the line of fire for criticizing these people like the poor widow of someone they refused to help keep out of the grave, then so be it, but I cannot sit idly by while a scheme that is defrauding innocent people of their money and lives is in progress, and I hope that I can be of service to it's eventual cessation.

And to the widow of the recently departed, my sincerest condolences for your loss, and my prayers go with you and your child.

Update:

If anyone would like to donate to funeral expenses for the departed, please do so at this link:

https://www.gofundme.com/cremation-and-preservation-expenses

Thursday, November 10, 2016

To everyone pissed Hillary Clinton lost: Calm down.

It's been a few days since Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential elections, and WOW, the sheer amount of incoherent rage is amazing.

For the record, yes, I voted Trump, and I just hope when he assumes the presidential office he does a good job.

That out of the way, I'd just like to address some of the most retarded shit butthurt Hillary fans need to STOP doing:

1. QUIT MAKING DEATH THREATS AGAINST TRUMP!

Obviously, it's criminal and you will piss off the United States Secret Service, and I've already reported a few of these idiots to them.

But more importantly, let's go along with the hypothetical that someone actually did kill Trump. If he dies, Mike Pence succeeds him, and even if you think Trump is Hitler, he's NICE compared to Pence. Trump doesn't give a shit about LGBT rights at worst, while Pence is an open enemy of them, to the point he believes in that abusive nonsense called "conversion therapy", and while I voted for Trump, I'm at best slightly above room temperature for Pence, and I really think even Hillary fans would come to the realization we'd be a lot worse off on the "social justice" side of things than they would be with Trump.

Another reason it's stupid is because it's merely making him look sympathetic. He's kept his mouth shut for the most part, except to decry the violence and rioting going on by the sore losers. All his haters are doing is making him look like a victim of a bunch of psychotic domestic terrorists.


2. EVEN HILLARY CONCEDED DEFEAT, DO THE SAME, DAMMIT!

Like it or not, Hillary gave an official concession speech, and did so very maturely if you ask me.

I was never a fan of hers, but I'll give her credit, she was rather gracious in defeat, far more than I expected, and if her fans don't want to make her attempt to accept her loss look hollow, they should try to follow her example instead of ripping open wounds she tried to close up.

3. TRUMP IS NOT A DICTATOR YOU IDIOTS!

I've seen a ton of hyperbolic nonsense about how Trump being President means he'll start nuclear war, open death camps, and be Hitler 2.0.

That's hilarious, since Russia said they wanted to explicitly AVOID that and work with us after Trump won, the only people who have confirmably been violent thugs endangering others are those sore losers who are freaking the fuck out over not getting their way, and Trump is the same guy who publicly condemned the Pulse nightclub massacre and even made public his support for the LGBT crowd, even holding up their flag in solidarity.

He's not a fascist bigot by any means, and those who believe this are insane.

4. THE ELECTION HAS PASSED, THE APOCALYPSE HAS NOT HAPPENED.

If you believe the panicky shit the butthurt losers are saying, the sky should have been raining blood and hellfire as hell came to earth on the heels of Trump's victory.

Obviously, this hasn't happened, and the only actual terror exists in the heads of the angry madmen who just can't accept the electoral process worked as the US's Founding Fathers intended.


In short, to everyone who is still becoming Chicken Little over Trump being our 45th President of the US:

CALM THE FUCK DOWN ALREADY!

Friday, October 28, 2016

It's time for another angry rant post, about how modern anime is boring

It's been awhile since I did an angry, spittle flecked post where I just bitch and moan, so I figured I might as well get all the resentment I've had out of my system, so if you don't want to hear me calling your waifus shit or shitting on anime in general as interpreted by modern day, stop here.

Anyway, here goes.

I don't watch anime too much these days. Honestly, it's becoming boring and reduced to three genres,

1. Tits and ass fests with silly premises.
2. Shows about kicking ass.
3. Combinations of the first two.

Honestly, I just can't bring myself to give a flaming bag of dog shit over modern day anime. Even modern day hentai anime is boring as hell, merely recycling the following;

1. Animated adaptations of much better manga.
2. Shit I've seen better hentai do better about a decade ago.
3. Either being boring edgy shock fests or cliche sex fests.

This especially sucks because on the non hentai side of things, we don't get thoughtful stuff like Spirited Away, which you could show your kids for the most part and still is entertaining for adults as well. We don't get cerebral stuff like Ghost In the Shell, which managed to deliver fanservice, asskicking, and plenty of navel contemplation about cybernetics, the human soul, and an intensely computerized society at the same time while not crapping out on delivering all three well. We don't get mecha anime that are cheesy fun like Gao Gai Gar or politics meets mecha like Gundam Wing. We don't get decent comedies like Azumanga Daioh or even dark yet well written action series like Witch Hunter Robin. We don't even get to see edgy done right like Getter Robo (non classic versions like Armageddon) anymore.

What we get these days is recycled versions of older shows and Gundam has reinvented itself so much I can't bother sitting through it anymore because none of it breaks any major ground anymore and Gundam AGE's hideous attempt to mix Martian Successor Nadescio without any of the charm with Gundam pretty much spelled out my ending desire to give a rat fuck about Gundam anymore. Most comedies are becoming more and more dependent on sex jokes to the exclusion of all other forms of comedy, to the point the sex comedy anime of old that were South Park level raunchy seem downright classy by comparison. And while anime doesn't entirely shit the bed and we get decent stuff like One Punch Man and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, I find it sad that with the exception of action fests, all other forms of anime don't try anything interesting anymore, and even those action anime rely on flash and sizzle over substance to keep people watching, much like popcorn movies will keep you munching popcorn but when the movie ends your brain has registered nothing in reflection.

And even hentai is fucking boring. I'll never claim Night Shift Nurses is five star anime and it's not something I want to watch again because aspects of it really turn my stomach even now, so I find it sad even modern day edgelord hentai that try their best to make me puke and cry blood come off as so unmistakably tame, but then again, maybe I'm just so desensitized to the point I yawn while reading the Encyclopedia Dramatica "Offended" page that I have an immunity to cheap hentai shock.

And even the stuff that doesn't make me retch in the hentai world is kinda dull, partially due to that possible desensitizing issue, and also because modern day tits and ass anime (looking at you, Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid) try so damn hard to be hentai in all but name actual hentai seems more like a logical evolution than being a world beyond ordinary fanservice. Hell, one of the two minute OVA's for VDM featured a sex scene with more erotic attention than even most hentai get in an entire episode, so hentai doesn't really have that taboo "we can do stuff non hentai anime can't" barrier, at least not as much as it used to.

In fact, fuck it, shameful confession time, I used to be a massive anime fan because it appealed to my autistic tastes in entertainment I had cultivated since childhood, but these days that has atrophied so hard due to homogenization of a medium I once considered willing to take risks other media wouldn't that I find my autism is much more decently satisfied bitching about anime than I do actually watching it.

And while I did do an earlier article where I watched the anime "Keijo!!!!!!", I mostly did it to shit on the shitrag Kotaku, but I can't really say if someone handed me all the episodes of that show I'd be tempted to watch them anytime soon.

Which is a shame, because I used to be a sucker for watching any new anime that came down the pike.

Or maybe not, because none of it seems to break any new ground, most of it relies on asskicking and sex to sell ad nauseum, and I've seen so much of it cast aside any semblance of good taste, cleverness, originality, and charm that I honestly couldn't give a shit anymore.

And considering it only looks like it's getting worse, maybe that's a good thing.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The Conquest - Build New Settlements/Scrap Everything mods has revealed some interesting facts about Fallout 4's game world and engine.

I've been playing Fallout 4 recently with the Conquest - Build New Settlements mod, and combination with mods like "Scrap Everything", I've discovered some interesting trivia about the game world.

The mod allows the player to literally build anywhere the player can plop down a workbench, even in interior areas, which means the player can pretty much rip down the world (especially with the Scrap Everything mod, though some objects are still not covered) to almost nothing save the bare ground.

However, I have discovered some things to keep in mind and some issues that can occur if you these mods.

* You can break the ability to ever have Codsworth join up with you if you use the Scrap Everything to scrap all the Radroaches and Bloatflies in Sanctuary, BEFORE you either tell him Shaun is missing and you checked Sanctuary, or before he accompanies you to look through Sanctuary and comes to that conclusion himself. The game scripting is dependent on the living and/or dead bodies of the monsters to be present because they allow the game scripting to progress the dialogue tree, serving as control switches. So, if you kill the bugs, then talk to Codsworth, the game will register the dead bodies as being present in the game world and present the option to tell Codsworth you checked those locations already, since he goes with you if you haven't and will help you kill them instead. It's safe to remove them from the game world via scrapping or the console with the "disable" command AFTER this has occurred, before will break the game quest logic. This can also break quests in other areas, so make sure you've not removed corpses until after their intended quest purpose is over.

* In general, scrapping corpses can and in most cases will prevent their re-spawning in many areas, so be careful if you use these mods, since you can even remove monsters before they appear (in the game engine, they have invisible placement triggers that spawn them that some scrapping mods allow you to remove), so if you want to kill them again when they re-spawn for more loot when the cell refreshes its contents, don't scrap the bodies. This also applies to items you can find as well as containers, scrapping them will prevent them from ever re-spawning, so pick up the items manually or place them in the workbench when using the Conquest mod.

Exterior cells, unless they are too close to another settlement's crafting radius, these can be scrapped down to nothing if you so choose, but this can lead to some issues.

* The game makes frequent use of "culling", a graphical trick the game engine uses to save VRAM. This means if certain areas are never meant to be seen from certain angles by the player, they will be "culled" from display from that angle, saving VRAM and processing cycles. Unfortunately, these mods allow scrapping objects that block culled areas, which can cause these areas to freak out and the game world will appear to blink out of existence while walking through these areas. This can be disabled to a degree with tweaks to the game INI file, but a more efficient solution is to create a mod that adds a checkmark to disable culling in the affected cells. This has it's own problems since you must apply this checkmark to all cells loaded around the affected game cell, and while some mods exist to do this to a limited degree, this can cause the average gamer issues in areas not addressed by a culling disabler mod (which needs to load dead last in your load order to work)

* Another related issue is that scrapping certain objects in exterior cells can leave literal holes in the game world. For instance, scrapping the huge rocks around the Quarry Excavations area will leave some nightmarishly huge holes in the world itself, which the rocks filled in. This can be ameliorated somewhat with mods that allow the player to re-add landscaping objects to the world, but sometimes you can't place objects to fill the holes. Thankfully, if using the Conquest mod, it makes a save file by default every time you set up or remove a workbench, so just go back in time if you leave a game world hole and remember to leave those objects unscrapped next time.

