We'll see he's being accused of CP and is a liar. Feels like hes prepping a "she looked 18 to me, bro!" defense
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[Kotaku] Former Gearbox Lawyer Accuses CEO Randy Pitchford Of Taking Secret $12 Million Bonus In Lawsuit Gearbox Calls 'Absurd'
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We'll see he's being accused of CP and is a liar. Feels like hes prepping a "she looked 18 to me, bro!" defense
Sure, it might be true. Which would be disgusting. Or it might be odd and irresponsible instead of criminal and gross.
It's important to note those are Pitchford's words, you're right about that. I just don't think the story itself or the retelling is so strange, assuming it is legal porn. People are weird about porn, the thing was already lost and being open about it would be the smart thing to do. Again I have no idea what was on the drive, the whole story is a bit nuts.
Not necessarily a fan for or against Pitchford, he just seems like a weird guy.
Or that he's talking about some other porn that was also on the drive in order to provide plausible deniability. Which I think is more likely.
I mean, best case scenario, the boss admitted to losing company secrets/his porn stash at Medieval Times. Worst case scenario, he lied and cheated his employees out of a massive bonus to keep for himself. Company Morale, the greatest game of all.
Really hope that, if the paedophile accusations are true, the staff of Gearbox don't have to suffer. Randy has always appeared to be the reason the company fell so hard after Borderlands while the rest of the company got dragged into the mix as well.
No no, you must react in a clinical and robotic way to this, or... something. xD
I agree, extremely unprofessional. One wow is perfectly acceptable. Even two wows is okay even though he is pushing the envelope a bit. But three wows? He just took this shit to the next level of poor journalism. This is a two-wow at most situation
Fair enough. The thing is, looking through the discussion, a lot of people didn't put it in that specific context; seeing as that whole thing also relates to the lawsuit allegations, there was some imprecise conflation between the professionalism angle, the lawsuit angle, and the broader "are his porn preferences unethical?" angle.
Your wows have a lot of weight, and you threw out three perioded wows, each one more ominous than the last. :P
What a dumb ass sentiment. He's nearly 50 years old. Everybody that does porn is less than half his age. Unless there's some rule where when you hit 40 you need to switch to exclusively granny porn I wasn't aware of how is this creepy at all? The porn policing going on in this thread is fucking absurd. Y'all just pressed and trying to find ways to bury Randy for some shit literally everybody in here does too
Quit kink shaming Jason you watch porn too just cause you aren't sex positive enough to talk about it doesn't make it wrong
Eh, I think the part where he let his porn preferences infiltrate his work life in such a clumsy, unusual way is where this all becomes a bit much.
Of course it isn't something normally brought up in mixed company or in a professional setting, but it was already out in the wild and accusations were made. Him going into the details of the porn were beyond the point where modesty was required.
This.
If he's stealing from someone, that's one thing.
But judging a person based on whatever kind of legal porn they look at is pretty fucked up.
The funny thing is that the podcast is 3 weeks old, right? And noone found out about it or people just didn't react?
I mean he says he likes to watch "camgirls", not just this particular one. The difference with this one is that he allegedly downloaded the video to check onthe "trick".
So he's not using it as a defense to why he watched the video, he admits to watch cams, he's trying to excuse the fact that he had the video on the usb.
At least is what I understood about the whole thing
[/QUOTE="Gatti-man, post: 16811601, member: 39320"]Barely 18 porn could be anything from 14-25 depending on where he got it from. Idk Randy but I hope he's being sincere because if he's lying he's in for a world of legal pain.[/QUOTE]
I think a "Barely 18" cam is always over 18...if not people would go to jail and the sites would get banned?
Not saying CP doesn't exist, but not as a service you can subscribe? Or watch cam streams? Actually I'm not sure exactly how that works but I really hope this is the case :S
I mean he says he likes to watch "camgirls", not just this particular one. The difference with this one is that he allegedly downloaded the video to check onthe "trick".
