And allegedly throwing parties in which adult men exposed themselves to minors.
Wait hold up, forget the 12 mil...
Child pornography? What the fuck...
I edited my post to say taking instead of stealing, but it being a secret is pretty telling as to the shady nature of it.
And we're not even outta January. 2019 gonna be wild.And allegedly throwing parties in which adult men exposed themselves to minors.
Man can this guy take a serious situation any less seriously?
Pitchford sure surrounds himself with questionable people.
"Yes it's true my former boss throws pedophile parties, here are some memes."
It's still gross, but I'm inclined to believe this (that it's "barely 18" and not CP) over multiple people knowing something incredibly illegal and not reporting it.
Or maybe it's preemptive spin.
Assuming the girl is legal it's still sketchy as fuck and doesn't paint Pitchford in a particularly good lightIt's still gross, but I'm inclined to believe this (that it's "barely 18" and not CP) over multiple people knowing something incredibly illegal and not reporting it.
Or maybe it's preemptive spin.
No disagreement there. This whole thing is disgusting and there really isn't anything but speculation anyway so I'm out of here.Assuming the girl is legal it's still sketchy as fuck and doesn't paint Pitchford in a particularly good light
Trying to dissect a cam girl's porn to find a "magic trick?" what the fuck?
If this happens to be the case (what was quoted above) and nothing else then I only see it as stupid; the fact he put pornogrpahic material on a company USB drive/with company materials. It reminds me of an ex-boss who had a movies folder on his company drive that had a bunch of downloaded movies like Arrivial and Fight Club and then there was just one porn file in the mix - pretty bog standard too.Bizarrely enough, Pitchford corroborates some of the story's details by appearing on a podcast that went live one day after Callender's suit was filed. On the December 22 episode of The Piff Pod, Pitchford talks at length about porn that he enjoys watching, including "camgirl" pornography, in which a host exposes themself to a live feed and takes requests and financial tips from consumers. Pitchford explained that he was "a consumer of this content." He confirmed that he copied a specific video "to this memory stick" to, as he describes it, "work out the method" of how a camgirl host faked the act of female ejaculation. (Be warned: he describes how the video looks in particularly graphic detail.)
"I realized, this is not a sex worker," Pitchford said on the show. "This is a fucking magician." Pitchford, for those unaware, has a vested interest in the field of magicians and owns the magic-focused Genii Magazine.
"This was before I learned I should probably have password-protected memory sticks," Pitchford says, before admitting that he had indeed left a USB flash drive at a Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament restaurant. "Some kid, an employee of Medieval Times, discovered this memory stick, took it home... and discovered secrets of my company and future games in development, and also discovered the pornography. It was 'barely legal' porn. This girl's handle was 'Only 18.'" The USB flash drive was returned to Gearbox, Pitchford says, in exchange for "swag" and video games.
Pitchford claimed that the flash drive arrived at the studio while Pitchford was on vacation, so his executive assistant checked its contents. "Before I know it, I think the entire office looked at it. And there was one piece of content on here. And it never occurred to any of them that the reason why there was just that single porno was because of the magic trick, not because of [pause] I don't know whatever the fuck they thought." Later in the podcast, Pitchford suggests putting this "Only 18" performer "on the cover" of a future Genii Magazineissue.
Complete side note but if Randy does have a fascination with how this girl became a magician on cam then he should listen to my Albanian friends stories. She's an ex-cam girl who worked in a studio and she's told me some crazy stories about what she saw other girls do in that studio, from this "magician trick" to smearing poop — yeah not pleasant to say the least. But because my friend did this for a while (cam girl) I guess my views on this topic is probably more positive than others and that's why I just think it's stupid of Randy to have footage of that saved on his USB drive... especially one he took out in public.If he's "studying" the video for means of deducing the operations of an illusion, you don't need video for that. You can make up any and all manner of how something might be done using only your imagination. People who aren't magicians do it all the time ("it was wires", "the four of clubs was in your pocket", etc.), and though it doesn't necessarily matter if they're right or not, it doesn't stop people from using their imaginations.
There are so many stories in the history of magic about magicians seeing a trick, routine, or illusion that left a great impression on them, so much so that they went back and spent time workshopping how such a trick might be done, often coming up with something new or different in the process. Without video.
Why in the world would he choose to reverse-engineer this, and in this way, is something I DON'T want to use my imagination to try and figure out.
It is very odd indeed.Thanks for linking this. I'm still making a very "uhhhh" face about the whole story. I'm not sure in what universe someone looks at the lawsuit filed by Wade Callender and says, "yeah, a very good legal response to these accusations of mishandling corporate secrets and general corporate malfeasance is to go on a podcast, talk about female ejaculation, and confirm a bunch of the suit's sensational details while insisting everything was 'barely legal' and '18-and-up.'"
It is very odd indeed.
Why the fuck would you, as the head of a company employing dozens of not hundreds of people, leave not only confidential information on an unprotected USB stick but also graphic porn. And then brag about it publicly.
no it's not?Bragging about a USB stick of 18 year old girls doing porn is not evidence directly but it does make the probability of a USB stick with child porn more likely I would say.