* Interior areas are even more bizarre. Some objects are expected to exist in a cell, and their removal will not only result in culling issues, the player will experience the world going white in the affected areas. Disabling the culling in these cells does not address the problem like it does in exteriors, which means a modder would have to manually edit these cells to fix this.

* Generally, you can scrap small objects, most trees, cars and some wall and ground decor with no problems. Scrapping entire building sections can result in culling issues, especially if the objects were never originally intended to be scrappable. Again, some mods fix these issues, hunt them down before you go nuts ripping the world apart with a workbench.

* Another rule of thumb: Some objects just cannot be scrapped. Some are part of "static collections", which are a bunch of meshes and textures grouped together, and the only way to remove some of these is via the console "disable" command. Also, some objects cannot be relocated or moved around without the Place Everywhere mod, which I highly recommend if seeing things like objects hanging sideways in midair just drives your sense of feng shui crazy.

* A curious thing I've noticed is that in some areas you can't place a workbench on bare ground, though you can on top of a scrappable object like a debris decal or trash pile. This is likely because the workbench requires a solid mesh to sit on, and since some areas are literally blank space underneath the ground texture, the game is reluctant to plop down the Workbench because it could fall through the floor. This is particularly prevalent in interior areas. Oddly, if you scrap the object the workbench sat on, it will automatically fall to the ground and stay there like it would normally.

* A final rule: I highly recommend a mod that makes junk weigh nothing if you compulsively use this mod, because everything you scrap that returns a resource will have weight, and you will wind up having to carry it all the second you remove a workbench.

Monday, October 24, 2016

The first Doom versus the first Quake, and why first Doom wins for me

I just recently bought a ton of FPS related stuff on Steam, mostly because I was feeling horribly nostalgic.

I've been a long time Doom fanboy, mostly because it's got great music, simple yet fun gameplay, and it's "kill them dead" goal for the demons is just pretty damn fun.

Of course, like most people, I cannot bear to play these games in their original glory via DOSbox, so I play them via source ports (Zandronum being my usual source port, though GZDoom is a nice alternative).

But even in their original, low resolution, grainy as heck glory, I always found Doom just rang some sort of bell in my mind.

I did play Quake a long time ago, so I recently acquired it again because it's been so long since I last played it I wanted to remember why I hadn't played it in so long.

I remembered why soon enough.

Quake has everything Doom has to have added via source ports, like true 3D modeling and pre rendered lightmaps and particles, but I'll be the first guy to tell people fancy graphics don't make games fun, good gameplay makes games fun.

Quake and Doom have a lot in common on the gameplay front, which they should, since the former descends from the latter in terms of design and game concept, but for some reason, I just can't bring myself to enjoy Quake as much,
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Part of the reason is that Quake feels much slower paced. I like how Doom has constant action and the lack of having to watch your back is either the result of leaving a mountain of corpses in your wake or you just not having activated a trap that suddenly has a shitload of demons trying to murder you.

Another reason I like Doom is that it has very memorable rock style music. Quake went more for ambient horror, and while that's not bad at all (the creators of the ambient music for the PSX ports of Doom deserve a medal, that stuff is legit creepy), it doesn't really inspire me to kick ass and take names.

And speaking of horror, while Doom is fairly colorful, it balances out the color with a lot of dark shadowy areas. Quake is a nigh constant darkened area fest, and even the monsters have the same dreary look,. And while I love the Lovecraft style freaky Quake had going for it, it was so monotone and repetitive I just wasn't as pumped to kill things like Doom can inspire me to do.

Of course, Quake is by no means a bad game. Quake II is something I have much fonder and more recent memories of, but the first Quake just does not excite me as a FPS fan like the first Doom for reasons of taste, though I can't deny I'm glad Doom source ports have decided to import and improve on what the first Quake got right.

Sunday, October 23, 2016

I cannot recommend the game Negligee highly enough

I just finished playing the visual novel Negligee, and LOL, it is hilarious.

While it's main hook is a bunch of yuri (lesbian for the non moonspeakers) stuff, the real main hook of the game is the humor.

The main character Hannah has an inner dialogue that will not fail to make you laugh every five minutes, the character Sophie is what happens when you make a bisexual fan of Encyclopedia Dramatica a fictional character, the character Jasmin is a hilarious foil for Sophie, and even the shy, demure Charlotte has her moments of making you laugh.

Another main draw is that the best ending is actually pretty hard to get without paying careful attention to all the choices and fulfilling a lot of other conditions, which, as someone who appreciates decent game logic and clever writing as well as being a game developer who has tried to write well thought out dialogue trees myself, I deeply appreciate the effort that went into the game flags for certain story options.

And yeah, I'd be lying if I didn't say I appreciate the yuri content, which is actually pretty good and nicely straddles the line between raunchy and tasteful, but frankly, even in it's censored form (without the adult patch from the author's webiste), the humor and story tree logic as I explained above were more than worth the price of admission, and while the creator of the game has made some games that are honestly crap, this is one of the shining jewels of their portfolio, so I recommend anyone who wants a hilarious yuri visual novel to go to Nutaku or Steam and throw your money at the creator of this game, it's worth the price of admission.

The DLC is nice and pretty cheap, so if you don't mind plunking down a few extra dollars, go ahead and buy that too.

Note: This only covers the base game content, this does not address the currently unreleased prequel story addons that are in development.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

My indepth review of the hentai game Funbag Fantasy

In a previous post, since some guy who is apparently ignorant of the fact reviewing media is kinda what I do and even reviewing pornographic media is part of that decided to rail at me for being a "Christian hypocrite" even though I've never hidden that from anyone, I've decided to prove my point by giving a detailed review of a hentai game I recently finished.

Note: Spoilers below.

I recently played the official English translation of Kyonyuu Fantasy, localized as (LOL) Funbag Fantasy, because the title would literally translate to "Huge Breasts Fantasy" and the localized English title rolls off the tongue better, not to mention is pretty funny.

I played it and watched the hentai OVA based off it in 2012 for a friend of mine curious about it, but to my surprise, it actually wasn't all that bad, at least the game. In fact, it was actually pretty hilarious.

But before I cover the game, let me cover the anime.

The anime, like most Hentai OVAs are wont to do, it is basically two thirty minute episodes of some red haired douchebag getting laid with various basketball breasted women and little else, most of the plot is pared down so as to not get in the way of the sex scenes, and the protagonist is generic anime horndog number #76541.

Basically, going off the anime alone, if all you cared about was the sex scenes, you'll be fine, but it had little else going for it, and after having played the game, stick with the game, its much better and actually has a lot more plot to offer, as well as some funny as hell comedy.

The game stars Lute Henge, a guy who is described as a slacker but is obviously smarter than that, who graduated drop dead last from his kingdom's Knight Academy, and is basically sent off to some hick province called Boan, where he'll hopefully wind up dead.

Reading between the lines and seeing a bunch of obvious clues early on, you find out the Knights Academy is riddled with nepotism and thus Lute got shoved to the bottom of the pile for the sake of allowing some actual losers to graduate, and he's basically picked on because he doesn't have cushy connections, which is bizarre, because the knight system is supposed to be a meritocracy as described in game.

This actually becomes important later.

Anyway, once he arrives in the economically depressed agricultural province of Boan, the Prefect there sends Lute on a suicide mission to deal with a demon draining men dry.......I think I don't have to explain what that means, do I?

Amazingly enough, said demon (a succubus named Shamshiel) jumps his bones one night and tries to literally screw him to death, and to both of their shock, he survives and is still ready to go on for more.

Normally, you'd assume this is that typically porn cliche about an endlessly virile guy, but trust me, this is actually an important plot point.

Getting back on track, he survives, Shamshiel decides to basically be his servant in exchange for using him as an occasional stud horse, which he's cool with so long as he doesn't die from it, not to mention that while he is a surprisingly nice guy (contrary to the borderline dickhead he was in anime), he's an admitted fan of huge boobs and getting laid.

The Prefect is stunned Lute didn't die in what was the most obvious Uriah Gambit ever, so his next job is for Lute to be his wife's personal guard. Said wife is Roxanne, a very "talented" woman who isn't an asshole despite her station, and obviously her and her husband are not close, and it quickly becomes obvious why he wants you to be her guard: It's a second Uriah Gambit to tempt his wife into seducing you so he can get rid of you both, which is helped along by the fact he husband hates her for her busty figure (and is heavily implied to be a lolicon), theirs was a political marriage to begin with, and just to make this little plan go smoother, he has her secretly doped up on aphrodisiacs.

This plan dies on the vine partially because Shamshiel ran interference, but also because Roxanne herself figured it out, and the Prefect's attempts to capitalize on the plan once he catches Lute and Roxanne inflagrant delectio is foiled by some last minute intervention that takes the Prefect out of the picture.

In the process, Lute stumbles across proof the Prefect was plotting treason, with some fat bastard named Prince Bobon (one of the guys who got promoted over Lute at the academy even though he's dumber than a bag of rocks and all he has going for him is being the King's son) no less, and he manages to fake being the Prefect long enough to get Bobon to hand him proof he was willing to sell out his own father for power.

The Boan arc ends with Lute being beloved by the people of Boan, Roxanne especially, and he gets summoned to King's presence in the imperial city.

If you choose to end the game here and return to Boan by picking the first choice, you get the game's first ending, where you head back to Boan, make an honest woman of Roxanne, do a lot more for the people of Boan than it's corrupt former leader ever did, and while Shamshiel is kinda disappointed, she decided to keep in touch at least.

However, if you decide to pick the second choice to become part of the Royal Guard as reward for your services in Boan, you have two ending routes, one involving a former female classmate named Isis who you now work with and one involving Shamshiel.