So he's not using it as a defense to why he watched the video, he admits to watch cams, he's trying to excuse the fact that he had the video on the usb.
At least is what I understood about the whole thing
[/QUOTE="Gatti-man, post: 16811601, member: 39320"]Barely 18 porn could be anything from 14-25 depending on where he got it from. Idk Randy but I hope he's being sincere because if he's lying he's in for a world of legal pain.[/QUOTE]
I think a "Barely 18" cam is always over 18...if not people would go to jail and the sites would get banned?
Not saying CP doesn't exist, but not as a service you can subscribe? Or watch cam streams? Actually I'm not sure exactly how that works but I really hope this is the case :S
I don't think forgetting an usb with a porn video in it is a bit much tbh.
I think it's much worse to forget the usb with company secrets and future games.
And of course stealing etc. That should be the focus imo
PS: Regarding "Wowgate" I'd say 3 wow's is more than perfectly appropriate after reading that podcast article :P
I think there's a difference between wanting your porn fix or whatever and incidentally seeing a legal individual and going to the length to search out "barely legal". It's creepy even if it's not illegal and I'd hold that same position for anyone not named Randy Pitchford.
One of the most popular porn search terms is "teen" which by legal definition can only encompass the ages 18 and 19, its all the same shit
oh yeah this is the forum where a bunch of teenage boys leap to defend the 50 y/o ceo after he slimily goes on about "legal" teen porn. (and keeps it? on a usb stick? i guess so he has it on the go? along with work files !???)
I've been on a plane all day, so I have to say that this thread's brief turn at handwringing over a journalist's "unprofessional" astonishment that a 50 year old adult male running a sizeable media company would download porn by a performer advertising herself as "barely legal" onto an unsecured portable drive also holding sensitive company documents before losing said device at a Medieval Times has to be the dumbest turn this forum could take.
I know, right? Like, I went to sleep last night, and when I woke up and jumped to the then latest page, I was quite baffled to see that it was a thing.
If you're talking about me, I'm not a teen boy, I'm old as hell. The fact that he kept work secrets on a USB key is dumb. The fact that he kept porn on the same USB is dumb. The fact that he left the whole thing at a Medieval Times is dumb. This shit's all indefensible.
But anybody trying to take him to task over his legal porn practices can fuck off. It's hypocritical. People are just doubling down. "It might not be ACTUAL child porn, but it's still creepy" like fucking, whaat? These things aren't even in the same realm of fucked up. Porn industry chews up and spits out porn actors between the ages of 18 and 25 and they are ALL "teens" and "barely legal" these are just standard tags for anybody who isn't already too old to get pushed into the MILF category.
out this entire story i don't think an obscure magic podcast going unnoticed is the surprising part
also if the porn is on a usb drive along with work related files...is he watching porn at the office?
Oh come on, reading stories about Colonial Marines and seeing what a disaster it was does not make Randy Pitchford a CP purveyor. Unless you know something specific, which I'd love to hear, your cries that he's a scumbag are completely unfounded.
Did I say that? I didn't say that. I said he is a scumbag there is multiple tiers to being a scumbag. The CP stuff is sure out of left field and could very well be false but that still doesn't move the needle on my opinion of him.
The (mild) backlash is due to the sensationalization of a (mildly) unconventional squirt fetish during a time period that ERA historians are already calling "The Booty Eating Renaissance."
Thanks to the current news cycle, leaking company trade secrets on an insecure USB drive isn't even in the top 10 IT fails this week, so that's an even harder sell for 3 wows.
Exactly. The hypocracy in this thread about Randy's porn watching is laughable. Anyone who has ever visited a site like Pornhub, and I'm pretty sure it is at least 95% of the people here, has seen 'barely legal' porn actresses. Don't act holier than thou about things you do yourself.
Well, it seems this fellow Pitchford is always at the epicenter of some weird situation. I remember last time when he was crying about losing an amount of his money allegedly stolen by his assistant and now this.
