Randy Pitchford (CEO of Gearbox) Sings About Bigots And Gamergate
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Did he not learn what a terrible idea this is after Tim Schafer's disaster of a joke? I mean this is possibly even worse because who the fuck gives a shit about gamergate in 2016
[QUOTE=Penultimate;50992796]God, Randy. Borderlands 2 is honestly one of my favorite video games and I even have an essay half-written defending it. And now he does this?
Totally entitled to his opinion, but certainly insulting at least [I]some[/I] of his audience is a little bit of a bad idea.[/QUOTE]
Randy Pitchford and Anthony Burch make me feel ashamed for liking Borderlands, and even the older Gearbox games.
Dear Randy Pitchford: shut up.
I know everyone else is saying it, but that might be one of the worst things I've ever watched in my life. I watched the whole thing, desperately hoping it would somehow get better. It did not.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;50992814]Did he not learn what a terrible idea this is after Tim Schafer's disaster of a joke? I mean this is possibly even worse because who the fuck gives a shit about gamergate in 2016[/QUOTE]
Well, after the chatlog leaks, theres been a lot of stirring, might be a new spark.
But that just makes this even fucking dumber.
[QUOTE=Fulsam;50991990]Randy literally ripped off a skit by David "Gruber" Allen with this. It was such a bizarre thing to watch, because I saw Gruber open for a live show 7-8 years ago, and always had the song kicking around in the back of my head. When Randy shouted out Gruber and started talking about Buddhists, I was like "No...he wouldn't...oh my dear god..."
The original song:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB4TOFhhaHM[/media]
Compare it to whatever the fuck Randy just did in front of a live audience.
Edit: Now that I think of it, I was even thinking about the song this morning on my drive into work. I'm fucking scared. It's like an omen or something.[/QUOTE]
Did you watch the video? He mentions that the original was made by him and there is literally a picture of the dude on screen for over a minute.
I don't know if this was meant as some kind of joke, or whether Randy was serious about this song and the Science Porn tweets.
It's like he's one of those cycloid aliens from Duke 3D holding Duke captive, being unable to understand human interaction or comedy.
[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;50993291]I don't know if this was meant as some kind of joke, or whether Randy was serious about this song and the Science Porn tweets.
It's like he's one of those cycloid aliens from Duke 3D holding Duke captive, being unable to understand human interaction or comedy.[/QUOTE]
[Media]https://twitter.com/Conro101/status/727247492157476864[/media]
An old img I remember seeing somewhere on here is pretty relatable to that statement :v:
[QUOTE=Wafflemonstr;50993248]Did you watch the video? He mentions that the original was made by him and there is literally a picture of the dude on screen for over a minute.[/QUOTE]
I know. Bad wording on my part. I saw the entire thing as it happened on twitch. I shouldn't have worded it as "Ripped off", but I mentioned that Randy "Shouted out Gruber".
Aside from his politics and smug demeanor that just makes me wanna puke in his mouth a little, I hate when a rich motherfucker gets up in front of an audience with their super expensive guitar and plays a little song because they assume everyone really cares to hear them play. Get out. :sick:
[QUOTE=mooman1080;50992098]Why do you think he's singing the song in first place?[/QUOTE]
It was such a kick in the balls he sang it and octave higher
tbh can we stop with borderlands and every other gearbox series
and instead get a new BROTHERS IN ARMS game
(that isn't like the fuckin thing they worked on previously with jet packs and shit)
they could do North Africa or Dday or Italy or even the eastern front
His career seems to be getting worse all the time.
At least he's not Anthony Burch, though!
[QUOTE=New Cidem;50996006]His career seems to be getting worse all the time.
At least he's not Anthony Burch, though![/QUOTE]
He's worse.
Burch is mostly just a schmuck and a lousy writer, Pitchford's actually done some shady-ass shit.
don't know how many of you guys follow broteam on twitter, but he just announced that
- unnamed employee at gearbox lured applicants with a fake job offer in return for sex
- reported to ceo (randy bitchford) who seemingly ignored it
- happened multiple times (both the sex and the ignoring)
- employee no longer works for gearbox
[editline]3rd September 2016[/editline]
so in short, randy wants to be praised for crying about sexism on twitter, meanwhile ignoring sexual assaults in his company.