If you follow Isis' route, you and Isis decide to scout out a forest where demons live and where lots of people have wound up dead, get as far as some mysterious temple, find out Lute can understand demonic speech, and find out for some weird reason demons revere Lute. You even find a mysterious throne inside the temple (which you don't sit in), and along the way Isis, (who basically hated Lute ever since the academy where he perved on her) winds up changing her mind about Lute, because we find out she is arranged to married some prick named Motaire, another former Knight's Academy alumni, who is the hentai game equivalent to Disney's Gaston (airheaded bimbos who hang off him, being an egotistical jackass who is full of himself, etc.).

He also made their arranged marriage (which she wanted to make work on her end) die before it got off the ground by being a womanizing asshat, and thanks to Lute saving Isis from dying due to a demonic poison that turned her into a lusting animal (and would have driven her insane had he not......you get the idea), she starts to warm up to him as they continue their mission, and by the time they find out about the temple and the throne room, they head back to report what they found. Also, Isis, now realizing Lute isn't half as bad as she thought (not to mention was really, really hard up because Motaire wouldn't sleep with her), is considering breaking off her engagement to Motaire.

Unfortunately, once they get back, the Prime Minister (he becomes even more important later on in other routes) discovers what they found out, especially the information about the temple and the throne room, and asks Isis several pointed questions about it, and asks if Lute sat in the throne. He didn't, and he tells her why he's relieved: Lute is a demon, and had he sat on the throne, he would have gained the power to become king of all demons, and thus orders her to kill him.

She decides to instead warn Lute there is a price on his head now, Motaire shows up to do the job as the Prime Minister's insurance policy (having fed Motiare the same information), and thanks to a last minute save by Shamshiel, they escape, flee the kingdom, and wind up living to together in some foreign land as husband and wife in their ending. Shamshiel disappears from the plot in this end after her last minute save.

However, if you pick Shamshiel's version of this route, they only get as far as the temple, not entering the throne room, but still report what they found. The Prime Minister's murder plot changes somewhat, and he instead send Lute back with some handpicked guards to do a second investigation, which is really the guards jumping Lute when he's not looking and trying to drown him.

Shamshiel saves him again, and we find out the Prime Minster wasn't lying. Lute DOES have some demonic lineage, specifically is the son of the former demon king (making him essentially half-incubi), which explains why Shamshiel didn't kill him earlier on, and we find out, in a nice twist on the "just because they are called demons they aren't evil" trope, the demons recognized Lute off the bat, and explain to him, from their point of view, humans are "devils", and that one of them tried to seize the power of the king of demons and that they are glad he showed up in the hopes of stopping said human.

Turns out said human is Bobon, whose next plot for power was to sit on the demon king's throne to gain power one way since his other plot for power fell through, and in an awesome and hilarious scene that even parodies Dragonball Z at one point, Lute owns the shit out of Bobon despite him turning into a demon by realizing the full potential of his own demonic heritage, and sits on his throne as the Prince of Bel- I mean, becomes the next king of demons.

This unfortunately means Lute cannot return back to the land of humans since (A) they'll try to kill him and (B) it would cause a war as is mentioned by Shamshiel as part of the backstory for someone to take his crown and seize said power themselves, so Lute decides to seal off the demonic forest and prevent any other power hungry human from trying to seize that power and decides to live happily ever after among the demons and Shamshiel.

Third route, should Lute choose to become a general as a reward for his service in Boan, this one is interesting, because it's the only way to get the "Harem ending", and while you don't have to play the Isis/Shamshiel routes first, it makes a lot more sense if you have.

Anyway, this route concerns Lute being sent off to defend against the son of Wackenheim, who has long held a resistance to kingdom since the former Duke Wackenheim never saw eye to eye with the King over the whole "knights should be based on merit, not bloodline" reform the King was pushing back in the day, and now his son is continuing the rebellion.

When he gets to the fortress literally across from Wackenheim's own, he find the three top generals of the Kingdom (Felzen, Zant, Schlamm) totally refuse to work with him since they assume he's a loser, and there seems to be no easy way to break the stalemale the Imperial forces are stuck in.

While on recon, he saves a busty Amazonian chick from some assassins in the most hilarious way possible (involving, no kidding, two carrots, some quick thinking, and the assassins being rather stupid), and he escorts her home, only to find out she's actually Gladys Wackenheim, the "son" of Wackenheim (referred to as such since she's built like a guy aside from the whole busty supermodel thing), and partially in gratitude for saving her life and partially because she can't tell if Lute's a dumbass with a thing for huge tits (yeah, he tried to hit on her) or a genius with a perverted streak, she tells him the real enemy is closer than he thinks and that she looks forward to their next meeting, letting him leave her fortress as a sign of respect.

Meanwhile, we find out the generals really want Lute out of the way since they see him as useful as the protagonist of Gilligan's Island, and we find out they were behind the assassins from before, who try to kill Lute with them again, only for Lute to wind up kicking their asses in his sleep.

Apparently, when Lute tosses and turns in his sleep, he's prone to launching really swift right hooks.

Shamshiel winds up foiling another attempt by assassins later, and the general screw up at one point and accidentally reveal they hired the assassins by saying too much. Around the same time, Wan Coan (Lute's adjutant at that post) jumps the gun and proposes a trial by combat with Gladys since he thinks they'd be screwed if Lute led them into battle, leaving Lute with a problem.

If he imprisons or even executes the generals, he won't have anyone competent around to defend the place, even though they themselves tell Lute they'd kill him if he did what they tried to do to him. And Wan Coan jumping the gun leaves him with no other choice but to face Gladys in a trial by combat or look like a total wuss.

He breaks even by having Wan Coan imprisoned until the day of the trial by combat, then pardons the generals, explaining to them he figured since their assassins weren't very good at all it was a test of his skill, and tells them that if shit goes totally pear-shaped he wants them to take over should he lose the trial by combat, even pulling aside Felzen and privately asking him to make sure there aren't any other actual assassins out for him (since at least one of the assassin squads was not under their orders), and when Felzen openly admits Lute is placing his life in the hands of someone who tried to kill him, Lute admits as much, but says he knows he's not that smart and trusts Felzen to do his job for the King if the worst happens, leaving Felzen wondering if they misjudged Lute.

Meanwhile, Gladys deliver the terms of the trial by combat: a chess match. She wins, Lute surrenders. He wins, she surrenders.

He's given three days to prepare, and Lute is nervous, since he's a dumbass at chess. Motaire and Isis are sent to the fortress around this time to back him up, and Motaire blows a head gasket, assumes Lute's gonna fuck up, refuses to help Lute learn how to play chess since he assumes Lute's an idiot, and basically assumes the worst, and we find out Motaire knew Gladys as a child and she even schooled him in chess.

Lute doesn't know what he's gonna do and decides to spend the three days chillin because he decides he has no other better plan, and in the meantime we discover courtesy of Shamshiel the backstory of the world bears a disturbing resemblance to Christianity, even mentioning the basics of Noah's ark at one point.

Brief aside here, the world is heavily implied to be a parallel universe Earth according to various hints dropped through the plot.

At the end of the three days, Lute decides to have one last meal before he has that chess match, prepared by the recently released Wan Coan as a thank you beforehand.

When the actual chess match happens, hilarity occurs as Lute gets hit with a massive case of diarrhea, and while just trying to end the chess match as fast as possible so he makes it to the can before his pants explode, he winds up winning the chess match due to extreme dumb luck and leaves everyone present with a O_O face as he runs off to the nearest toilet.

Once he gets back, Gladys surrenders, only asking her men to be spared, to which Lute reveals he asked the King in advance to be able to make that decision, saying he'll leave them under guard but unharmed, taking her as a prisoner. Later, in the dungeon, she asks him why he hasn't killed her to stop the rebellion, and he reveals (A) he realized he would only inflame the rebellion by doing so and (B) he hasn't even gotten a chance to, no shit, fondle her boobs yet.

She's actually amused by this and dares him to try to getting her off right there in the dungeon, and it turns out she was bluffing hard, was actually a virgin, and after they spend the night getting laid until Lute passes out from fatigue. He wakes up the next morning in his own bed with a happy Gladys, who swears her life to his and later tells the stunned generals, Motaire, and Isis she's Lute's woman now and whatever he wants, she'll do for him.

The generals (Felzen especially) are impressed Lute ended the rebellion bloodlessly, Motaire is hilariously apoplectic because he always had a crush on her and is incensed Lute won her heart, and we get a funny scene where he tries to throttle Lute only to get a total beatdown at her hands. We also find out Wan Coan was the one who poisoned Lute with laxatives, apparently on behalf of the party who sent out the unaccounted for assassins, and Wan Coan commits suicide before he rats out his boss.

Later, back in the Imperial City, Gladys formally surrenders before the King, revealing the real reason for the rebellion: Duke Wackenheim merely thought the reforms were too early and would provoke a civil war with the nobles, so he started the rebellion to contain the dissidents until someone like Lute who realized bloodshed would just be counterproductive came along and ended things, and Lute's solution is basically granting them all amnesty, with Gladys having to swear loyalty to the king and her forces ordered to stand down and repair all the damage left by the rebellion, and so long as they do that, they will be forgiven.

Everyone but the Prime Minister is happy with this, with him pulling a Walter Peck and being the quintessential asshole bureaucrat about the solution, but the King tells him to sit down and shut up.
Gladys returns to quell the remaining rebels as promised and wants Lute to marry her someday.

Later, a victory banquet is held, Lute gets introduced to the Princess Luserina (who has the largest rack in the game), Motaire is so damn jealous he tries to attack Lute again and General Zant has his ass thrown out for being an idiot, and Isis admits to Lute she might have been wrong about him.
The next few days or so have Lute asked to teach Luserina swordplay, Motaire getting his teeth knocked down his throat by Felzen for again attacking Lute, and we find out the Prime Minister and his beautiful but icy demeanored attendant Emeralia are plotting to screw Lute over because the Prime Minister is jealous of Lute's growing popularity.