I do not think those things happen to him by accident, he must have some kind of stupid involvement
I do not think those things happen to him by accident, he must have some kind of stupid involvement
I hope no hard-hitting reporters with a thirsty blood lust for exposing the deepest and darkest of secrets end up discovering my penchant for legally-aged Asian women and Velma Dinkley rule 34 art when I'm rich and famous, or wow wow wow will I be in big trouble.
Randy discussing his kinks is no surprise. I mean the guy did try to use pornographic fanart to sell that moba game they made.
Nah that doesn't fly. Even pornhub itself posts metrics and it doesn't come close to half let alone that absurd 95%.
Some people here are likely hypocrites and even if most aren't you gotta realize that even though a law sets a legal age doesn't mean everyone will agree with that cut off point. Those people will see it as creepy because their bar for acceptable interest in young adults is higher than what a handful of representatives settled for.
I'm not sure what doesn't fly. The 95% figure refers to the number of people in this thread most likely visiting sites like Pornhub. Barely legal in porn means 18-19 year olds, and as said before if you have visited any major porntube site you have seen women that age on the front pages.
Can't even imagine being so willfully obtuse that you'd interpret my saying "Wow" three times as shaming porn habits rather than shock at the fact that the CEO of a major gaming site went on a podcast to describe how he bought and saved a female ejaculation video on an unprotected USB drive that also contained company secrets because he thought it was a magic trick, then accidentally left it at a Medieval Times.
I'm also pretty bummed that this forum (which I normally respect and enjoy) has spent two pages in a thread about one of the wildest video game stories in recent memory trying to figure out if it was unethical for me to say "Wow" three times in response to one of the most shocking things we've ever seen a video game CEO do. Get over yourselves.
I'm also pretty bummed that this forum (which I normally respect and enjoy) has spent two pages in a thread about one of the wildest video game stories in recent memory trying to figure out if it was unethical for me to say "Wow" three times in response to one of the most shocking things we've ever seen a video game CEO do. Get over yourselves.
A lot of people on this forum prematurely ready their outrage and it comes out at the weirdest points when a minute or two of critical thinking would help them immensely.
Maybe tweeting more than 3 syllables would've made your meaning clear. I was also reading it through the lens of "he's obviously a creepy pedo" from reading the first page of this thread.
In an era where CEOs are tweeting shit about cat girls, pedophiles, and lying to investors, this incident seems pretty mundane.
But hey, what do I know? That's how I interpreted it. Thanks for clearing that up.
In an era where CEOs are tweeting shit about cat girls, pedophiles, and lying to investors, this incident seems pretty mundane.
But hey, what do I know? That's how I interpreted it. Thanks for clearing that up.
Just don't download that porn onto an unsecured flash drive also containing sensitive company documents and then lose it at a tacky themed restaurant necessitating a frantic scramble to ID the teenaged waiter who brought it home and bribe him to return it using company merchandise and you'll be fine.
Maybe you, like many in this thread, have a problem with reading too much into Tweets. In other words, "Dig up, idiot."
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What I expected when I entered this thread: something about Randy Pitchford's bonuses
What I got: folks telling Jason Schreier to his face that he is a porn-watching hypocrite for tweeting the word "wow"
This thread is embarassing lol.
What I got: folks telling Jason Schreier to his face that he is a porn-watching hypocrite for tweeting the word "wow"
This thread is embarassing lol.
Hey, now. As far as I can tell, the "stop kink shaming" people are responding to a post you made in this thread. The somewhat playful discussion on the discursive effects of saying "wow" multiple times (which wasn't ever an ethical question) was a very different thing.
I do apologize for overemphasizing the wows, though. There was a moment where that seemed to take a fun turn, but I get how 1) it might come across as exhausting and 2) that sort of nitpicking is conducive to less fun turns, such as accusations of kink shaming.