[QUOTE=Penultimate;50992796]God, Randy. Borderlands 2 is honestly one of my favorite video games and I even have an essay half-written defending it. And now he does this?
Totally entitled to his opinion, but certainly insulting at least [I]some[/I] of his audience is a little bit of a bad idea.[/QUOTE]
I could write an essay about everything wrong with Borderlands 2, and all the obvious, easy to fix game design mistakes they made and never touched because they're stuck in the past where patches were for technical issues only.
[QUOTE=BeardyDuck;50996476]don't know how many of you guys follow broteam on twitter, but he just announced that
- unnamed employee at gearbox lured applicants with a fake job offer in return for sex
- reported to ceo (randy bitchford) who seemingly ignored it
- happened multiple times (both the sex and the ignoring)
- employee no longer works for gearbox
[editline]3rd September 2016[/editline]
so in short, randy wants to be praised for crying about sexism on twitter, meanwhile ignoring sexual assaults in his company.[/QUOTE]
None of this surprises me.
But I just want to know where Broteam get's all of this info. So many leaks have been broken by them.
[QUOTE=DuCT;50996615]None of this surprises me.
But I just want to know where Broteam get's all of this info. So many leaks have been broken by them.[/QUOTE]
broteam (a single guy, not actually a team) has made a lot of contacts within the game development industry over the past few years.
[QUOTE=DuCT;50996615]None of this surprises me.
But I just want to know where Broteam get's all of this info. So many leaks have been broken by them.[/QUOTE]
Bro Team is a single dude, his name is just a play on "Protein Pill."
[QUOTE=Scorpo;50995904]tbh can we stop with borderlands and every other gearbox series
and instead get a new BROTHERS IN ARMS game
(that isn't like the fuckin thing they worked on previously with jet packs and shit)
they could do North Africa or Dday or Italy or even the eastern front[/QUOTE]
Guess what that one Brothers in Arms game got turned into?
[sp]Rhymes with Cattlemourn[/sp]
[QUOTE=Mingebox;50996533]I could write an essay about everything wrong with Borderlands 2, and all the obvious, easy to fix game design mistakes they made and never touched because they're stuck in the past where patches were for technical issues only.[/QUOTE]
I think you should do it. I think video games need criticism that isn't pants-on-head fucking stupid.
[QUOTE=BeardyDuck;50996476]don't know how many of you guys follow broteam on twitter, but he just announced that
- unnamed employee at gearbox lured applicants with a fake job offer in return for sex
- reported to ceo (randy bitchford) who seemingly ignored it
- happened multiple times (both the sex and the ignoring)
- employee no longer works for gearbox
[editline]3rd September 2016[/editline]
so in short, randy wants to be praised for crying about sexism on twitter, meanwhile ignoring sexual assaults in his company.[/QUOTE]
best thing is randy knew about the employee because he demoted said employee to defuse the situation. they went from full time to part time.
(((SUPPOSEDLY)))
this shit needs to stop
[QUOTE=TheJoey;50997763]best thing is randy knew about the employee because he demoted said employee to defuse the situation. they went from full time to part time.
(((SUPPOSEDLY)))[/QUOTE]
i can't help but wonder if there's some anti semetic undertones with those parentheses :v:
No shit people call the game industry a joke when you have CEO's like this
[QUOTE=darth-veger;50998862]No shit people call the game industry a joke when you have CEO's like this[/QUOTE]
A joke? it's only funny in a twisted schadenfreude[I]-ish[/I] way, so it's more of a farce.
Shit, just realized, The way both Tim Schafer and Randy Pitchford acted regarding this, is the very description of a farce.
I know it's usually a publisher's board of directors that are out of touch with consumers and their audience but a CEO of a development company? Honestly that's embarrassing.
[QUOTE=Penultimate;50996968]I think you should do it. I think video games need criticism that isn't pants-on-head fucking stupid.[/QUOTE]
One of my "dream games" has always been an FPS combined with Diablo looting even before Hellgate: London was a thing, BL1 was nearly there, and while BL2 improved on a lot of stuff, it sabotaged itself with several glaring poor game design choices, and it always makes me mad when I think about how much better it could have been.
Someone actually responded with another song.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKxlVd_wdZc[/media]
Makes me think of Eminem
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