Their plan is yet another Uriah Gambit. We find out the royal family has a little bit of demonic lineage themselves on the female side, and their plan is to induce Lute to fall for Luserina (who has sylph blood in her), who the Prime Minister expects will kill Lute because sylphs literally drain the lifeforce out of those they sleep with, and Emeralia, realizing Luserina has a crush on Lute, is instructed to goad Luserina into acting on her own crush on Lute.

The plan works, with Luserina and Lute getting closer and closer to doing the deed, and when they finally give in, Emeralia sees that Lute is somehow still alive, so she decides to try seducing Lute herself, partially to figure out why he isn't dead yet.

However, Lute has cottoned on what has been going on, and even though Emeralia is actually a powerful sorceress and she tries to use her magic to ensorcell him while they are doing the deed, he turns the table on her, and thanks to his demonic lineage, is not only able to successfully resist, he gets her off so good he manages to get her to spill her guts about the Prime Minister's plan.

Later, assuming you choose to end the game there, Emeralia reports the plan somehow failed (though omits her own spilling her guts to Lute), The Prime Minister is flabbergasted but goes for Plan B: catch Lute in the act with Luserina again and shame him in front of the King.

This amusingly backfires as the King was kinda hoping his daughter would hook up with a worthy man sooner or later {it's also implied his own wife did something similar as his daughter did to Lute), and considering all of Lute's earlier actions, he's thrilled when Lute offers to make an honest woman of his daughter and marries her. The Prime Minister tries to object but can't really manage a decent one, and we get an ending where Lute and Luserina marry, Shamshiel disappears again, and Gladys is disappointed but still send him a lot of wedding gifts.

The Harem route is the final route and brings everything full circle, and it reveals the Prime Minister was the one who (A) was secretly using the rebellion for his own attempts to remain in power (B) was behind all the attempts to screw over Lute and (C) he's so obsessed with power he'll do anything to keep it., especially when he finds out the King was planning to retire and was considering Lute to take the throne.

So much so, he murders the King and frames Lute for it, and when Shamshiel tries to unmask his plans, turns out the Prime Minister was so paranoid he had defenses against her usual abilities of being invisible and magically barred her from spying on him, so she rounds up the other ladies from all the other routes, lets them in on what's really going on, and they all join forces to save their man from execution.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister (also revealed to be behind Bobon's treachery) is planning to put Bobon on the throne, who he hopes will be a pliant stooge, but quickly becomes more trouble than he's worth, and is such a dick the Prime Minister winds up regretting the decision, and Motaire, while he hated Lute, winds up being abused and screwed over by Bobon even worse, and when he realizes the Prime Minister sees him as a mere pawn, he has a conscience attack, further goaded on by the other ladies, even General Felzen joins in on telling him he needs to do a little soul searching.

Emeralia also winds up having a conscience attack, having been used as an accomplice to frame Lute, and we find out she's the Prime Minister's illegitimate daughter and that her father only saw her as a tool and little more, and her guilt over framing Lute gets so bad she tries to free him, fails, and winds up in the same cell as him awaiting execution, where Lute forgives her and thanks her, saying he's happy he won't die alone. Meanwhile, Roxanne acts as Luserina's decoy so Luserina can keep everyone else in the loop.

By execution day, Bobon and the Prime Minister ask Lute if he has any last words, and they get interrupted when Gladys reappears, leading the other generals and her own forces to free Lute, prompting Emeralia to tell the world how the Prime Minister is the real murderer, and Shamshiel takes advantage of the fact the Prime Minister's defenses against her are down to appear before him and make him look desperate to save his own ass when he screams about a demon (that only he can see), prompting him and Bobon to flee.

Everyone else gives chase, and while the Prime Minister makes it back to his chambers, where he has a magical escape plan ready, Bobon is caught and cut down by Felzen for collaborating with the King's murderer. Meanwhile, Gladys corners the Prime Minister, who reveals he has the world's only combustion pistol and uses it to buy himself enough time to use a magic portal to teleport to the main chamber of the castle to flee.

Lute catches up with him, he's completely surrounded by everyone in the story, even Motaire, who cuts off any remaining retreat by finally casting aside his arrogance and choosing to do the right thing for once, prompting the Prime Minister to try playing off Lute's penchant for being a nice guy by begging for mercy.

Lute for once doesn't show any as Gladys puts him down for his crimes.

The ending is basically Lute becoming the king of the land, every character who was either good or was even redeemable in any fashion getting a happy ending (Motaire not only got a big promotion, even higher than before, he also finally shows Lute the honor he's due), alongside a lot of scenes of every romanceable lady in the game getting it on with Lute, and if you're a fan of the paizuri fetish, there is TON of those scenes if you are into that.

Overall, the game proved to be worth playing, actually had a much thicker plot than the anime did, was surprisingly hilarious, and while it wasn't high on replay value, it was definitely worth the time I spent on it. And if big boobs and the associated fetishes attached to them are your thing, then trust me, this game does not fail to deliver.

If you want to buy this highly recommended work, it can be purchased off MangaGamer's website.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Keijo!!!!!! - The Anime that Kotaku Spilled Spaghetti Over And My Rebuttal

Recently Kotaku published a whiny as hell article about a new anime called "Keijo!!!!!!!", a sports anime based off a manga of the same name, all because of it's unusual premise, a sport based on women using their T&A to play a variation of that "Butt Bounce" minigame from the Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball series (another series those idiots wailed and moaned about).

Since anything they whine about turns out to be not half as bad as they claim, I decided to check it out.

The first episode begins with a keijo competition underway, and the rules are as follows:

* Everyone competes on "The Land", a floating platform in a pool, and only feet are allowed to touch it during play. All other body parts are immediate dis-qualifiers.
** There are narrow pontoon bridges they must cross to compete on one of the floating "Land" platforms, falling off is also an immediate dis-qualifier.
* The idea is for all competitors (women only) to be the only one left, and they can only knock other competitors off using their boobs and butts only (they must be used offensively to push the other competitors off)

Simple enough, really, and faintly ridiculous on paper, but as the show depicts, it actually takes a bit of skill to keep your balance and use chest and hip thrusts to propel your breasts and backside as beaters to knock the other competitors off, and they depict it as a serious sport.

And yes, while it's definitely got some fanservice, Kotaku's Cecilia D'Anastasio seems to have just watched just enough of the show to get offended and write a hit piece, since she ends with some scornful summary that it reduces women to pieces of meat and that people should be ashamed to watch it.

First off, allow me to offer a rebuttal, having watched it myself.

As depicted, it requires intense coordination and balance to succeed at this sport, like any other IRL sport. And let's be fair, the T&A only limitation puts even MORE emphasis on how much skill is needed to succeed at this depicted sport, since to even use either body part to launch an attack means sacrificing some balance, so it's a calculated decision made on the fly to go on the offensive, and even playing on the defensive is difficult since it's a floating platform with all the risks that entails, and that's without even getting into fending off other people trying to knock you off.

So, in essence, this is not just a T&A show with fanservice as the only goal, it's kinda relevant to the fictional sport being depicted since the women involved can only used those body parts in an offensive role, much like how one can only use their feet in soccer.

As for the plot being thin, well no shit, it's a show about a girl who wants to be the best she can be at the sport (and more power to her, and I would think a woman could appreciate a story with female empowerment as a theme), they admit up front the plot is simple, and there is nothing wrong with a thin plot in this type of genre because the main action is the sports action, and that doesn't require writing an uber-intricate plot for.

However, the main gripe here seems to be it's a fanservice show, that's bad, and any American who watches it should feel bad if they like it, and the unstated but obvious addendum the Japanese should have been ashamed to produce it.

 To that, I have this rebuttal:

Cecilia D'Anastasio, you are entitled to your opinion, I will not dispute that, but here's my opinion on your opinion.

You are not an arbiter of public morality, and you never will be. So long as the medium is legal to produce, watch, and acquire, people will indulge themselves in it if happens to strike their fancy and there is nothing you can do about it. If Americans (like myself) enjoy it, well I don't give a shit if you complain about me liking it and since I first heard of it thanks to you, you have my ironic thanks for introducing me to something I find somewhat amusing and entertaining based as much on the merit of the fictional sport depicted as I do the women who bust their ass looking good while playing it. In fact, these women are working to keep their bodies in shape in an intensely competitive sport, so I'd expect they'd look good, and if you think I'm deplorable for liking to watch athletic women looking good while engaging in a sports activity, then so be it, I could care less.

And finally, while it's not said outright, you are basically complaining the Japanese even made it, and on the behalf of the creator, I'm offended you hate their creation simply because it offends your culturally myopic morality, so I recommend you not watch it if it offends you so greatly, no one has or ever will put a gun to your head and force you to do so, especially not the Japanese creators who were kind enough to allow and encourage other cultures to enjoy the merits of their artistic creations.


Sunday, September 11, 2016

Progress Report on my attempts to get DQ1 Remake back to the way it was.

When my HDD sent all my files for this into the ether last time, I had hoped all I would have to do is just restore a bunch of graphics and event data I had lost.

Just discovered I'll have to refactor my Small Medal code again.

Thankfully, I already know what I need to do to make this work again, so it won't take too long to get the scripting fixed, but I'll have to re-do all the events where the player is handed Small Medals again, which is going to be tedious, as well as all the small medal shops and random drops.

*sigh*

In other news, I'm a third of the way refactoring all the graphics and redoing all dialogue events to have a new, improved portrait system, and this time there will be greater consistency in portrait art and more variation of character sprites, as well as some added NPCs to liven up some areas in need of fleshing out.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Brianna Wu: Zoe Quinn's Biggest Mistake

According to the recent leaks of the logs for what would give birth to Zoe Quinn's scam known as the Crash Override Network, we find out just how a talentless hack with no other skill other than attention whoring themselves got such prominence in the first place.

Zoe Quinn and her corrupt friends were responsible. Apparently, the IDEA was to recruit as many people who wanted relevance to Quinn so she could use them as part of self sustaining chain reaction of mutual attention whoring where she would boost various con artists, and they in turn would boost her in return.

Hilariously, this turned out to be a massive mistake, and someone they hoped they could mold into the perfect stooge turned out to be far more independent minded than they thought, which is why these days they have cut all ties with Wu.

