THAT Randy Pitchford? The Randy Pitchford that, because he loves magic tricks, downloaded himself some squirt porn (sfw youtube link to moistcritical) on the same thumb drive as company secrets, and then left it at a Medieval Times? The same Randy that grabbed the Claptrap VA by the junk because he was tired of voicing Claptrap for free and had the audacity to ask to be paid so Pitchford tried to intimidate him? The same Randy Pitchford that somehow "lost" millions dollars of Segas money causing Colonial marines to bomb so that they could fund Borderlands 2 and Duke Nukem Forever He's also not above putting journalists who bad mouth him in his games as petty revenge.

Fuck that guy. Fuck anything he says.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit, I knew about the "magic trick" girl and thought he was a quirky funny man, but assaulting an artist to force them to work for free? What a fucking asshole

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If I recall the feud correctly, Eddings previously worked on Claptrap as a favor for free (or next to it). As far as the back and forth on Twitter indicates, when he said he wanted "Id like to be paid this time", Pitchford initially pushed back, and then offered "2x union rates" (whether Pitchford actually offered that or said it on twitter afterward to garner sympathy we may never know), but Eddings refused the offer since gearbox was (at the time) about to make its 3rd lootershooter in a monsterously successful chain and he was one of the most prominent side characters. Thats what triggered Pitchford to attempt to intimidate him in front of a hotel elevator.

Bro is a blight on Gearbox. And no one is sure how or why the board hasn't gotten rid of him.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I hear he also collected child porn, citation needed.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, no, you don't understand, the girl was doing a magic trick! He only consumed that just barely legal content with professional interest in mind.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm not gonna sit and tell a man he can't have a kink preference in his own home on his own time.

But Jesus fuck on the company thumb drive? Bro is a ceo and cant afford a "personal folder" usb. Here $12 for a 128Gb one on Amazon is not uncommon And then to be so distracted he forgot it.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 22 hours ago

You've missed the part where that was actually something he said. Who cares about what the idiot's exact kink, he had to save his honour telling people it wasn't "really" porn.