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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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Finding it incredulous and disgusting that a grown ass man and CEO went on an entirely unrelated magician podcast and enthusiastically detailed in utmost vulgarity a pornographic cam girl video in order to explain why he downloaded it onto a USB thumb drive along with company documents and then proceeded to lose said thumb drive is not "kink shaming." Seriously what the hell is wrong with some of y'all? Do you even think about the words you type? The defensiveness some of y'all are displaying here makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Take a moment and reflect on the drivel y'all are spouting before you post it.
I think they remix their show every few years, but I don't really know what the difference is between them.
People just want to create fuzz around the bigger picture. Don't worry is not you, is them. They are all in they high horses, in front of a screen telling what is right or wrong. Misleading the actual conversation. The news always has been that Randy Pitchford was unprofessional with company secrets and use the same usb to keep porn and company secrets. The other stuff is circumstantial and fucked up. You are covering the news from the correct angle. And That's all there is to it.
This. It's a just a bizarre event and he was expressing his shock at hearing about it.
Even putting the porn description thing aside, losing a USB drive with porn AND company secrets on it at a Medival Times is fucking bizarre, no matter how you slice it. It's not kink-shaming to be surprised by that aspect of it.
I don't think it's inherently condemning of anything, necessarily, but it is funny as fuck.
That's almost always true for pro stuff, but there are a vast number of amateur webcam type vids out there, and it's impossible to verify the ages of the participants. You still occasionally run into blatantly dodgy shit on the big sites like Pornhub, and they aren't always super quick to respond to reports and remove it.
The person literally said 95% watch barely legal on pornhub which by pornhub's own metrics is categorically false.
Yeah that whole conversation is some weird bizzaro land shit.
The defensiveness stems from some of us thinking some guys porn habits are none of anyone's business. Who the hell cares who he talked to about porn and what he saw? Who cares what he does with his own. Personal. USB. Drive. His. Not yours, not anyone else's. His. He can have whatever he wants on it and lose it wherever he wants because. It's. His. As long as what he's looking at is legal, then it doesn't matter how kinky it is or who he's talking to about it.
Spend 5 minutes on Reddit. People are into weird shit and enjoy weird shit. They enjoy talking about it regardless of how "vulgar" your mind thinks it is. Infact it's so popular that I firmly believe the weird ones are the ones who claim it's to vulgar for their minds to comprehend. As I said before, let's see your search history before we judge others.
Technically, as it contained work secrets, it's property of Gearbox, not Pitchford himself, which changes things significantly.
Even if there wasn't any porn involved at all, the story would be worth more than 3 Wows.
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Apparently the waiter who took it home returned it being compensated with Gearbox swag. So it's a company flash drive containing company secrets retrieved at (presumably) company expense, that the CEO used to store his porn. Said CEO went on a publicly available podcast and admitted all of this. This is pretty freaking ridiculous and merits at least three "Wow"s.
No the drive ceases to be his drive if he has confidential company information on it and no what people enjoy privately is not the same as being the face of a company and going on an entirely unrelated podcast to detail in extremely explicit detail what sort of porn you left on a USB along with company files.
Like seriously folks this is not acceptable behavior given the context of both his divulgence and his responsibilities/job.
What you're spouting is the same sort of nonsense folks espouse when they try to hide behind free speech. Just because he has a right to do and talk about stuff doesn't mean it's ok for him to do so in every context. Context matters and the context here is absolutely worthy of incredulity.
It's no longer a personal drive if you put company data on it. So he's either mishandling company data by putting it on a personal drive, or he's mishandling company data by putting personal porn on a company drive.
I spent 5 minutes on reddit and didn't see anybody mention saving porn once. Lots of other stuff, sure, but not that. Why would such irresponsible behavior not be worthy of at least some criticism even if it is nobody else's business. The behavior itself made it eveyone's business, it's 100% avoidable not some accident.
Not as a sole proprietor. Gearbox Software is a LLC corporation, with legal separation between the individual and the corporate entity.
Saving porn on work related tool would be enough reason for firing where I work. Thanks goes to show how much he felt like he could get away with anything. No comments on CP because that is a very serious issue, and I'd like to wait until more details come to light. When watching can girls you always get the all girls are 18 years or older, but we still are not sure what he had on his USB.
I'll be honest with you, I don't understand those replies either.
there's being woke and then there's going full-circle and all sense of progress is lost.
Thank you.
This thread suddenly got so damn embarrassing, I swear. The outraged grandstanding about "kink-shaming" was some of the cringiest things I've read on this forum, and I've seen some shit.
Not illegal per se, but would likely put someone who isn't the CEO at the end of a very expensive civil lawsuit.
Yeah? Who would be bringing suit? The board?
Yall need to focus back up on the core lawsuit here. The porn is a non-starter.
Just because something isn't illegal doesn't make it ok. There are plenty of legal things that are repugnant. It being legal does not by virtue of its legality make it inoffensive given the actions and their context.
Smh, how can anyone not see that he's just an aspiring magician? He was just trying to learn the trade.
If only more aspiring magicians had his determination and drive to risk company secrets just to research the craft.
Randy should be praised, this character assassination and twisting of events is gross and does a great disservice to Randy's ambition and the Magician Council's positive impact on our society.
How dare you sullly the innocence of Magicians with these sick lies.
How. Dare. You.
If only more aspiring magicians had his determination and drive to risk company secrets just to research the craft.
Randy should be praised, this character assassination and twisting of events is gross and does a great disservice to Randy's ambition and the Magician Council's positive impact on our society.
How dare you sullly the innocence of Magicians with these sick lies.
How. Dare. You.
Randy by name.
Company secrets.. On a USB stick...
Like seriously who even uses USB stick to store documents on these days.
Guy seems like a complete arse...
Company secrets.. On a USB stick...
Like seriously who even uses USB stick to store documents on these days.
Guy seems like a complete arse...
I've looked at page 1 and page 17 of this discussion.
Is it fair to conclude:
-Randy is stupid.
-Randy is probably not a pedophile.
-Randy probably didn't steal $12 million from his company.
Is it fair to conclude:
-Randy is stupid.
-Randy is probably not a pedophile.
-Randy probably didn't steal $12 million from his company.
Yeah, for real.
Most people in a position this high up a company would get shit canned for this negligence, let alone going on a podcast to talk about squirting.
Yes, people have their private lives, but most of the time unless it's between friends or a proper relaxed environment that shit stays private.
Porn on a work USB? Lmao.
Cry me a river a CEO might have to appear a little more conservative in public. That comes with managing a brand and your paycheque will reflect such a small trade off of keeping some of your shit talk and sex habits behind closed doors/with friends.
That's not kink shaming it's common fucking sense.
Glad to see Jason call out the purposefully obtuse people questioning his tweet as if that's the story here.
Yeah, that's kink shaming. As long as it's legal, I see nothing wrong with having an interest in squirting or whatever.
New entry or something that's been there a while?From AGC Blind Items, so take with a grain of salt:
i read it in ron's voice, hilarious.Randy by name.
Like seriously who even uses USB stick to store documents on these days.
Guy seems like a complete arse...
Its a pretty funny story and very incredulous. I see nothing wrong with having a joke about it. Doubly so as it's Randy Pitchford tbh.
That said, your specific post here and usage of "disgusting" is kink shaming though. Talking about squirting on a podcast isn't something I'd do, but I'd hardly call it disgusting.