But let's back up a little and show how this infected tumor metastasized, shall we?

First, we see that early on in the leaked logs they were aware of Wu's "harassment"

(logs in bold, my comments in regular font)

[23/12/2014, 1:00:18 PM] drinternetphd: it's fucking ironic that I'm getting brigaded so hard for "doxing" after being willing to argue with brianna over not doxing like yesterday
[23/12/2014, 1:00:36 PM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: wait doxing
[23/12/2014, 1:00:38 PM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: dont you mean
[23/12/2014, 1:00:40 PM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: ATTEMPTED MURDER
[23/12/2014, 1:00:42 PM] Athena Hollow: LOL
[23/12/2014, 1:00:43 PM] drinternetphd: ha
[23/12/2014, 1:00:50 PM] Athena Hollow: God he's fucking dumb.
[23/12/2014, 1:00:54 PM] drinternetphd: I saw some post that was like SHE'S KILLED BEFORE SHE'LL KILL AGAIN
[23/12/2014, 1:01:10 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): So, like all the GG not-leaders are bigger "professional victims" than the people GG has been targetting
[23/12/2014, 1:01:17 PM] Athena Hollow: Yes.
[23/12/2014, 1:01:20 PM] drinternetphd: yes
[23/12/2014, 1:01:23 PM] Athena Hollow: all of them.

Here's we have Zoe Quinn (drinternetphd) trying to act all high and morally superior for trying to put Wu in their place for being a doxer, Nicholas "Sarah" Nyberg mocking Wu's histrionic bullshit response to being called out for his arrant stupidity, and even after a tacit admission Wu's an idiot, supreme hypocrite Izzy Galvez and Athena Hollow still insist somehow THEY are the side of the angels.

Short version is that even this early on they knew Wu was full of horseshit.

[24/12/2014, 1:16:59 AM] Remy: You can feel free to hire me if you need someone to inspect the building & points of entry for signs of tampering or forced entry
[24/12/2014, 1:17:06 AM] Alex Lifschitz: The need for alternatives is good but a really, really heavy order with way too much shit to consider right now. Let's see how the Patreon situation unfolds.
[24/12/2014, 1:17:33 AM] Peter Coffin: Here's the thing, I get that. I also have been talking about this for a while
[24/12/2014, 1:18:06 AM] Peter Coffin: I will likely pursue it, this isn't a quick process though
[24/12/2014, 1:18:08 AM] Remy: I def. see Alex's point. Also related to how I think Mrs. Wu wouldn't currently have the free time needed to take on another business project.
[24/12/2014, 1:18:20 AM] Alex Lifschitz: Frankly it just frustrates me that this whole situation re: Cernovich and Patreon has spun up because of a few people making one or two dumb moves. But, we can't control everything.
[24/12/2014, 1:18:48 AM] Alex Lifschitz: And TBF, god bless Brianna, I would not trust her with a hamster right now given her situation.

Here we have some scheming against Mike Cernovich, but more important, more admission they consider Wu a moron.

[24/12/2014, 1:19:03 AM] Peter Coffin: Like if we pitched tomorrow and it worked out, it would be months before there was anything done
[24/12/2014, 1:19:36 AM] Peter Coffin: Please elaborate. I don't know what you mean
[24/12/2014, 1:19:52 AM] Alex Lifschitz: Always good to have a background process unaffiliated, but let's invest our attention and hope right now into the small victories and continue the streak. Good things tend to happen as a result.
[24/12/2014, 1:20:01 AM] Peter Coffin: Agreed
[24/12/2014, 1:20:04 AM] Alex Lifschitz: About what?
[24/12/2014, 1:20:36 AM] Peter Coffin: Brianna, I have been out of contact with her a bit
[24/12/2014, 1:21:01 AM] Remy: We may be having two conversations simultaneously right now and if that's my fault I apologize but I promise I'm listening to both people
[24/12/2014, 1:21:11 AM] Peter Coffin: Actually everyone lately
[24/12/2014, 1:21:26 AM] Alex Lifschitz: She's in a really sensitive place from all the insanity and acts pretty much entirely on impulse with no thought for appearance, consequences, or tactics.

Again, more admission Wu is an imbecile they cannot make dance to their tune who does their own thing, much to their consternation.

[24/12/2014, 1:21:57 AM] Remy: I have been sensing that but didn't want to assume I knew
[24/12/2014, 1:22:04 AM] Alex Lifschitz: I feel for her, but reliable she is not.
[24/12/2014, 1:22:07 AM] Ian Cheong: Yeah, she's said and done a few very damaging things to her own cause.
[24/12/2014, 1:22:17 AM] Ian Cheong: We have to be tactical about this.
[24/12/2014, 1:22:19 AM] Alex Lifschitz: Yeah. She's totally new to both feminism and crisis management.
[24/12/2014, 1:22:34 AM] Remy: She might still be trapped inside the mad minute and just trying to make sense of everything
[24/12/2014, 1:22:51 AM] Remy: She was ambushed as well, that tends to unbalance you at first
[24/12/2014, 1:23:11 AM] Alex Lifschitz: It's really getting to her and she has started to develop some weird expectations of what she is owed and capable of.

Ironic, give how entitled the rest of the parties here (save Cheong, who later repudiated these people and even then was the smart one who saw this trainwreck for what it was) are about what they are entitled to, but they do accurately point out Wu was and still is someone who flails and screams without thinking about the consequences.

[24/12/2014, 1:23:22 AM] Remy: Sorry the first part of an ambush is often called the "mad minute" 'cause nothing ever gets communicated it's just nothing but shooting and screaming
[24/12/2014, 1:23:22 AM] Alex Lifschitz: It's just really unfortunate but I can't recommend association with any major moves of hers right now.
[24/12/2014, 1:23:46 AM] Remy: I really wish I had made a better resume so I could have been hired for her new assistant position

And this has two hilarious reveals: One, Lifschitz realizes they made an epic mistake in trying to associate with Wu and wants to cut Wu off, and Remy wanted the job of Wu's assistant, presumably to be a more effective "handler".

[31/12/2014, 4:06:38 AM] Tesseract: brianna got modded on ghazi
[31/12/2014, 4:06:56 AM] live:riotarms: Member of YMO remixed the Xevious music and I think they also made a fake language as part of some 80s project
[31/12/2014, 4:07:57 AM] Ian Cheong: Oh TEss
[31/12/2014, 4:07:59 AM] Ian Cheong: that's a bad decision
[31/12/2014, 4:08:04 AM] Ian Cheong: she is a loose cannon
[31/12/2014, 4:10:12 AM] David Gallant: What exactly will mod status allow her to do?
[31/12/2014, 4:10:18 AM] Ian Cheong: delete posts.
[31/12/2014, 4:10:21 AM] Ian Cheong: censor people.
[31/12/2014, 4:10:27 AM] Ian Cheong: approve posts
[31/12/2014, 4:10:37 AM] Quinnae: I did note that. I'll try and counsel her a bit on that.
[31/12/2014, 4:10:44 AM] Quinnae: Frankly I'm disappointed she accepted.
[31/12/2014, 4:11:08 AM] David Gallant: Seems weird she would accept that mod position when she's trying to focus more on making games.

And this section covers Wu's appointment to position of moderator on r/GamerGhazi, which they and later the rest of GamerGhazi would come to regret. Cheong again sees this will end in ignominious failure, even David Gallant has the good sense to realize this is stretching the limits of Wu's competence, and Quinnae (Katherine Cross) is revealed as the go between trying to be Wu's handler and even Cross isn't very optimistic Wu will not make a hash of things.

[31/12/2014, 4:11:39 AM] Ian Cheong: This message has been removed.
[31/12/2014, 4:12:40 AM] Rob: I don't like positions of authority being given out unless the person is going to use them (and well)
[31/12/2014, 4:12:54 AM] Rob: it's why I always ran kicking and screaming when people wanted to make me an officer in games like WoW and shit
[31/12/2014, 4:13:04 AM] Ian Cheong: i mean, im fine with inactive mods not doing anything, but it's kinda iffy when a person has a history of being a loose cannon.

And here we have more prophetic statements that would prove true, as Wu's history as a GamerGhazi mod was so horrible even they don't like to talk about it.

[01/01/2015, 2:42:35 AM] Izzy (@iglvzx): Which specific tweet from Bri started this whole headbutting with the trans community going on right now with Bri?
[01/01/2015, 2:42:46 AM] Izzy (@iglvzx): Seems a lot of people want her to apologize for something
[01/01/2015, 2:43:39 AM] Athena Hollow: https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/550350565168128000
[01/01/2015, 2:44:09 AM] Athena Hollow: https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/550350737772146688
[01/01/2015, 2:44:14 AM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: did anyone find the Helen Lewis comment/article?
[01/01/2015, 2:44:30 AM] Rob: I know Helen Lewis does have a history of transphobic stuff
[01/01/2015, 2:44:36 AM] Athena Hollow: https://twitter.com/helenlewis/status/549953400855855104
[01/01/2015, 2:44:36 AM] Dina : ok Brianna no
[01/01/2015, 2:44:50 AM] Rob: but there are a lot of feminists who do
[01/01/2015, 2:44:52 AM] Rob: big and small
[01/01/2015, 2:44:58 AM] Rob: and they rarely get called on it
[01/01/2015, 2:45:02 AM] Rob: By the public at large
[01/01/2015, 2:45:06 AM] Rob: so I'm wondering if she just doesn't know?
[01/01/2015, 2:45:32 AM] Athena Hollow: in this particular instance, I get what Helen is saying  -  she's going from a journalistic angle, but if she has a history of transphobic stuff then she should probably just not have said anything at all
[01/01/2015, 2:45:38 AM] Izzy (@iglvzx): OMG. Where's Zoe? I need to show her this: https://twitter.com/schalart/status/550361925021089792
[01/01/2015, 2:45:40 AM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: i don't know helen lewis's history. but that comment alone (though i disagree with it) certainly wasn't transphobic, imo
[01/01/2015, 2:45:46 AM] Dina : no I fee like Bri has a weird tendency to co opt the struggle du jour
[01/01/2015, 2:45:49 AM] Athena Hollow: i think it's because of her history

On top of detailing how badly Wu handles Twitter spats over trans issues, we also get a tacit admission Wu themselves is trans.

[01/01/2015, 2:45:49 AM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: agree, athena
[01/01/2015, 2:45:55 AM] Dina : but maybe I'm just being a bitch
[01/01/2015, 2:45:57 AM] Athena Hollow: which i also don't know
[01/01/2015, 2:46:19 AM] Athena Hollow: I think Bri likes to be an ally, and aknowledges the fact that she has the reach to get the message out there
[01/01/2015, 2:46:25 AM] Athena Hollow: but unknowingly speaks over those people
[01/01/2015, 2:46:34 AM] Athena Hollow: like those "bad" feminist dudes we were talking about.
[01/01/2015, 2:46:39 AM] Dina : speaks over is a great way to put it imho
[01/01/2015, 2:46:40 AM] Izzy (@iglvzx): McIntosh
[01/01/2015, 2:46:44 AM] Athena Hollow: him. yes.
[01/01/2015, 2:46:46 AM] Izzy (@iglvzx): I don't like how he does that
[01/01/2015, 2:46:47 AM] Athena Hollow: a lot.
[01/01/2015, 2:46:52 AM] Dina : who?
[01/01/2015, 2:46:55 AM] Rob: I'm always worried about crossing that line, tbh
[01/01/2015, 2:47:02 AM] Izzy (@iglvzx): the other half of Feminist Frequency
[01/01/2015, 2:47:07 AM] Dina : oooh
[01/01/2015, 2:47:08 AM] Izzy (@iglvzx): Jonathan McIntosh

And here we have an amusing comparison of McIntosh and Wu as both being a bunch of bad allies who come off as condescending assholes.

[01/01/2015, 2:47:13 AM] Rob: since i spend an inordinate amount of time talking about feminism and lgbtq rights or muslim rights etc
[01/01/2015, 2:47:23 AM] Dina : yeah I don't follow him, enough white dudes on my TL
[01/01/2015, 2:47:26 AM] Dina : no offense
[01/01/2015, 2:47:31 AM] Rob: none taken, dina, lol
[01/01/2015, 2:47:32 AM] Athena Hollow: The way I handle it Rob, is I pose it as a question instead of a statement if it's something that I don't have cold fact to rely on.
[01/01/2015, 2:47:37 AM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: hey i was a white dude once qq
[01/01/2015, 2:47:39 AM] Peter Coffin: none taken
[01/01/2015, 2:48:04 AM] Peter Coffin: though sometimes I'm a dirty jew, depends on your racial perspective
[01/01/2015, 2:48:07 AM] Athena Hollow: lol
[01/01/2015, 2:48:18 AM] Rob: And sometimes I'm a filthy border hopper
[01/01/2015, 2:48:32 AM] Peter Coffin: you own a pogo stick?
[01/01/2015, 2:48:36 AM] Rob: :D
[01/01/2015, 2:48:36 AM] Athena Hollow: The way Brianna SHOULD have handled that statement was asking about Helen's transphobic history to see if there was more to it that she is unaware of
[01/01/2015, 2:48:43 AM] Athena Hollow: instead she said "We shouldn't call her transphobic"

And they end this discussion with little self deprecatory humor and more despondency over how Wu screwed things up again.

[01/01/2015, 9:02:34 AM] Athena Hollow: https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/550456572854689793 >_>
[01/01/2015, 9:02:59 AM] Tesseract: no brianna don't do that
[01/01/2015, 9:03:16 AM] Athena Hollow: and she rt'd the obviously sarcastic response >_>
[01/01/2015, 9:03:31 AM] Charloppe: le sigh
[01/01/2015, 9:03:56 AM] Charloppe: i will admit I rather be aware of the shit then oblivious like I was
[01/01/2015, 9:25:18 AM] Izzy (@iglvzx): Is Brianna being reckless again on Twitter?
[01/01/2015, 9:25:25 AM] Remy: not currently
[01/01/2015, 9:25:43 AM] Remy: But she has made a 2015 resolution to be more expressive and not bottle up so much

Yet more regret Wu doesn't know how to read off a script and instead embarrasses themselves.

And since a few admissions Wu is transgender have already come up, here's a few more admissions they are aware of it:

[24/12/2014, 2:03:41 PM] Tesseract: here's the list of search terms I use to catch harassing tweets
 [24/12/2014, 2:03:43 PM] Tesseract: bitch bitches cunt cunts whore whores nigger niggers fag fags faggot faggots tranny trannies jew jews nazi nazis rape
 zoe quinn thequinnspiracy literally lw lw1 chelsea van valkenburg
 femfreq anita sarkeesian
 lw2 brianna wu spacekatgal deceitfulwu john walker flynt lwu lw3
 freebsdgirl randi harper blue
 leigh alexander leighalexander
 srh sarah butts srhbutts
 devi ever deviever grace lynn pixelgoth devinever deviwhatever disgracedlynn
 chloe sagal chloesagal
 ian miles cheong stillgray
 arthur_affect arthur chu
 alex lifschitz alexlifschitz
 jonathan mcintosh radicalbytes #FullMcintosh


Note the "john walker flynt"

[02/01/2015, 9:44:12 AM] Quinnae: Eh, it's a long story that requires getting into the weeds of trans politics. Basically Brianna Wu shot from the hip about something very inadvisable that came off as a cis woman cissplaining transphobia to trans people, some of the angrier trans folk online got upset. Erika got really mad. Brianna Wu's social media coordinator blocked Erika, Erika got madder and started rallying people against Brianna Wu squashing her and being transphobic…

Keep in mind if Wu was NOT trans, Katherine Cross (who is trans themselves) would not have referred to Wu's miscues as "a cis woman cissplaining transphobia to trans people", but rather it would be the other way round.
Further, if Wu was not trans, why is Cross outing someone who isn't?
And the below should eliminate any doubts they are very aware Wu is transgender:

[02/01/2015, 2:26:18 PM] Ian Cheong: forgive me if i sound ignorant but how is brianna being transphobic?
 [02/01/2015, 2:26:36 PM] Remy: She isn't
 [02/01/2015, 2:26:39 PM] Athena Hollow: It was more 'ignorance' than 'malicious'.
 [02/01/2015, 2:26:43 PM] Remy: Unless something has happened I"m not aware of
 [02/01/2015, 2:26:51 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): Who claimed that? I am seeing people saying she is "cisplaining' or stepping over and trying to speak for trans people.
 [02/01/2015, 2:26:52 PM] Athena Hollow: She cis splained some trans stuff to trans people
 [02/01/2015, 2:26:56 PM] Remy: ^
 [02/01/2015, 2:26:57 PM] Athena Hollow: without asking first
 [02/01/2015, 2:27:19 PM] Remy: This wasn't a malicious attack it was a faux pas
 [02/01/2015, 2:27:22 PM] Ian Cheong: izzy, the stuff erika said
 [02/01/2015, 2:27:23 PM] Athena Hollow: yup
 [02/01/2015, 2:27:28 PM] Ian Cheong: erika was accusing her of transphobia
 [02/01/2015, 2:27:33 PM] Tesseract: does this quash the rumors of her being trans at least


Note, Wu was the one who called accusations of being trans 'rumors", but as we see below, the truth is spelled out.

[02/01/2015, 2:27:37 PM] Ian Cheong: (doh)
 [02/01/2015, 2:27:45 PM] Ian Cheong: no she could stilll be trans
 [02/01/2015, 2:27:59 PM] Ian Cheong: shes just not versed in the grammar of talking about trans issues
 [02/01/2015, 2:28:10 PM] Randi Harper: it's stupid.
 [02/01/2015, 2:28:14 PM] Randi Harper: the entire thing is fucking stupid.
 [02/01/2015, 2:28:16 PM] Quinnae: No it does not "quash the rumours." This is just… a complicated situation.


Cross has tried to not just outright say Wu is trans, but it's the elephant in the room, and we'll see below they know denying it is very stupid.

[02/01/2015, 2:28:20 PM] Randi Harper: and i'm pissed about it.
 [02/01/2015, 2:28:20 PM] Tesseract: I mean I guess if chobitcoin can be trans brianna can fuck up some minor thing
 [02/01/2015, 2:28:33 PM] Ian Cheong: I wish people wouldn't turn on her so quickly, you know?
 [02/01/2015, 2:28:33 PM] Athena Hollow: lol
 [02/01/2015, 2:28:37 PM] Ian Cheong: There's bigger, worse targets out there
 [02/01/2015, 2:28:39 PM] Ian Cheong: like chobit
 [02/01/2015, 2:28:45 PM] Ian Cheong: who is openly transphobic towards other trans people.
 [02/01/2015, 2:28:57 PM] Quinnae: Well, so far as I can see, not many are turning on her and I think we took the heat out of this today.
 [02/01/2015, 2:29:35 PM] Randi Harper: I wish stupid bitches would learn to act like goddamn grownup and not throw their tantrums on twitter REFUSING to actually talk to the person involved privately when they KNOW it's going to bring down even more hate and mocking on someone that's already been such a target she's had to leave her house.
 [02/01/2015, 2:29:38 PM] Randi Harper: so mad.
 [02/01/2015, 2:29:43 PM] Randi Harper: it's just so fucking low class.
 [02/01/2015, 2:29:47 PM] Ian Cheong: Agreed
 [02/01/2015, 2:30:15 PM] Randi Harper: and I so fucking called it. I said GG would see it and run with it, and they have.
 [02/01/2015, 2:30:27 PM] Ian Cheong: I get that she says ignorant things sometimes but she's been under a lot of pressure, is the focus of so much harassment.
 [02/01/2015, 2:30:40 PM] Quinnae: We did get her to talk privately at least, Randi, and resolved it.
 [02/01/2015, 2:30:54 PM] Randi Harper: eventually. yet the tweets remained. and she gave a halfass "yeah, we worked it out"
 [02/01/2015, 2:31:04 PM] Randi Harper: I was told this isn't the first time she's pulled this shit and I have no patience for people like that. I think they are scum.
 [02/01/2015, 2:31:18 PM] Quinnae: Steady on, Randi, that's a bit much.
 [02/01/2015, 2:31:22 PM] Ian Cheong: yeah
 [02/01/2015, 2:31:27 PM] Remy: But I think we totally understand where you're coming from Randi
 [02/01/2015, 2:31:30 PM] Quinnae: We're trying our damndest here.
 [02/01/2015, 2:31:38 PM] Randi Harper: harsh for you. I can have my own feelings and things that piss me off, and that's one of the major ones.
 [02/01/2015, 2:31:43 PM] Remy: When you put so much into your work it's hard to see a lack of professionalism start to effect your friends
 [02/01/2015, 2:32:48 PM] Quinnae: Agreed. I'm just not going to throw another trans woman under the bus without good cause. Feeling powerless can lead to some ugly behaviours. In time, you can grow out of them, hopefully, but it takes effort and shepherding.
 [02/01/2015, 2:32:59 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): Ugh. So much tension on "our side" lately. Like this:
https://twitter.com/8BitBecca/status/550902426518421504
 [02/01/2015, 2:33:07 PM] Randi Harper: i'm not throwing her under the bus because she's trans. i'm throwing her under the bus  -  in this chat only, and not publicly  -  because of her actions.
 [02/01/2015, 2:33:13 PM] Randi Harper: trans is not a shield from shitty behavior.
 [02/01/2015, 2:33:26 PM] Ian Cheong: ^
 [02/01/2015, 2:33:32 PM] Remy: I was gonna say I am just glad we have places like this where we can vent and express our frustrations
 [02/01/2015, 2:33:42 PM] Randi Harper: indeed. this is not something I ever could have said on twitter.


And Randi Harper finally decides "to hell with pretense" and calls Wu out for being an incompetent and openly acknowledges (in a private chat she never thought would see the light of day) Wu is transgender, that is no shield for Wu acting like an idiot, and makes no bones about her rage at Wu's arrogance and incompetence. Cross reluctantly acknowledges the same, tacitly admitting in vain they've tried to be Wu's stage manager and frustrated Wu keeps tossing out the script.

[02/01/2015, 5:52:18 AM] Quinnae: I was talking Brianna down from her position, trying to put a lid on this all as we speak.
[02/01/2015, 5:52:29 AM] Quinnae: She's definitely listening.
[02/01/2015, 5:52:32 AM] Rob: Good, Katherine ❤
[02/01/2015, 5:52:35 AM] Athena Hollow: That's good :)
[02/01/2015, 5:52:41 AM] Izzy (@iglvzx): ❤
[02/01/2015, 5:52:45 AM] Athena Hollow: I was really worried it was all gonna go super topsy turvy
[02/01/2015, 5:52:48 AM] Rob: Like she follows me and I was tempted to DM her
[02/01/2015, 5:53:01 AM] Rob: but I haven't spoken to her privately that much and I'm not trans so I also didn't want to get anything wrong :\
[02/01/2015, 5:54:17 AM] Remy: I need to find a picture of someone trying to hold onto a literal shield while someone is taking it away
[02/01/2015, 5:54:20 AM] Remy: So I can tweet NotYourShield
[02/01/2015, 5:54:36 AM] drinternetphd: katherine, could you send me those links again?
[02/01/2015, 5:54:42 AM] Izzy (@iglvzx): I'm so mean, guys. :( /s https://twitter.com/iglvzx/status/550772036285390848
[02/01/2015, 5:54:43 AM] Rob: Does anyone have the link to the op against the trans hotline?
[02/01/2015, 5:54:49 AM] Rob: Auragasmic is asking me for info on it
[02/01/2015, 5:54:52 AM] drinternetphd: I nuked my skype history and lost them before being able to add them to scrivener

Here we have more proof Cross tried in vain to be Wu's damage control.

[02/01/2015, 9:41:37 AM] Quinnae: flops Gods that was exhausting.
[02/01/2015, 9:41:42 AM] Athena Hollow: yeah i bet.
[02/01/2015, 9:41:43 AM] Rob: ❤ KATHERINE
[02/01/2015, 9:41:43 AM] Athena Hollow: ❤
[02/01/2015, 9:41:48 AM] Quinnae: Had a long conversation with Erika afterwards too.
[02/01/2015, 9:41:50 AM] Rob: Seriosuly you are fucking awesome
[02/01/2015, 9:41:50 AM] Remy: Hey Katherine
[02/01/2015, 9:41:53 AM] Remy: We were just cheering for you
[02/01/2015, 9:42:04 AM] Quinnae: D'awww. Thanks all.
[02/01/2015, 9:42:07 AM] Remy: You're the best ❤
[02/01/2015, 9:42:11 AM] SF: I was wishing Tesseract a happy birthday.
[02/01/2015, 9:42:14 AM] Remy: Don't tell Veerender ❤ I said that
[02/01/2015, 9:42:18 AM] Athena Hollow: oh hahaha it's her "birthday"
[02/01/2015, 9:42:28 AM] Quinnae: Yeah, that was a tangle. sighs Eating a well-deserved pizza right now. Because goddamn… I do hate playing peacemaker.

Cross, off the heels of trying to defuse another bomb Wu activated, obviously flustered.

[02/01/2015, 9:42:29 AM] Remy: I'm cheating on all of you with Veerender ❤
[02/01/2015, 9:42:33 AM] Athena Hollow: lol
[02/01/2015, 9:42:36 AM] Secret Gamer Girl: Erika's cool, has a lot lot of very strong opinions and useful links on various trans issues, but… she's also really RIGHT on the edge of suicide and takes things really really personally.
[02/01/2015, 9:42:36 AM] Randi Harper: quinnae: what the hell was all that about?
[02/01/2015, 9:42:38 AM] Athena Hollow: well you may hate it but you're good :)
[02/01/2015, 9:42:39 AM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: what happened, katherine?
[02/01/2015, 9:42:47 AM] Randi Harper: quinnae: she might throw another fit when she sees that I've preemptively blocked her.
[02/01/2015, 9:42:47 AM] Rob: SGG: Yes, that.
[02/01/2015, 9:42:53 AM] Peter Coffin: hey folks whats up
[02/01/2015, 9:42:53 AM] Quinnae: I like it in theory. :) It just takes a lot out of her.
[02/01/2015, 9:42:57 AM] Quinnae: *out of me
[02/01/2015, 9:43:05 AM] Rob: Which is why I was like STEPS AWAY, SHUT DOWN ACCOUNT when all that shit went down between us
[02/01/2015, 9:43:10 AM] Athena Hollow: yeah
[02/01/2015, 9:43:15 AM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: i'm very lost
[02/01/2015, 9:43:27 AM] Athena Hollow: Ericka got mad at Bri. Shit hit fan.
[02/01/2015, 9:43:35 AM] Peter Coffin: what
[02/01/2015, 9:43:35 AM] Athena Hollow: Katherine was lady mediator & saved the day
[02/01/2015, 9:43:40 AM] Athena Hollow: all is well in the world again
[02/01/2015, 9:43:43 AM] Rob: Like as some of you may have noticed (ha ha ha) I have an anger problem
[02/01/2015, 9:43:45 AM] Athena Hollow: (as well as it can be of course)
[02/01/2015, 9:44:12 AM] Quinnae: Eh, it's a long story that requires getting into the weeds of trans politics. Basically Brianna Wu shot from the hip about something very inadvisable that came off as a cis woman cissplaining transphobia to trans people, some of the angrier trans folk online got upset. Erika got really mad. Brianna Wu's social media coordinator blocked Erika, Erika got madder and started rallying people against Brianna Wu squashing her and being transphobic…

As explained earlier, Cross is basically the one who served as the go between for Quinn's cabal and Wu, and every time Cross clamped down on another Wu screwup, reports were delivered to Quinn and her acolytes.

[02/01/2015, 9:44:14 AM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: thank you for helping out, katherine. but be sure to take care of yourself :(
[02/01/2015, 9:44:20 AM] Quinnae: That was when Randi showed up and I stepped in at around the same time.
[02/01/2015, 9:44:37 AM] Quinnae: It had to be done, that could've gotten very ugly very fast.
[02/01/2015, 9:44:40 AM] Rob: Katherine you are awesome for defusing that
[02/01/2015, 9:44:50 AM] Rob: also when you favorite my stuff I'm like SENPAI ❤
[02/01/2015, 9:44:55 AM] Athena Hollow: hahaha
[02/01/2015, 9:44:56 AM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: haha
[02/01/2015, 9:45:09 AM] Rob: DON'T LAUGH I LIKE ACADEMICS OKAY
[02/01/2015, 9:45:16 AM] Quinnae: laughs and tosses her hair over her shoulder, winks
[02/01/2015, 9:45:17 AM] Remy: Let's all just hope it's too complicated for GG to try and parse through and use against them

Small aside here, they acknowledge here GamerGate is a valid "side". So much for that "Gamergate and everyone else" meme they loved to spout in public.

[02/01/2015, 9:45:19 AM] Athena Hollow: LOL
[02/01/2015, 9:45:21 AM] Remy: Or other reactionaries
[02/01/2015, 9:45:28 AM] Athena Hollow: oh yeah, gg is dumb, we're good.
[02/01/2015, 9:45:29 AM] Athena Hollow: lol
[02/01/2015, 9:45:36 AM] Randi Harper: i'm fully waiting for the KiA piece about how bri is a transphobic and i defended her.
[02/01/2015, 9:45:40 AM] Athena Hollow: LOL
[02/01/2015, 9:45:47 AM] Quinnae: Yeah. That's one of the big risks.
[02/01/2015, 9:45:47 AM] Randi Harper: dead serious.
[02/01/2015, 9:45:47 AM] Athena Hollow: I'll get the popcorn ready.
[02/01/2015, 9:45:48 AM] Peter Coffin: well done katherine & randi
[02/01/2015, 9:45:50 AM] Randi Harper: not even laughing.
[02/01/2015, 9:45:51 AM] Remy: Yup
[02/01/2015, 9:45:53 AM] Quinnae: Another fissure for GG to exploit.
[02/01/2015, 9:45:54 AM] Rob: I know, Randi. It's gonna happen
[02/01/2015, 9:45:56 AM] Remy: I didn't wanna say it but Randi di
[02/01/2015, 9:45:57 AM] Randi Harper: peter: i daccomplished nothing.
[02/01/2015, 9:46:04 AM] Quinnae: It's one of the main reasons this had to be clamped down ASAP.

Cross yet again establishing they were damage control, partially to prevent what they openly have acknowledged as a massive mistake from being used against them.

[02/01/2015, 9:47:56 AM] Randi Harper: also slightly annoyed with her "yeah, confirming that spacekatgal and i worked it out" after spewing tons of tweets about how bri is a horrible person.
[02/01/2015, 9:47:56 AM] drinternetphd: Just cause the avenues for actually talking shut down so quick and people just start shouting past each other
[02/01/2015, 9:47:59 AM] Randi Harper: not adequate.
[02/01/2015, 9:48:09 AM] Rob: agreed, zoe
[02/01/2015, 9:48:18 AM] Quinnae: Eh, Randi, to be honest with you…
[02/01/2015, 9:48:34 AM] Randi Harper: be honest. i'm not going to be offended.
[02/01/2015, 9:48:35 AM] Rob: And also 140 characters PLUS trying to watch your words so they're not misinterpreted (deliberately, by GG) PLUS having people interject….
[02/01/2015, 9:48:51 AM] Quinnae: She's not very powerful and definitely the much smaller underprivileged party here. I don't want her to make a big song and dance out of apologising, I'm interested in practical outcomes. This just needed to stop.
[02/01/2015, 9:48:55 AM] Quinnae: It has, and I'm pleased with that.
[02/01/2015, 9:48:58 AM] Sarah, Butt-er of the Butts: wait you mean leigh WASN'T laughing at native islanders
[02/01/2015, 9:49:00 AM] Quinnae: So is Brianna.
[02/01/2015, 9:49:07 AM] Athena Hollow: LOL Sarah.
[02/01/2015, 9:49:10 AM] Randi Harper: it's not about making a statement politically. it's about how i view her as a person now.
[02/01/2015, 9:49:38 AM] Rob: I will say this, Randi  -  if people try o use their fight against bri? Erika's going to be the first person to tell them to fuck off
[02/01/2015, 9:49:42 AM] Rob: and be vociferous in defending bri
[02/01/2015, 9:49:48 AM] Athena Hollow: There is that.
[02/01/2015, 9:49:52 AM] Rob: She did that when people tried to use our tiff against me.
[02/01/2015, 9:50:16 AM] Remy: Randi's plate seems like it's just too full for her to have patience with people playing fast and loose on Twitter
[02/01/2015, 9:50:26 AM] Randi Harper: i find her tactics distasteful. after kicking up all that fuss, her response wasn't adequate, and i dislike her as a person because of it.
[02/01/2015, 9:50:26 AM] Athena Hollow: yeah.
[02/01/2015, 9:50:34 AM] Randi Harper: no, this is aside from twitter.
[02/01/2015, 9:50:39 AM] Randi Harper: that is the kind of shit that grinds my gears.
[02/01/2015, 9:50:56 AM] SF: I have to say I have trouble sympathizing when people get really upset over trans issues over cisplaining and such. I mean, it's frustrating, but I'm a little more concerned about people who want to literally murder me.
[02/01/2015, 9:50:58 AM] Remy: oh my bad I'm gonna stop talking about things I don't understand now x-x
[02/01/2015, 9:51:25 AM] SF: And I get you can call out both, but, perspective.
[02/01/2015, 9:51:41 AM] Quinnae: Yeah, and you all know my views on such things.
[02/01/2015, 9:51:45 AM] Randi Harper: this whole twitter thing has been a whole exercise in pushing past my knee-jerk reaction of finding public fights to be repellant. I've been justifying it by saying it's for the greater good, whatever, responding to attacks.
[02/01/2015, 9:51:53 AM] Quinnae: I try my best to be pragmatic.
[02/01/2015, 9:52:00 AM] Rob: Definitely not gonna disagree, randi
[02/01/2015, 9:52:32 AM] Quinnae: Yeah, not a fan of Twitter spats either, Randi.
[02/01/2015, 9:52:41 AM] Randi Harper: not a fan of any public spats.

Randi Harper is again candid about how Wu's reaction in a Twitter spat do not make her feel comfortable in the slightest and bluntly rages about how Wu is an idiot with no impulse control or discretion.

[02/01/2015, 12:19:48 PM] Secret Gamer Girl: Any sane person is going to hate GG, especially if you're a trans woman, and ESPECIALLY if you're a suicidal trans woman

The following about the suicide of Leelah Acorn, and Secret Gamer Girl (whose last public tweet refers to their reaction to having these logs outed) sets the tone nicely for the rest that follows, especially their deranged insistence that GamerGate is an enemy of the transgendered, which is bizarre, since GamerGate has many transgendered people aligned with it.

[02/01/2015, 12:19:51 PM] Remy: yup
[02/01/2015, 12:19:52 PM] Quinnae: That's sad. I feel the same way Zoe. sighs
[02/01/2015, 12:19:57 PM] Remy: She was also on Reddit
[02/01/2015, 12:20:09 PM] Peter Coffin: Ah that's so sad
[02/01/2015, 12:20:16 PM] Ian Cheong: People are really mad at Brianna for posting about Leelah
[02/01/2015, 12:20:29 PM] Remy: Tons of people have posted about Leelah
[02/01/2015, 12:20:44 PM] drinternetphd: I just tried to signal boost resources for trans youth.
[02/01/2015, 12:21:10 PM] Remy: And I try and tweet out about TAVA when I get the chance
[02/01/2015, 12:21:13 PM] drinternetphd: Cause I didn't know whAt to do and I didn't want anyone to get harassed
[02/01/2015, 12:21:34 PM] Ian Cheong: https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/549802874608549888
[02/01/2015, 12:21:38 PM] Ian Cheong: this tweet got people mad.
[02/01/2015, 12:22:34 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): That one? I thought it was the one where she told her trans followers to not call someone transphobic
[02/01/2015, 12:22:37 PM] Remy: I was also stoked when that news agency checked out that lead and confirmed Leelahs' note
[02/01/2015, 12:23:09 PM] Ian Cheong: well izzy KIA is saying that she found a way to blame GG for Leelah's death and that's blahbblahblahblah
[02/01/2015, 12:23:28 PM] Ian Cheong: People infer a lot of stupid things.
[02/01/2015, 12:23:47 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): Well, I have that screenshot of GG trying to use Leelah's death to improve their public image
[02/01/2015, 12:23:55 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): they are worse
[02/01/2015, 12:24:28 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): this: https://twitter.com/iglvzx/status/550159129956732928
[02/01/2015, 12:24:34 PM] Secret Gamer Girl: pretty sure Brianna deleted all the tweets that really got people upset real shortly after, yeah

Here we have some griping about Wu's inability to handle a situation like this without handing ammo to their enemies.

[02/01/2015, 12:25:34 PM] Ian Cheong: my fucking ps4 keeps turning itself on
[02/01/2015, 12:25:43 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): o.o
[02/01/2015, 12:26:07 PM] Ian Cheong: the power board is messed up
[02/01/2015, 12:26:16 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-4-Support/Ps4-Keeps-turning-on-randomly-ejects-game-disc/td-p/42955907
[02/01/2015, 12:26:26 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): "Ps4 Keeps turning on randomly, ejects game disc"
[02/01/2015, 12:26:27 PM] Izzy (@iglvzx): spooky
[02/01/2015, 12:27:51 PM] SF: I don't even know how to feel about Leelah Alcorn. In like the literal sense.
[02/01/2015, 12:28:03 PM] SF: Maybe it's mental defence filtering me out from thinking about it too hard.
[02/01/2015, 12:28:33 PM] drinternetphd: I just want to hug a lot of people and thank every god and goddess ever that the trans women in my life are still with me
[02/01/2015, 12:28:37 PM] Secret Gamer Girl: Also I have yet to see one single person say "GG drove Leelah to suicide" or anything of the sort, but when you make a specific goal of driving all trans women to suicide as just sort of a general goal, it's fair to hold you accountable for all cases.
[02/01/2015, 12:28:53 PM] Secret Gamer Girl: and yeah, seriously
[02/01/2015, 12:29:01 PM] SF: GG pretty clearly has plenty of op transgenocide in their ranks.

I'll be blunt, "Secret Gamer Girl" is insane. I wouldn't have stood up for Transeye West if I hated the transgendered, and according to the hit count on my blog, KIA gave me thousands of hits in under a day for rehosting their Medium article Wu bullied them into getting removed from Twitter, so I doubt a large majority of GG aligned people hate the transgendered.

[02/01/2015, 12:29:03 PM] drinternetphd: I wanted to like
[02/01/2015, 12:29:13 PM] drinternetphd: Put a message out to my trans followers
[02/01/2015, 12:29:24 PM] Secret Gamer Girl: did you happen to catch mine?
[02/01/2015, 12:29:39 PM] drinternetphd: Congratulating them on surviving another year because of how fucking shitty of a deal they've been given

We close this out with Quinn and SGG congratulating themselves on how they made themselves look good.

There are a few other mentions of Wu in the logs, but the following already establishes the following facts:
  • Wu was considered as potential ally for Quinn and company.
  • Katherine Cross was the intermediary who brokered the deal.
  • Wu from day one proved to be more trouble than they were worth.
  • Practically everyone realized the gravity of the mistake, and while Cross was the most reluctant to toss the baby out with the bathwater, the consensus was that Wu was a gigantic liability.
  • Repeated attempts were made to bring Wu to heel, all to little to no effect, and Randi Harper bluntly and accurately pointed out Wu was an idiot and a dead weight for their cause.
  • They were all responsible for boosting Wu to prominence to some degree, and immediately wanted to sever ties when this blew up in their face.
In short, Zoe Quinn helped propel a lying, incompetent attention whore to prominence to serve her own agenda, it backfired on her and her associates tremendously, and they only considered Wu useful so long as Wu could dance to their tune.

Wu was to be their puppet, but became their albatross.

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